1. 2012 ACPM Annual Conference Career
Development Track
2. MSS, RPS, and YPS Business Meetings
3. ACPM's Clinical Risk Management Fellowship
4. Resident Physician Section Call for Governing Council Nominations
1. 2012 ACPM Annual Conference Career
Development Track:
Prepared for Residents by Residents
ACPM's annual conference, Preventive Medicine 2012,
will take place February 22-25th in Orlando, Florida. Each year several conference sessions are
designed specifically for students, residents and young physicians as part of a
Career Development Track. This year’s
Career Development Track planning committee is chaired by ACPM Resident
Physician Section (RPS) member, Dr. Raul Alexander Mirza.
In looking at previous years’ career development sessions
and considering what they wanted to develop for the 2012 conference, the
planning committee members agreed that they wanted this year’s sessions to be
interactive and set up in a way that would encourage participants to meet and
be able to talk to a variety of leaders in Preventive Medicine. Through discussions about how achieve this
goal, the committee members developed the idea of having career track sessions
that would be set up as "round robin” exercises, in which Preventive Medicine leaders
would be stationed at tables with small groups of students, residents and young
physicians rotating from table to table on a set schedule. As one committee member described, it will be
"almost like professional speed-dating.”
In order to accommodate a variety of interests and
professions, two parallel sessions were created- one for private sector careers
and one for public sector careers. The
private sector career session will take place on Thursday, February 23rd
from 10:20-11:50am. This session was organized and will be
moderated by Teresa Skojac, preventive medicine resident at Emory School of
Medicine. Twelve preventive medicine
leaders in private sector careers will be participating in the session. The names of these individuals are listed
below. The public sector career track
will take place on Saturday, February 25th from 2:50-4:20pm, and was
organized and will be moderated by Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, preventive
medicine resident at Johns Hopkins. An
additional seven preventive medicine leaders holding public sector careers will
be participating in this session (also listed below).
The Career Development Track has traditionally hosted an
evening event- the "MSS/RPS/YPS
Guest Lecture.” This year’s Guest
Lecture was organized and moderated by Raul Mirza, preventive medicine
resident at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and will take place on
Thursday, February 23rd from 7:30PM-9PM. Dr. Mirza has invited two phenomenal
lecturers to speak at this session with the overarching theme of
""Blueprint for a healthier America."
Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak, MD, MPH will be presenting the National
Prevention Strategy, a new national strategy called for under the Affordable
Care Act and designed by the the National Prevention Council to improve the
overall health of all Americans at every stage in their lives. The second speaker, John Principe, MD is the
co-founder of WellBeingMD™, the most comprehensive internal medicine and
wellness provider in the Chicago region.
Dr. Principe will be discussing the program’s six-week course, A RoadMap
To Wellness™, dedicated to fostering wellness and transforming lives.
Leaders participating in Private Sector Careers Session:
- James Tacci, MD, JD, MBA, FACPM, Global Corporate Medical Director,
Xerox Corporation
- Douglas B. Kamerow, MD, MPH, Chief Scientist, Health Services and
Social Policy Research, RTI International, Professor of Clinical Family
Medicine, Georgetown University
- Nishith K. Jobanputra, DO, MPH, MTM&H, Global Safety Leader,
Millennium Pharmaceuticals
- Miriam Alexander, MD, MPH, FACPM, ACPM President, and Residency
Director, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
- Halley Faust, MD, MPH, FACPM, Managing Director, Jerome Capital, LLC
- Philip Hagen, MD, Medical Director of Mayo Clinic EmbodyHealth, Vice
Chair, Division of Preventive and Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo
Clinic
- Robert Orford, MD, CM, MS, MPH, FACOEM, Consultant and Former Chair,
Division of Preventive Medicine, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo
Clinic
- Michael Parkinson, MD, MPH, FACPM, Principal, P3 Health &
Past-President, American College of Preventive Medicine
- Saeed Ur Rahman, MD, MPH, Associate Deputy Executive Director,
Department of Family Medicine, National Guard Health Affair
- John R. Principe, MD, WellBeingMD, LTD
- Andy Perez, MD, MBA, Director, Science and Medical Integrity,
Healthways, Inc
- Jennifer Rooke, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM, Medical Director, Atlanta
Lifestyle Medical Center
Leaders participating in Public Sector Careers Session:
- Steve Hodgins, MD, MSc, DrPH- Global Leadership Team Leader, Maternal
and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP)/USAID
- Neal Kohatsu, MD, MPH, FACPM, Chief, Medical Policy Section, California
Department of Healthcare Services
- Paul Jung, MD, MPH, MA, MBA, Chief of Staff, National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences and Chair, US Public Health Service Physicians
Professional Advisory Committee
- Amy M. Milikan, MD, MPH- Preventive Medicine Officer, U.S. Army Public
Health Command
- Saeed Rahman, MD, MPH, Associate Deputy Executive Director, Department
of Family Medicine, National Guard Health Affair
- Peter Rumm, MD, MPH, Deputy Director, Food and Drug Administration
- Joannie Shen, MD, MPH, PhD, Captain, U.S. Public Health Service,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2. MSS, RPS, and YPS Business Meetings
The following business meetings will take place during the Preventive Medicine 2012 conference in Orlando, FL:
Medical Student Section:
The MSS business meeting will be held on Saturday, February 25, 2012
from 7:00 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. in the Council Room on the Lobby Level.
Resident Physician Section:
The RPS business meeting will be held on Friday, February 24, 2012 from
7:00 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. in the Captain Room on the Lobby Level.
Young Physician Section:
The YPS business meeting will be held on Friday, February 24, 2012 from
11:50 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. in the Council Room on the Lobby Level.
