SAGA MEETING
MINUTES
7th
Annual SAGA Meeting, October 14, 2007,
San Francisco, CA
SAGA held its 7th
annual meeting this year in San Francisco. The meeting was open
to all SAGA members and interested ASA attendees. Light
refreshments were served. There was a 30 minutes reception for
networking and membership sign up, followed by an open forum
discussion on SAGA initiatives: both past and future. The
minutes from the meeting are included below. Approximately 50-
60 attendees attended at least part of the meeting.
Key Speakers:
Sheila Barnett, MD President
SAGA
Fritz Seiber, MD Secretary SAGA
Deborah Culley, MD Treasurer,
SAGA
Arnold Berry, MD ASA Section Chair/
David Cook, MD, FAER Council on
Aging
Bernadette Veering, MD Chair of
Geriatric Meeting Section for ESA Netherlands
George Silvay, MD Professor
Anesthesiology Mt Sinai
Meeting welcome S. Barnett
Dr Barnett thanked all attendees
and participants.
She explained that the ASA
Curriculum was essentially now complete, this was one of SAGA’s
goals for this year. The curriculum will soon be available to
all through the ASA and SAGA websites.
She commented that similar
societies, e.g.Geriatric Cardiology, have had substantial
success at fund raising and this is something SAGA will need to
address. She reminded everyone that SAGA is a charitable
organization so donations can be tax exempt.
Activities during the year
included the submission of a Fellowship proposal to the John A
Hartford foundation. This is currently on hold for
consideration. In addition a program type grant was submitted to
the American Society of geriatrics to create educational
programs for ongoing maintenance MOCA proposal – this is also
under consideration.
FAER /ASA perspectives
A. Berry
Dr Berry was welcomed by SAGA.
He led further discussions on the geriatric Fellowship
proposal. This year a geriatric fellow will start at the Mayo
Clinic in January 2008. He encouraged other academic programs
to pursue non ACGME fellowships in Geriatric Anesthesiology as
well.
There was lively discussion
concerning the about future directions for SAGA and how to take
to geriatrics as a specialty area to higher level within
Anesthesiology’s leading organizations: ABA, ASA and FAER.
There was also considerable talk on establishing areas that
could be tackled by SAGA. This include discussion on:
Issues regarding strategic
initiatives were raised. Many felt that there is a need for a
common geriatric mission and work needs to be done on
streamlining current work and looking for areas of overlap, as
well as involving ABA and other key components. Related to this
topic were Dr. Cook’s comments both at the meeting and from
earlier conversations through the FAER council on Aging. There
were many suggestions from the floor – about possible best
practices, guidelines, more involvements in ASA/ ABA
Future Geriatric Meetings
B.Veering
–
The European Society of
Anesthesiology (ESA) International meeting has granted
permission to Bernadette Veering to create a new section on
Geriatrics. This will result in entire line of research,
education and other presentations at annual ESA meetings. This
is a significant achievement by Dr. Veering, who was
congratulated. The next ESA meeting will be in Spain.
G. Silvay
Discussed opportunities for an
international meeting in Prague – there will be a need for
attendance and speakers.
F. Sieber
Discussed potential for a one
day meeting prior to the PGA in NY in 2008. This will involve
collaboration between HSS, Hopkins and the AAA in England.
Hopkins could provide CME credits. This still needs significant
investigation about costs, responsibilities and amount of
administrative time required.
Treasurer’s Report D. Culley
SAGA reports a positive bank
account. We have approximately 40 paid and active members. SAGA
is no longer using a credit card – it was to expensive to
maintain for the small number of users. SAGA needs to continue
to recruit new members and do fundraising.
Students
Two students attended the SAGA
meeting and were Introduced, they were from Duke and Brown .
They are both submitting applications for anesthesiology
residencies.
New Board members
Ben Antonio, Greg
Crosby, and Zhongcong Xie were elected to serve as board members
for 2008 and 2009.
Next year,
elections will be held for the President Elect, the Secretary,
the Treasurer and three at-large Board positions.
The meeting was adjourned!
Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the
Society for Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia (SAGA)
Hilton Hotel ~
Chicago, IL
Sunday, October 15, 2006
After a gathering
reception which started at 4:00pm a meeting was called
to order by raining SAGA President Terri Monk, MD. Dr.
Monk’s initial presentation discussed the possible grant
sources for geriatric anesthesia research and the
possibility of AGS and FAER forming a partnership to
provide financial support to establish a geriatric
anesthesiology fellowship. Interactive debate amongst
the SAGA members focused on whether to propose a 1 or 2
year fellowship or have it as a 1 year fellowship with
an optional 2nd year based on individual
performance and expectations being met. The geriatric
fellowship was proposed to include clinical,
educational, and research commitments. It was felt that
it must include at least a 6 week rotation on a
geriatric medical service. SAGA membership was very
uniform in the opinion that the individual chosen for
the fellowship must have appropriate mentor identified
for the time they spent in the program. This was
thought to be most important for guidance in geriatric
research.
A more formal
presentation on this topic was given by Arnold Berry, MD
who represented FAER in discussing what the structure
should be for the geriatric anesthesiology fellowship.
At the conclusion of the discussion it was decided to
purse to establish this fellowship. Dr. Berry was going
to take back the comments of SAGA membership to the FAER
board to further define requirements to support such a
geriatric anesthesiology fellowship.
The following agenda items were then addressed:
- Election
of Officers
- Future
meeting plans for SAGA
- Treasurer
report from Tim Gilbert, MD
Election of
Officers:
The following
officers were determined by a vote of SAGA membership
- SAGA
President – Sheila Barnett MD (2006-08, Harvard
University)
- President
Elect – Chris Jankowski MD (2006-08, Mayo Clinic)
- Secretary
– Fritz Sieber, MD (2006-08, Mayo Clinic)
- Treasurer
– Deborah Culley, MD (2006-08, Harvard University)
Election of
New Board Members:
- Bradley
Smith, MD (2006-07, Vanderbilt)
- Leann
Groban, MD (2006-08, Wake Forest)
- Gary
Vasdav, MD (2006-08, Mayo Clinic)
-
Shamsuddin Akhtar, MD
(2006-08, Yale University)
Future SAGA
meetings:
The plan is to
have the annual SAGA meeting at the Annual ASA meeting
weekend on Sunday between 4-6pm. Further discussion
debated whether to have a separate SAGA meeting
independent of the ASA for CME purposes. Dr. Monk
updated the SAGA membership on her involvement to try
holding a co-joined meeting with SAMBA for 2007. She
informed the membership that at this time it did not
seem feasible. Further discussion with SAMBA for 2008
and beyond would still be considered a possibility to
have a co-joined meeting. Newly elected SAGA President
Shelia Barnett, MD proposed a single day geriatric
meeting co-sponsored by Harvard University. Further
discussions lead to an enthusiastic response from the
SAGA members to motion and consider organizing this
meeting for 2007.
Treasurer
Report
Tim Gilbert, MD
presented to SAGA membership that the assets for the
society in 2005 were $13,500 and as of October 2006 had
grown to $16,800.
In conclusion, recognition was given by SAGA membership
to Terri Monk, MD for her service as SAGA President
during her 2 year term. A plan for a 1 day CME meeting
co-sponsored at Harvard University would be fulfilled
with a geriatric curriculum by current SAGA President
Sheila Barnett, MD. Dr. Barnett would stay in touch
with the developments for the proposed geriatric
fellowship with further updates to the SAGA membership.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Jerry O’Hara, MD
Secretary, SAGA
SAGA Update from the ASA in Atlanta, Georgia, October, 2005
Dear
Members of the Society for the Advancement of Geriatric
Anesthesia:
When
the ASA relocated the annual meeting from New Orleans, LA,
to Atlanta, GA, this past October it resulted in many of the
planned meetings to be canceled.
This included cancellation of the Society for the
Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia (SAGA) meeting
originally scheduled for Friday, October 212, 2005. On
Tuesday, October 25, 2005, several of the SAGA officers and
board members informally meet to discuss future plans for
SAGA. The discussion was led by SAGA president, Terri Monk,
MD. Several
issues that were discussed included: 1) when to hold the
next SAGA meeting, 2) what can be done to improve
communication among SAGA members, 3) should there be an
escalation of effort to provide a better CME opportunity for
SAGA members, and 4) would there be grant support available
to allow a CME SAGA meeting to be organized?
