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
- Felix O Ajuonuma, DO FACP
- Thomas F Blair, MD FACP
- Jonathan R Brock, MD FACP
- Sara R Cowles, DO FACP
- Matthew Levi Fowler, DO PhD FACP
- Nitin Gupta, MD FACP
- Nicole L Helmke, MD FACP
- Sara Kinny, MD FACP
- Boris M Kiselev, MD FACP
- Samuel A Lazoff, DO MPH FACP
- Peggy M Robinson, DO FACP
- Skand Shekhar, MD FACP
- Imran Syed, MBBS FACP
- Kushal C Vaishnani, MD FACP
- Kyle D Burnette, II, DO FACP
- Daniel R Carrizosa, MD FACP
- James E Kurz, MD FACP
- Junzhi Lin, MD FACP
- Alan L Morgan, MD FACP
- Robert J Murray, III, DO FACP
- Madhvi Thakkar, 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.
Apply to be part of the I Raise the Rates QI program: a national campaign to increase influenza and adult immunization rates.
(February 2024) NC ACP Chapter members have the opportunity to receive education, coaching, and support to increase immunization rates in their practice setting.
Become an ACP Quality Champion and learn the skills to lead a quality improvement (QI) initiative to increase vaccination rates in your practice!
Apply now to receive:
High-Quality Education
- Free registration to the QI Champion Leadership Training Pre-course on April 17, 2024 in Boston, MA ($400 value plus $1,000 travel stipend for two members from your practice)
- Access to the ACP Advance QI Curriculum training videos, and tailored educational resources
- Earn CME and ABIM MOC credits
Free Virtual Coaching Support
ACP will connect with expert physician coaches to help:
- Guide implementation of your QI initiative
- Engage your team and build capacity
- Promote clinician well-being and empowerment
Professional Development
QI champions will be eligible to:
- Submit an abstract to ACP's National Abstract and Posters Competition
- Be featured in ACP publication, I Raise the Rates video series, or newsletter
Participation Requirements
- Complete QI training for two champions from your practice (physician and non-physician)
- Implement an immunization-focused QI initiative based on ACP Advance QI Curriculum (8-12 months)
- Participation in periodic coaching calls
- Report program outcomes to ACP
- Time commitment: 1-2 hours per month for 8-12 months
Deadline to Apply: March 15, 2024
Fill out the brief (5 minute) online application. Applicants will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.
For additional information, please contact Michele Duchin-Watson at mduchin@acponline.org and see the flyer here. You can also reach out to NC ACP Governor, Dr. Marion McCrary, at mlmmccrary@gmail.com
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.
| Jessica | Bartfield | Pre-course | Diabetes for Internal Medicine Physicians | Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
| Kathryn | Callahan | Pre-course | Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine for Internal Medicine Physicians | Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
| Cherylee | Chang | Pre-course | Critical Care Medicine 2024 | Tuesday, April 16, 2024 |
| Paul | Chelminski | Clinical Workshop | Moral Distress in Clinical Settings: Navigating Obstacles to Well-being in the Moment | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Jane | Gagliardi | Pre-course | Primary Care Psychiatry: Practical Skills for Internal Medicine Physicians | Wednesday, April 17, 2024 |
| Patrick | Hemming | Case-Based Learning | Partnering for Depression Care: Evidence-based Care of Major Depression | Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
| Patrick | Hemming | Case-Based Learning | Partnering for Depression Care: Evidence-based Care of Major Depression | Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
| Patrick | Hemming | Meet the Professor | Depression and Anxiety Treatment by the Internal Medicine Physician | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Carly | Kelley | Update | Update in Endocrinology | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Marion | McCrary | Clinical Workshop | Stories that Heal and Reveal: A Radical Listening and Reflective Writing Workshop | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Marion | McCrary | Clinical Workshop | Know Yourself: Communicate Your Personal and Professional Message | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Marion | McCrary | Clinical Workshop | Stories that Heal and Reveal: A Radical Listening and Reflective Writing Workshop | Friday, April 19, 2024 |
| Wanda | Nicholson | Panel | News You Can Use: Current Clinical Guidelines In Colorectal Cancer Screening | Thursday, April 18, 2024 |
| Gregory | Summerville | Clinical Skills Center | Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Shoulder | |
| Gregory | Summerville | Clinical Skills Center | Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Knee | |
| Donna | Williams | Panel | Teaching and Coaching in the Inpatient Setting | Friday, April 19, 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
- Khuram Ashraf Bhutta, MD FACP
- Shebli Atrash, MD FACP
- Ramesh M Konduru, MD FACP
- Suma Menon, MD FACP
- Thomas M Motyka, DO FACP
- Tameru Dressie Demsie, MD FACP
- Christopher H Leo, MBBS FACP
- Laxman R Pokhrel, MD FACP
- Matthew K Rapp, 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 – Bronze Winner
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Bronze Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes chapters that achieve basics in chapter management. In order to achieve the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria. Criteria include such activities as being involved in advocacy activities, communicating with members, having a chapter/regional scientific meeting along with a planning committee, having a sound financial structure in place, recruiting and advancing members and having an awards committee that identifies candidates for local or national awards.
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
- Syed S Ahmed, MD FACP
- Naomi N Duke, MD PhD FACP
- Rajarajan Panneerselvan, MD FACP
- Ashish Subedi, 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: 2024 North Carolina Chapter Meeting
Open to Resident/Fellow, Medical Student Members & Early Career Physicians
View the FULL COMPETITION DETAILS.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED.
Abstract Submission Deadline:
Monday, December 4, 2023 at 11:59 pm EST
North Carolina Receives the 2023 John Tooker Evergreen Award
(May 2023) The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. The North Carolina Chapter received the 2023 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their initiative, Well-being Communication and Collaboration for Community.
Well-being Communication and Collaboration for Community
The goal of virtual delivery of wellness information via videos grew out of the need to provide bite-sized, real-time information to support our members during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The North Carolina Chapter strategized to increase membership by offering individual well-being resources during the early years of the pandemic while creating a sense of community. The Chapter developed live, and evergreen content publicized via newsletters, through a collaboration with several ACP chapters with limited programming, and ACP Well-Being Champions. In collaboration with the Georgia Chapter, the North Carolina Chapter developed a monthly virtual well-being program and separately, developed ten coaching videos on wellness information. This program was innovative because the Chapter had not previously offered virtual meeting opportunities nor had the capacity to store videos for members to watch./p>
Chapter Members Elected to ACP Fellowship
(March 2023) We would like to congratulate our chapter members on their election to Fellow of the American College of Physicians. The distinction recognizes achievements in internal medicine.
Anthony Dang, MD FACP
Rimma Osipov, MD PhD FACP
Astha Thakkar, MBBS FACP
James R Watson, MD FACP
Leah Joseph, MBBS FACP
Vijaya D L Pradeepthi Marri, MBBS MD FACP
Frances Catherine O'Hare, MD FACP
Saumil M Chudgar, MD FACP
Nilanjan Ghosh, 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!
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.
- Roshan Acharya, MBBS, FACP
- Shawnya A Gore, MD, FACP
- Manish Goyal, MBBS, FACP
- Masiku Mdala-Gausi, MD, FACP
- Rahul Sampath, MBBS, FACP
- Andrea C Archibald, MD, FACP
- Donald Darko Asante, MD, FACP
- Christopher P Craig, DO, FACP
- Amit Datta, MD, FACP
- Suresh Paudel, MBBS, FACP
- Sreekanth Vemulapalli, 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!