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.

Rufus C. Phillips

The Medical Society of Virginia (MSV) Board of Directors has selected Rufus C. Phillips as its new executive vice president. He will assume his duties as the chief staff officer on October 1. He succeeds Paul Kitchen, who resigned after 21 years with the MSV, 11 as executive vice president. Most recently, Phillips was vice president at Intrinergy LLC, a nationally recognized renewable energy company, where he led government relations functions within the business development area.

Colleen Lawler, CAE

Colleen Lawler, CAE will join the American Medical Association as Vice President of Membership on November 1, 2007. Lawler currently serves as Director of Membership for the American Academy of Family Physicians, a position she held since 1997. Prior to joining AAFP, she held several staff leadership positions at the National Association of Realtors.

C. Lynette Drain

C. Lynette Drain has been hired as the executive vice president for the Sarasota County Medical Society. Drain served the Florida Medical Association for 12 years prior to assuming her new position. Former executive vice president Beckett Shady-King retired December 31, 2007.