{"id":6421,"date":"2018-12-28T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/?p=6421"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:57:14","slug":"board-meeting-minutes-october-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/2018\/board-meeting-minutes-october-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Meeting Minutes, October 23, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
Participants: \u00a0<\/b>Geri Baumblatt, Dave DeBronkart, Peter Elias, John Grohol, Matthew Holt, Janice McCallum, Jan Oldenburg, Danny Sands, Joe Ternullo, Sue Woods<\/span><\/p>\n Minutes from September 25, 2018<\/span><\/a> meeting approved.<\/span><\/p>\n Joe Ternullo kicked off the discussion with comment about the all around positive response he received from numerous attendees and via the conference evaluation survey. He believes that getting on HIMSS registration site early was helpful and that the event raised awareness of the goals of S4PM.<\/span><\/p>\n Janice McCallum commented that the patient stories are fantastic for engaging the audience, but wants to connect these stories to actions that a range of patients and caregivers can take.<\/span><\/p>\n Jan Oldenburg reinforced Janice\u2019s comment about how the themes of the conference translate to action. What is future vision? Not to take away from how great the day was and how well it turned out, but for next year, we should focus on sessions that help people make sense of things from an actionable point of view. \u00a0Beyond what they can do for S4PM; what they can do on their own.<\/span><\/p>\n Geri Baumblatt commented that it is obvious that people liked connecting, meeting like-minded people. But how do we grow the next generation. How can people get involved in S4PM and participatory medicine? In a larger sense, where are we going\/building on the community?<\/span><\/p>\n Danny Sands observed that this year\u2019s conference included a lot of \u201cpatient stuff\u201d, \u00a0but left out the physician\u2019s perspective to deliver a dose of the reality of physicians\u2019 world?<\/span><\/p>\n Danny further stated that along with increasing awareness of S4PM, one other goal of the conference is the opportunity to raise funds for S4PM.<\/span><\/p>\n Matthew Holt noted that many conferences are focused on fundraising. We can engage a variety of interested parties via the conference, then follow-up for sponsorships. He recommends we have dedicated areas to sponsor and that we approach companies for next year as soon as the day of the conference, since budgets for the following year are typically set by end-of-year.<\/span><\/p>\n Danny\u2019s proposal: Tag Janice & Matthew to meet to talk about strategy for corporate sponsorships in follow-on conference call.<\/span><\/p>\n John Grohol pointed out that we had some breakdown in communications about sponsorships for SPM2018. Some sponsors weren\u2019t in the official document & other board members didn\u2019t know about it. Also, he noted that we should have more clear levels of sponsorship and abide by them as much as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n Danny responded that there were last-minute changes in the agenda & the website wasn\u2019t updated. He asked that all comments be added to the Google Doc that Judy set up for comments on the conference:<\/span> https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Yyhfjtj57I7R7lrAArREvAVa-_F3LKr8NI5nh57Hnsg\/edit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Joe Ternullo recommends we tighten things up in the future so volunteer group is better coordinated & more suited to their roles.<\/span><\/p>\n Dave deBronkart said he has hesitated to complain about anything, since SPM has advanced so much in the past couple of years. But, he thinks we need to more clearly delineate who is in charge and we need to start planning the agenda earlier.<\/span><\/p>\nConference redux – Board reactions\/assessment of process and results, and initial suggestion of path forward for 2019<\/span><\/h3>\n