Board Meeting Minutes
ABGERO Meeting Minutes
1/30/2023
4:00 EST
Attendees: Susan Whitbourne, Karen White, Toni Wroolie, Donaldson Weston, Dolores Gallagher Thompson, Andrew Heck, Erin Kube, Jennifer Birdsall, Rick Zweig, Victor Molinari, Michelle Mlinac
Absent: Cecilia Poon, Elizabeth Shumaker, Lindsey Jacobs Dodson
Peter Lichtenburg is no longer on the board
- Welcome (Whitbourne)
- Approval of 11/26/22 Minutes
- No revisions, all in favor
- Processes moving forward:
- Karen will lead formal vote
- President announcements (Whitbourne)
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- Karen will obtain and update contact information and will place on Drop Box
- Review of new agenda format
- ABPP Presidential Call- summary and implications
- Each board will now be limited to a max of $6,000 allocation, which must be applied for on the basis of need. Discussion of need was held
- There is a listserv function that ABPP IT could provide (do we want to look into this?)
- We are required to use the new bylaws template provided by ABPP (have we instituted this?)
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Action: No concerns expressed or further discussion warranted
- Budget update (Shumaker)- Updated via e-mail prior to meeting: Good financial standing. Discussion of how to use funds e.g. scholarship, inclusion
- Specialty Update (Mlinac)
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- Time for renewing our specialty petition
- needs volunteers for updating references
Action: volunteers Donaldson Weston, Jennifer Birdsall will help as well and involvement anticipated until 12/31/2023. Add as regular agenda item for ongoing updates
- BOT update (Whitbourne based on Szabo-Miller)
- Finance (see above on $6,000)
- Social media and communications- what is the objective ?
Dolores webinar is scheduled- discussed some limitations with formal - Credentialing of masters programs and ABPP implications
- If anyone is interested in getting on the council of accreditations to fill urgent spot need
- Committee updates (assignments to be finalized)
- Nominations (Heck)
- Review of board composition- new addition Erin Kube (taking over Toni’s role as Toni transitions into president elect) and Cecilia Poon (took Becky’s position)
- Peter is not going to renew his membership on the board and turning over practice sample review (will be Lindsey- sue to clarify) to someone else and need to fill his board member position- Andrew has person in mind and will hopefully have
- Outreach ( Birdsall)- now have listserve and have gaggle- unofficial/official listserve to communicate with the board
- Social Media (Birdsall) discussed other social media ideas e.g. post once a week an articles
- Scholarships (TBD)- Historically had been Molinari, Heck, Gallagher-Thompson, and Jacobs-Dodson though may benefit from transitioning into a formal committee
- ECP (Jacobs-Dodson)
- Exams (Mlinac)
- Inclusion (Gallagher-Thompson)- Wroolie steps down
- Appeals (TBD)
- New initiatives for 2023 (Wroolie, all)
Meeting Adjourned: 5:00pm EST
Next Meeting: 03/27/2023 4pm EST