The ASC has joined with the Underwater Biosimilars Coalition, which now has 48 sign-on members, and intends to formally lobby the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to work with Congress on removing PBM rebates from the calculations for drug acquisition.
Active Life
Dr. Melton relishes the collaborations of the ASC and AWIR and praises the direction of ACR leadership. The ACR’s elevation of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) working group to a full-fledged standing committee makes her hopeful as well. “This is not just window dressing or a box you check—you embed these principles in everything the College does, which is the only way we can address racism,” she emphasizes.
Outside her professional appointments, the indefatigable Dr. Melton continues with travel and dedication to the American Friends of Lafayette. She is the president of the Lafayette Society and recently participated in an historical celebrative reenactment of the Marquis de Lafayette’s 1824-25 grand tour of America. She and her husband, both lifetime members, followed the reenactors from Staten Island to Connecticut. The Marquis, she notes, possessed “amazing ideals that we are still striving to achieve.”
Gretchen Henkel is a health and medical journalist based in California.
