May 15, 2012
Location
Gates Conference Room, 4 Penn Tower 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Present
Drs. Bloch, Goldfine, Heyner, Kefalides, McGregor, Meadows, A. Myers, J. Myers, Steinberg; Rachael Berget, Julian Pugh, Victoria Mulhern (FAPD).
Absent
Drs. Allan, Deren, Saunders and Winegrad
The meeting was called to order by Dr. Kefalides at 12:00 pm. The minutes of April 17 were approved.
President's Report
Dr. Kefalides reported that seminar dates are shaping up. Apart from that, there was nothing new to report.
Administrative Office Report
Vicki Mulhern distributed a sheet with the new members of the Medical Faculty Senate Steering Committee listed, and the personnel on the Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility. She reported that a Diversity plan has been submitted to the Senate. The search committee for a Vice Dean of Diversity is chaired by Ronald Collman. Several other chair searches have been initiated. Changes in academic promotion criteria have been clarified and a new track has been approved. This will be an academic part-time track with less than 50% participation and no benefits accruing. It will be solely clinical with no publications required. Participants must teach at least 100 hours per year. Hiring should begin in July. In light of discussion on rehabilitation facilities at the last Executive Council meeting, Vicki distributed a description of Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse. Timothy Dillingham, Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation oversees the facility and it was suggested that he be invited to give an overview of the facility.
Nominating Committee
Dr. Goldfine reported that all nominees have been elected (26 votes received) and Rachael will send their names to the website.
Retirement Communities
Dr. Goldfine reported that 43 responses have been received from the ASEF/PASEF questionnaire; 15 respondents of which are already in, or planning to move to a retirement community. A second notice will be sent out asking for further responses. Ratings in terms of environment, etc., have been received and all were rated excellent.
Committees
Service
Dr. McGregor reported that there is final agreement between the Administration and Nursing to describe the patient visitation program. Volunteers are now needed; the usual volunteer screening is inappropriate for the ASEF program but once an individual agrees to go through the application process, the program should get underway; it may be functional by July.
Luncheons
Roy Vagelos will speak on May 17th in the Hourglass room; his topic is the future of the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries.
Dr. Bloch submitted a list of speakers who have agreed to give seminars in the fall. Dr. Meadows and others pointed out that ASEF needs to co-ordinate with PASEF so that both organizations don’t have speakers in the same week. There was lively discussion regarding the option of using the Conference room on 21 Penn Tower as a venue for at least one seminar. A motion carried that the first seminar should be at Penn Club and a later one in Penn Tower.
Program
Dr. Steinberg outlined future events. The first will be the end-of-year party in June. Dr. J Myers told the group that Jack Kramer will probably be the caterer for 40 people; music is not planned for this event but will be for the Emeritus event in the fall. Dr. J. Myers will investigate several options. PASEF has scheduled Dr. Emanuel on October 4th; ASEF is giving him six possible dates for later in the year. The Emeritus event will be next October and February 14th will be the ‘Valentines’ retirement seminar. June 18, 2013 is scheduled for the end of year party.
Other Business
Dr. Meadows reported that she will attend the AROHE meeting in North Carolina. She thanked Council members for their input into her abstract requesting a 15 minute presentation and will circulate it to Council.
In September there will be a new picture of Council members; discussion as to venue for this.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:35 pm. Respectfully submitted, Susan Heyner, Ph.D., Secretary Treasurer