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Draft Minutes
State Presidents Council Breakfast Meeting
Saturday, March 6, 2004
Phoenix, Arizona
In Attendance:
Alejandro Aparicio, MD, CMD
David A Brechtelsbauer, MD, CMD
Patrick Dawson, MD
Peter DeGolia, MD, CMD
Jamehl L Demons, MD
Bruce Dentler, MD, CMD
Kenneth Diamond, MD, CMD
James B Donahue, DO, CMD
Mark Elam, MD, CMD
Ellen Evans, MD
Jonathan Evans, MD, CMD
Victor Gambone, MD, CMD
Leonard Gelman, MD, CMD
David R Gifford, MD, MPH
Timothy Gieseke, MD, CMD
Ralf Habermann, MD, CMD
Daniel Haimowitz, MD, CMD
Kurt W Hansen, MD, CMD
Terry Hill, MD, CMD
William N Hovland, MD, CMD
Jeffrey Kerr, DO, CMD
Sefi Knoble, MD, CMD
Steven A Levenson, MD, CMD
Susan M Levy MD, CMD
Dennis I Mallory, DO, CMD
Teresa C McCarthy, MD, MS
Jerry Malott, MD, CMD
Charles E. Miller, MD, CMD
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Roger Meyer, MD, CMD
Ann Moore, DO, CMD
David R Munoz, MD, MPh, CMD
Mary Jane Norman, MD
Louis Piccoli, MD, CMD
David F Polakoff, MD, CMD
Henry D Pope Jr, MD, CMD
James Powers, MD, CMD
Frederick Rowland, MD, CMD
Robert Schreiber, MD, CMD
Yogesh Shah, MD
Clifford Singer, MD
Bruce C Smith, MD, CMD
David A Smith, MD, CMD
Stephen Smith, MD, CMD
William A Solomon, MD, CMD
Carl Suchar, DO, CMD
Daniel Swagerty, Jr, MD, CMD
Mary Beth Tupper, MD, CMD
Edward Vandenberg, MD, CMD
James R Yates, MD, CMD
David Wilcox, MD, CMD
Barbara Calabrese, AMDA Foundation
Susan Gutierrez, Membership Coordinator
Cindy Hock, Director of Membership
Meg LaPorte, Acting Dir of Govt. & PA
Lorraine Tarnove, Executive Director
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The meeting was called to order at 6:50 am on March 6, 2004.
President-elect David A. Smith, MD, CMD, began the meeting by
introducing David Polakoff, MD, CMD, Immediate Past Chair for the AMDA
Foundation, who gave an update on the Foundation. Dr. Polakoff said
that the Foundation supports AMDA through research, assessment of
clinical practice guidelines, mentoring and career development, and
awards and recognition. He asked that state chapters support the
Foundation by joining the Research Network, reproducing Foundation
E-report articles in their state newsletters, distributing Foundation
materials at state functions and participating in Foundation activities
such as research projects, education and mentoring programs and the
Wall of Caring.
Vice President Candidates Presentations
Drs. Jonathan Evans and Steve Levenson gave brief statements regarding
their interests in serving as Vice President of AMDA and what they hope
to bring to the organization.
Dr. Dan Haimowitz gave a summary of the items discussed during his
State Chapter Discussion Group on Wednesday. He said that "state
chapters are truly the lifeblood of AMDA" and that AMDA should
recognize how important they are. Other points were that the activity
level varies among chapters and that AMDA should help facilitate
communication between chapters and assist chapters with regional
meetings so that other states can be invited.
After extensive discussion among the chapters, the following discussion items were identified for the Sunday BOD meeting:
- AMDA consider developing regional chapters with shared Executive Director to promote/support struggling chapters.
(Executive Director could be employed by AMDA and AMDA could develop
financial model for salary/benefits for the Regional Chapter Executive
Director, which could include incentives for new member recruitment and
fundraising.)
- AMDA may encourage attendance by state
chapter executive directors/staff to the AMDA Annual Symposium by
possibly offering a half-day training and information session.
(The session could include how to make state chapters work more
effectively and how to develop educational programming at state level
with CME/CMD credits.)
- AMDA consider developing a "chat room" at amda.com that allows chapters to communicate with each other as a group (ability to select chat room by topic and to sort past communications).
- Request a change in Saturday meeting
format so that the meeting is an opportunity for chapters to give
reports, ask questions of the group and network with other chapters (no candidates or Foundation presentation, no information regarding AMDA).
The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 am.
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