[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 18, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


    GEORGE PATRICK MACRIS--GUAM'S SMALL BUSINESS PERSON OF THE YEAR

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                        HON. ROBERT A. UNDERWOOD

                                of guam

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 18, 1997

  Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to 
recognize the accomplishments of Dr. George Patrick Macris, recipient 
of the State Small Business Person of the Year Award. he was recently 
honored for his work as president of the Harmon Doctor's Clinic at a 
luncheon hosted by the U.S. Small Business Administration on June 3, 
1997.
  Dr. Macris holds a degree in zoology from Rutgers University and a 
medical degree from Rutgers University Medical School and New Jersey 
Medical School. He also served as a medical officer in the U.S. Naval 
Reserve for several years before settling down to private practice in 
Anchorage, AK.
  Since 1991, Mr. Macris has been practicing in Harmon, Guam, where he 
operates the Harmon Doctor's Clinic, serves as commander in the Naval 
Reserve, and sits in numerous hospital committees. Moreover, he has 
been an advocate of health care reform and is currently the Governor 
appointed and elected chairman of the Guam Health Coordinating Council 
and a staff member at Guam Memorial Hospital and the U.S. Naval 
Hospital, Guam.
  The Harmon Doctors' Clinic, for which Dr. Macris received his award, 
is a unique health care facility which provides comprehensive services 
to both health care professionals and patients. In 1996, it became a 
designated Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] Civil Surgeon 
Center and received Communicable Disease Control [CDC] vaccine 
approval--travel clinic. Currently, the clinic offers medical/health 
care services in general/internal medicine, diving/hyberbaric medicine, 
school physical, vaccination and travel clinic, cardiopulmonary 
diseases, urgent care, x-ray, OSHA/preventative medicine physical and 
laboratory. Moreover, Dr. Macris intends to expand services to include 
the only privately owned and operated decompression chamber and cancer 
treatment center. He has already received positive responses from the 
American Cancer Institute in establishing a cancer treatment center on 
Guam.
  The clinic has also been successful administratively. It generated 
revenues in excess of $900,000 and anticipates a 12-percent growth in 
1997. The patient base has also grown from 30 to over 11,000 member 
patients. The clinic employs 17 persons under the direction of Dr. 
Macris.
  Again, I congratulate Dr. Macris for his outstanding leadership in 
the medical field. His exemplary service and innovative thinking are 
certainly assets to Guam. Not only have they garnered him recognition 
from the Small Business Administration, they have also won him Guam's 
respect and admiration.

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