Program Chairs: Rob Smola and Allison Rogers, Birmingham Wellness Champion: Lauren Pacheco, Birmingham Membership Chair: Hernando Carter, Birmingham Immediate Past Governor: Gustavo Heudebert, Birmingham If you have an interest in joining any committee or project of Alabama ACP, just contact me at or our excellent Executive Director Christi Long at. For the coming years, below are our current and upcoming Council and Committee members. Alabama ACP is YOU, and they represent you very well. They have kept me informed and have helped me tremendously. These give us a remarkable opportunity to support programs that can increase the impact and value of ACP in Alabama – especially with medical students, residents, and early career physicians.įinally, I want to thank all the members of our Chapter Council and Committees for their support and contributions to promoting the mission of ACP here in Alabama. We have accumulated very healthy reserves year after year. Our finances are in excellent condition ( view financial statement), thanks to your continued membership support and to careful management by our Council and Treasurer Pink Folmar. I represent you on the national ACP Health and Public Policy Committee, where pandemic readiness and public health resources are critical considerations. Mike Soppett and Alan Baggett lead our Chapter public policy committee, and we will be vigilant about opportunities or threats involving pandemic or public health policy at the state level. Our State Health Officer, Scott Harris MD, FACP, is a colleague who has earned our thanks and assistance. ACP has a role to play in strengthening and redesigning public health at local, state, and national levels.

The clinical and analytic skills of internal medicine prepare us uniquely well to diagnose and treat systems as well as individual patients with the same excellence and compassion that make us good physicians.Īs we resume something more normal and hope for fewer and smaller surprises from viruses, our pandemic work is not quite done. In all of that, you have been not just participants but leaders. Alabama Internists have been at the front lines from drive-through on the asphalt to pop-up clinics and redesigned clinical workflow, from virtual visits to inpatient and critical care, from re-organized small practices to leadership in major health systems and public policy. What I have seen of Alabama ACP members in the past two years has been heroic, inspiring work. That could take one of two directions: a book, or something brief. Besides the great sessions, it's a great place to play, shop, or just take a rest.Īfter what all of us have been doing with COVID-19 plus our “regular jobs,” I find myself and many of you pausing a bit to reflect. It's going to be a great educational meeting and a great time to celebrate with colleagues and family! Just go to our website and click on the June 3-5 meeting link. And of course, our resident team from North Alabama Medical Center represented us well in Doctors' Dilemma competition.Īnd now for the Alabama version of reunion! I hope you can join us at Birmingham's Ross Bridge Resort for the joint annual Chapter meeting with our Mississippi friends. Natasha Mehra represented our chapter in the abstract competition. (The very short version is that physicians held to traditional ethical standards better in person than in theoretical settings.) Rachel Lee made her first appearance at the Scientific Medical Policy Committee of the College. Stephen Russell led a course on bedside diagnosis in the skills center, and Kiki Titer led attendees through a learner assessment approach they call the “10 Minute Moment for Feedback.” Tavo Heudebert, my predecessor as Governor, gave two presentations involving evidence-based medicine and assessing the medical literature and Tom Huddle, along with colleagues from NY City and Atlanta, presented ethical dilemmas of the early pandemic and how physicians responded to them. As she has for several meetings, Kirsten Kennedy led the procedural ultrasound course in the Waxman Center, with Jeremy Hackett in his second year as faculty. It was as usual the best CME on the planet, combined with great networking events and leadership development.Īlabama ACP members played an usually big role in presentations and course leadership. I've just returned from Chicago, where we held the first in-person national ACP annual meeting since the pandemic began. Reunions of any kind deserve a lot of gratitude and celebration.

We really are “Together Again.” That takes me to the Buck Owens song of that name and the later version by the great Ray Charles. After 26 months of pandemic detours, most of what we do is getting back to something like normal.

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