Board Briefs

Approved the Scholarship and Awards Committee's recommendations for the 2002 SSVMS Awards as follows: Golden Stethoscope — Roger Lieberman, MD; Medical Honor — Ann Haas, MD; Medical Community Service Award — Enid Milhous, Alliance for Excellence.

Approved Dr. Tom Hopkins as the CMA-YPS Assembly Representative and Dr. Richard Pan as the Alternate Representative.

Approved the Membership Report:
For Active Membership — Janine W. Bera, MD; Denise R. Bogard, MD; Edward Bubienko, MD; Samuel Chan, MD; Samuel T. H. Chan, MD; Frederic A. Conte, MD; Sean M. Cooke, MD; John F. De La Vega, MD; David P. Klemer, MD; J. H. Edmund Lee, MD; Kwun Shan Lip, MD; Allen J. Lue, MD; Huan N. Nguyen, MD; Philip Orisek, MD; R. Sean Pakbaz, MD; Philip W. Poor, MD; Juhee L. Singh, MD; James J. Steidler, MD; Kittipat Tittiranonda, MD; Todd J. Winters, MD; Michael S. Wong, MD.
For Resident Membership — Liana Puscas, MD; Eric H. Schwartz, MD.
For Affiliate Membership — Sharon C. Dutton, MD; David E. Linstadt, MD.
For Reinstatement to Active Membership — Paul C. Copeland, DO; Hani B. Greiss, MD; Mark Mannis, MD; Nicholas Poulos, MD.
For Reinstatement to Retired Membership — E. Jack Benner, MD
For Retired Membership— Julian B. Holt, MD; William M. Keane, MD
For Resignation — Frederick G. Bahre, MD (moved to Oregon); David T. Baumann, MD (moved to Washington); Virginia M. Hawes, MD (to Oregon); Gloria Ribas-Schultz, MD (to Texas); J. Gary Rose, MD (to Vermont).

Approved the 2003 SSVMS Work Plan for the following areas: Membership Retention and Recruitment — continue membership retention and recruitment practices that assure growth in new members and minimum loss of existing members; Member Communications — continue Sierra Sacramento Valley Medicine, the pictorial Membership Directory and On Friday as the main methods of communication with members, and maintain and improve the Society's web site; Public and Community Relations — maintain a positive and supportive image of SSVMS with members, local, state and national elected officials and community-based organizations; Management and General — maintain SSVMS' current level of technology.

Approved 2002-2003 Goals and Objectives of the Community Service, Education and Research Fund: Goal 1 — Secure and maintain program partnerships; solidify existing partnerships into multi-year sustaining and supporting partnerships and expand sustaining and supporting partnerships and solicit sponsors. Goal 2 — Increase physician and public awareness of and interest in SPIRIT and Adopt-a-School Programs; develop and execute a public relations plan and recruit physician and healthcare professional volunteers. Goal 3 — Provide hernia repair surgeries to uninsured patients in Sacramento County; and increase partner participation in hernia repair surgeries.

Approved recommendation from adminis-trators of the employee money purchase pension plan to conform language with pension law changes of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act.

Approved 2003 SSVMS committee appointments. In accordance with Bylaws, the President-Elect selects members of the SSVMS committees for the incoming year. Members appointed have returned annual committee survey indicating committees they wish to serve on in 2003.

Approved the Membership Report:
For Active Membership — Philip T. Caruso, MD; Carol L. Conrad-Forrest, MD; Gehan Devendra, MD; Glenda D. Goodwin, MD; Mark W. Hawk, MD; Anne M. Heard, MD; Ralph A. Herrera, MD; Kendra Hutchinson, MD; Anne K. LaHue, MD; Jason J. Londeree, MD; Michael J. McNerney, MD; Margaret A. K. Mentakis, MD; Adele Z. Mitchell, MD; Ragu C. Nathan, MD; Jon S. Oide, MD; Elizabeth B. Posey, MD; Voltaire V. Sambajon, MD; Steven J. Schorer, MD; Sannaporn Sereevinyayut, MD; Gail N. Shaw, MD; Brian C. Swanson, MD; Jo L. Taylor, MD; Stephen Tseng, MD; Vivien K. Y. Yee, MD
For Reinstatement to Active Membership — Michael J. Kearns, MD; Peter R. Oftedahl, MD
For Retired Membership— Donald V. Hummel, MD; Roger A. Lieberman, MD; James E. McGibbon, MD
For Renewal of Special Leave of Absence— Derek Wong, MD.
For Resignation — Karen B. Bissell, MD (transferred to San Joaquin County Medical Society); Elmostafa Elguessab, MD (moved to N. Reading, MA); Craig T. Hutchinson, MD (moved to W. Lafayette, IN); Anthony Russell, MD (moved to Boston, MA).