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Physicians first arrived in Wichita in 1867 when the city was a bustling cattle town. These pioneer doctors treated the sick and injured, stopped epidemics, initiated public health campaigns, and built hospitals. Many early physicians owned businesses, served on civic boards, and held public office, including Dr. E.B. Allen who served as the city's first mayor and later in the Kansas Legislature.
In 1903, 25 local doctors, who considered their calling the "noblest of all professions," formed the Medical Society of Sedgwick County (MSSC). They were committed to supporting the scientific-based private practice of medicine, enhancing professional medical standards and ethics, and educating the public on various health care issues.
Over 100 years later, the members of MSSC continue to share this commitment to the community's health and well-being.
MSSC collaborates with local and state government and community groups to address matters affecting the health of the citizens of Wichita and Sedgwick County. Individual physicians volunteer their medical skills in the community through Project Access, local indigent care clinics and various public health initiatives. In addition, over 800 practicing physicians in Sedgwick County voluntarily serve as teaching faculty for the Kansas University School of Medicine-Wichita through its community-based medical educational programs.
• Sedgwick County EMS System (medical protocols and quality assurance)
• Project Access (coordinating health care access for the uninsured)
• Medical Provider Resources (MPR)
• Pharmacy Information Reporting Program
• ProviDRs Care (a preferred provider organization formerly known as WPPA, Inc.)
• Medical Review Foundation (nationally certified utilization review program for ProviDRs Care)
• Wichita Health Information Exchange (WHIE) (Connecting the Community through electronic medical information sharing)
OUR MISSION is to promote the highest standards of ethical medical practice, medical education, research, and community health.
OUR VISION is to be the premier advocate which empowers physicians for leadership and service to the community, state and nation, and supports the highest level of professional practice of medicine.
With a membership base that includes over 95% of the area's practicing physicians, MSSC represents physicians on issues related to the private practice of medicine and is considered one of the most active county medical societies in the country.
n 2012 President--Thomas H.Estep, MD is a 30-year member of the Wichita Surgical Specialists, PA. He completed a fellowship in cardiovascular thoracic surgery at the University of Indiana Medical Center, Indianapolis, and his residency in general surgery at the University of Manitoba after earning a medical degree from the University of Calgary. He also has a special surgical interest in the care of cardiac transplant patients. Dr. Estep is a clinical associate professor in KUSM-Wichita's Department of Surgery. He is a member of Wesley Medical Center's Board of Trustees and the Midwest Transplant Network Board of Directors. He has earned distinction as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, College of Chest Physicians, American College of Cardiology and the Royal College of Surgeons.
n Executive Director--Jon Rosell, Ph.D assumed the position of MSSC Executive Director January 5, 2007. He has more than 20 years of administrative experience in not-for-profit and for-profit organizations, primarily working in programs and facilities that serve individuals with limitations or disabilities through a rehabilitation/medical model. Rosell was executive vice president of Heartspring for 12 years, where he managed direct-care and outpatient rehabilitation programs and worked closely with physicians and other health care professionals.
