Meeting Minutes

October 16, 2008 Executive Committee Meeting

Present: Dr. Mustafa Bashir, Dr. Kate Feinstein, Dr. John Hibbeln,  Dr. Jay Korach, Dr. Jennifer Lim-Dunham, Dr. John Meyer, Dr. Edward Michals, Dr. Alex Nemeth, Dr. William Small.

The meeting was called to order at 4:30 PM at The 500 Club of Rush University Medical Center.

Approval Of Minutes: The minutes from the April 2008 meeting were approved.

Resident And Fellow Section Report: Dr. Bashir announced that the Oral Board Review Session for residents, with its contest element, was well-received last year. The last review session in April 2008 was attended by about 40 residents, and the resident section plans to continue the same format this year. Tonight, Dr. Mukarram Sheikh will give the resident section talk and Dr. David Casalino will give the board review session. Dr. Bashir also stated that the resident section has already arranged for several sponsors this year.

President’s Report: Dr. Hibbeln opened the meeting.

Secretary/Treasurer’s Report: Secretary/treasurer, Dr. Davide Bova was unable to attend this meeting and therefore Drs. Hibbeln and Jennifer Lim-Dunham reviewed the financial statement to date that Dr. Bova had prepared, indicating that current balances were nearly the same as the prior year. Dr. Hibbeln stated that the financial audit of CRS for the last two years has been completed.  All CRS accounts have been transferred from Dr. Hibbeln to Dr. Bova.

Illinois Radiogical Society Report: Dr. Feinstein encouraged all present to attend the joint IRS/CRS meeting scheduled for March 14, 2009, because Dr. Leonard Berlin has prepared an excellent program for this meeting.

Dr. Feinstein reported on the two items of business that the IRS executive committee conducted over the summer. First, the committee agreed that the IRS would publicly support on the website the initiative for increased reimbursement for pediatric procedures.  Second, the ACR is interested in strengthening communication between itself and its chapters, and would welcome any suggestions to achieve this goal.

Nominating Committee Report: Dr. Hibbeln requested that members submit suggestions for a fourth member of the nominating committee.

Distinguished Service Award Committee Report: Dr. Feinstein stated that the distinguished service committee should meet next month.

Program Committee Report: According to Dr. Michals, additional speakers have been arranged for this year’s meetings, but a main speaker for the February 19, 2009 meeting is still being sought. Possible speakers were discussed and Dr. Korach suggested inviting department chairs or residency program directors from academic centers in Chicago to speak. Dr. Lim-Dunham reminded the committee that the date for the November 2008 meeting is Wednesday, November 19, 2008, and not November 18 as listed in the original program calendar.

Fellowship Committee Report: No business to report.

Old Business: After some discussion by the committee, Dr. Hibbeln proposed that henceforth meeting announcements be sent only by e-mail, rather than hard copy mail, and all agreed. The CRS should obtain a list of email addresses from the ACR and also be sure to email residency coordinators with the meeting announcements.

With respect to ongoing discussion about whether the CRS should continue to offer CME credit, Dr. Hibbeln recounted recent events, which make that discussion moot. He explained that he recently received a deeply apologetic e-mail from the Rush CME office stating that in the process of preparing for an audit, they discovered that for last year (2007-08) they neglected to request from the CRS the meeting announcement BEFORE (rather than after) the actual meeting, which is a requirement for accreditation. Therefore, the Rush CME office will not allow CRS to offer CME credit for 2007-08. Furthermore, rules dictate that CME credit cannot be offered the following year, meaning that CME credit cannot be offered this year (2008-09) either.

The Rush CME office has invited CRS to reapply for CME accreditation for 2009-10.  Dr. Hibbeln stated that fortunately, neither the CRS nor any attendees had paid any monies to the CME office yet for 2007-08. Dr. Korach suggested that the CRS send an email to the membership announcing that CME credit was not available for 2007-08 and 2008-09 and asking for interest in reinstating CME credits for 09-10. All agreed.

New Business: Dr. Hibbeln made a motion to publicly thank Dr. William Small for graciously waiving his speaker’s fee for tonight’s radiation oncology section talk. The motion was approved by acclamation.
Ways to increase attendance at the meeting of radiology residents, the target group for the CRS, were discussed. Dr. Small suggested that the CRS track the of numbers of residents and practicing radiologists attending each meeting this year, as well as for past years. All agreed.

Having no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:40 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Jennifer Lim-Dunham, MD
On behalf of Davide Bova, MD, Secretary/Treasurer

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