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November 2009 Inside
This Issue ASBH Board and Nominating Committee Save the Date - 2010 Annual Meeting Letter from the 2010 Annual Meeting Co-chairs Core Competencies Update & Survey
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ASBH
wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving!
ASBH
Annual Awards Lifetime Achievement Award: Recognizes outstanding contributions and significant publications that have helped shape the direction of the fields of bioethics and the medical humanities. The recipient agrees to make a major presentation at the ASBH Annual Meeting. Distinguished Service Award: Recognizes outstanding and dedicated service to ASBH. The award is presented to an individual who has advanced the mission of ASBH in a significant and lasting way. Cornerstone Award: Recognizes outstanding contributions by an institution that has helped shape the direction of the fields of bioethics and/or the medical humanities. Qualifying institutions are more than 30 years old. The Cornerstone Award is not an annual award and is awarded at the discretion of the ASBH Board of Directors. The Awards Committee will consider all complete nominations. Nominations must include the nominee’s name and current professional affiliation as well as the reasons for making the nomination. Nominations must be postmarked no later than Monday, March 1, 2010 and sent to the ASBH national office to asaylor@connect2amc.com.
ASBH solicits your nominations for candidates for the positions of Secretary, Director-at-Large (3) and Nominating Committee (2). The elected candidates will take office at the 2010 ASBH Annual Meeting. To be eligible, nominees must be active voting members. Self-nominations are welcome. All nominations must include the nominee’s name and current professional affiliation, suggested elected position, and the reasons for nominating the individual. Nominees must be current members in good standing. Please see Call for Nominations on the ASBH Web site for more information, including position descriptions and a listing of the current Board of Directors and Nominating Committee. Send
nominations no later than Monday, March
1, 2010 to the ASBH national office
to asaylor@connect2amc.com.
The ASBH 12th Annual Meeting will take place October 21-24, 2010 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel in San Diego, CA. The theme for the meeting is Health and Community. The Call for Proposals will open in December on the ASBH web site at www.asbh.org.
The 2010 Annual Meeting Co-chairs, Julie Aultman, PhD, and Inmaculada de Melo-Martin, PhD, provide information on the 2010 meeting as well as how members can get involved in the Annual Meeting.
Are you an ASBH member looking to become more involved in the Society? Serving a an abstract reviewer for the Annual Meeting is a great way to volunteer! To volunteer to serve as a reviewer for the 2010 Call for Proposals, please visit the Members' only section of the ASBH website. The deadline to volunteer for the 2010 Annual Meeting is November 30. ASBH thanks those who have volunteered their time!
The Core Competencies Task Force provides an update on the 2nd edition of the publication. If you would like to include your feedback on the publication, please complete the Survey Monkey survey.
Online Evaluation You can still complete your online meeting evaluation by following this link and entering your login and password where it indicates. This login and password is the same as what you use to login into the ‘Members Only’ section of the ASBH website. You may also access the link to evaluation once you are logged into the ‘Members Only’ section of the website. Audio Recordings To purchase the audio recordings of the meeting sessions, please follow this link to the vendor's website, Rollin' Recording. ASBH President Mark G. Kuczewski's Incoming President's Address If you missed Dr. Kuczewski's Incoming President's Address given at the Members' Meeting at the 2009 Annual Meeting, you can now watch it here!
13th Annual National Undergraduate
Bioethics Conference (NUBC)
Improving Competencies in Clinical Ethics Consultation: An Education Guide is now available for purchase! To order your copy, visit the ASBH website.
The ASBH listserv is available to all members for announcements relating to bioethics and medical humanities. To send a message to the listserv, send an email to lists@asbh.lists.org.
This listserv feature is one way in which we are seeking to encourage member participation and dialogue between annual meetings. If you wish to post a letter or editorial, simple head your message "Members' Voices" and send it to the ASBH listserv. It must be substantive and appropriately professional in style and tone. We suggest a length of no more than 850 words. This page is only available to ASBH members and requires that you log in to the web site.
Center
for Literature, Medicine, & Biomedical
Humanities at Hiram College
The American Journal of Bioethics
Job notices are posted on the ASBH Web site. each week. There is no charge to ASBH members to post a notice. If you would like to post an open position related to bioethics or humanities, send your notice to Mark Waymack at mwaymac@luc.edu in MS Word, plain text format. |
