Connecticut Chapter News

2024 Chapter Excellence Award-Gold Level Winner

(August 2024) We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2024 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 59 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet 20 Bronze criteria, 14 Silver criteria and multiple Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians. We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.

Chapter Excellence Award


Empower Your Advocacy: Introducing Our Comprehensive Toolkit  

(August 2024) We are excited to announce the launch of our Advocacy Toolkit: Using Your Voice as a Physician Advocate, a powerful resource designed to equip medical students and physicians with the skills and knowledge needed to become effective advocates for health care in their communities. This toolkit comprises five self-contained and independent modules, each presented as engaging voice-over PowerPoint presentations. Whether you're a seasoned advocate or new to the field, these modules offer valuable insights and practical guidance.  

Module Highlights  

Physician as Advocate  

  • Discover advocacy tips and real-life examples that showcase how physicians can use their voice to drive positive health outcomes in their communities. This module emphasizes the pivotal role of physicians in advocating for public health.  

Legislative Advocacy  

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of the legislative process at both state and federal levels. Learn about the opportunities available for physician advocacy within this process and how to navigate the legislative landscape effectively.  

Print Media Advocacy  

  • Explore the various types of print media, their audiences, and their scope in the realm of advocacy. This module provides insights into crafting compelling messages that resonate with readers and drive change through traditional media channels.  

Social Media Advocacy  

  • Delve into the dynamic world of social media and its potential as a powerful advocacy tool. Learn about the key features of different social media platforms and how to leverage them to amplify your advocacy efforts and engage a broader audience.  

Audio Media Advocacy  

  • Understand the motivations and uses of audio media in advocacy. This module focuses on the unique advantages of podcasts, radio, and other audio formats, offering strategies to effectively communicate your advocacy messages through these channels.  

Each module begins with a standard introduction and overview, followed by an in-depth exploration of the topic, and concludes with a concise one-page outline to reinforce key points.  

Toolkit: Using Your Voice As A Physician Advocate 

By integrating these modules into your advocacy efforts, you will be better equipped to influence public health policy and drive meaningful change. Empower yourself and your community with the tools and knowledge provided in our Advocacy Toolkit.  

Together, let's make a difference! 


State Health Advocacy August Recess Grassroots Mobilization Challenge 

(August 2024) Members of Congress are returning home to their districts during the August congressional recess. During this time, ACP is calling on internal medicine physicians to engage their representatives on important issues we need Congress to act on before the end of 2024. 

To incentivize participation in this grassroots mobilization, the Advocates for Internal Medicine Network (ACP grassroots network) is challenging members to see which states will have the highest engagement. Advocates can score points for their states by choosing to take one or more advocacy actions identified in the campaign. 

Access the August Recess Grassroots Mobilization Challenge Now! 


Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

  • Joshua Mosdale, MD FACP
  • Nathaniel Parker, DO FACP

(July 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices. 


Call for Spring 2025 Resolutions 

(July 2024) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you would like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.  

Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides the ACP grassroots member a voice and allows you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.  

Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.  

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval is required to move resolutions forward to ACP national. Although not official ACP policy, a resolution becomes property of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Spring 2025 Board of Governors Meeting is September 27, 2024

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution. 


We want to hear from you: Fall 2024 BOG Resolutions

(July 2024) The following resolutions are up for consideration at the Fall 2024 Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting. We invite you to review each resolution and share your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by August 12.

  • Developing Policy to Address Consolidation in Healthcare 
  • Gaining an Understanding of the 1-Year and 3-Year Mortality Rates of Patients that Have Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Stays 
  • Supporting Patients’ Access to Documentation and Communications in their Preferred Language  
  • Declaring Access to Equitable, Affordable Healthcare is a Human Right  
  • Developing Policy on Reducing Traffic Fatalities and Injuries in the United States  
  • Revising ACP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Policy to Promote an Age-Friendly Professional Home and Create Engagement Opportunities for Senior and Retired Physicians  
  • Advocating for Funding of a Direct Comparison of Two Highly Touted Dietary Approaches to Control Type Two Diabetes Clinical Measures and Costs  

Resolutions provide our members an opportunity to focus attention at the national level on particular issues or topics that concern you and gives grassroots members a voice, allowing you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine. Involvement in the resolutions feedback process is essential for maintaining a responsive and effective professional organization that truly represents its members. 

Your feedback is valuable and will be forwarded to your Governor to assist in their testimony on behalf of the chapter. Thank you for your input. 

(NOTE: Proposed resolutions should be considered confidential information and are intended to be viewed by ACP members only. Under no circumstances should proposed resolutions be shared with the news media or social networking media, nor should they be shared with other individuals and organizations. Proposed resolutions do not represent ACP policy.) 


Happy Anniversary to our Chapter Members!