When
to hold the next SAGA meeting:
It
was discussed to continue having an annual meeting at the
ASA in some capacity. The feeling was that it is difficult
to get a CME meeting organized that is convenient for SAGA
members to attend prior to the start of the ASA on Friday
evening. It was
discussed that the SAGA meeting at ASA might take place in
the format of a breakfast panel for SAGA.
Communication
of SAGA members: It was suggested that the officers and
board members attempt to involve themselves with a quarterly
phone conference that would begin in 2006.
Dr. Jerry O’Hara was to be responsible for contact
information and then forward this information to Michael
Lewis, MD. Dr.
Lewis has offered to coordinate quarterly phone conferences.
It was also thought that a SAGA chat-room site would
be beneficial so all SAGA members could visit the site to
offer educational and clinical input for the society members
to discuss.
CME
Opportunity for SAGA: There was further discussion on
holding a separate half or one day CME course in 2007.
It was thought that the Society of Ambulatory
Anesthesiology (SAMBA)
officers be approached to see if they would be interested in
allowing SAGA to hold a meeting adjacent to the start of
their meeting. It was emphasized we would need to ask SAMBA to assist in
applying for the necessary CME credits. Michael Lewis, MD,
has been very gracious to extend his expertise in organizing
CME activity to lead SAGA in having their first half or full
day CME meeting. Many
officers and board members of SAGA offered their time and
support to make this a successful CME course event. SAGA
President, Terri Monk, MD offered to contact the proper
SAMBA officers for this consideration.
Grant
Support for a SAGA CME Meeting: President, Terri Monk,
MD, felt there would be opportunity to approach the American
Geriatric Society for an educational grant in support of a
CME meeting.
Election
of New Board Members: Since there was not an official
Fall 2005 ASA SAGA board meeting to elect new board members,
it was suggested that those board members whose term would
have expired in 2005 be asked to extend their two year term
for one additional year.
These individuals (David Cook, MD, from the Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, MN, Jacqueline Leung, from UCSF, San
Francisco, and Frederick Cyber, MD, from John Hopkins
University at Baltimore) were contacted and asked to extend
their commitment as a board member of SAGA for an additional
year. I can report that all three of these board members
whose two year term would have expired at the 2005 meeting
have generously agreed to remain in their positions for one
additional year until reelections can be held officially.
Respectfully
submitted,
Jerry
O’Hara, MD
Secretary
Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of
Geriatric Anesthesia (SAGA)
Las Vegas
Hilton,
Friday October 24, 2004
The meeting
called to order at
6pm
After
a light dinner, there were two presentations:
First Presentation:
“Neurocognitive
Function after Coronary Bypass Surgery” by Mark Newman, M.D.
Chairman and Professor of Anesthesiology,
Duke
University
. Dr. Newman discussed that cognitive function at hospital discharge
was a significant predictor of long term function in CABG surgery
patients.
Second Presentation:
“Anesthesiologists
Experience Working in Industry” by Charles McKlesky M.D.,
Global Medical Director, Abbot Laboratories.
Dr.
McKlesky gave an entertaining and insightful review of his experiences
moving from an Academic to an industry type position.
Following the presentations, Jeff Silverstein M.D., President
gave a presentation of activities within the society over the last
year. Special thanks were
given to
Sheila Barnet
t M.D. for the establishment and publication of the first SAGA
newsletter. The hope is to
publish a newsletter twice a year.
Sheila also reported that SAGA is now capable of handling dues
payments with VISA/Mastercard. Dr.
Monk suggested the possibility of having a geriatric anesthesiology
meeting (outside of the current meeting in conjunction with the ASA
meeting). One thought was
to apply for a grant from the AGS to support the meeting.
Elections for the officers of the society were made. All officer
positions were uncontested.
