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COODINATORS’ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PAST / PRESENT

As Kathy and I completed our year as co-chairs of the Executive Committee, we recognized how much time and effort many of our membership have contributed to the APPD Coordinators’ Section.

The years race by and our membership grows and we easily forget some of these people who made sure we receive the recognition and the training we all deserve and the networking that provides the inspiration and supports our training.

You have just met the most recent and future members of the coordinator executive committee that you elected.

Let me remind you how this all started

I call them the COORDINATOR 15

COORDINATOR 15

Have you heard of this group?

Who was this group of women who decided time had come for coordinator recognition for jobs they had been doing for maybe 10 years or more?

It started with a privately run conference in 1993. 20 coordinators attended and found success in networking. They continued attending and networking……..

Then came an invitation from the APPD.

1996 – INVITATION TO APPD Let’s walk back a couple years to 1996. The logo for the APPD was just being developed New RRC requirements were being readied for implementation the next year. Dr. Carol Berkowitz was President of APPD and suggested why didn’t the

coordinators become a section of the 10-year old or so APPD. Thus was born the infamous Coordinator 15 – becoming the first Coordinator

Steering Committee and the originators of our APPD Coordinator Section. This group of 15 coordinators met in person . I can only imagine the talk surrounding

that table of 15 women. They felt very strongly that it had become increasingly important for coordinators to have an opportunity to increase their knowledge and skills, and that they were the voice for recognition of the value of coordinators, and for our role and place in the APPD.

They were indeed breaking new ground.

COORDINATOR 15 – STEERING COMMITTEE

STEERING COMMITTEE

Mary Brady – Emory University

Shirley Hazelwood – Greenville Hospital System, South Carolina

Cindy Liberi – Allegheny General Hospital – Pittsburgh

Iris Mai – UCLA / Harbor

Peggy McFarlane-Rickman – University of Rochester

Linda McNelis – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Pam Occhipinti – Cleveland Clinic

Cathy Root – St. Christopher’s Hospital in Philadelphia

Kathy Rowe – University of Alabama-Birmingham

Lisa Swanson-Skoug – University of Minnesota

STEERING COMMITTEE

And our 5 remaining APPD coordinator members from this original group –

Melodie Allison – Baylor College of Medicine

Valarie Collins – University of South Florida Combined Programs

June Dailey – Indiana University/Riley Children’s Hospital

Rosemary Munson – Maine Medical Center

And the Chairperson of the Steering Committee –

Jeri Whitten – West Virginia University Charleston Division

COORDINATOR 15

COORDINATOR 15 – 1996, 1997, 1998 Fall 1996 – Structure of the Coordinators Section is developed with a diverse membership

• Small, medium, and large programs

• New and veteran coordinators

• Wide geographic distribution of members.

• Committees established to put all the structure together

• Work was accomplished in meetings and telephone conferences

1997 – Presentation by Ms. Jeri Whitten to Program Directors at 1997 Spring meeting in Washington DC on the merits of having coordinators as section members of APPD and the value of learning the same information alongside the program directors.

By the way, the vote by the Program Directors was overwhelmingly in support. 1997 – Coordinators’ Executive Committee structure is finalized

1997 – first “Coordinators’ Corner” appeared in APPD Newsletter.

We are APPD members with our own Section

1998 Spring Meeting in New Orleans – 67 coordinators attend (out of 186 in the country) List Serve issues (just reply to sender, please!!!) First group listed in a Newsletter as members of the Coordinators’ Executive Committee Connie Johnson Jan Minges ( - 2001) Patricia Schmidt Lucy Thompson ( - 2001)

1999 15th annual APPD Spring Meeting in San Francisco Separate track at the meeting developed for program coordinators ERAS begins Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Workshop to develop Program Coordinators’ Handbook began Coordinators’ Executive Committee Connie Johnson Jan Minges ( - 2001) Patricia Schmidt Lucy Thompson ( - 2001)

2000 Spring Meeting in Boston – 71 coordinators attend

Coordinators propose a “Buddy” System for new coordinators

Develop a coordinator social event at meetings

Competencies are introduced

Coordinators’ Executive Committee listed in Newsletter under APPD leadership!!!

2000- 2003 - newly elected members of Coordinators’ Executive Committee

Melodie (Parker) Allison and Aida Velez

2001 Spring Meeting in Baltimore, MD –

90 coordinators in attendance

Coordinator scholarships to support attendance at meetings proposed and approved - $500 (Editor note: I think it is time to raise this).

