Local chapter updates: Connect with your local community at the 10th annual ACDIS conference

Are you a local chapter leader and planning to be at the ACDIS conference?

The chapter advisory board (CAB) met last week to discuss plans for local chapter-related events at the 10th anniversary ACDIS conference. If you’ve had the pleasure of attending the conference in years past, then you’re familiar with the various ways ACDIS attempts to help local chapters engage with fellow attendees from their state. This year, events include:

• Day 1: Leadership panel discussion: This event takes place at the end of regular conference sessions (from 5-6 p.m.) and features insight from the CAB as well as from fellow local chapter leaders across the country. It’s an opportunity for local leaders to meet face-to-face and identify best practices for successful event organization. Please email Melissa Varnavas at mvarnavas@acdis.org, if you would like to attend.
• Day 2: Local chapter theme day: Attendees are encouraged to dress in sports gear related to their state or in clothing best representing their region. (One year, the Maine chapter leader wore a lobster claw headband.) This makes it easier to pick out those from your home state amongst the crowd.
• Day 2: Local chapter lunch: Local chapter leaders are encouraged to pick a few tables in the lunch area to decorate with a theme of their choosing to help foster networking within their geographic region. (Last year, Florida leaders brought an inflatable palm tree and Ohio leaders brought battery powered marquee letters that spelled OHIO!)

About a week or so prior to the conference, Melissa Varnavas will inform all attendees regarding local chapter events

Please let Melissa Varnavas or Linnea Archibald know about your conference plans so we can update those attending from your state/region. If you have a photo from an early conference you attended or an early local chapter event feel free to email it Melissa at mvarnavas@acdis.org, or ACDIS editor Linnea Archibald at larchibald@acdis.org.

Events this week

• The Westchester New York CDI networking group meets Thursday, April 20, 2:30-4:30 p.m. For information, email kseekircher@nwhc.net.
• The Central New York CDI networking group meets Friday, April 21, 2-4 p.m., at the Pomeroy School of Nursing in Syracuse, featuring a presentation by Bobbie Massena, RN, assistant director of UM/CDI. For information, email Dawn Burr at dawnburr@crouse.org. To download the flier, click here.
• The Washington Evergreen ACDIS Chapter meets Friday, April 21, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For information, contact Lillian.Dickey@providence.org. To see the meeting flyer, click here.

April

• The St. Louis Missouri ACDIS Chapter meets Wednesday, April 26, 6:30-8 p.m., at St. Luke’s. Outside food/drink is against hospital policy, so no potluck this time. For information, contact Michael McKelvey, michael.mckelvey@bjc.org.
• The Minnesota ACDIS Chapter meets Wednesday, April 26. M. Fareed Suri, MBBS, will present  on ”Interventional Neurology Procedures." . For information, contact Teresa Krueger, Kruegert@centracare.com.
• The New Jersey ACDIS Chapter meets Thursday, April 27, hosted by Temple University Hospital. To download the agenda, click here. For information, contact Gina Stewart at gstewart@e4-services.com.
• The Colorado ACDIS Chapter meets on Thursday, April 27, 4.-6 p.m. at Centura Health in Englewood. View the flyer by clicking here.
• The Wisconsin ACDIS Chapter meets Saturday, April 29, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Wheaton Franciscan Medical Building Conference Center. To see the full brochure, click here.

May:

• The Arizona ACDIS Chapter plans on holding a get-together at the national ACDIS conference in Las Vegas, in the MGM Grand lobby. More details will be emailed to chapter members by the end of April.
• The California ACDIS Chapter set a tentative date of May 24 for their education conference call. For more information, visit their local chapter page and read Vol. 3 of their newsletter.

Save-the-date

• The Arizona ACDIS Chapter is planning its next big event tentatively for June 2017. Chapter members should send suggestions to Chapter President Alma Yap at rnalmay@gmail.com.
• The California ACDIS Chapter holds its third-annual conference Friday, September 15, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Torrance Memorial Medical Center. For information, contact Rani V. Stoddard at stoddardrv@henrymayo.com.
• Missouri’s three ACDIS local chapters join for a full-day conference event on October 14, at the University of Kansas Hospital. For information, contact michael.mckelvey@bjc.org.