Members Present: Mary Hennings, Brenda Merriweather, Jay Spitulnik, Danny Sands, Daniel Halpern-Ruder, John Grohol, Melanie Albanese, Marie Maloney, Amy Price, Sarah Krug, Liz Boehm, Kevin Freiert

Welcome: Mary H

Approve minutes from last meeting: Vote

• Sarah/Danny.

Review of reports

• Balance sheet
  • Few expenditures
  • Net income on plus side
  • Discussion about Index budget
• Membership sinking

Index major workstreams

• Beryl data
  • SPM participated on a survey they were already doing
  • Asked 3 questions (drawn from the Manifesto)
    • Control
      • “Control” probably the wrong word. Make clearer
    • Experience
      • 82% received services
      • Scale up for debate
    • Patient show up
      • “Almost always” figures prominently
    • Large sample size will be important
    • Danny encourages Board member participation in creating Index. Mary encourages strongly
    • Thanks to Jason and IPSOS
    • Mary discusses conversation with RWJ Fdn re: good idea, but create a measurable outcome
    • Kevin going through interviews to extract important info
    • Kudos to Liz

NEU Conference Update

• Jay will send out an update to Board members
• Materials partially ready (see link –
• Looking for sponsorships (Stryker, CVS?)

2025 base Budget: Vote

• John Demore Fdn increasing donation
• (Vote) Liz/Jay. Approved
• Potential for increased revenue for 2025

Board Candidate: Liz recommendation

• Amanda Joseph (Canadian)
  • Familiar with Informatics
• Danny add his thoughts on her background (bubbly, enthusiastic)
• Amy knows and likes her
• Motion: Danny/Jay. Approved

Journal Update: Discussion

• Talking about new segments; video; assembling term-limited expert committee; group review opportunity; needs to be indexed in Medline
• PubMed lets people know about Journal
• Danny reminds that we should talk up Journal to colleagues

Reminders:

• Annual Conflict of Interest Disclosure
• Brand strategy workshop (1/31, 1-5 EST)
• Next Board meeting

Other business: Officer elections

• No responses to Mary via phone or email
• Grohol brings up tracking term length
• Melanie Albanese volunteers to be on Governance and Finance Committee
• Motion re: current slate: Liz/Kevin. Approved
• Danny thanks Board about input on new SPM Infographic
• Elections approved unanimously
  • President-Mary Hennings
  • Treasurer-Dan Halpren-Rudder
  • Secretary-Eric Bersh
  • Advocacy Officer-Danny Sands

 Adjourned at  7:30 p.m. EDT.  Next meeting: February 25, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30 pm ET

Respectfully submitted,

Eric N Bersh, SPM Board Secretary