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5 Years

  • Faryal S Mirza, FACP MBBS
  • Richard J Wilcon, MD
  • Kusuma A Hampapur, MBBS
  • Christi Y Kim, MD FACP
  • John Huang, MD
  • Vasiliki Harisis, MD FACP
  • Rashmi V Thatte, MBBS
  • Lakshmi D Polisetty, MBBS FACP
  • David R Lloyd
  • Abdelkader Chaar, MD FACP
  • Yuliya Riat, MD FACP
  • Benjamin A Howell, MD
  • Joseph A Donroe, MD
  • Thomas Chin, MBBS
  • Angela Hart, DO
  • Armenia Mordan, MD
  • Jessica M Stempel, MD FACP
  • Rohit Masih, MD
  • Hnin H Oo, MD,MBBS
  • Christopher D'Souza, MD
  • Nasreen Kathrada, MD
  • Miguel A Mantilla, MD FACP
  • Sergii S Rakhuba, MD
  • Neelam Khetpal, MBBS MD FACP
  • Joseph A St. Pierre, II, DO FACP
  • Anton Shimanovsky, MD
  • Medhat Ghaly, MD FACP
  • Setareh Alipourfetrati, MD
  • Sameer Gupta, MD
  • James Ignas Koola, FACP MD
  • Aliaksandr Gringlaz
  • Rajiv M Mallipudi, MD FACP
  • Shilpi Aggarwal, MBBS MD
  • Umar Mahmud, MD
  • Atique A Mirza, MD FACP
  • Laura K Zheng, MD
  • Mark B Taylor, MD FACP
  • Matthew Carley, MD

10 Years

  • Cara Kurlander, MD
  • Sylvester E Dijeh, MBBS FACP
  • Rebecca A Pompo, MD
  • Christian Espana Schmidt, MD MD FAC
  • Agata Sajkiewicz, MD
  • George Sunny Pazhayattil, MD FACP
  • Susan W Arvan, DO
  • Bojana Weatherly, MD FACP
  • Kirsten Lee Ek, MD FACP
  • Aaron Elihu Silver, MD FACP
  • Raghuveer R Rakasi, MBBS MD FACP
  • Edward K Mensah, MD FACP
  • Tigist D Ashagari, MD
  • Kumuthini Partheepan, MD
  • Ken Matsuo, MD
  • Joan E Gigstad, MD
  • Tzivia Moreen, MD FACP
  • Mohammad F Belal, MBBS FACP
  • Michael O Ashwood, MD
  • Yiannis Apergis, MD FACP
  • Jane M Doyle, MD FACP

15 Years

  • Vincent James Quagliarello, MD FACP
  • Rupal N Panchal, MD FACP
  • Jason S Fish, MD
  • Michael A Ayepah, MD FACP
  • Pia Dogbey, MBChB FACP
  • Dmitry Albin, MD
  • Elizabeth A Ofori-Mante, MBchB FACP
  • Edgar R Naut, MD FACP
  • Robert J Alpern, MD FACP
  • Bala Shanmugam, MD
  • Janaka M Periyapperuma, MBBS FACP
  • Kathleen F Maurer, MD
  • Alan H Spiro, MD

20 Years

  • Marjorie Phyllis Golden, MD FACP
  • Harry A Conte, MD FACP
  • Pinar Oray-Schrom, MD FACP
  • David T Fenton, MD
  • Nicole S Silverstein, MD FACP
  • Eric Fan, MD FACP
  • Samer Ein Alshaeba, MD
  • Surendran R Varma, MD
  • Christian Leonardi, DO
  • Donna Marie Romito, DO
  • Frederick A Browne, MD FACP
  • Vivien A Iloeje, MBBS

(May 2024) Your ACP Chapter thanks you for your continued Membership and all you do every day to serve your patients and support the future of internal medicine. We’re proud that you’ve chosen us as your professional home, and we’re committed to remaining by your side—advocating for and supporting your professional journey.


BOR Action on Spring 2024 BOG Resolutions

(May 2024) A summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Spring 2024 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.

If you have an idea you would like to suggest to ACP, consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or local ACP chapter. Visit the advocacy section of your ACP chapter website for more information on how to propose a resolution.


Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

  • Monzurul H Chowdhury, MD FACP
  • Deborah D Desir, MD FACP
  • Eric Schwaber, MD FACP
  • Uday Shankar, MBBS FACP
  • Tamar H Taddei, MD FACP

(April 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices. 


Member Feedback is Requested on Spring 2024 Resolutions

(February 2024) Twenty-one (21) resolutions will be considered at the Spring 2024 Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting. With the exception of Resolution 9-S24, which will not be debated because this resolution is slated for adoption as a reaffirmation, please review each resolution and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by the deadline your ACP Chapter Governor has requested or by midnight March 13, whichever comes first. 

