In this day and age, you sure have to work hard for a dollar! Over the last several months we have submitted a number of continuation and new grant proposals. We have enjoyed good success although we would like to do even better.

Our biggest success, at least in financial terms, came as a result of our proposal to ATSDR to establish an Iodine 131 education program. We received a five-year, $1 million cooperative agreement from ATSDR. The key elements of our proposal were to develop an I-131 web site and to work with local agencies in areas near nuclear power plants to provide balanced information about the potential risks of I-131 exposure. The American College of Medical Toxicology will be a key partner in this program.

Additional grant proposals are described below.

• Our ATSDR cooperative agreement to develop environmental education programs was funded for a third year albeit at a slightly reduced level.

• HRSA has increased funding for our cooperative agreement in order to carry out a survey of residency programs and to improve the quality of information on our web site about each residency program.

• We’ve also made some important inroads with CDC. CDC has agreed to provide substantial financial support for Preventive Medicine 2002. We have submitted a conference grant proposal to AHRQ that is still under review, and NIH has indicated that it will provide travel support for selected speakers at the meeting.

• Unfortunately, our proposal to HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau to establish an adolescent health education program was not successful.

• Ron Davis and Jud Richland will be meeting with the American Legacy Foundation soon to discuss our tobacco cessation certification proposal.

• We submitted a proposal to Kaiser Permanente to develop educational materials on breast cancer prevention but ultimately did not receive funding.

We need to continue to actively seek other product lines in order to generate unrestricted revenue for the organization. One attempt to do this has unfortunately been a victim of the dot com crash. Our contract with YourDoctor.com, discussed at previous Board meeting, was expected to result in a steady stream of revenue. YourDoctor has fallen on hard times and has not provided the expected stream of revenue.

Our new online job service has resulted in a small amount of royalty revenue although not enough to make a significant difference in our bottom line.

Future revenue-producing opportunities include expanding our CME offerings to take advantage of the Maintenance of Certification requirements now being implemented by all ABMS-approved certifying boards, developing ACPM certification programs, and increasing annual meeting revenue. The Board’s upcoming discussion about expanding membership eligibility in ACPM to non-physicians – while it raises other issues – has important revenue implications.