1)
Terri Monk, M.D.:
President
2)
Sheila Barnet
t, M.D.:
President Elect
3)
Timothy Gilbert, M.D.:
Treasurer
4)
Jerome O’Hara, M.D.:
Secretary
5)
Jeff Silverstein, M.D.:
Immediate Past President
There were three board positions open for election. These were
contested elections and the three positions were filled by:
1)
Michael Lewis, M.D.
2)
Bernadette Veering,
M.D., PhD.
3)
Christopher Jankowski,
M.D.
The
meeting was called to conclusion at
9:30pm
Annual Minutes of the Society for the
Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia (SAGA) - Acrobat
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October 11, 2002, Orlando, FL
Submitted by Terri G. Monk, Secretary and G. Alec Rooke,
President
On May 21, 2002, a meeting was held by email to vote on
changes to the Articles of Incorporation for SAGA in the State
of Washington. Identical changes to the Bylaws were proposed
(see attached). These changes clarified the charitable,
educational and non-profit purpose of SAGA as defined by the tax
code, and clarified the dissolution clause and disposition of
assets. The changes were unanimously approved.
In Attendance, October 11 meeting: Shamsuddin
Akhtar, Sheila Barnett, Mary
Burnett, Frances Chung, Dave
Cook, Greg Crosby, Deborah
Culley, Paul Heerdt, Chris
Jankowski, Jackie Leung, Michael
Lewis, Jonathan Mark, Terri
Monk, Philippa Newfield and husband Gordon,
Peter Pompei, Alec Rooke,
John Sage, Chris Shoub,
Fritz Sieber, George Silvay,
Jeff Silverstein, Yung-Fong Sung
Sheila Barnett, Treasurer, reported that SAGA currently has
33 Active members, plus 6 expired memberships. Expenses to date
for 2002 total $530, mostly for government fees. The costs of
this meeting have not yet been paid and are expected to be
approximately $830. The cost of the exhibit at the ASA meeting
is $225 and has not been paid. SAGA has collected $2040 from
memberships to date this year, and has $2000 in corporate
sponsorship pledged for this year (all from Abbott). The current
balance in the account is $10,623.57.
Terri Monk, Secretary, asked and received approval of the
minutes from the meeting on October 12, 2001.
Brief reports were given on SAGA's association with other
societies. Jeff Silverstein reported that the SAGA breakfast
panel at the December, 2001 NYPGA meeting attracted over 30
people. Terri Monk reported that the SAGA panel at the May, 2002
SAMBA meeting was very well received. She anticipates that our
panel proposal for the May, 2003 SAMBA meeting will be accepted.
Alec Rooke reports that our panel proposal for the April, 2003
SCA meeting has been accepted. The proposals for all these
meetings are posted on the SAGA website.
The IRS has approved the non-profit status of SAGA. Alec
Rooke explained that it is a provisional ruling in that SAGA has
not been around long enough for the IRS to make a final ruling.
The ruling will be made in five years, but unless we do
something overtly wrong, this decision should be a formality.
The IRS letter of determination is posted on the website.
A discussion of the website ensued. A number of suggestions
were made for additional items on the website including: a
current bibliography of geriatric anesthesia articles; a
"frequently asked questions" section for anesthesia
professionals and one for patients; a section for reviews of
scientific publications from anesthesia and geriatric journals
with commentary and hopefully the original abstract (would need
permission); a section on research opportunities in geriatric
anesthesia, including current, funded research and a list of
available grants; ask to have SAGA linked to other websites,
such as the AVAA or GASNET. We would have to research the legal
implications of our educational material (it was suggested we
contact Lance Lichtor). It was also suggested that slide shows
could be protected on the website by posting them only as PDF
files. That way someone who wanted duplicates would have to
identify themselves to us and explain how the slides were to be
used. Alec Rooke was appointed webmaster.
