Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to report that your Board of Directors has been extremely busy the last couple of months establishing organizational structure to achieve the strategic objectives we identified at our planning session in January AND are making quite a bit of progress advancing several of them, as we discussed at our March 28 meeting.
One such example is the introduction of AB 2107, a CSP sponsored bill that seeks to bring California into conformity with federal law by allowing Pathologists to review digital clinical laboratory materials at a remote location under a primary location’s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certificate. This issue was brought to CSP leadership late last year and Dr. Anne Deucher of UCSF and her new Advocacy and Practice Management Committee worked diligently with CSP lobbyist Ryan Spencer to develop appropriate language, find a bill author, gather support, and introduce the bill in February. AB 2107 received its first hearing on April 2 and passed out of the Assembly Business and Professions Committee by a 16-0 vote! See more details in Dr. Deucher’s comments below.
CSP’s Education Committee, chaired by Dr. Manju Aron of USC-Keck, met on April 1 to finalize plans for CSP’s Annual Meeting December 3-7 in San Francisco. Dr. Aron and her colleagues are planning informative, engaging sessions for attendees, including at least one plenary session of keen interest to all attendees and new opportunities for resident engagement, including an interactive poster session. Also new this year will be the first CSP Awards and Recognition Dinner, allowing CSP members the opportunity to recognize outstanding achievements in the field of pathology, past and present.
Under the leadership of CSP Past President, Dr. James Harris and Chad Scribner of Coronis Health, we have established a new Corporate Partners Committee to provide company representatives with the opportunity to advise CSP leadership and staff on issues and activities of interest to our members, practice groups and laboratories and to support CSP’s objectives including growing attendance at our Annual Meeting, enhancing member value and increasing member engagement.
The CSP Membership Committee, under the leadership of CSP Secretary Dr. William Yong of UC Irvine, has already begun enhancing member communications and making initial improvements to the CSP website. In April, Dr. Yong and his committee, in partnership with the board, will contact members who have not yet renewed their membership, encouraging them to do so.
Finally, we have established monthly meetings of an Executive Committee and a Finance Committee to closely monitor our progress in meeting organizational and financial goals. The Executive Committee is comprised of the President, President-Elect, Past President, and the Secretary/Treasurer and, if required, can act on behalf of the Board of Directors in between their quarterly meetings.
The Finance Committee is chaired by Dr. Brent Larson, President Elect and includes Dr. Yong, as Secretary/Treasurer, Dr. Aron, as Education Chair and Dr. Enrique Terrazas, of Quest in his role as an at large board member.
Not only are these committees an effective way to develop and advance CSP’s organizational objectives, they are great opportunities for individual members to become more actively engaged in CSP’s work and cultivate stronger relationships with your peers.
If you or a colleague would like to join one of CSP’s committees, please contact CSP Executive Director, Dave Butler at dbutler@amgroup.us
Emily Ann Green, MD
CSP President
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