FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The Bathwater Changes, but the Baby Remains...
Hope you will join us in Portland for Preventive Medicine 2017!

Much has changed about professional associations since I joined ACPM over 17 years ago. Once upon a time, associations, and particularly medical specialty societies, were by and large a professional home for physicians to connect and engage with their peers. Physicians joined their medical society because it was the right thing to do—sometimes the only thing to do—to enhance their professional status.

Today, the environment looks quite different. The competition for dues dollars is intense, information that used to be the sole domain of the society is now ubiquitous and at one's finger tips, and social media has enabled meaningful connections outside of the society's walls. This in turn has placed greater demand on medical societies to deliver unique value, support their members' practice and career enhancement, and be a leader in helping to shape the health care environment and health system in alignment with the specialty's principles. ACPM continues to work tirelessly to meet these new challenges.

However, this evolution is not the focus of my column this month. Rather, this column is about what in my estimation has not changed for specialty societies, particularly for ACPM: the inherent need of our physician members to connect with their peers in meaningful ways, ways that are advancing the profession and the environment in which its professionals practice.

That is what our annual meeting, the Preventive Medicine conference, still embodies. While the conference continues to undergo important refinements and improvements, the proverbial "baby" has not been tossed out with the "bathwater." One of its continuing core purposes is to facilitate deep connections with like-minded and similarly-trained colleagues, who learn from each other, build or nurture their relationships, and recognize the achievements of their peers in the field. These type of connections in preventive medicine cannot be experienced anywhere else.

POLICY & ADVOCACY
ACHA -- In the wake of the MacArthur Amendment to the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the amendment put forth by the Freedom Caucus in the House that was incorporated into the passed legislation, ACPM released a statement noting that the amendment actually worsens the original bill. ACPM states that as the amendment allows states to opt out of requiring health plans to provide essential health benefits, including clinical preventive services, and weakens protections for people with pre-existing conditions, we could not support it.
SMASH Act -- ACPM sent a letter to the sponsors and cosponsors of the Strengthening Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health (SMASH) Act in the House and Senate to thank them for their leadership on the issue of Zika prevention and control.
NVDRS -- ACPM, partnering with the Safe States Alliance and the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, held its annual National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) Hill day on May 2nd that reached over 30 congressional offices. Advocates urged their lawmakers to provide the CDC Injury Center with $23.5 million in FY 2018 to complete the nationwide expansion of NVDRS. The program is currently funded at $16 million, allowing 42 states to participate.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE 2017
FEATURED SPEAKER – MSS/RPS/YPS LECTURE
Stephanie Zaza, MD, MPH, FACPM
Careers in public health and preventive medicine can be highly varied, requiring clear personal criteria for making decisions about opportunities, assignments, and leadership styles. Using the narrative arc of her own career, Dr. Stephanie Zaza will share her experience of making career decisions—including when to seek new positions, identifying suitable positions, and determining when a position is not a good fit. Dr. Zaza will also share her experience in developing and exerting an authentic leadership style. This interactive session will allow the audience to explore their own career decisions and begin to identify the implicit and explicit criteria they have been using to make those decisions.

PM 2017 Social Media
The meeting starts next week! We’ll be using the #PrevMed2017 hashtag and encourage you to share your thoughts and ask questions while in Portland.  Preventive Medicine 2017 is a great time to start using social media with the help of our training guide. This 5-part guide—designed specifically for preventive medicine specialists—provides basic information about social media, its utility, how to use it professionally, and fun challenges to get you participating immediately. Many thanks for sharing your experience and photos.
Residency Programs to Exhibit at PM 2017
Each year, multiple residency programs exhibit at the annual conference and promote their programs to medical students, allied health and public health professionals and residents and physicians of other specialties. This year is no exception and the following residency programs will exhibit at Preventive Medicine 2017 to share additional information about each of their training programs:
  • Loma Linda University Preventive Medicine Residencies
  • Meharry Medical College
  • Mount Sinai General Preventive Medicine Residency Program
  • Texas Department of State Health Services
  • Tulane University
  • University of Rochester General Preventive Medicine
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison 
You can visit these booths during exhibit hours. 
LATEST HAPPENINGS
Combined Built Environment Features Help Communities Get Active
The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends combined built environment approaches to increase physical activity. These approaches combine new or enhanced transportation systems with new or enhanced land use design to promote physical activity among residents.

The Task Force finding is based on a systematic review of evidence that showed combinations of activity-friendly built environment characteristics are associated with higher levels of transportation-related physical activity, recreational physical activity, and total walking. The review was conducted on behalf of the Task Force by a team of specialists in systematic review methods, and in research, practice, and policy related to physical activity.