The future of SAGA was discussed. It was noted that our
membership may be enthusiastic, but we are still small. One
suggestion was to create a paper based membership brochure that
could be distributed at meetings, or even mailed to prospective
members. Another suggestion was to publicize SAGA with each of
our state societies. Frances Chung suggested that we need a big
meeting that should include speakers and topics outside of
anesthesia. When the concern was voiced that SAGA might not
command a great audience yet, Greg Crosby and Jonathan Mark
suggested that SAGA align itself with an academic institution
that can provide CME. The meeting would then be a joint venture
between SAGA and the academic institution. One possibility might
be the Duke Conference on Aging held every two years. Assuming
the topic(s) of the meeting were sufficiently inclusive, it
might well be possible to attract people to the meeting from
fields other than anesthesiology. Such an approach would help
promote SAGA's goal of being more than just and
"anesthesia" society someday. Another thought to
increase SAGA's visibility was to sponsor a resident essay or
research competition, with the winner receiving some award,
perhaps a free trip to a meeting. Lastly, the opinion was
expressed that it would be helpful to work with AARP to promote
health care for older patients. Some skepticism was expressed
over the success of such an approach given the AARP's attitude
toward physicians. Nevertheless, it would be interesting and
useful to invite someone from AARP to speak to SAGA about their
concerns with health care for elderly patients.
An amendment was passed to permit PhD's to join SAGA as
Active members, subject to the same interest and expertise
criteria used to admit physicians.
A vote was taken and it was determined that, for now, SAGA
would not charge people to attend the annual SAGA meeting,
especially if it primarily consisted of a business meeting and
not much educational material. It was suggested that the
educational part of the meeting should be first on the agenda.
Doing so might attract interested individuals who might not want
to attend the rest of the meeting.
Officer and Board elections were held by paper ballot. Terri
Monk was elected President-Elect, Mike Lewis Treasurer and
Sheila Barnett Secretary. However, after the meeting it was
suggested that it would make more sense to permit the Secretary
and the Treasurer to serve for a maximum of three consecutive
terms. Ballot by email was then sent to the SAGA voting members.
By a vote of 21 to 1, the bylaws were amended such that
"Section 5.2 Term" now reads, "The term of office
of each Officer shall be two years. Only Secretary and Treasurer
may serve in the same post for consecutive terms, for a maximum
of three consecutive terms. Time in office that is held in
fulfillment of an un-expired term does not count toward these
limitations. The President-Elect shall succeed the President in
office at the conclusion of the latter's term." By a vote
of 22 to 0, Mike Lewis was elected Secretary and Sheila Barnett
Treasurer. Three new At-Large Board members were elected: Greg
Crosby, George Silvay and Yung-Fong Sung. All new officers and
Board members, plus the new President, Jeff Silverstein, assumed
office at the conclusion of the meeting.
The scientific portion of the SAGA meeting included
presentations from several speakers involved in funded projects
devoted to increasing geriatrics expertise in the specialty of
anesthesiology. Dave Cook spoke first and outlined the place and
intent of the Research Agenda Setting Project (RASP) project in
the funded initiative by the American Geriatrics Society,
"Increasing Geriatric Expertise in Surgical
Subspecialties". The process by which the research review
occurred was described as was the editorial processes that were
brought to bear in generating the final document. Dr Cook
outlined the primary conclusions in the Anesthesia component of
the RASP project by highlighting the needs in the Preoperative
Assessment, Intraoperative Management and Postoperative Care of
the geriatric surgical patient. The section summaries and the
executive summary of the project were supplied as a handout to
meeting attendees.
