Dave Fellers, CAE

Dave Fellers, CAE, has been honored with the Key Award by the ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership, which will be presented at ASAE & The Center’s 2008 Annual Meeting & Exposition, August 16-19 in San Diego, CA. He has been the executive director of the Radiological Society of North America since 2001.

Fellers is the 159th recipient of the Key Award, which recognizes executives who demonstrate exceptional qualities of leadership in their own organizations and an exemplary commitment to the association management profession.

Congrats to the Tradeshow Bingo Winners!

This year was the most successful trade show in AAMSE history according to the exhibitors, and why is that?

Trade Show Bingo!

Well actually it was due to the great selection of products and services our exhibitors brought to showcase for the 2008 AAMSE Annual Conference.

After getting bingo cards marked by each vendor attendees were eligible for a drawing for prizes from Hyatt Hotels & Resorts.

And the winners are:
Jan Glas & Jennifer Bauer
Hyatt Weekend Gift Certificates valid for up to two (2) nights including an All American Breakfast.
and
Carolyn Kurz, Ray Helm and Judy Fitzgerald
$100 off certificates for a two night stay at Hyatt

Thank you to everyone who participated.

Congrats to the newest CAEs

AAMSE would like to congratulate the newest American Society of Association Executives Certified Association Executives:

Kari Glisson, CAE
Account Executive
Association Management Resources

Jeanne McIntyre, CAE
Communication Director
American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Shawn M. Scott, CAE
Director of Member Services
North Carolina Medical Society

Laura L. Tiberi, CAE
Executive Director
American College of Emergency Physicians, Ohio Chapter

Taylor-Jones-Haskell County Medical Society

The Taylor-Jones-Haskell County Medical Society received a national award for its "Vaccinate Before You Graduate" immunization project.

The project won the Health Awareness Promotion Award given by the American Medical Association Alliance. The project involved providing meningococcal vaccine to high school juniors and seniors before they graduate. More than 250 doses of the vaccine have been given in the past year.

The "Vaccinate Before You Graduate" project was one of 31 entries in three categories reviewed by the awards committee.

The honor is the first national award the alliance has received since it was organized in 1917.

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Response to the AMA CEJA Report 1

AAMSE Members:

The AAMSE Board of Directors has taken a position in opposition to the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs Report 1: Industry Support of Professional Education in Medicine, which will be considered by the AMA House of Delegates at its Annual Meeting, June 14-18. We invite you to share this position statement with your delegates,colleagues and physician volunteers. To read the full report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, click here.

Kenneth M. Slaw, PhD
AAMSE President

Stuart Hayman, MS

On September 1, 2008, Stuart Hayman will become the executive director of New York State Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc. (NYSSA). The NYSSA is a component society of The American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc.

Mr. Hayman has been worked for two metropolitan county medical societies in two states over the last 20 years. For the past 10-plus years, he has served as the executive director of the Westchester County Medical Society and the Westchester Academy of Medicine in White Plains , New York. Prior to that position, Mr. Hayman spent 10 years as the director of operations of the Montgomery County Medical Society and its subsidiaries, including a 1,000-physician 24-hour emergency answering service and a medical insurance brokerage.

Mr. Hayman began his career in not-for-profit management as a senior accountant with National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Bethesda, Maryland. Additionally, He is a veteran and served in the United States Navy.

Mr. Hayman has been married to his college sweetheart for 23 years and together they have a son, 19, and a daughter, 15. Mr. Hayman has served as a volunteer for: AAMSE Board of Directors, United Way, Pace University Health Care Advisory Committee and other not-for-profits.

Texas Medical Association

The Texas Medical Association receives recognition for performance excellence from the Quality Texas Foundation.

Quality Texas Foundation, an organizational improvement training and education foundation that helps businesses, schools, hospitals, non-profits and government agencies achieve excellence through knowledge, feedback and recognition has designated Texas Medical Association as an Achievement Level organization in their 2008 Texas Awards for Performance Excellence. Achievement Level, indicates that the organization has a well-deployed, effective, systematic approach to organizational management, with good performance levels and trends evaluated against industry standards using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards (MBNQA) criteria.

TMA's continuous improvement program, created by TMA's CEO Louis J. Goodman, PhD, CAE, and led by Vice President of Marketing, Connie Minogue, CAE, was initiated to embed the MBNQA criteria into TMA operations in order to facilitate achieving TMA's 2010 performance levels goals to be on the cutting edge of validated management practices.