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
- Hayder A Abbood, MD FACP
- Neetu Mahendraker, MBBS FACP
- Ian S Scharrer, MD FACP
- Sruthi Vellanki, 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.
Call for Abstracts: 2023 Indiana Chapter Meeting
Resident/Fellow, Medical Student Members & Early Career Physicians--Share your most interesting case and/or project during the 2023 ACP Indiana Chapter Meeting!
Abstract Competitions are to be held November 2, 2023 in Carmel, IN.
View the FULL COMPETITION DETAILS.
Submit an abstract using the INDIANA CHAPTER ABSTRACT FORM.
Abstract Submission Deadline:
Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 11:59 pm EST
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.
Whitney Fraiz, MD FACP
Muhammad Mufti, MD FACP
Katherine E Palmisano, MD FACP
Carlos Salazar, MD FACP
Sukhwinder Singh, MD FACP
Simant Singh Thapa, MD FACP
Anup Trikannad, MD FACP
Ahmed Behery, MD FACP
Emily Cochard, MD FACP
Amy W Johnson, DO FACP
Crystal L Jones, MD FACP
Adrian B Singson, 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!
The American College of Physicians, Indiana Opposes Efforts to Ban Gender-Affirming Care
(March 2023) Statement Attributable to Bradley M. Sutter, MD, FACP, Governor, Indiana Chapter; Katherine Palmisano, MD, FACP, Chair, Health & Public Policy Committee, Indiana Chapter.
Indiana Senate Bill 480 seeks to prohibit physicians from providing gender-affirming and transgender care to minors. The American College of Physicians Indiana Chapter opposes this bill as well as Indiana House Bill 1118, House Bill 1220, House Bill 1231, House Bill 1525, and House Bill 1589 which all seek similar. The ACP Indiana Chapter, representing 1775 internal medicine physicians and medical students in the state of Indiana, affirms the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals to receive gender-affirming and transgender health care. Our chapter firmly supports physicians who provide this necessary care and opposes efforts to criminalize these services.
A growing number of states are banning gender-affirming health care and pursuing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, contrary to ACP policy, which urges non-discrimination in health care. ACP opposes these restrictions on health care for transgender individuals, who already may face extreme barriers to accessing care, and strongly objects to any unnecessary government interference with any health care services.
Laws like the ones currently under consideration in Indiana drive stigma and endanger the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ youth. According to the Trevor Project’s 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, 94 percent of LGBTQ+ youth reported that recent politics have negatively impacted their mental health.
ACP has decried discriminatory policies against LGBTQ+ people because of the harm they cause. In particular, ACP has objected to the interference with the physician-patient relationship and penalization of evidence-based care. ACP believes that physicians and other health care professionals should not fear criminal punishment for providing the medical standard of care, nor should the government attempt to force disclosure of patient information related to gender-affirming care. ACP policy also calls for coverage of comprehensive transgender health care in private and public insurance plans. In addition to speaking out against these harmful laws, ACP has joined amicus briefs in legal challenges discriminating against transgender people.
ACP Indiana will continue to support legal and legislative efforts protecting against these medically unsound and dangerous restrictions.
Board of Regents Action on Fall 2022 BOG Resolutions
(November 2022) A summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Fall 2022 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'd like to suggest to ACP, consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or local ACP chapter. Visit your ACP chapter website for more information on how to contact your Governor or chapter staff about proposing a resolution.
Chapter Members Elected to ACP Fellowship
(November 2022) 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.
FNU Jaydev, MBBS, FACP
Amit Kalra, MBBS MD, FACP
Neha Patel, MD, FACP
Salem Vilayet, MD, FACP
Olivia Nirmalasari, MD, FACP
Ahmed A Taha, 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!