TABLE 1: 2012 VOTING SUMMARY Measure % Yes % No Retain Academy resolution on Public Relations Efforts of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 99 1 Rescind Association resolution on Advance Notification Date of Nominating Committee Recommendations 90 10 [recommendation of Resolutions Committee was to rescind] Retain and modify Association resolution on the Reduced Medicare Fees for Orthopaedic Surgeons 98 2 Adopt bylaw amendment on BOC and BOS role of immediate past chair 98 2 Adopt bylaw amendment on obligation to report licensure limitations, felony pleas, etc. to AAOS 97 3 Adopt bylaw amendment on Professional Compliance Program recovery of attorneys’ fees and costs 96 4 Adopt bylaw amendment to provide all Fellows an opportunity to vote on nominees for officers and certain Board positions 98 2 Adopt revised SOPs on Orthopaedic Surgeon-Industry Relationships 97 3
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AAOS Now June 2012 aaosnow.org
For the second year, the AAOS Fellowship elected members to the AAOS Nominating
Committee and voted on proposed AAOS resolutions, bylaw amend-ments, and revised Standards of Professionalism (SOPs) using a single ballot—and primarily on the Internet.
By April 23, 2012, the end of the balloting period, 5,536 fellows had cast ballots, 23.85 percent of those eligible to vote. Fellows were asked to select six members to serve on the 2013 Nominating Commit-tee and to vote on retaining three AAOS resolutions under the 5-year review process. In addition, four groups of bylaws amendments were put to the fellowship as well as revisions to the SOPs on Ortho-paedic Surgeon-Industry Relation-ships.
BackgroundAt the time of the 2012 ballot-ing, the AAOS had 23,560 active, emeritus, and inactive fellows eligible to vote. Ballots and infor-mation on voting were delivered primarily via the Internet. Fellows who had not provided the AAOS with an e-mail address but had provided a fax number received a ballot and balloting information by fax. The relatively small number
of orthopaedic surgeons who had not provided AAOS with either an e-mail address or a fax numbers received a written ballot and back-ground information via the U.S. Postal Service.
Votes were tallied by the AAOS research department staff. All valid online and fax submissions received prior to midnight on April 23 were included. Mailed ballots that were postmarked by April 23 and received by noon on April 26 were also included. A majority (78 percent) of the ballots were returned online, while 22 percent were returned via fax or hardcopy.
2013 Nominating Committee The Board of Directors appointed the chair of the 2013 Nominating
Committee in February; the other six members were elected through this balloting. The members of the 2013 Nominating Committee are as follows: • Joseph D. Zuckerman, MD
(N.Y.), chair • John A. Bergfeld, MD (Ohio)• Robert W. Bucholz, MD (Texas)• James D. Heckman, MD (N.H.)• James H. Herndon, MD (Mass.)• Mark D. Miller, MD (Va.)• Augustus A. White, III, MD,
PhD (Mass.)
Other resultsTable 1 shows the results of bal-loting on the resolutions, bylaw amendments, and SOPs. The rec-ommendation of the AAOS Reso-lutions Committee was adopted
for each of the three resolutions on the ballot. The recommendations of the AAOS Bylaws Committee were also adopted on four bylaw amendments—several dealing with certain aspects of the AAOS pro-fessional compliance program, one dealing with the composition of the Board of Councilors (BOC) and Board of Specialty Societies (BOS) and the last dealing with process by which AAOS officers and cer-tain Board members are elected. Proposed revisions to the SOPs on Orthopaedic Surgeon-Industry Re-lationships were also adopted.
Richard N. Peterson, JD, is the AAOS general counsel. He can be reached at [email protected]
Members Elect 2013 Nominating Committee, Endorse Ballot MeasuresOne quarter of fellowship cast ballots● RicHARD N. PeteRSON, JD
46 Your AAOS
Pat on the Back...• Steven R. Garfin, MD, named president of
the International Society for the Advance-ment of Spine Surgery for 2012–2013.
• Robert P. Good, MD, awarded the Sir John Charnley Award by the Arthritis Foundation.
• William J. Jarvis, MD, named Physician Citizen of the Year by the Wisconsin Medi-cal Society.
• Seth S. Leopold, MD, selected editor-in-chief of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, effective Jan. 1, 2013.
• Theodore Parsons III, MD, awarded the Colonel Brian Allgood Memorial Leader-ship Award by the Society of Military Or-thopaedic Surgeons.
• New officers of The Knee Society: Giles R. Scuderi, MD, president; Steven J. Mac-Donald, MD, first vice-president; Thomas K. Fehring, MD, second vice-president;
Thomas P. Vail, MD, third vice-president; Robert B. Bourne, MD, immediate past president; Adolph V. Lombardi Jr, MD, education committee chair; William J. Ma-loney III, MD, education committee chair-elect; Kevin L. Garvin, MD, research chair; Thomas P. Sculco, MD, member-at-large.
• New officers of the California Orthopae-dic Association (COA): Kevin J. Bozic, MD, president; Leslie H. Kim, MD, first vice-president; Robert M. O’Hollaren, MD, second vice-president; William W. Brien, MD, secretary-treasurer; and board members Nicholas A. Abidi, MD; Jeffrey D. Coe, MD; Michael P. Muldoon, MD; Michael B. Purnell, MD; and Jennifer M. Weiss, MD.
• New board members of the Mid-America Orthopaedic Association: Bernard N. Stulberg, MD, president; Craig S. Rob-
erts, MD, first vice-president; J. Lawrence Marsh, MD, second vice-president; Thom-as L. Schmidt, MD, historian; C. Lowry Barnes, MD, member-at-large; Andrew D. Markiewitz, MD, 2013 program commit-tee chair; and Terence J. Gioe, MD, mem-bership committee chair.
• 2012 American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Research Grant Recipients: Erik Nilssen, MD; Elizabeth Russell, PhD; Richard T. Laughlin, MD; Greg Boivin, DVM; Thomas O. Clanton, MD; Norman Waldrop III, MD; Timo Schmid, MD; and Fabian Krause, MD
• 2012 COA annual meeting award winners: James T. Caillouette, MD; Jonathan Prib-az, MD; J. Harold LaBriola, MD; Derek Amanatullah, MD; Lloyd W. Taylor, MD; Samantha L. Piper, MD; and Alexander Theologis, MD.
Table 1: 2012 VoTing Summary
Measure % Yes % No
Retain Academy resolution on Public Relations efforts of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 99 1
Rescind Association resolution on Advance Notification Date of Nominating committee Recommendations 90 10 [recommendation of Resolutions committee was to rescind]
Retain and modify Association resolution on the Reduced Medicare Fees for Orthopaedic Surgeons 98 2
Adopt bylaw amendment on BOc and BOS role of immediate past chair 98 2
Adopt bylaw amendment on obligation to report licensure limitations, felony pleas, etc. to AAOS 97 3
Adopt bylaw amendment on Professional compliance Program recovery of attorneys’ fees and costs 96 4
Adopt bylaw amendment to provide all Fellows an opportunity to vote on nominees for officers and certain Board positions 98 2
Adopt revised SOPs on Orthopaedic Surgeon-industry Relationships 97 3