Your comments will be forwarded to your Governor to be used as part of his/her testimony on behalf of the chapter. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Giampietro, BOG Administrator, at chapter@acpmembership.org. Thank you for your input. 

(NOTE: Proposed resolutions should be considered confidential information and are intended to be viewed by ACP members only. Under no circumstances should proposed resolutions be shared with the news media or social networking media, nor should they be shared with other individuals and organizations. Proposed resolutions do not represent ACP policy.)


Call for Fall 2024 Resolutions

(February 2024) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.  

Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides the ACP grassroots member a voice and allows you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.  

Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The just released ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is now available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.  

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval is required to move resolutions forward to ACP national. Although not official ACP policy, a resolution becomes property of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Fall 2024 Board of Governors Meeting is March 29, 2024. 

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution. 


Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

  • Alexander Hallac, MD FACP
  • Ranjeet Kumar, MD FACP
  • Amed Logrono, MD FACP
  • Miguel A Mantilla, MD FACP
  • Rabeea Nazir, MD FACP
  • Gregory Rubinfeld, MD FACP
  • Amandeep Singh Aujla, MBBS FACP
  • Joyce Justin, MD FACP
  • George A Kuchel, MD FACP

(February 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices. 


Chapter Speakers at Internal Medicine Meeting 2024

(December 2023) We’d like to bring attention to our local chapter members who will be presenting as faculty at ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts this April. Early-bird registration is available through January. For a full schedule or for more information on the meeting, click here.

Rebecca Andrews Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want To: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators, and Other Clinicians Saturday, April 20, 2024
Rebecca Andrews Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want To: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators, and Other Clinicians Saturday, April 20, 2024
Andrea Lucile Burgo-Black Clinical Workshop A Brief Military History: The Key to Good Health Care for Veterans in Your Practice Thursday, April 18, 2024
Kevin Chamberlin Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want To: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators, and Other Clinicians Saturday, April 20, 2024
Kevin Chamberlin Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want To: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators, and Other Clinicians Saturday, April 20, 2024
Joseph Lim Meet the Professor Transaminitis in the Hospitalized Patient: What to Do and How? Friday, April 19, 2024
Naseema Merchant Pre-course ACP Quality Improvement Leadership Training: Best Practices to Achieve Meaningful and Sustainable Improvement Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Jennifer Ozimek Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want To: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators, and Other Clinicians Saturday, April 20, 2024
Jennifer Ozimek Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want To: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators, and Other Clinicians Saturday, April 20, 2024
David Seres Meet the Professor Nutrition and Malnutrition During Hospitalization Saturday, April 20, 2024
Anthony Yoder Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want To: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators, and Other Clinicians Saturday, April 20, 2024
Anthony Yoder Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want To: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators, and Other Clinicians Saturday, April 20, 2024

BOR Action on Fall 2023 BOG Resolutions

(December 2023) A summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Fall 2023 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.

If you have an idea you would like to suggest to ACP, consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or local ACP chapter. Visit the advocacy section of your ACP chapter website for more information on how to propose a resolution.


Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

  • George Goshua, MD FACP
  • Jaclyn Olsen Jaeger, DO FACP
  • Carolina I Borz Baba, MD FACP
  • Faiqa A Cheema, MD FACP
  • Mandeep Singh Rahi, MBBS MD FACP

(November 2023) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.


2023 Chapter Excellence Award – Gold Winner

Chapter Excellence Award Bronze We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 54 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria, seventeen Silver criteria and multiple Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians.

We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.


We Request Your Feedback on the Proposed Fall 2023 Board of Governors Resolutions

(August 2023) We would like to request your feedback regarding resolutions that will be considered at the Fall 2023 Board of Governors Meeting. With the exception of Resolution 3-F23 which was accepted as a reaffirmation and will not be debated, please review the balance of the slate and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the resolutions electronic response form by August 30th.

After considering the intent of each resolution and how it fits with the College’s Mission and Goals, please provide your feedback on each resolution and indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by August 30. Your input will be used as part of testimony on behalf of the chapter.

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to provide comments regarding these resolutions. By providing your feedback on the Board of Governors resolutions, you have helped to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.


Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

  • Adam L Ackerman, MD FACP
  • Nivedita Agarwal, MD FACP
  • David M Ozimek, MD FACP
  • Jennifer A Ozimek, MD FACP
  • Lakshmi D Polisetty, MBBS FACP
  • Levita Y Robinson, MD FACP
  • Mark B Taylor, MD FACP

(July 2023) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.


Call for Spring 2024 BOG Resolutions

(July 2023) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.  

Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides the ACP grassroots member a voice and allows you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.

Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The recently released ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is now available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.  

