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Board of Directors of R-AMA held its second meeting on April
20th of 2004 |
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| Drs.
George Muenster, Julia Frantsuzov, Nikolay Vasilyev and
Boris Vinogradsky met at the Lake West Hospital, and Drs.
Dmitry Arbuck, Grigory Chernyak, Igor Efimov, Natalia
Gorecki, Elena Hudson, Michael Maysky and Ivan Alpatov
participated through the teleconference.
Drs. Ivan Bespalov and Michael Anikeev could not participate.
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Dr.
Natalia Gorecki presented the list of 16 people
who have joined the Association since January of 2004:
Kamalov Anvar, Roman Yusupov, Vartikovsky Lyuba, Grinberg
Anna, Glovatsky Galina, Gorbachevsky Grigory, Gavrikov
Vitaly, Zakharov Vladislav, Matveeva Elena, Shumsky Elena,
Krebs Nadezhda, Shchurin Alexey, Devitskiy Sergey, Antonenko
Alex, Edward Brown.
Their membership was officially approved by the Board.
The Board approved
resignation of Ivan Bespalov, PhD and Michael Anikeev,
MD and supported the cooptation of Igor Efimov, PhD as
a Head of the Research Committee in place of Dr. Bespalov.
Dr. Efimov is the Elmer L. Lindseth Associate Professor
of Biomedical Engineering at the Case Western Reserve
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Boston Meetings. Dr. Vinogradsky is going to Boston,
MA on May 7th, to meet with the Board of Directors of the Association
of Russian Speaking Professionals in Health Care of Massachusetts.
Dr. Maysky - a cardiologists and the President of that group
will host the meeting. He is actively participating in preparations
for the 2nd R-AMA National Conference. Two other meetings will
be held during the trip: first with Dr. Nicolas Madias, the
Chief of the Department of Medicine at the St.
Elizabeth Medical Center of Boston to discuss the organization
of the Conference and the second with Rachel DiFazio, RN, a
nurse-educator from the Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard
School of Nursing to discuss cooperation between R-AMA and US-Russian
Nurses Association.
Chicago Meetings. There are two groups of doctors in
Chicago that are interested in cooperation with R-AMA. First
- the Ukrainian
Medical Association of North America. The first conversation
with George Hrycelyak, MD a surgeon and the President of UMANA
was very productive and we will work on developing this connection.
The second group is the Chicagoland Association of Russian-speaking
Physicians (CARP). In conversation with Lev Elterman, MD, an
urologist and the President of that group we found some mutual
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R-AMA
Journal. Negotiations continued with Michael Feinstein
- the publisher and producer from Russian Media Company.
We are awaiting the numbers of the proposed budget for
the first issue of the Journal, planned to be published
on time for the Conference in September. Exact plans will
be made after the budget is available. Planned materials
will include information about the Conference, about R-AMA,
as well as abstracts and articles of presentations for
the Conference, information about membership, classifieds,
advertisement, information about our partners, sponsors,
their products etc. Nikolay Vasilyev, MD is in charge
of this project.
State Chapters. There is an idea to create
separate chapters of R-AMA in the states with 5-10 members
representation. Those chapters will become local branches
of R-AMA and coordinators of those groups will form
the R-AMA's Council of the States. Board members supported
this idea, although it still requires time and a lot
more work.
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The 1st meeting of the Ohio Chapter
of R-AMA will be held on May 14th at 7:00PM in Cleveland,
OH. Dr. George Munster is in charge of the event, and more
information will be published on the Association's web site.
RSVP to (440)585-2221 by May 1st, 2004.
The 2nd R-AMA National Conference. It is now confirmed
that the Conference will take place in Boston, MA on September
10-12, 2004 at the Conference Center of the St.Elizabeth Hospital.
The work is already started. More information will be available
on the Web. The Conference Chairman is Michael Maysky, MD.
The Chairman of the Scientific Program of the Conference is
Nikolay Vasilyev, MD.
World Russian Forum. Dr. Igor Efimov
will travel to Washington, DC on April 26-28, 2004 to represent
R-AMA at this interesting event hosted by Russian Embassy
in the USA and the US Senate. Large Russian delegation is
expected to come to Washington and it will be important to
make new contacts and work on advancement of R-AMA's interests
at this level.
Medical Mission to Russia (MMR).
It is planned for first 2 weeks of May of 2005. At least 27
doctors signed up for the trip. Preliminary negotiations started
between R-AMA (Dr. Efimov) and Burdenko Hospital in Moscow
are under way. Dr. Gregory Chernyak is working on organization
of the trip.
R-AMA Young Investigators Award Committee.
Nikolay Vasilyev, MD is working on the documents describing
this project. The idea is to support young investigators -
medical students, residents, fellows and other individuals
under 35 years of age, who are in clinical medicine and biomedical
research in Russia and USA. The Committee is planning to establish
the R-AMA Scholarship for outstanding students and postgraduates
from Russian medical schools for training and observership
purposes in American hospitals and clinics. It will be done
in collaboration with Moscow Medical Academy and other Russian
medical schools. It is a long-term project and all updates
will be published on the Web.
Student Section of R-AMA. Alla
Kukuyev - medical student from Akron, OH is interested in
developing this project. So far R-AMA has 5 student members,
but will be expanding. The Board totally supported this idea.
Julia Frantsuzov, MD
Pediatrics
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH
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