Local chapter update: Meet the Chapter Advisory Board

The ACDIS Chapter Advisory Board (CAB) includes a dozen volunteers with various levels of experience serving local chapters and networking groups. Their mission is to bring local chapter concerns to the national administration, assist national in developing best practice policies and procedures for local chapter governance, and to serve new volunteer leadership as mentors and advisors. Volunteers were chosen to represent the diversity of the chapters both geographically and in terms of formality as well as representing the diversity of the larger ACDIS body in terms of experience levels and professional backgrounds. The 2019 CAB includes the following volunteers:

1. Leola E. Burke, North Carolina
2. Debra Dallos, Florida
3. James (Jamie) Doster, Georgia
4. Karen Elmore, Missouri
5. Joan Korn, Wisconsin
6. Lori LaFaver, Pennsylvania
7. Angelica Naylor, Missouri
8. Kristie Perry, Tennessee
9. Molly Seibert, Oregon
10. Rani Vivian Stoddard, California
11. Rachel Strom, North Dakota/Minnesota
12. Aimee Van Balen, Massachusetts

Learn more about these folks and the CAB scope of work on the ACDIS website under “Boards and Committees” in the “Membership” section of the main menu.

To fulfill its mission, the CAB will be holding a panel discussion on Day 3 of the ACDIS national conference. Additionally, in 2019, the CAB will be holding a discussion series via webinar in June, September, and December. You can register for the webinar series by clicking here. If you have questions regarding local chapter volunteering efforts or best practices that you’d like the CAB to address, please email ACDIS Associate Editorial Director Melissa Varnavas at mvarnavas@acdis.org.

The following is a list of upcoming events for ACDIS local chapters. If you have an upcoming event you would like to include, please email Varnavas (mvarnavas@acdis.org) and Linnea Archibald (larchibald@acdis.org).

April:

• The Central Pennsylvania ACDIS chapter meets Friday, April 19, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey. Click here to download the agenda. For information, contact Deanne Wilk (dwilk@pennstatehealth.psu.edu).
• The Minnesota ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, April 24, 1-2 p.m., via webinar. For information, contact Timothy Lindquist (timothy.c.lindquist@healthpartners.com).
• The Colorado ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, April 25, 3:30 p.m., at Interstate Kitchen & Bar in Denver. Click here to download the save-the-date flyer. For information, contact Rachel Mack (rachel@iodinesoftware.com) and Janet Robinson (jrobinson@bch.org).
• The Massachusetts ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, April 25, 12-3 p.m. at Trinity Health Care, central business office in Bloomfield, Connecticut. RSVP by April 10 to Jessica Barberio (jessica.barbeiro@steward.org).
• The Washington Evergreen ACDIS chapter meets Friday, April 26, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Swedish Hospital in Issaquah. Please register by April 16 to the chapter leadership team (evergreenACDIS@gmail.com).
• The Ohio ACDIS chapter meets Friday, April 26, 2:30-5:30 p.m., at ProMedica Wildwood Orthopedic and Spine Hospital in Toledo. For information, contact Maria Johar (mcojohar@gmail.com).
• The Wisconsin ACDIS chapter meets Saturday, April 27, 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Ascension Medical Building in Wauwatosa. Click here to download the event flyer and agenda. Please register by April 12. For information, contact Joan Korn (joan.korn@ascension.org).

May:

• The Arizona ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, May 2, 12-1 p.m., via webinar. Click here to download the save-the-date. For information, contact M.E. VanGelder (mvangelder@honorhealth.com).
• The New Orleans ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, May 9, 4-5 p.m., at Semolina’s Restaurant in Clearview. For information, contact Judi Dowling (judith.dowling@ochsner.org).
• The Illinois ACDIS chapter meets Monday, May 13, 12-5 p.m., at Advocate Support Center in Downers Grove. Click here to download the agenda and registration information. Please register by May 8. For information, contact Dottie Fanning (dorothy.fanning@advocatehealth.com).

June:

• The Pediatric Networking Group (APDIS) meets Thursday, June 6, 3 p.m., via webinar. For information, contact Valerie Bica (valerie.bica@nemours.org).
• The Georgia ACDIS chapter meets Saturday, June 8, in Savannah. Please note that this meeting will include a volunteer opportunity with the Help End Hunger Food Bank. For information, contact Jamie Doster (doster.j@icloud.com).
• The Kansas City, Missouri, ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, June 12, 2-4 p.m., central. For information, contact Angelica Naylor (angelica.naylor@outlook.com).

Save-the-date:

• The Arizona ACDIS chapter meets Saturday, August 3, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at Honor Health Shea Medical Center—Brady Conference Center in Scottsdale. Click here to download the save-the-date. For information, contact M.E. VanGelder (mvangelder@honorhealth.com).
• The Georgia ACDIS chapter meets Thursday, September 19, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center. For information, contact Jamie Doster (doster.j@icloud.com).
• The Michigan ACDIS chapter meets Saturday, October 5, at McLaren Hospitality House in Flint. Click here to download the save-the-date. For information, contact Susan Fantin (susan.fantin@comcast.net).
• Missouri's three ACDIS chapters meet Saturday, October 19, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., for the fourth annual Show Me State Conference at Boone Hospital in Columbia. Click here to download the save-the-date. For information, contact Karen Elmore (kelmore@bjc.org).
• The Washington Evergreen ACDIS chapter meets Friday, October 25, at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue. For information, contact the chapter leadership team (evergreenACDIS@gmail.com).
• The Kansas City, Missouri, ACDIS chapter meets Wednesday, December 4, 2-3 p.m. central, via webinar. For information, contact Angelica Naylor (angelica.naylor@outlook.com).