2. Membership Update: Over 150 and Counting, Plan to Continue As Last Year Due to Success

1. Roll Call: LTC Mancuso, 2LT Bennett (Marshall), COL Wiesen, Col Burnett, CAPT Ludwig, CAPT (Ret) Feeks, COL Cook, MAJ Soltis

2. Membership update: over 150 and counting, plan to continue as last year due to success.

3. Annual conference--USAPM sponsored sessions: Strategic planning is underway. We have moved from sponsoring 1 to sponsoring 3 sessions. No sub-track yet but still working within the PH practice track. Three sessions currently being planned include: a. Iraq/Afghanistan. Mod: Dr. Feeks, Speakers: TBD b. Behavioral Health. Mod: Dr. Millikan. Speakers: Charles Hoge, Ron Kessler c. Hot Topics from Centers of Excellence. Mod: Sharon Ludwig. Speakers: TBD. Still working on this session, several ideas were discussed. Probably need a more interesting name to draw in audience. Some suggested topics for speakers included: Burn Pits, Tropical Medicine, Clinical Preventive Medicine, and the Japan Crisis Response. There is already a session dedicated to the Japan crisis being planned, however. Please direct any suggestions to CAPT Ludwig or LTC Mancuso.

4. Annual conference--business meeting and social events. The two additional sessions are scheduled for after lunch on Saturday, Feb 25th. So we have requested to have our business meeting at lunchtime on that day for efficiency. We will schedule a larger room than last year (plan for 100). We also decided to forego the evening social event and instead purchase lunch for USAPM members (sandwiches and the like) for the luncheon meeting. Since it is the last day of the conference, I am expecting roughly 60-75 and will plan for food to accommodate that number. I have requested the same room for the business meeting as the afternoon sessions.

5. Website updates. ACPM staff is furiously working on rolling out the new website. I have a meeting scheduled with them on 30 Aug to discuss USAPM password-protected content. I will try to solicit assistance with populating the website. Top candidates to solicit currently are Dr. Hayat and Dr. Perdue. Any other suggestions or volunteers are welcome. Discussion also of need to be cautious of what content to add due to federal regulations.

6. Review Charter and Develop Steering Committee. Discussed the progress of this. No steering committee was ever elected despite discussion of this in constitution and bylaws. Will discuss with ACPM staff on whether constitution is valid and how to implement the election of steering committee if so at 30 August meeting.

7. Discussed USAPM representation on Board of Directors. Will also discuss this with ACPM staff at our 30 Aug meeting.

8. Solicited other issues from the group--none noted.

Please let me know if you have any other thoughts or suggestions.

Best regards, Jamie