Kammas World

Lakshmi Kanta Tummala of Flint is serving this year as president of the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) Alliance. She will serve a one-year term overseeing the activities of the 1,200-member organization that focuses on public health issues and supports activities of the state medical society. Recent projects of the MSMS Alliance, an organization of physician spouses founded in 1926, include educational programs on domestic violence and bullying in schools. The Alliance also works to support health care legislation in the state including smoke-free air, physical education in schools, tanning salon regulation, defeat of chiropractic scope expansion bills and preserving tort reforms. This year, the MSMS Alliance is working to educate the public about alcohol and drug abuse in children, childhood obesity and heart disease in women. Lakshmi's husband, Jawahar Tummala, MD , is an internist and pediatrician in Flint. Married for 39 years, the Tummalas came to Flint in 1971 and hav...