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval to move resolutions forward to ACP national is required. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Spring 2024 Board of Governors Meeting is October 16, 2023.  

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.


BOR Action on Spring 2023 BOG Resolutions

(June 2023) summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Spring 2023 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.


Chapter Members Elected to ACP Fellowship

(March 2023) We would like to congratulate our chapter members on election to Fellow of the American College of Physicians. The distinction recognizes achievements in internal medicine.

Abdelkader Chaar, MD FACP

Medhat Ghaly, MD FACP

Neelam Khetpal, MBBS MD FACP

James Koola, MD FACP

Dmitry Kozhevnikov, DO FACP

Rajiv Mallipudi, MD FACP

Abu-Sayeef Mirza, MD FACP

Monika Mishra, MBBS FACP

Joseph St. Pierre, DO FACP

Jessica M Stempel, MD FACP

Jenifer L Drummond, MD FACP

Vasiliki Harisis, MD FACP

Christi Y Kim, MD FACP

Zhenxiang Liu, MD FACP

Yuliya Riat, MD FACP

Varun Jain, MD FACP

Fellowship is elected upon the recommendation of peers and the review of ACP’s Credentials Subcommittee. They may now use the letters “FACP” after their name in recognition of this honor. Please join me in congratulations!


Chapter Speakers at Internal Medicine Meeting 2023

(March 2023) We would like to draw your attention to our Internal Medicine Meeting 2023 local speakers.

Rebecca Andrews Collinsville Connecticut Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want to: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators and Other Clinicians Thursday, April 27, 2023
Rebecca Andrews Collinsville Connecticut Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want to: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators and Other Clinicians Friday, April 28, 2023
Rebecca Andrews Collinsville Connecticut Panel News You Can Use: Current Clinical Guidelines In Treatments for Depression and COVID-19 Thursday, April 27, 2023
Lucile Burgo-Black New Haven Connecticut Clinical Workshop A Brief Military History: The Key to Good Health Care for Veterans in Your Practice Thursday, April 27, 2023
Kevin Chamberlin Farmington Connecticut Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want to: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators and Other Clinicians Thursday, April 27, 2023
Kevin Chamberlin Farmington Connecticut Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want to: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators and Other Clinicians Friday, April 28, 2023
Jose Gomez Villalobos Orange Connecticut Update Update in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Saturday, April 29, 2023
Sofia Jakab New Haven Connecticut Meet the Professor Acute Liver Failure for the Hospitalist: What's New in 2023? Saturday, April 29, 2023
Richard Martinello Woodbridge Connecticut Clinical Triad Clinical Triad: Infectious Diseases: Clostridium difficile, Positive Blood Cultures, and Urinary Tract Infections Saturday, April 29, 2023
Naseema Merchant Middlefield Connecticut Clinical Triad Clinical Triad: Infectious Diseases: Clostridium difficile, Positive Blood Cultures, and Urinary Tract Infections Saturday, April 29, 2023
Jennifer Ozimek Simsbury Connecticut Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want to: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators and Other Clinicians Thursday, April 27, 2023
Jennifer Ozimek Simsbury Connecticut Clinical Workshop Communicating Effectively When You Don’t Want to: Practical Strategies for Difficult Conversations with Patients, Staff, Administrators and Other Clinicians Friday, April 28, 2023
Tara Sanft Easton Connecticut Clinical Workshop Reclaiming Meaning and Reducing Burnout by Making Empathic Connections Friday, April 28, 2023
Emily Wang New Haven Connecticut Panel Caring and Advocating for Patients Involved in the Justice System: The Internal Medicine Physician's Many Roles Thursday, April 27, 2023

If you’re attending IMM23, please join us at our chapter reception, to be held Thursday, April 27 from 8:00-10:00 PM at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Marriott Grand Ballroom, Section 10. 


Member Feedback is Requested on Spring 2023 Resolutions

(March 2023) Fourteen (14) resolutions will be considered at the Spring 2023 Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting. Please review each resolution and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by the deadline your ACP Chapter Governor has requested or by March 22, whichever comes first.

Your comments will be forwarded to the Chapter Governor to be used as part of their testimony on behalf of the chapter. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Giampietro, BOG Administrator, at chapter@acpmembership.org. Thank you for your input.

(NOTE: Proposed resolutions should be considered confidential information and are intended to be viewed by ACP members only. Under no circumstances should proposed resolutions be shared with the news media or social networking media, nor should they be shared with other individuals and organizations. Proposed resolutions do not represent ACP policy.)


Call for Fall 2023 Resolutions

(February 2023) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.

Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides the ACP grassroots member a voice and allows you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.

Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The just released ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is now available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval to move resolutions forward to ACP national is required. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Fall 2023 Board of Governors Meeting is March 30, 2023.

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.