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In this Issue:
- Secure Early Bird Savings for ACP's Internal Medicine Meeting 2025
- Members of the Board of Regents Take Action on BOG Resolutions at October 26-27, 2024, Meeting
- Internal Medicine Physicians Stress the Importance of Vaccines and Evidence-Based Public Health Policies
Joshua C. Ranum, MD, FACP, ACP Governor
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your families!
As we hustle our way through this busy holiday season of gatherings and end-of-year activities (can we stop with the insulin formulary switches already?) I hope that you all are able to spend quality time with your loved ones and in reflection as we approach 2025.
We're going to have a big year as a chapter. I'm excited to announce the start of our virtual doctor's lounge in January 2025. We'll have periodic Zoom meetings with various specialists. It will be a back and forth where we can discuss cases and topics of interest with the goal of improving collaboration among specialties. Not only is this intended to improve our recognition of disease states but also to empower us to work up and manage conditions appropriate to our level of training. Our first meeting will be with my go-to urology referral Dr. Cameron Charchenko. Dr. Charchenko is not only a talented surgeon but he's a great clinician as well. I learn something from him every time we visit. We'll set a date once Dr. Charchenko and I get our call schedules for January figured out.
2025 is a legislative session year for North Dakota. There are more bills affecting medicine and medical practice each session, even at the state level. We are forming an advocacy committee to help monitor these bills and work to inform legislators. Please let me know if you're interested. We work closely with the North Dakota Medical Association and the staff there does much of the monitoring. The intent of the advocacy committee isn't to be in the Capitol every day of the session but to help coordinate our advocacy efforts with the NDMA. Even if you aren't interested in being on a committee, please let us know if you have any legislative contacts. We all listen to those we know more than those we don't.
We are also going to ramp up our regional outreach this year and plan membership drives and events outside of the Fargo area. If you're interested in being a regional ambassador, please let me know.
I'm excited for the prospects that 2025 brings for our chapter. But first, let us take these last few weeks of 2024 to relax, reflect, and recharge.
Best wishes,
Josh
Joshua Ranum, MD FACP
ND ACP Governor
acpnd1@gmail.com 701-928-0987 (c)
Secure Early Bird Savings for ACP's Internal Medicine Meeting 2025
Registration is open for ACP's Internal Medicine Meeting 2025, the premier event for internal medicine physicians and subspecialists taking place in New Orleans from April 3 to April 5, 2025. The meeting features three days of expert-led sessions, influential speakers, and energizing activities, both in-person and virtually, to enhance professional growth and community connections.
For more information and to register, visit: https://annualmeeting.acponline.org/ or check out our meeting brochure.
Members of the Board of Regents Take Action on BOG Resolutions at October 26-27, 2024, Meeting
A summary of actions taken by members of the Board of Regents on resolutions debated at the Fall 2024 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.
If you have an idea you would like to suggest to ACP, consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or local ACP chapter. Visit your ACP chapter website for more information on how to contact your Governor or chapter staff about proposing a resolution.
Internal Medicine Physicians Stress the Importance of Vaccines and Evidence-Based Public Health Policies
Internal Medicine Physicians stress the importance of vaccines and evidence-based public health policies. Read the following statement by Isaac O. Opole, MBChB, PhD, MACP President, American College of Physicians.