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The Board of Directors
of R-AMA held its 4th meeting on July 27th of 2004
Drs. George Muenster, Julia Frantsuzov, Nikolay Vasilyev and
Boris Vinogradsky met at the Lake West Hospital, and Drs. Dmitry
Arbuck, Elena Hudson, Michael Maysky and Ivan Alpatov participated
through the teleconference.
Drs. Grigory Chernyak, Igor Efimov, Natalia Gorecki could not
participate.
1. New members
The list of 16 people who applied for R-AMA membership have
been presented for approval:
Maysky, Michael, MD - Cardiology - Massachusetts
DiPaola, Natalia, MD - OB/GYN - Michigan
Gordina, Alla, MD, FAAP - Pediatrics - New Jersey
Gordin, Larisa, MD (Ret.) - Dermatology - New Jersey
Gordin, Vadim - Student - New Jersey
Obukhoff, Dennis - Student - Ohio
2. Changes: Due to the change in the legal regulations, that
do not allow the positions of the Secretary and Treasurer to
be held by one person the Board approved the cooptation of Julia
Frantsuzov, MD as R-AMA Treasurer. Dr. Natalia Gorecki will
remain the Secretary of R-AMA.
3. 2nd R-AMA National Conference: An extensive discussion of
preparations for the Conference took most of the meeting's time.
Multiple issues were discussed:
·Scientific program
·CME credits
·Travel arrangements
·Copying, name badges
·Hotel - Double Tree Boston Suites
·Transportation
·Board of Directors meeting - Boston, MA - 9/10/04 - 5PM
·Text of all lectures
·Flag
Invited speakers/guests/reps from ethnic AMAs
·Sponsors
·Displays - total 10-15
·Web cast of the Conference/separate presentations
·Equipment: audio, video - technician
·Hospital tour - RSVP web - limit 20 people
·Newspapers - Boston: Globe, Herald + Russian newspapers
·TV and radio - local + national
·Food (breakfast, lunch, dinner) - Friday/Saturday
·Participants list/registration/registration fees
·Agenda
·"Where" Boston Magazine
·Cultural Program
·Program for spouses
·Photos, interviews
·Advertisement
·Map, directions to the hospital
·Participant's folder
·Magazine "Zdorovie"
4. R-AMA Journal: Donna-Marie Mironchuk from Boston is the Journal's
designer. The draft of the Journal is ready and it will be published
on time for the Conference in September. 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 working on the project.
5. State Chapters: Formation of the Ohio (local) and Student
(national) Chapters of R-AMA was completed. Dr. George Muenster
is the President of the OH Chapter; Alla Kukuyev is an Interim
President of the Student Chapter until the elections are held.
Both will represent those chapters in the Council of the States
of R-AMA.
6. Other less important issues were discussed. ALL updates will
be published don the web site of the Association.
Next meeting of the BOD is scheduled for September 10th of 2004
in Boston, immediately before the Conference.
Boris Vinogradsky, MD
President
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