• Meetings rescheduled from a month to every two weeks
• Board response to Members on Goals Committee
  • We need to get this back to the members
  • Deb Linton to go over goals document and see where there overlap with our existing quick teams
    • There may be new things but we feel there are many parallels with objectives the Board has already identified

July 21st Next Board Meeting Planning:

• Soliciting officers for elections on the July 21st
  • We wanted to ask membership for suggestions for nominations
    • Exec Board nominates officers that can run
  • New Editors Announcement Joe and Terry Graedon Co-Editors and Chief (Terry holds voting rights on Board)
• We need a President, President Elect, Board Chairs, Members at Large
  • We need a good slate of people to get interested in Presidency
    • In the past its been hard to get people to run
  • Danny Sands (acting President) is concerned about being viewed as having a never ending leadership role (ala Gaddafi). He is very eager to have us elect someone that can take on this role.
    • Danny is extremely experienced and consistent so we don’t want to phase him out completely
  • Indu Subiaya (acting Vice Pres)  has declined the position but expressed interest in running in future years
    • Indu will term-out but stay on exec-board
  • 2 Members at Large to be on board
  • Proposal: Danny stays on as President and we put forth a search for President Elect

Journal update

• Site integration to get temples a common look and feel across all SPM properties (met again yesterday)
  • Social Media Team is more integrated with Outreach Quickteam
  • John Lebkowsky and Dave deBronkart have been coming to Journal meetings
• Joe and Terry Graedon NEW Co-Editors and Chief (Terry holds voting rights on Board)
• Things moving along – nice article from Stanford just came in
• Managing Editor, Kathleen has JoPM published on Medscape and is now working on EBSCO which will help us get on Medline
  • Getting indexed with these groups is important for attracting authors and increasing our legitimacy in the field

Quick review of membership conversations on list serv