What's Coming Up in 2022

Greetings to everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I’d like to begin my letter by thanking our members for the overwhelming response to our email asking for committee member volunteers. We’re truly excited to see all the interest by members to become involved in the future of our College. Rest assured that we’ll be in touch with you as soon as possible with your committee appointments if selected. Since my last letter, I’ve had the opportunity to sit in on two Student Osteopathic Leadership in Internal Medicine and Dialogue (SOLID) sessions, meet with the Executive Committee, sit in on our Health Equity and Inclusion Committee meeting, attend a planning meeting for the 2022 Convention in Baltimore, and of course meet regularly with our Executive Director, Karen Caruth.

The SOLID sessions are held the third Thursday of each month. This month, we reached out to osteopathic medical campus student leaders in internal medicine. The topics this month were: Volunteerism by Judith A. Lightfoot, DO, MACOI, a Past-President of the ACOI, as well as a session with Robert A. Cain, DO, FACOI, who is President and CEO of AACOM and a member of the ACOI Board of Directors. 

Last month’s SOLID addressed the hot topic of passing the boards (COMLEX and USMLE). The students love these sessions and attendance continues to grow. Thanks to the SOLID creators and coordinators: Robert G. Good, DO, MACOI; Joshua Layher, DO; and Valentina Lassalle, DO.

Our Health Equity and Inclusion Committee looked back on its accomplishments over the past year and looked forward to incorporating Principle-Centered Medicine™ into all of ACOI’s activities. I’d like to thank the chair of this committee, Watson Ducatel, DO, MPH, FACOI, for doing such a great job stewarding the committee.

Our Spring meetings are all set for May 10-14, 2022. The meetings will be virtual and include the Internal Medicine Board Review Course, Hospital Medicine Update, and Subspecialty Focused Meeting. Be sure to look them up and put them on your calendar. 

Planning for our Annual Convention in Baltimore this Fall (October 19-23) is already underway. Baltimore was a wonderful venue for our annual meeting in 2014 and has often been requested again by members. A planning committee met this month under the guidance of Chair Susan M. Enright, DO, FACOI. The meeting will be a hybrid format again, however, we hope to have many value-add hands-on experiences for in-person attendees! 

I can’t wait until you see the program that Dr. Enright and the ACOI staff are planning. The bar just keeps getting raised for our Annual Convention!

Talk to you all again in February to keep you abreast of ACOI activities. 

Robert L. DiGiovanni, DO, FACOI
President
president@acoi.org