These meetings are open to all members and guests. Come and
learn about
membership section updates, and opportunities to become more
involved
with ACPM!
PLEASE NOTE: Elections
for the Governing Council of the Young Physicians Section will be held during
the PM 2012 business meeting, and elections for the Medical Student Section are
held in April after the PM 2012 conference.
3. ACPM's Clinical Risk Management Fellowship
by Kyong M.
Park, MD, MPH
ACPM, in conjunction with Merck & Co., Inc., one of the world's leading pharmaceutical
companies, has developed a Clinical Risk Management (CRM) Fellowship (click for more information about CRM). The Fellowship is directed by a Board Certified Preventive Medicine
physician with extensive Pharmacovigilance experience. The Fellowship will
expose preventive medicine physicians to an area of medical practice in need of
their unique abilities and skills. Furthermore, it will allow preventive
medicine physicians to gain practical, real-world experience within
Pharmacovigilance. While the Fellowship does not require a background in
Pharmacovigilance, it does require strong general preventive medicine skills
and abilities. The Fellow will be incorporated into a large Clinical Risk
Management team that monitors nearly 500 drugs and medical devices marketed
throughout the world. The CRM Fellow works at a senior level within the team,
with support from epidemiologists, regulatory experts, advanced healthcare
professionals, data analysts, and clinical scientists and investigators. The
curriculum spans a two-year period with increasing responsibility and autonomy,
culminating in full responsibility for several actively marketed drugs and
devices. The first year curriculum is designed for professional training and
development. During the second year, the Fellow will serve as a full level
clinical risk management physician, with primary product management
responsibilities.
The Fellowship is located in the suburban Philadelphia area
of North Wales, Pennsylvania. This site is located within two to three hours of
the New York City and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas. The location is
easily accessible by public transportation from the city of Philadelphia, but
access to a personal automobile is preferred. The cost of living is comparable
to most metropolitan areas with a moderate cost of living. The competitive
compensation is well above most Fellowship levels and comparable to a full time
physician salary. Although health insurance and other benefits are not
provided, affordable options are available. While Fellows can subsequently be
considered for open positions within Merck, the skills obtained throughout the
Fellowship are fully transferable to other pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
Fellowship applicants should be active ACPM members in good
standing. Applicants will ideally be in their final year of a Preventive
Medicine residency or have graduated from an ACGME-accredited Preventive
Medicine residency program. Applicants must possess or be able to obtain an
unrestricted US medical license, and must be free of any conflicts of interest
with Merck & Co., Inc. and the ACPM. The successful candidate will have
excellent epidemiological skills, clinical knowledge and experience, an
interest in Pharmacovigilance, along with excellent writing skill and
presentation skills.
The Fellowship will be hosting informational sessions and
interviews at the 2012 ACPM Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. We invite you
to inquire about the Fellowship at that time or by contacting the current
Fellows or the Fellowship Director, whose contact information can be obtained
from Paul
Bonta of ACPM at pbonta@acpm.org.
What is Clinical Risk Management?
Pharmaceuticals and medical devices are being used for an
ever increasing number of indications and are being deployed quite frequently
into various emerging global markets. This continuing expansion makes the
pharmaceutical industry a growth industry, even in today's sluggish economy.
While pharmaceutical companies develop the next blockbuster therapeutics, they
must also continue to develop and monitor the safety profiles of their full
armamentarium of products. As medical headlines have shown, the drug
development cycle does not end with market approval. In many respects, the real
work on drug safety begins after this approval is achieved and with the general
use of the product by the world's population. While much of the attention for
drug safety is placed on health authorities such as the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), in reality, much of the responsibility for drug safety
lies with the pharmaceutical industry. Therefore, this responsibility primarily
falls on physicians and other healthcare professionals specializing in Clinical
Risk Management or Pharmacovigilance.
Clinical Risk Management (CRM) is very different from
Clinical Trial Monitoring. While clinical trials tend to be well designed and
tightly controlled, CRM functions around information obtained from various and
variable sources, such as consumer self reports, case reports in periodicals,
and healthcare provider reporting. Therefore, CRM requires a different set of
skills and experiences than traditional clinical research. While many CRM
specialists arrive from a background in clinical trials, they must obtain a new
set of skills to succeed in a CRM role. Specifically, these skills are ones
that Preventive Medicine (PM) physicians already possess (i.e. expertise in
medicine, epidemiology, statistics, etc.), and the work of CRM is akin to work
done in traditional PM practices of public health and occupational medicine.
However, there is a shortage of well trained and experienced physicians to
perform the work of CRM. With the ever growing number of drugs and increasing
drug exposures in a lifetime, the need for competent CRM physicians grows daily
while the supply remains limited. Fortunately, there is a plethora of
opportunities within the pharmaceutical industry to work in drug safety,
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4. Resident Physician Section call for nomination and elections for
2012-2013
The time is approaching quickly for the election of the
Resident Physician Section’s next governing council. We are now
accepting applications for upcoming elections. The RPS Governing Council is a
great way to get involved in the field of Preventive Medicine and with ACPM. To apply for a GC position, please
submit a current CV as well as a brief statement of interest (no more than one
page in length).
The application deadline is Thursday March 1st at
5:00 pm ET. Voting
will open soon after that date, and will remain open for one week. Candidates will be notified of results
shortly thereafter. The new Governing Council will participate in a
transition conference call in April when they will officially take office.
A timeline
of the election process, as well as a description of the available
positions with their roles and responsibilities, are available at http://www.acpm.org/?RPS_Run4Office
.
To apply, or should you have any questions,
please email the RPS at acpmrps@gmail.com.
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