Executive Committee Minutes March 7, 2017

Participants: Dave DeBronkart, Peter Elias, Nancy Finn, John Grohol, Sarah Krug, Tyson Ortiz, Danny Sands, Joe Ternullo, Jon Wald, Susan Woods, Tracy Zervakis Infrastructure and Process We welcomed Tyson Ortiz, a member of Society who talked about the need to  build our Society’s infrastructure by establishing processes that  leverage our member’s skills and interests  and establish defined ways to involve members  and convert interest to action. Danny Sands explained that we currently survey our members and maintain a spreadsheet on Google Docs that is available to all team members and leaders who can identify specific individuals to tap to help with their initiatives. We currently jave 20 individuals who have volunteered to help. Membership Goals Tracy Zervakis explained that our goal to increase membership to the Society this year is 1,000 – 1500 members and for that too we need a robust process to attract new people to S4PM. Public Policy/Advocacy We have a new committee on public policy/advocacy consisting of the following members: John Steiner. Chair, David Harlow, Ben Berlin and Ann Waldo.  These individuals will meet and determine what public policy issues S4PM will get behind and lend its name to.  They are all experienced individuals in healthcare public policy. Recently three of our members: Susan Lin,  Joe Ternullo,  and Tracy Zervakis attended the  Rare Disease Caucus in Washington D.C. We talked about how we can establish a greater presence in Was...
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