ACOFP President

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling while they do it.”
- Teddy Roosevelt

March 12-16, 2008
ACOFP 45th Annual Convention & Exhibition
Hyatt Regency Denver
Denver, Colorado

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By Steven F. Rubin, DO, FACOFP dist.

February 5, 2008

Influenza-Associated Pediatric Mortality and Staphylococcus aureus Co-Infection
CDC is requesting that states report all cases of influenza-related pediatric mortality during the 2007-2008 influenza season. This health advisory recommends that health care providers test persons hospitalized with respiratory illness for influenza, including those with suspected community-acquired pneumonia. Health care providers also should be alerted to the possibility of bacterial co-infection among children with influenza, and request bacterial cultures if children are severely ill or when community-acquired pneumonia is suspected. Health care providers should be aware of the prevalence of methicillin-resistant S. aureas strains in their communities when choosing empiric therapy for patients with suspected influenza-related pneumonia. Clinicians, health care providers, and medical examiners are asked to contact their local or state health department as soon as possible when deaths among children associated with laboratory-confirmed influenza are identified.

Senate Finance Panel Developing 18-month Medicare Pay Package
If Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have their way, by early summer physicians will know what they'll be paid both in the last half of 2008 and in 2009. A six-month 0.5 percent boost is set to run out at the end of June and be replaced with a 10.1 percent reduction. In anticipation of this, Finance Committee members are working on 18-month payment legislation, rather than just another six-month patch.

Register Today for the 2008 ACOFP Convention!
The Resident Recruiter Program (formerly the Strongest Link Resident Program) will hold a workshop on Thursday, March 13 from 3 – 5 pm.  The Resident Recruiter Program is an integral part of preserving the profession and helping to create continuity of education within the profession.

ACOFP’s Resident Recruiter program provides a leadership workshop at Annual Convention to second-year resident recruiters on position responsibilities; activities for resident recruiters to participate locally and nationally; opportunities for sharing ideas on recruitment tools; enhancing the relationship between resident recruiters within the osteopathic profession; to be an active participant in preserving osteopathic family medicine and helping to reverse current family physician trends.

Register for the Convention today.

Back to Campus
Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific ACOFP Student Chapter has been very active in sponsoring volunteer student outreach to their community in a variety of ways.  They assist in filling open slots for clinic workers at the Montclair Clinic, a free/low-cost Clinic open to residents of Montclair; staffing all DO positions in the University-wide Flu Shot Clinic; helping residents of the Westland Estates Mobile Home Park improve their lifestyles from a health and fitness point of view; working with the Family Medicine Department at local high school football games. Four high schools use WU/COMP physicians and students as their medical staff and offering Health education, healthy meals, and clothing every other Wednesday for the Pomona Homeless Community.   They also sponsor Santa’s Workshop, a Holiday Party for Pomona children from low-income families (identified by LA County social services)  Ann E. Kellogg  is ACOFP Student Chapter President. 

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