Board Briefs

The Board:
Elected Kuldip Sandhu, MD, Secretary and Margaret Parsons, MD, Treasurer for 2004; voted to support the City of Sacramento licensing ordinance for retail tobacco sales; and viewed a demonstration of the Society's web site, including its online Membership Directory.

By visiting the SSVMS web site, members can update and add information about their practice that is frequently viewed by the general public. Also, bulletin boards have been added that allow members to buy or sell an automobile, post and/or review physician practice opportunities and submit comments on articles in Sierra Sacramento Valley Medicine.

Serving as the Administrative Board to the BloodSource of Sacramento: approved John Kiraly, MD, and John B. Williams, MD, to their first three-year term on the BloodSource Board of Trustees; approved the renewal of membership to second three-year terms for Donald M. Delach, David L. Ditora, Esq., Gerald Simon, MD, Thomas Slagle, Jeff Van Gundy, MD and Mary Vedo, MT, (ASCP) SSB; approved the following officers of the Blood Source Board of Trustees: President, Michael Ueltzen, CPA; Vice President, Gerald Simon, MD; Secretary, Mary Vedo, MT (ASCP) SBB; Assistant Secretary, Geneva Larson; Treasurer, David Ditora, Esq.; Member-at-large, Thomas Slagle.

Approved the Membership Report:
For Active Membership — Adel D. Agaiby, MD; Douglas M. Alder, MD; Meredith A. Bean, MD; Heather J. Bevan, MD; Michael J. Bicocca, MD; Michael J. Bicocca, MD; Anna Chang, MD; Rachel H. Chou, MD; Rakesh Donthineni, MD; Julian R. Espino, MD; Erina N. Foster, MD; Christopher J. Gapen, MD; Lillian E. Hage-Fischer, MD; Monique B. Hanible, MD;Kimberly A. Hardin, MD; Jojo E. Joves, MD; Deborah L. Katz, MD; Ilya Khamishon, MD; Richard K. Lee, MD;Su-Ting T. Li, MD; Samrina R. Marshall, MD (Associate); Gertrudes P. Montemayor, MD; Chung Y. Mui, MD; Katherine-Minh N. Nguyen, MD; Luu P. Nguyen, MD; Katherine A. Overton, MD; Bhavin K. Parikh, MD; Anne A. Srisuro, MD; Mary C. Tu, MD; Steven Y. Wang, MD; Aaron C. Williams, MD; Ricky Winardi, MD; Daniel S. Wittkop, MD; Theodore Zwerdling, MD.
For Reinstatement of Active Membership — Stephen G. Mlawsky, MD.
For Illness Leave of Absence — Peter Sfakianos, MD.
For Retired Membership— Alan H. Meyer, MD.

The Board:
Serving as the administrative board to BloodSource Sacramento, received an annual update on its activities from Paul Holland, MD, Medical Director/CEO.

Reviewed a video produced by CMA on the struggles at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura and how the medical staff fought to protect its self-governance.

Reviewed a report by CMA's Health Care Financing Technical Advisory Committee outlining CMA's positions on health reform. The report will be presented to CMA's House of Delegates in March for approval.

Approved the Membership Report:
For Active Membership — Huy L. Cao, MD; Allan Y. Chen, MD; Phillip H. Choo, MD; Lisa O. Craig, MD; Kenneth A. Frank, MD; Amy E. Gerstenberger, MD; Dineen J. Greer, MD; Rory S. Jaffe, MD; Sanjay Jhawar, MD; William A. Jornlin, MD; Syeda M. Kabir, MD; Sung J. Kim, MD; William R. Lewis, MD; Russell F. Lim, MD; Michael C. Lucien, MD; Divya D. Makin, MD; Michelle F. Mattison-Kelly, MD; Karen L. Mo, MD; Gregory P. Moore, MD; Ryan Q. Nguyen, DO; Parul P. Patel, MD; Michelle G. Puzdrakiewicz, MD; Celia Remy, MD; Paul C. Riggle, MD; Henry J. Schwartz, MD; Jamie S. Sherman, MD; Scott R. Spalding, MD; Kevin A. Tracy, MD; Leonid Treyger, MD; Jye-Ping Tu, MD; Svetlana T. Vardanian, MD; Divya D. Makin, MD; Barry R. Zeitlin, MD; Yunli Zheng, MD.
For Resident Membership— Lynne D. Do, MD
For Reinstatement to Active Membership — Neil M. Flynn, MD; Louis J. Gallia, MD.
For Reinstatement to Associate Membership— Jerry A. Royer, MD.

Approved a contribution to the Yolo County Children's Alliance for its Children's Summit, an educational forum for policy makers and community leaders on how and where resources should be focused to achieve the best possible outcomes for the children and families in our communities.

Approved a contribution to the 2004 HeartBeat Run sponsored by the American Medical Students Association, U. C. Davis Chapter. Proceeds benefit the medical clinics serving the medically indigent people in our community.

The Board:

Approved the un-audited financial statements ending December 31, 2003.

Approved the 2003 fourth quarter Smith Barney investment reports and recommendations including new investment policies, increasing equity exposure, moving all funds into the TRAK program and recommendations concerning general fund investments.

Reviewed a CMA Report of the Physician Dispute Resolution TAC to be presented to the 2004 CMA House of Delegates. The report calls for establishing an arbitration system to be run by participating county medical societies that will provide for a binding resolution of payment disputes between physicians and private third party payers.

Approved the Membership Report:
For Active Membership — Dorrit E. Ahbel, MD; Alborz Alali, MD; Cesar A. Banda, MD; Jason K. Chang, MD; Huu-Ninh V. Dao, MD; James D. Kirk, MD; Dianne L. Koczat, DO; Sankar P. Kumar, MD; Steven C. Littlewood, MD; Richard R. Maguire, MD; Thomas W. Maney, MD; Dennis W. Michel, MD; Elliot J. Reichbach, MD; Saul Schaefer, MD; Marci L. Snodgrass, MD; Amanda G. Tagle, MD; Terry D. Will, MD.
For Resident Membership— Jennifer A. Jackson, MD; Anita Jain, MD.
For Reinstatement to Active Membership — John W. Kuhn, MD; Richard R. Stack, MD.
For Affiliate Membership — Christopher N. Simopoulos, MD.
For Illness Leave of Absence— Daksha A. Shah, MD
For Retired Membership — F. James Rybka, MD
For Acceptance of Resignation — Vincent S. Parziales, MD-moved to Las Vegas, NV; Firouzeh Rabbani, MD-moved to Canada; Douglas M. Sides, MD-moved to Las Vegas, NV; Viviane Ugalde, MD-moved to Reno, NV.

Approved offering the services of EnviroMerica to perform a free CAL/OSHA, DHS, DTSC and EPA Compliance Inspection to SSVMS members as a member benefit. The service includes a free consultation on how discovered problems can be rectified.

Extended the Good Guys discount program for 2004, providing members with 10 percent off purchases at any time, at all Good Guys Stores.