Home of Delegates
The American Faculty of Surgeons (ACS) actively participates within the conferences of the American Medical Affiliation’s Home of Delegates (AMA HOD). At the moment the Faculty helps a delegation which incorporates: Daniel Dent, MD, FACS, San Antonio, TX; Jacob Moalem, MD, FACS, Rochester, NY; Leigh Neumayer, MD, FACS, Salt Lake Metropolis, UT; Naveen Sangji, MD, Ann Arbor, MI (additionally serves because the ACS delegate to the AMA Younger Physicians Part); Kenneth Sharp, MD, FACS, Nashville, TN; and Patricia Turner, MD, FACS, Chicago, IL (delegation chair). In 2019, further ACS management participated as delegates through the Annual Assembly of the HOD, together with: David Hoyt, MD, FACS, Chicago, IL; Lena Napolitano, MD, FACS, Ann Arbor, MI; Gary Timmerman, MD, FACS, Sioux Falls, SD; and Mark Weissler, MD, FACS, Chapel Hill, NC.
The Home of Delegates is the principal policymaking physique of the AMA and features like a Congress. State medical societies and nationwide specialty societies are represented within the Home, and through these conferences ACS delegates advocate for resolutions and stories on a wide range of problems with curiosity to surgical procedure. The Faculty has launched and efficiently handed resolutions coping with reimbursement for ultrasound imaging within the workplace; medical legal responsibility reform regarding skilled witness {qualifications} and affirmation statements; learning the difficulty of specialty hospitals to find out their affect on the well being care system; and growth of affected person security rules for office-based surgical procedure.
ACS delegates are leaders within the Surgical Caucus of the AMA, which is managed by workers of the Faculty. The Caucus gives a chance for all surgeons within the HOD to fulfill and focus on resolutions and stories, and absorb an academic session specializing in a subject of curiosity to surgical procedure.
The ACS delegation is staffed via the Division of Advocacy and Well being Coverage. Questions regarding the AMA Home of Delegates and the Surgical Caucus could also be addressed to kmcdonald@facs.org.
Surgical Caucus of the AMA
ACS actively participates within the conferences of the AMA’s Home of Delegates (AMA HOD). In these conferences, ACS advocates for resolutions and stories on points comparable to reimbursement for ultrasound imaging, medical legal responsibility reform, and growth of affected person security rules for office-based surgical procedure, amongst others.
The Surgical Caucus of the American Medical Affiliation (SCAMA) gives a discussion board at every session of the AMA Home of Delegates (HOD) for dialogue and proposals regarding skilled and socioeconomic problems with curiosity to surgeons. An Government Committee manages the affairs of the Caucus and gives route to administrative assist via the ACS.
Membership
Caucus membership is open to all physicians who’re designated by the AMA as training surgical procedure or any of its subspecialties who’re serving as delegates or alternate delegates within the HOD, the Organized Medical Workers Part, the Medical Scholar Part, the Younger Physicians Part, or the Resident and Fellow Part. As well as, Officers of the AMA and state medical society presidents are welcome to affix. Lastly, physicians who are usually not surgeons however who observe in specialties with important scientific interactions with surgeons may additionally change into members of the Caucus. Examples embody anesthesiology, essential care, emergency drugs, interventional cardiology, and interventional radiology.
Dues
Assist by members of the AMA HOD is essential for the Caucus to keep up actions. Along with sponsoring a handbook evaluation session to debate HOD points from a surgical perspective, the Caucus hosts an accredited persevering with medical training session at every assembly.
HOD delegates or alternates who want to assist the Caucus via their dues might achieve this by finishing a dues type. The price of annual dues is $60, and cost could also be made by examine or bank card.
Government Committee MinutesJune 11, 2019
SCAMA Assembly MinutesJune 8, 2019
AMA Annual HOD AssemblyTreasurer’s Report
November 6, 2019
Contact
For ACS Delegates and Alternate Delegates
Kristin McDonald
American Faculty of Surgeons
20 F Avenue NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC, 20001
Telephone: 202-672-1512
Fax: 202-337-4271
E-mail: surgical.caucus@facs.org
For Surgical Caucus Members
Katie Fitzgerald
American Faculty of Surgeons
633 N. St. Clair
Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: 312-202-5201
E-mail: scama@facs.org
