Chair: Miriam Alexander                                                         Staff: Jennifer Edwards

The Membership Committee is pleased to share with the Board of Regents the following membership information. The numbers reflect data available up to 2/7/01.

Since the start of the membership year, 59 new members have joined ACPM (as of 2/7/01). This does not include 28 physicians who paid for the New Member package offered to Preventive Medicine 2001 attendees. These individuals still need to complete membership applications and receive approval from the Membership Committee.

Three renewal invoices have been mailed to ACPM members resulting in $308,405 being collected. Two more invoices will be mailed in the near future. ACPM Board members will be called up to contact the delinquent members. As was recommended at the November Board meeting, beginning with Preventive Medicine 2002 we will give members the opportunity to renew their membership at the same time that they register for the annual meeting.

ACPM will offer a free "six-month" promotional membership to those physicians who have recently passed the ABPM boards.

We will soon send letters to former ACPM members encouraging them to re-join the College and take advantage of our expanded offering of services. We will also send recruitment materials to physicians who have achieved certification in preventive medicine in the last several years but have not joined ACPM. We also plan to explore test mailings to subsets of physicians in other specialty societies or among MD/MPH’s not certified in preventive medicine. We are currently reviewing the exhibitor information for annual meetings of several other specialty societies to plan our exhibiting schedule.

ACPM is pleased to welcome David Dauphinais as our new Membership Assistant. David is already proving to be a valuable asset to ACPM in only his first week on the job. David comes to ACPM after working at Partnership for Prevention.