CARDIOVASCULAR PSYCHIATRY SIG
Minutes from SIG meeting: November 17, 2012, Atlanta GA
Attendees: Hochang Benjamin Lee (Chair), Caroline Saulino, Jeff Huffman, Devinalini Kamaraj, Christopher Celano, Gulam Nurami
Minutes:
- Description, purpose and benefits of the Cardiovascular Psychiatry SIG were discussed.
- Chair of the SIG would be Hochang Benjamin Lee for the next two years and will transition to another member. Meanwhile, the SIG will establish the administrative bylaws.
- Chair will submit annual reports and meet with the APM Secretary (or his/her designee)
- Names of members in attendance at the annual meeting
- A synopsis of the groups’ activities for the year
- An update of the SIG contact information to be posted on the Web
- Any special requests for the upcoming year need to be submitted to the Governance Committee two months prior to the annual meeting
- Operation
- Activities throughout the year
- The primary mode of communication among the SIG members would be through Listserv.
- Dr. Kamaraj will take the lead on creating a listserv and maintaining it.
- Dr. Lee will send the list of the current members to Dr. Kamaraj to create an access list.
- Dr. Celano and Dr. Huffman will lead the website.
- Content of the website will be:
- Purpose, description, benefits of the SIG
- Annual SIG meeting minutes (this sheet)
- Upcoming events
- Other announcement
- We will consider having one mid-year web-based meeting to update the progress of various SIG activities.
- Activities for the next year’s annual meeting: Tucson, Arizona, 2013 Nov 13-16
- Theme from SIG next year will be: heart failure
- Preferred format would be: symposium
- However, pre-conference course will be looked into.
- Once the next year’s theme is decided, we will put together a proposal. Dr. Lee will lead this effort with Dr. Nurami and Dr. Saulino. We will involve as many SIG members as possible.
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