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Board of Directors held its first Meeting on January 22nd of
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Drs.
George Muenster, Julia Frantsuzov and Boris Vinogradsky
met at the Lake West Hospital, and Drs. Dmitry Arbuck,
Grigory Chernyak, Igor Efimov, Natalia Gorecki participated
through the phone conference.
Drs. Ivan Bespalov, Ivan Alpatov, Michael Anikeev and
Elena Hudson could not participate.
The following issues where discussed:
1. The list of new members of the Association was accepted.
Since the 1st National Conference that took place on the
6th of December of 2003 we had 24 new members. Now R-AMA
has a total of 111 members.
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members: Igor Hudima, Marina Simkhovich, Volodymyr
Logosh, Olga Kostenko, Volodymyr Kostenko, MD, Viktor
Bobyk, Viktor Yattsynovich, Alla Kolkin, MD, Rochlin Edward,
MD, Clark Alexandra, MD, Martyn Slava, MD, Boris Pichkar,
PT, C-MDT, Alla Mikhli, DPM, Annette Epstein, Vera Borzova,
MD, Emil Gurshumov, MD, Alla Kukuyev, Lioudmila Lipetskaia,
MD, Larisa Yaroshchuk, MD, Larisa Chagan, BS, PharmD,
Anvar Kamalov, Roman Yusupov, MD, Lyuba Vartikovsky, MD,
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| 2. The policy
towards non-commercial groups that are interested in joining
us as group members was discussed. There are two such organizations:
Friends of Russian Orphans from New Hempshire and Greater Cleavland-Volgograd
Oblast Alliance from Ohio, that would like to work together
with R-AMA. Both groups now participating in our Partnership
Program.
3. The policy towards commercial group members was also discussed.
So far there is one commercial organization interested in
cooperation with R-AMA - it is Foreign Consultants, Inc. from
Illinois. This company is in business of evaluation of foreign
credentials, mostly related to nurses. The company also would
like to join R-AMA in the active defense of Russian professionals
in the USA. Anyone interested can take a look at their web
site www.foregnconsultants.com and share his opinion about
the goals and benefits of such cooperation.
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4.
The policy towards the Russian-Speaking Medical Professionals
of Massachusetts. There is a Russian physician's group
in Boston that is considering joining R-AMA. We are currently
working on the adaptation of R-AMA by-laws to accommodate
the interests of both groups. When all documentation and
issues will be worked out Dr. Vinogradsky will go to Boston
to meet with the Board of Directors of RSMPM and together
they will finalize the agreement. The intent is to admit
this group to R-AMA as a Massachusetts State Chapter.
5. Fundraising work with pharmaceutical companies -
Guidant, Ethicon, Pfizer and others are willing to support
R-AMA. We have to continue to work on raising money
and if anyone is interested in participating, please
do not hesitate to contact any member of the Board of
Directors.
6. The expenditures of the Association were discussed:
a membership fees report, logo design and payment to
the web-site designer.
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7. The preparation for the Indianapolis
Clinical Conference "Business in Medicine" was discussed
with Dr. Dmitry Arbuck.
8. The goal and tasks of a trip to Russia
in October 2004: Board members didn't come to a decision about
the place to go (either to big centers like Moscow or St.
Petersburg, or to smaller regional centers). The main idea
is to assemble a group of Russian and American specialists
who will be interested in going to Russia to teach and provide
expert opinion on a variety of topics, to bring medical equipment,
supplies, suture material and medications to the hospitals
that need it most, to share medical experience with Russian
physicians. If anybody has ideas and suggestions about this
trip, please share them with other members on the Forum.
9. R-AMA Scholarship Program was discussed: the Board decided
to ask Dr. Igor Efimov to put together a group of R-AMA members
who will work out the details of this program and will report
to the Board during the next meeting. The main idea is to
support the best medical students in several medical schools
in Russia and to allow them to visit US hospitals during a
short 1-2 months fellowship every year.
Natalia Gorecki,
MD
Secretary/Treasurer of R-AMA
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