WANTED: Member Physicians Engaged in CDC's 6|18 Initiative
ACPM wants to highlight good examples of how our members are implementing the CDC's 6|18 initiative in their various practice settings. Are you working on any of the following conditions within the 6|18 initiative?
  • Reduce tobacco use
  • Control high blood pressure
  • Prevent unintended pregnancy
  • Control asthma
  • Prevent healthcare-associated infections
  • Control and prevent diabetes

Share your experience by completing a survey by May 31.

MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
New Members and Subscribers

PHYSICIANS

  • Grace Alfonsi, MD, Denver Health
  • William Corr, III, MD
  • Deowchand Depoo, MD, Capital District Psychiatric Center
  • James Dunn, II, MD
  • Mirna Puesan, MD, MPH&TM, Perfect Lifestyle
  • Amy Pabst, MD, MS
  • Celeste Philip, MD, MPH, Florida Department of Health
  • Jasmol Sardana, DO, The Doctor's Plate
  • Pyung Jay Suh, MD

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

  • Inaya Ezzeddine, MD, Medical Analysis and Pathology Laboratories
  • Alanoud Khuthaila, MBBS, MPH, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center
  • Elizabeth Swenor, DO, MA, HFHS

RESIDENTS

  • Anna Bowen, MD, MPH
  • Samantha Rawlins-Pilgrim, MD, Boston Medical Center
  • Peter Bastian, MD, Loma Linda University Preventive Medicine Department
  • Shoshanna Miller, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center
  • Priyanka Fernandes, MBBS, University of California Los Angeles
  • Tilda Doscher, MD, MPH, University of Buffalo
  • Jenny Rebecca Amani, MD, MPH

MEDICAL STUDENTS

  • Jeffrey Lin, MPH
  • Amber Victoria McKenna, MS
  • Manjeet Nanda
  • Alexis Quintana
  • Gabriela Teixeira
  • Justin Tondt

SUBSCRIBERS

  • Marianne Yeager Ash, DVM, MPH, Indiana State Board of Animal Health
  • Leon Bybee, MPH, MSc, Tripler Army Medical Center MCHK-PV
  • Michael Fraser, MS, PhD, Association of State & Territorial Health Officials
  • Lucie Mangala, Wake Research Associates
  • Simon Matthews
  • Martha Southern, RN, ADPH
  • Linda Straub, Adagio Health
Member Anniversaries

25 YEARS

  • Kathryn K. Leonhardt, MD, MPH, FACPM, Joint Commission International
  • Timothy Moody, MD, MS, FACPM, Cal Poly Pomona
  • Paul F. Nord, MD, MBA, FACPM
  • David H. Peters, MD, DrPH, MPH, FACPM, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
  • Herbert White, Jr., MD, MPH, MS, FACPM, St. Marys Occupational Medicine

20 YEARS

  • James H. Diaz, MD, MPH, FACPM, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
  • Carolyn Murray, MD, MPH, FACPM, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
  • Anne O'Keefe, MD, MPH, Douglas County Health Department

15 YEARS

  • Austin H. Chhoeu, DO, MPH&TM, US Army/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
  • Michael Moloney, MD, MA, MPH

10 YEARS

  • Kathryn Bird, DO, MPH, MS, Concentra Medical Centers
  • Pamela B. Hackert, MD, JD, MPH, Oakland County Health Division
  • Bryony W. Soltis, MD, MPH, AFRIMS

5 YEARS

  • Tarah Castleberry, DO, MPH, University of Texas - MB
  • Marie A. Delcambre, MD, FACP, Kansas City Internal Medicine
  • Charles H. Hoke, Jr., MD
  • Billy Pruett, MD, MPH, US Air Force
  • Carolyn Senger, MD, MPH, San Mateo Medical Center
  • Laurel Shepherd, MD, MPH
FROM THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
CME ACTIVITIES
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
CORPORATE ROUNDTABLE
Eskenazi Health
ACPM is pleased to welcome our newest member to the Corporate Roundtable, Eskenazi Health.

The mission of Eskenazi Health is to advocate, care, teach and serve, with a special emphasis on the vulnerable populations of Marion County. Through our vision, Eskenazi Health will continuously enhance our ability to meet the needs of the underserved and all people of Marion County, will be sound economically and will innovatively lead in clinical care, research education and service excellence. Eskenazi Health’s values are portrayed through PRIDE: professionalism, respect, innovation, development and excellence.

Eskenazi Health’s mission, vision and values all contribute to a positive and proactive environment for both our employees and our patients. Through the utilization of these values, our health care system is able to uphold our mission with a continuous trajectory of innovation and excellent quality, patient-driven care. For more information, visit eskenazihealth.edu.
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