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ACCE News Newsletter of the American College of Clinical Engineering July/August 2019 Volume 29 Issue 4 Special Report- President’s Message ACCE at AAMI Exchange Greetings from Washington DC! ACCE had a very strong presence at the AAMI Exchange in 2019 June 2019. The details are available in this newsletter. I Pages 13-21 would like to thank our sponsors and all those who assisted in making ACCE programs a success. Also in CCE Task Force this Issue: ACCE has established the CCE Task Force to promote clinical engineering certification among clinical engineers. Kim Greenwood and I are the Co-chairs of the Task Force. We are looking for additional members. If you are Tales of the Biomed 2 interested, please reach out to me, Kim or Suly. Book ACCE committees had been busy over the summer! AAMI Update 3 The Education Committee is gearing up for the 2019-2020 webinar series, more details in this issue. The BOK Committee led the CCE Study Guide task force and released the Thank You 4 CCE Study Guide V8.0. Volunteers! New ACCE Board HTF News 5 Thanks to our members for participation in the elections. The new ACCE Board will be taking over governance of ACCE in mid-August. I would like to congratulate Ilir Kullolli, President; Priyanka Upendra, President-elect, Pratyusha Pedaprolu, Vice President and WHO/HTM Update 8 Samantha Herold, Treasurer on their election. On August 16, 2019, I will be stepping down as President after completing my two terms. 2019 Class of The last two years have been a great honor, privilege and a wonderful learning experience Certified Clinical 9 for me personally and professionally. Many thanks to the Board, Committees and Task Engineers (CCE) Forces and Suly for supporting me in my role. Member Career I want to thank the ACCE members and my mentors who entrusted me with this once in 10 Transitions a lifetime opportunity for leading an organization of devoted members professionals around the globe, who are dedicated to “promoting the safe and effective application of Welcome New science and technology in patient care.” 11 Members 2019 ACCE Officer Arif Subhan 12 and Board Election President, ACCE [email protected] Tales of the Biomed Book ACCE News We all have stories we have collected over our career as a BMET or as a CE. Some of those stories are funny and some are just truly amazing. We meet at a conference over a ACCE News is the official newsletter of the coffee (or something a little stronger) and share those stories among us. I decided a couple American College of Clinical Engineering of years ago that we needed to collect those stories and share them with everyone. (ACCE). I reached out to many of my friends in the HTM community to gather their funny stories. I Managing Editor combined those with the stories I already had and decided to publish a book titled ‘Tales Jim Keller [email protected] of the Bomed.’ I self published the book on Amazon in December 2017. As I was collecting the stories I ran across a post on LinkedIn about a funny note attached to a piece of medi- (610)825-6000 cal equipment. The note was very descriptive – ‘Ticks like a Bomb.’ I soon realized that we Co-Editors have all seen these funny notes attached to a piece of medical equipment that was malfunc- Ted Cohen tioning. I started on a quest to get more of those ‘funny notes’ from my friends and those [email protected] posted on other sites. I was able to get around 25 ‘funny notes’ that the person agreed to share and put them in my book. Ismael Cordero [email protected] Self publishing has been an interesting journey. The writing of the book is the easy part. You then have to design the cover, edit the book, layout the book in chapter form, create Circulation & Address Corrections an index and do all the promoting of the book. I’ve had help along the way. At the Fall Suly Chi, ACCE Secretariat 2018 MDExpo Conference in Seattle, TechNation did a short interview with me about my [email protected] book. AAMI also did a short blurb in the AAMI News. Just recently TechNation did a two Advertising page layout of my books, my work as an HTM Consultant and some of my future ideas for Dave Smith books. BMES approached me at the MDExpo in Houston to ‘give’ away a story in my book [email protected] as a way of collecting emails of prospective clients. They recently launched this on their website. Another marketing idea I had recently was to give away name badge ribbons at conferences. I will attend NCBA’s conference in Minnesota in September and that will be ACCE News is a benefit of ACCE member- ship; nonmembers may subscribe for $75. the first conference I can hand the badges out to fans of the book. I also plan to hand them out at MDExpo in Baltimore and the next AAMI conference. To subscribe e-mail [email protected] Copyright © 2019 by ACCE I knew I needed a simple way for HTM professionals to get their funny stories and photos to me so I created a website – https://TalesOfTheBiomed.com . The website has links to purchase the book, examples of funny stories and pictures plus a section for future books. ‘Tales of the Biomed’ has been a big success so I am working on a new version titled ‘Tales of the Biomed Part Deux.’ Not wanting to forget about the Amazing things we do in HTM I have started working on another book titled ‘Amazing Tales of the Biomed.’ This book will highlight the truly amazing things we do in the HTM field every day. A friend reached out to me recently and asked about IT stories. I thought that was a great idea so that will be another book titled ‘Tales of the IT Guy.’ It will be filled with funny stories and work orders around the IT field. I know we all have sev- eral of those stories to share! All my writing has not just been about the HTM field. I have done my family history for 30 years and had some truly amazing stories to share. One book I recently published ‘Royal Flush and Black Sunday – Apri16, 1944’ was about my 2nd cousin, SSG Elgin J. Luckenbach, who went missing in action in New Guinea during WWII. Elgin’s body along with those of his crew were discovered in the jungle of New Guinea in 2002. After DNA analysis the crew was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in April 2006. This was just a couple of weeks before the an- nual AAMI Conference in Washington DC. During the research on my cousin, I ran across a diary by a 1st Lieutenant who was a bombardier in the same unit as my cousin. I received permission from the family and published a book using the diary, letters, photographs and bombing mission reports I found during my re- search. I have collected enough information on the lives of the men of the 408th Bomb Squadron to publish several more books. If you are interested in publishing a book I will be happy to walk you through the process. David Braeutigam [email protected] ACCE News Volume 29 Issue 4: July/August 2019 2 AAMI Update AAMI Launches Fellow Program Calling All ‘Bright Ideas’ with 14 Honorees Carol Davis-Smith, CCE, president AAMI is now accepting nominations for its AAMI has launched a Fellow Program to of Carol Davis-Smith & Associates, “Bright Ideas” program, which recognizes celebrate leaders in the health technology LLC, in Phoenix, AZ. HTM department that are implementing and sterilization fields who have also dis- creative solutions to today’s challenges. tinguished themselves through their con- David Dickey, FACHE, CHC, CCE, CHTM, vice president of clinical engi- tributions to the association. AAMI’s Technology Management Council neering at McLaren Health Care head- (TMC) is seeking specific examples of The inaugural class, announced in June at quartered in Grand Blanc, MI. HTM initiatives that have enhanced patient the AAMI Exchange in Cleveland, consists safety, reduced costs, and/or improved of 14 AAMI members who comes from Stephen Grimes, FACCE, FHIMSS, hospital processes. The TMC will choose FAIMBE, principal consultant at Strate- various backgrounds. six departments to be profiled in a feature gic Healthcare Technology Associates article published in BI&T throughout 2020. “We are extremely proud of this inaugural in Swampscott, MA. class of fellows. These individuals inspire For more information, please contact us to contribute more to our professional Heidi Horn, vice president of global Danielle McGeary, AAMI’s vice president communities,” said AAMI President and enablement-healthcare at Nuvolo. of HTM, at [email protected]. CEO Robert Jensen. Paul Kelley, CBET, director of bio- Rising Stars AAMI recognizes fellows for the depth medical engineering, the Green Initia- and breadth of their accomplishments in tive, and asset redeployment at Wash- AAMI shined a light on seven standouts seven core areas: professional experience, ington Hospital in Fremont, CA. working in the health technology and ster- education, technical contributions, presen- ilization fields with a cover story in a re- George Mills, FASHE, CHFM, CEM, tations and publications, professional par- cent edition of BI&T. CHOP-DNV, director of healthcare ticipation, certification, and awards and technical operations at JLL. “HTM is a field that is growing and evolv- honors. ing, which resonates with me and my pur- Gerry O’Dell, CISS, president of Ger- suit to always keep learning,” said Jaspreet ry O'Dell Consulting in Wesley Chapel, Mankoo, one of the individuals profiled.