Dr. Mary Burnett presented how she and her department of
Anesthesiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center have
enhanced its geriatric training of medical students &
residents with the help of a grant from the Hartford Foundation
and also a Reynold's Foundation grant. 1) The Hartford grant
addressed both third year medical students (M3s, during their
surgery rotation) and fourth year students (M4s, during their
anesthesia rotation). The M3s were required to complete two
geriatric web-based modules (postop delirium & pain
management) and were then tested. M4s received a
"Physiology of Aging" lecture each month and were
required to complete 2 of 6 web-based geriatric modules followed
by testing. 2) One of the goals of the Reynold's grant was to
improve resident education in geriatrics. After reviewing our
curriculum, we surveyed our faculty to assess the current level
of geriatric content, made improvements and added 6 lectures
yearly. Many lectures were given by members of other departments
(geriatrics, pharmacology, intensivist). The grant also provided
for two guest experts in geriatrics per year to speak at a
combined surgery and anesthesia grand rounds conference. A
"geriatric journal club", attended by the guest
speaker, has been added each year as well. Six web-based,
geriatric modules were created and cover different perioperative
scenarios with questions and answers related to the unique
concerns of geriatric management. The resident assigned to the
PACU rotation is required to complete this (each module takes
20-30 min). Testing is in development. These grants have allowed
the lines of communication to open widely between geriatrics,
surgery and anesthesia. It has even led to a joint effort among
our surgeons, cardiologists, geriatricians and anesthesia in
developing a perioperative beta-blocker protocol. The final
result of all this seems to be our mutual goal of improving
outcomes for our geriatric patients. The modules can be found at
http://www.unmc.edu/anesthesia/Resources%20and%20Links.htm. Page
down to "Educational Resources and click on:
"Geriatric Computer Modules". Then click on
"Anesthesia Modules". The modules can also be accessed
from the department's website:
http://www.unmc.edu/anesthesia
Dr. Fritz Sieber described the initiatives currently underway
at Johns Hopkins to increase geriatric expertise in the field of
Anesthesiology. His efforts comprise three initiatives. In the
first initiative the Anesthesiology Department is integrating
geriatrics into the residency program by designating three (3)
grand rounds during the year devoted to geriatric issues. In the
second initiative the Anesthesiology Department is integrating
geriatrics into the residency program by establishing a monthly
case conference and journal club focusing on perioperative
management of the geriatric patient. In the third initiative the
Anesthesiology Department is integrating geriatrics into the
residency program by instituting patient simulation applications
into geriatric anesthesia training utilizing the METI whole body
computer simulator located in the Patient Simulation Laboratory
at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS).
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Minutes of the
Society for the Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia (SAGA)
October
12, 2001, New Orleans, LA
Submitted
by Terri G. Monk, Secretary
In
attendance: Hanne
Abildstrom, Sheila Barnett, George Bause, Charles Beattie,
Ruth Burstrom, May Chin, David Cook, Greg Crosby, Deborah
Culley, Jeffrey Dwyer, Nancy Dwyer, Tom Ebert, Philip Gordon,
Beverly Gregory, Paul Heerdt, Chris Jankowski, Tim Johnson,
Perry Jones, Nancy Kwan, Brian McGlinch, Terri Monk, Philippa
Newfield, Charles Novak, Alec Rooke, Fritz Sieber, George
Silvay, Jeff Silverstein, Yung-Fong Sung, Bernadette Veering,
Craig Weldon
The second meeting of SAGA was held at
7:00 PM at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel on October 12, 2001.
The meeting was called to order by Alec Rooke,
President. Thirty
people attended the meeting.
The first order of business was ratification of the
bylaws. Dr. Rooke
also presented a plan to incorporate SAGA as a non-profit
organization in the State of Washington and this was approved
by a vote of the membership present at the meeting.
The
treasurer, Sheila Barnett, reported on the financial status of
the organization. All funds to date have been from membership fees,
totaling $6525. Total
expenses to date have been $182.25, plus an estimated $1300
for the cost of the current meeting.
The membership then voted to use the calendar year as
the membership year, but to have the term for board members
run from October to October. Dr. Rooke then discussed the need
for corporate sponsorship and made an appeal to the membership
to assist in obtaining funding for SAGA.
After discussion, it was decided to appeal for
corporate sponsorship for specific projects such as the
creation of a website.
Terri
Monk reported that she had been in contact with the Dr. Lance
Lichtor, the President of SAMBA.
The board of SAMBA has a great deal of interest in
establishing a relationship with SAGA.
They would like all of the members of SAGA to become
members of SAMBA since the goal of “better perioperative
care of elderly surgical patients” is important to both
organizations. The
SAMBA board approved a Geriatric Ambulatory Anesthesia lecture
session at the May 2002 meeting of SAMBA.
The panel will be entitled “Outpatient Anesthesia in
the Geriatric Patient. SAMBA
will also accept abstracts for the annual meeting relating to
the practice of Geriatric Ambulatory Anesthesia and will allow
SAGA to place handouts at the SAMBA registration desk during
that meeting. The
SAMBA board will also allow a small easel poster advertising
the SAGA to be placed near the registration desk at the May
2002 meeting.
