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In this Issue:
- Governor's Message
- New Members and Fellows
- ACP Supports National Physician Suicide Awareness Day September 17
- ACP and DynaMed® Free ACP Member Access Extended to 2023
- Call for Spring 2021 Board of Governors Resolutions
Julie A. McCormick, MD, FACP, ACP Governor
Governor's Message
Happy Fall!
Summer seemed to slip away quickly, but our Alaska chapter has been busy with advocacy and preparing educational meetings for fall and next spring.
Thank you to Sarah Doaty, MD, our advocacy chair, for arranging meetings with Senator Murkowski and Senator Sullivan's staff. The committee discussed potential residencies and telehealth with much interest from the senators. Sarah was also able to arrange meetings with Alyse Galvin and Alan Gross to discuss the health care concerns we have in Alaska. Allowing us to help educate our potential leaders!
Save the Date!
Jay C. Butler, MD, FAAP, MACP, FIDSA
Incident Manager, COVID-19 Response
Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Preventions
10/17 at 9 am -11am
What's New in Covid - with question and answer session after.
This will be held via zoom
We will be having our scientific meeting in May 2021 - stay tuned for details.
Maybe hybrid of virtual and in person events.
New Members and Fellows
Warm welcome to new members and fellows in the last 6 months:
| Ai-ling Lin, DO FACP | Fellow | Anchorage |
| Mary M Klix, MD FACP | Fellow | Eagle River |
| Melanie Brenengen | Affiliate | Fort Wainwright |
| Paul Becker | Affiliate | Eagle River |
| Shoshannah Kinsler | Affiliate | Anchorage |
| Terrin Galbraith | Affiliate | Chugiak |
| Robert Robl | Medical Student Member | Fritz Creek |
| Chandler Villaverde, MD | Member | Anchorage |
| Jacqueline Cox, MD | Member | Fairbanks |
| Javaneh Lyons, MD | Member | Anchorage |
| Katherine Buddenberg, DO | Member | Anchorage |
| Matt A Taintor, MD | Member | Juneau |
| Matthew P Strohmeyer, DO | Member | Wasilla |
| Megan Gillum, MD | Member | Anchorage |
| Isaac Truelson, MD | Physician Affiliate | Eagle River |
| Jennifer Perkins, MD | Physician Affiliate | Anchorage |
| Kelsey Ripp, MD | Resident/Fellow Member | Anchorage |
ACP Supports National Physician Suicide Awareness Day September 17
ACP is an official supporter of the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) effort to help spread awareness about the issue of physician suicide. CORD is leading a collaborative effort with ACP and other medical organizations to encourage grassroots activities around National Physician Suicide Awareness Day (NPSA) on September 17. This year's theme is One of Us in recognition that suicide can affect us, our friends, and colleagues. Follow the hashtag, #NPSAday on social media.
ACP and DynaMed® Free ACP Member Access Extended to 2023
DynaMed, a valuable benefit of ACP membership, is a leading evidence-based decision-support tool for use at the point of care. ACP continues to work closely with DynaMed editors to help make DynaMed the best comprehensive clinical content resource for internists. As of August 2020, ACP has peer-reviewed the Overview and Recommendations section of over 300 of the most highly used internal medicine topics by ACP members.
DynaMed also includes many features to ensure the best possible user experience, including:
Ease of Access
Use your ACP login credentials to quickly access DynaMed on your desktop or through the free mobile app.
Comprehensive Content, Guidance You Can Trust
Rigorous, evidence-based methodology for content development; robust systematic literature surveillance with frequent updates; and clinical expertise that both complements and clarifies the evidence provide guidance you can trust.
Personalized Experience
Easily follow clinical topics relevant to your interests by setting up customized alerts.
Earn CME/MOC
CME and MOC are automatically tracked within your account as you use DynaMed.
Access DynaMed today at acponline.org/dynamed.
Call for Spring 2021 Board of Governors Resolutions
Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.
Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides the ACP grassroots member a voice and allows you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine. When drafting a resolution, don't forget to consider how well it fits within ACP's Mission and Goals. In addition, be sure to use ACP's Strategy which includes Priority Themes to guide you when proposing a resolution topic.
Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. Visit the ACP Online homepage and click the “Advocacy” link in the right-hand, top margin to access ACP policy positions, read about recent ACP advocacy activities, or search ACP's library of policies and recommendations. Visit your chapter website, too, and click the link under “Advocacy” to access Electronic Resolutions System (ERS) where you can search past or proposed resolutions. A copy of the resolutions process is available on the ERS which furnishes more details on formatting resolutions, as well the process for submission, review, and approval.
Members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves it. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Spring 2021 Board of Governors Meeting is October 9, 2020.