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
- Rheanne K Maravelas, MD FACP
- Hannah C Nordhues, 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.
| John | Bundrick | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Cardiology and Pulmonary Medicine | Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
| John | Bundrick | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Gastroenterology and Benign Hematology | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| John | Bundrick | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Perioperative Medicine and General Internal Medicine | Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
| Michael | Cullen | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Cardiology and Pulmonary Medicine | Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
| Megan | Dulohery | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Cardiology and Pulmonary Medicine | Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
| Kristine | Ensrud | Meet the Professor | Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: Anabolics, Antiresorptives, Drug Holidays | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Alice | Gallo De Moraes | Pre-course | Hospital Medicine: Success in a Complex Environment | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
| Alice | Gallo De Moraes | Clinical Skills Center | Ultrasound-Guided Thoracentesis | |
| Heather | Gantzer | Panel | Navigating the Ethics of Patient Portals, E-Communications, and Open Notes | Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
| Amy | Holbrook | Panel | Ethical Case Challenges: Health Care Disinformation and Misinformation | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Deanne | Kashiwagi | Pre-course | Hospital Medicine: Success in a Complex Environment | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
| Margaret | Long | Meet the Professor | Cervical Cancer Screening Results: Understanding and Following Up | Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
| Thomas | Martens | Clinical Workshop | Beyond A1C: Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Management in Primary Care | Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
| Karen | Mauck | Pre-course | Perioperative Medicine 2024 | Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
| Paul | Meirick | Clinical Skills Center | Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Knee | |
| Paul | Meirick | Clinical Skills Center | Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Shoulder | |
| James | Newman | Pre-course | Hospital Medicine: Success in a Complex Environment | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
| Shafay | Raheel | Pre-course | Hospital Medicine: Success in a Complex Environment | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
| Charles | Reznikoff | Meet the Professor | Addiction Medicine: What's New in the Clinic? | Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
| Tseganesh | Selameab | Workshop | Caring for Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers: The Physician’s Role | Saturday, April 20, 2024 |
| Gregg | Simonson | Clinical Workshop | Beyond A1C: Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Management in Primary Care | Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
| Karna | Sundsted | Pre-course | Hospital Medicine: Success in a Complex Environment | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
| David | Tierney | Pre-course | Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Foundational Skills for Internal Medicine Physicians | Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
| David | Tierney | Pre-course | Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Foundational Skills for Internal Medicine Physicians | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
| Xiao Jing | Wang | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Gastroenterology and Benign Hematology | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Xiao Jing | Wang | Meet the Professor | Disorders of Gut–Brain Interaction: IBS, Functional Dyspepsia, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis, and Cyclic Vomiting | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Rahma | Warsame | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Gastroenterology and Benign Hematology | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Timothy | Wilt | Panel | News You Can Use: Current Clinical Guidelines In Colorectal Cancer Screening | Thursday, April 18, 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
- Steven Jay Borowsky, MD FACP
- Magda A Bushara, MBBS FACP
- Shivali Devgon, 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
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 Dr. Rowekamp on Fellowship
- Troy A Rowekamp, DO FACP
(July 2023) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellow. 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.
Aravdeep S Jhand, MBBS FACP
Vivian Ortiz MD FACP
Samantha Morley Ryan, MD FACP
Arindam Sharma, MD FACP
Amir Yosef, MD FACP
Ellen A Adams, MD FACP
Sara Suleman, 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.
| Deepak | Agarwal | Minneapolis | Minnesota | Meet the Professor | Nephrolithiasis 101: Stones and Groans | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| John | Bundrick | Rochester | Minnesota | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Women's Health & Infectious Diseases | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| John | Bundrick | Rochester | Minnesota | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Gastroenterology & Nephrology | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| John | Bundrick | Rochester | Minnesota | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Anticoagulation/Vascular Medicine & General Internal Medicine | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Kevin | Gaddis | Edina | Minnesota | Meet the Professor | Management of Soft Tissue Masses and Dermatologic Cysts: Cysts, Lumps and Bumps | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Amy | Holbrook | LITTLE CANADA | Minnesota | Panel | Ethical Case Challenges: EHRs and E-Communications | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Amy | Holbrook | LITTLE CANADA | Minnesota | Workshop | Triaging Financial Priorities for Early Career Physicians | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Ryan | Jelinek | EDEN PRAIRIE | Minnesota | Panel | Hot Topics in Health IT: Trends | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Erin | Krebs | Minneapolis | Minnesota | Meet the Professor | My Older Patient Is in Pain: What Is Safe to Prescribe? | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Thomas | Martens | Brooklyn Center | Minnesota | Clinical Workshop | Beyond A1C: Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Management in Primary Care | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Robert | McBane | Rochester | Minnesota | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Anticoagulation/Vascular Medicine & General Internal Medicine | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Amy | Oxentenko | Rochester | Minnesota | Update | Update in Gastroenterology | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Deepti | Pandita | Plymouth | Minnesota | Panel | Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: Practical Applications in Medicine | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Deepti | Pandita | Plymouth | Minnesota | Panel | Leveraging Digital Health Tools to Support Equity | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Douglas | Simonetto | Rochester | Minnesota | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Gastroenterology & Nephrology | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Gregg | Simonson | Minneapolis | Minnesota | Clinical Workshop | Beyond A1C: Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Management in Primary Care | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Adrian | Vella | Rochester | Minnesota | Meet the Professor | Guidelines on the Treatment of Diabetes in Older Adults | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
If you’re attending IMM23, please join us at Minnesota-ACP and Mayo Clinic Association Reception—5:30-6:30 p.m., Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Cardiff/Carlsbad.
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.
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.
We Request Your Feedback on the Proposed Fall 2022 Board of Governors Resolutions
(August 2022) We would like to request your feedback regarding resolutions that will be considered at the Fall 2022 Board of Governors Meeting. The resolutions have been posted on ACP Online for your review and cover an array of topics such as supporting paid sick leave for U.S. workers, covering insulin pumps under CMS Part B for insulin dependent diabetics, and integrating a health equity framework into methods for developing ACP clinical guidelines.
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 31. 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. Please visit the chapter’s Web site after the Fall 2022 Board of Governors meeting for updates.
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.
- Mariam Anwar, MBBS FACP
- Colt J Edin, MD FACP
- Gregory W Barsness, MD FACP
- Mohammed N Bhuiyan, MD FACP
- Brian A Costello, MD FACP
- Joshua D Overgaard, MD FACP
- Emily A Van Kirk, MD FACP
- Aravdeep S Jhand, MBBS FACP
- Vivian Ortiz, MD FACP
- Samantha Morley Ryan, MD FACP
- Amir Yosef, 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