Executive Committee Minutes, October 9, 2018
Participants: Peter Elias, John Grohol, Janice McCallum, Danny Sands, Joe Ternullo, Sue Woods
Minutes from September 11, 2018 meeting (Janice) approved
Announcements
Danny –Partnerships/sponsors. PatientsLikeMe (PLM) will be a sponsor for the conference. They got an infusion of capital from a Chinese genomics company last year & are realizing that they need to help consumers take care of themselves. Cliff Pollan is new head of strategy for PLM.
Conference
Updates on preparations for the October 17 conference and booth at Connected Health.
Next Learning Exchange
Victor Montori from Mayo is a possible speaker for November.
Leadership Google sheets list
We need to recruit candidates for Treasurer & President-elect. John Grohol has been interviewing people for treasurer. He has interviewed a couple of people so far, but neither has fit the bill.
John will continue to help with website, but he wants to hand-off treasurer piece. He points out that our membership system needs attention. If would be helpful to have a new board member with experience managing membership systems.
We also need to recruit new members-at-large for the board. Members who comment/participate frequently on Connect should make good candidates. Peter recommends that we contact members who post to Connect, but aren’t currently actively volunteering in other areas. Peter will generate a list of most active participants as a start.
Other aspects of electing new board members that we discussed: ...
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