AAPM&R Connection E-Newsletter

With a fresh new vision and mission for the organization, your Academy is leading the advancement of physiatry’s impact throughout health care. In 2018, membership is even MORE valuable and exciting!

Renew your dues now to help advance the PM&R BOLD initiative, receive complimentary resources to meet current, fundamental Maintenance of Certification^® requirements, stay updated on health care changes, and more. All of our efforts to advance the specialty so that we thrive, collectively and individually, require the strong support of physiatrists. Your support also helps maintain the Academy's strong Washington, DC presence so that we can continuously represent the specialty and protect your interests in physician payment and regulatory issues. Maximize your investment in Academy membership by renewing before December 31.

At AAPM&R’s 2017 Annual Business Meeting held during the Annual Assembly, Darryl L. Kaelin, MD, FAAPMR, began his 1-year term as president and Peter C. Esselman, MD, FAAPMR, will serve as president-elect. Congratulations to your 2018 Board of Governors!

Front row (l to r): Amy J. Houtrow, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAPMR; Jonathan Finnoff, DO, FAAPMR; Deborah A. Venesy; Darryl L. Kaelin, MD, FAAPMR; Michelle S. Gittler, MD, FAAPMR; Peter C. Esselman, MD, FAAPMR

Second row (l to r): Nathaniel V. Zuziak, DO; Stuart M. Weinstein, MD, FAAPMR; Charlotte H. Smith, MD, FAAPMR; Robert J. Rinaldi, MD, FAAPMR; Steven R. Flanagan, MD, FAAPMR; D.J. Kennedy, MD, FAAPMR; Michael Saffir, MD, FAAPMR

Third row (l to r): Scott R. Laker, MD, FAAPMR; Steve R. Geiringer, MD, FAAPMR; Thomas E. Stautzenbach, MA, MBA, CAE

In September 2015, AAPM&R endorsed the paper, Firearm-Related Injury and Death in the United States: A Call to Action from 8 Health Professional Organizations and the American Bar Association, for its stance on remediating intrusions on physician-patient relationships.

In a follow-up to this endorsement, the American College of Physicians (ACP) is conducting a new campaign, in tandem with a recently-published article by Dr. Garen Wintermute, which encourages physicians to make a commitment to help reduce firearm-related violence by adding their name to an online form that will be posted on ACP’s website. Learn more and make a commitment.

Did you catch all of our Physiatry Day videos? Take a look at this one featuring Women in Physiatry! Click here to view the Physiatry Day recap, and to access all the videos featured on Physiatry Day.

Play a major role in the 2018 Annual Assembly by sending us a session proposal and/or research abstract. Learn more about each:

• Session Proposals—due December 1, 2017
• Research Abstracts—due December 15, 2017
  
  

In 2012, the ABIM Foundation launched the Choosing Wisely^® campaign with the goal of advancing a national dialogue on avoiding wasteful or unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures.

Take a look at this report, which marks the fifth anniversary of the campaign. The report recounts the campaign’s success in raising awareness about overuse and in motivating physicians and health system leaders to implement change. Choosing Wisely^® now involves more than 80 medical specialty society partners and more than 525 specialty society recommendations on overused tests, treatments and procedures.

• Nathaniel H Mayer, MD, FAAPMR, director of the motor control analysis laboratory at MossRehab, received the AMRPA Leadership Excellence Award at its annual meeting in Chicago on October 24.

Do you have a newsworthy story to share with your peers? Send us an email at: pressinquiries@aapmr.org. Please note: AAPM&R reserves the right to deny requests where the purpose or content may not be considered in the best interests of AAPM&R or its members.