Jeff
Silverstein reported on plans for a SAGA sponsored breakfast
panel at the New York Post Graduate Assembly in Anesthesia (PGA). SAGA will host a panel entitled “Expert Colloquium on the
Perioperative Care of the Elderly Patient” on Friday
morning, December 7, 2001 at the New York Hilton Hotel in New
York, NY. On the afternoon of December 10, 2001 there will be
a second panel at the PGA hosted by Terri Monk.
The panel will be entitled “The Special Needs of the
Elderly Surgical Patient.”
Alec
Rooke reported on plans to develop a SAGA website. He presented the start-up costs, design costs, and server
maintenance costs for three different webmasters. A copy of the plans and estimated costs are attached to this
report. Terri
Monk reported that she would investigate the cost of website
design at the University of Florida.
A general discussion ensued about the goals of the
website. It was
decided to appeal for corporate sponsorship to cover the costs
of the website. Another
suggestion was that the website contain reviews of important
articles from the anesthesia and non-anesthesia literature.
An
election for three at-large SAGA Board members was held.
The nominees for this position (in alphabetical order)
were Mary Burnett, David Cook, Paul Heerdt, Jacqueline Leung,
Fritz Sieber, George Silvay, and Yung-Fong Sung.
A closed ballot election was held and Dave Cook,
Jacqueline Leung, and Fritz Sieber were elected as the new
board members to serve a two year term.
The
suggestion was made to advertise SAGA in journals in the hopes
of attracting new members.
In addition to the anesthesia journals, it was decided
to publicize SAGA in the Association of VA Anesthesiologists
journal (AVAA). The
business meeting was adjourned.
After the meeting concluded, Dr. Jeff Dwyer, Director
of the Institute on Aging at the University of Florida
presented a lecture entitled “The Future is Aging:
Demographic, Policy, and Clinical Implications”
SAGA Website
Options
explored to date are to develop a website using either the
wife of Mike Smith (Sarker Web Designs, see http://aacdhq.org
for a sample), Jim McGreal (see www.jmcstudios.com
for samples such as http://www.sambahq.org/) or Steve Leith
(206 443-0604; WordWare; sample www.deerharbor.com).
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Sarker
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JMCstudios
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WordWare
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Start-up costs
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est. total $1000
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est. total $3500
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est. total $1800-2000
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Design costs
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$50/ hr
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$88/ hr
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Art $75-90/hr, clipart and images $30/image, $600
for design, $1500-2000 to develop template; maintenance
$75/hr (programming $100/hr)
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Server
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? Company in Canada $45/ month
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Inno-tech $25/ month or $240/year
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Will use whatever we want, but will provide
suggestions
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FTP
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Password protection
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Memory space
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10MB
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50 MB
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e-mail
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Included (15 accounts)
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Virtually all servers include this
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Domain registration
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$70 for 2 years
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Free from Innotech
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Says we should do this, but will help us;
$70/ 2 yrs
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Credit card ability
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$1100/ year
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$300/month or $15/month for secure website if
someone from SAGA would retrieve the number
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Can do secure website to server or secure website
to bank, or more advanced stuff
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Minutes
of the Inaugural Meeting of the
Society of Geriatric Anesthesia
The meeting was called to order by Alec Rooke at 9AM
on October 16, 2000 at the Marriott Hotel in San Francisco.
In attendance were Sheila Barnett, Ruth Burstrom,
Frances Chung, Dave Cook, Greg Crosby, Deborah Culley, Chris
Jankowski, Jacqueline Leung, Charles McLeskey, Terri Monk,
Stan Muravchick, Charles Novak, Jerry Reves, Alec Rooke, Ray
Roy, Michael Scott, Frederick Sieber, George Silvay, Jeffrey
Silverstein and Yung-Fong Sung. Gary
Hoormann was present representing the ASA's society
management service.
As there was a general consensus that a society for
the advancement of geriatric anesthesia should be formed,
the group first addressed the question of the name for the
society. Several
proposals were made, but there was no great enthusiasm for
GAS or SAG. SAGE
was considered a good acronym, but a fully suitable name
using those letters was not determined (though Society for
Anesthesia in GEriatrics could be used).