“Buddy” System established for new coordinators

Here come the WebADS and a 2 part PIF

2001 – 2004 - newly elected members of Coordinators’ Executive Committee

June Dailey and Jeri Whitten

2002 Spring Meeting in Baltimore (again) – 100 coordinators attended Did someone say “duty hours” Coordinators launched 4 new committees – Professional Development, Collaboration & Communication, Coordinators as Supervisors, Technology, to go with their other committees on Membership, the Coordinators’ Handbook,

and Meeting Planning Committee. 2002 – 2005 - newly elected members of Coordinators’ Executive Committee Rosemary Munson and Venice Polynice

2003 Spring Meeting in Seattle Next up – coordinator generic job description, salary scale, and a coordinator certification process. Coordinator new committees spotlighted and joining encouraged APPD website picking up steam as a tool for information and education. 2003 – 2006 - newly elected members Coordinators’ Executive Committee Cindy Colpitts and Sally Koons

2004 Spring Meeting in San Francisco generic job description and salary survey completed and posted on APPD website Hints of TAGME in the air Advantages of coordinators attending meetings 2004-2007 - newly elected members Coordinators’ Executive Committee Dee Burkins and Mary Gallaghar

2005 Spring Meeting in Washington DC

TAGME is official – establishing national standards and

appropriate assessment tools for coordinator certification

in Pediatrics.

30 brand new coordinators attended.

Award established –

Carol Berkowitz Award – first recipient – Jeri Whitten

2005 – 2008 – newly elected member of Exec Cmtg

Therese D’Agostino and Vanessa Goodwin

Katrina happened

2006 COORDINATORS’ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

2006

Spring Meeting San Francisco - 110 coordinators attended

Carol Berkowitz Award – Aida Velez

New Common Program Requirements for

Subspecialties will be implemented in July 2006

2006-2009

Newly elected Executive Committee -

Judy Behnke and Valerie Collins

2006

2007

Spring Meeting in Toronto Canada TAGME - As of this year, 26 coordinators have been certified

by TAGME with special qualifications in Pediatrics.

TAGME is truly up and running and expanding to other specialties.

There is an excellent overview history that Jeri Whitten wrote for the Summer 2007 Newsletter on the APPD Website > Communications > Newsletters.

Carol Berkowitz Award – June Dailey

2007-2010

Newly elected Coordinators’ Committee

Lorrayne Garcia and Marlene Keawe

2008 What can we say – Spring Meeting was H A W A I I !!!

More emphasis on Professional Development Task Force and its subcommittees TAGME – 8 more coordinators certified Carol Berkowitz Award – Mary Gallagher 2008-2011 Newly elected Exec Cmte Deb Parsons and Elizabeth Sanchez-Rocca

2008

2009

Spring Meeting in Baltimore – and it was the FIRST Combined meeting with COMSEP – Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics

Duty hours becoming bigger issue – IOM report making waves.

Coordinator Task Forces established/revitalized – Tools, Management/Supervision, and Professional Development

Carol Berkowitz Award – Melodie Allison

2009-2012

Newly elected Coordinators Cmte

Jamie Bruse and Avis Grainger

2010

Spring Meeting in Chicago The APPD newsletter is now electronic – APPD is going

green!

Here come the Pediatric Milestones and new duty hours regulations

An over-the-top mentoring success story was told by Avis Grainger with her mentee Aimee from Out Lady of the Lake in Baton Rouge, LA.

Carol Berkowitz Award – Rosemary Munson

2010-2013 newly elected -

Kathy Miller and Pat Jacobi

2010 – ALSO THIS YEAR

One of our own received the newly created GME Program Coordinator Excellence Award (from ACGME) - oh gee, I wonder who – Jeri Whitten

2011 -

Spring Meeting in Miami – 130 coordinators attend

25th anniversary of APPD

Carol Berkowitz Award - Cindy Gibson

2011-2014 newly elected committee

Members - Jean Ashley and

Staci Leitner

2011

2012

Spring Meeting in San Antonio

NAS major topic and we were all scrambling to

Each and every meeting to learn as much as we could

TAGME – 8 new members

Carol Berkowitz Award – Cindy Colpitts

2012-2015 newly elected

Ambroysa Amlong

And Kelley Pike

2012 SPRING MEETING IN SAN ANTONIO

NAS is whispered.

TAGME – 8 more coordinators certified

THE END

Thank you for letting me take you on a little bit of a historical journey. I think it is as important to know what you have here in the Coordinators’ Section of the APPD as it is to get a suggestions on recruitment and resident management. I learned a lot just researching this rich history of the Coordinators’ Section.

Now, moving on. . .

One of these original Coordinator 15 had her sticky fingers in everything right from the beginning and does still. As chairperson of a steering committee to organize an APPD coordinators section, she worked with 14 other individuals. Then as the President of the TAGME, she was committed to extending certification to every pediatric coordinator, not for a raise, but for their personal fulfillment and accomplishment and recognition. She has won multiple awards and deservedly so. She personally got me through a very difficult site visit – I read your book, Jeri Whitten.