2023 Chapter Excellence Award – Gold Winner
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.