Possibilities included Society for Anesthesia in
Geriatrics and Society for Anesthesiologists with Geriatric
Expertise. Other suggestions included Society for Geriatric Anesthesia (SGA,
similar to the SCA for the cardiac society) and Society for
the Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia (SAGA).
It was decided to continue the discussion of a choice
of name to a later time.
The discussion then turned to a review of the
proposed bylaws. The
liveliest discussion of the morning then ensued and it
concerned the goals and purpose of the society, particularly
as it related to the involvement of non-anesthesiologists
and non-physicians within the society.
Several individuals spoke eloquently of the need for
the society to broaden its interest base and that we should
do everything possible to encourage participation of
non-anesthesiologists in the society given our desire to
have an impact on all phases of perioperative care of the
geriatric patient. On
the other hand, concern was expressed over the risk of
losing our desired identity (a society with the perspective
of an anesthesiologist) if the society were to become too
populated by non-anesthesiologists.
No one argued for excluding non-anesthesiologists and
non-physicians from the society; at issue was who would be
permitted to vote and be on the Board.
No clear consensus could be achieved, so the
participants decided to continue with a review of the
proposed bylaws.
Questions arose over the relationship of the new
society to the ASA. It
was explained that, as with other (smaller) societies such
as SAMBA or ASCCA, our society would be separate from the
ASA (no legal connection).
However, many societies maintain close ties to the
ASA as it helps with society meetings such as on the Friday
before the ASA meeting (ASA helps with meeting rooms).
Furthermore, at some point in our future, the society
will likely want and need a professional management service
to help with many of the routine tasks of running a society. One management option is through the ASA and its employee,
Gary Hoormann. Other
options mentioned were the people who run the Society of
Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) and Shirley Bishop
who manages the AUA and the WSSA (WA State Soc.).
The good news is that for now we can "hire"
help as needed and as funds permit, and still utilize Gary
for advice for free.
The next issue was membership categories and dues.
Besides the issue of who gets to vote, etc., the
issue of Charter membership came up.
The basic idea of having a membership category that
would permit interested individuals to pay a substantial
amount upfront was endorsed by the participants, but the
details needed working out.
The concept of International, Retired and Honorary
memberships were also endorsed.
It was decided that the term of office for officers
and board members be two years. Committee Chair and Committee Member positions could be on an
annual basis as they are chosen by the President-Elect and
reappointment is permitted.
[Ed. Note: On
reflection, this makes little sense, as the new
President-Elect would technically be the person who would
appoint the committees for the second year of the then
President's term. It
seemed easiest to make all committee terms two years, so I
went ahead and changed the bylaws.]
The Members-at-Large of the Board are to number 6
(plus President, President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer and
Immediate Past-President constitute a Board of 11 people).
Members-at-Large are to be elected on a staggered
basis (three new members each year).
Other details of the bylaws were discussed.
Dr. Rooke stated that further discussion of the
bylaws will occur via the internet, and once the details are
worked out the bylaws will be distributed for ratification
by the membership.
Election of officers took place by a show of hands:
President, Alec Rooke; President-Elect, Jeff
Silverstein; Secretary, Terri Monk; Treasurer, Sheila
Barnett. It was
decided to defer election of the six Members-at-Large for
the Board of Directors.
Some brainstorming about the Annual Meeting took
place. Although
the Friday before the ASA meeting is always an option (and
will likely be utilized next year in New Orleans), the
possibility of affiliating with other societies or meetings
was felt to be worth pursuing.
Alec Rooke reported he had recently made initial
contact with the Presidents of SAMBA and the SCA and was
reasonably encouraged by their interest.
The thought that it could be beneficial to both
groups; our society would gain exposure to additional
potential members, expenses could be shared, and the other
society would have access to an additional educational
program. Although
it is too late to arrange much for 2001, Jeff Silverstein
mentioned that the NYPGA meeting has not yet set its 2001
meeting agenda. IARS
is another possibility.
The meeting adjourned at 11AM.
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