Preventive Medicine 2001

Our fundraising efforts since our last Board meeting have of course focused on the annual meeting. The Development Committee is pleased to report that the goal of raising $125,000 from external sponsors for the meeting has been achieved. In fact, we have raised just over $150,000 for the meeting. Two-thirds of these dollars have been raised since the Board met in November! By contrast, just over $50,000 was raised for PREVENTION 2000, and this amount was split between ACPM and ATPM.

Listed below – in order of the size of contribution to the meeting -- are the contributors to Preventive Medicine 2001:

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
American Legacy Foundation
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Bayer Pharmaceutical Division
Procter & Gamble
Eli Lilly
Merck & Co., Inc.
Quaker Oats
GlaxoSmithKline
TRW
IEEE
American Medical Association
Optum

With a successful annual meeting under our belt, we hope to build on this effort for an even more successful sponsorship recruitment effort for Preventive Medicine 2002.

Grant Update

Our top priority in the coming months must be to obtain new sources of grant support. Our cooperative agreement with ODPHP and our grant with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will soon expire. Once again, we need to determine how best to approach CDC to see if we can establish a cooperative agreement relationship with them.

Our HRSA and ATSDR cooperative agreements are into full swing by now. HRSA did recently supplement our cooperative agreement with support for Preventive Medicine 2001, however, these cooperative agreements are likely to be level funded for the foreseeable future.

We are also experimenting with a new approach that may be useful on occasion in developing grant proposals. In response to an RFP from the National Patient Safety Foundation, we issued a call via our membership listserve to members. We announced that we were seeking proposal ideas along with potential partners who may have an interest in collaborating with us on a proposal to the NPSF. We have thus far received five or so suggestions from members and will likely draft a letter of intent to NPSF in March.

Other Revenue-Generating Activities

Since our last Board meeting, we have finalized partnerships with two companies. The contracts we have signed will generate revenue for us while furthering our mission. First, we have now contracted with YourDoctor, Inc. YourDoctor develops health web sites that it provides to health care organizations under the name of the contracting organization. ACPM will review preventive medicine content on the YourDoctor-developed sites and will also help link YourDoctor with preventive medicine physicians to develop content for the sites. ACPM receives a monthly fee for providing these services.

Second, we completed our negotiations with DigiScript, Inc. to digitally capture sessions and posters at our annual meeting. These materials will be made available on-line to ACPM members and others for an annual subscription. ACPM receives a portion of the revenues that are generated.

President’s Society

We now have 34 members in the President’s Society – an increase of nine since our last Board meeting. A President’s Society breakfast is planned Sunday morning in Miami.

We made our first disbursement of dollars from our Future of Preventive Medicine fund. We gave APMR $3,500 to distribute to APMR member for travel assistance to the annual meeting. These funds are helping to support the travel of APMR Governing Council members and of ten other APMR members.

The President’s Society members are listed below.

E. Jackson Allison, Jr., MD
George Anderson, MD
Christopher R. Armstrong, MD
Alexander Bokor, MD
B. Rodrigo Cabanilla, MD
Robert Carr, MD
George W. Comstock, MD
Leo M. Crowley, MD
Ronald M. Davis, MD
Roy L. DeHart, MD
Halley S. Faust, MD
Jonathan Fielding, MD
Donald H. Gemson, MD
Tee L. Guidotti, MD
Robert G. Harmon, MD
Linda Louise Hill, MD
Douglas N. Johnson, MD
Arnold I. Kisch, MD
James George Kotsanos, MD
Dorothy S. Lane, MD
Douglas Lloyd, MD
J. Patrick Moulds, MD
Gary R. Noble, MD
Alice R. Ring, MD
F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD
William S. Shaw, MD
Jeanette Smith, MD
Bruce V. Stadel, MD
Susan J. Standfast, MD
Penny M. Stern, MD
Leslie A. Swygert, MD
Hugh H. Tilson, MD
William Wiese, MD
Llewellyn Wilson, MD