Minutes of the Fall 2008 NCCAAPM Business Meeting

Milwaukee, WI

Friday, October 24, 2008

 

 

Jason Rownd opened the meeting at 12:55 pm.

 

The minutes from the spring 2008 meeting were approved by the members present.

 

Robert Dahl submitted the financial report.  The members present approved the report.

 

Eric Hendee gave the board representative report.

·         Eric mentioned that chapter member Jeff Limmer is heading the licensure effort for the AAPM.

·         AAPM vote results for the dues increase proposal were No – 58%, Yes – 42%. 40% of eligible votes were cast.

·         Code of ethics was approved by the Board of Directors in July and passed by AAPM on 10/23/2008.

·         Town Hall meeting at AAPM. Numerous topics discussed. Most of the time was spent talking about the Doctorate in medical physics proposal.

·         Chapter breakfast - Attendees talked about various topics of interest to the local chapters.

·         Licensure - Eric presented some of the issues regarding the licensure effort of the AAPM.

·         Chapter tax status - Our IRS tax status is OK.

·         Speaker and virtual Library Grant - Up to 100% of cost for an invited speaker is available to local chapters. $1200 available for adding to the virtual library.

·         Automic dues - Dues can now be paid anytime during the year.

·         Regional chapter E-mail lists are available from the AAPM.

·         Regional Organization Committee - Looking for a new chair.

 

Old business discussion:

 

·         Recognition was made for the chapter monetary donation to the Annual meeting and the chapter poster that was placed at the meeting.

·         Discussion is on going about the possibility of having a meeting devoted to past AAPM presidents from the chapter.

 

New business discussion:

 

·         Rocky Mountain chapter had an entire meeting devoted to AAPM presidents from that chapter. Can we do something like that in the future?

·         Speaker honorariums – Do we give honorariums to chapter members who speak at the meeting? Discussion ensued on that topic. It was also discussed on how to choose an outside speaker, do you go with a specific topic? On occasion we have had a Thursday meeting on a particular topic.

·         Student competition – Do we open up the competition to Residents and Post-Doc’s? Discussion ensued on what a Post-Doc does. It varies at various institutions, in some cases the Post-Doc is also being trained in medical physics, while in other cases they do only the designated research. It was decided that residents and Post-Docs’s who are being trained in clinical medical physics would be eligible for the student presentation award, while Post-Doc’s that are only working on research would not be eligible. In the future the competition will be called a “Young Investigators Competition”.

 

The spring 2009 Chapter Meeting will possibly be held in Eau Claire, WI. Robert Dahl will look into finding a suitable meeting facility in Eau Claire. If one is not available John Wochos volunteered Lacrosse WI.

 

Meeting was adjourned at 1:40 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Robert Dahl

Secretary/Treasurer NCCAAPM