[Hlthpol] HPF Director Provisional Appointee of IOM Committee

Fri Nov 2 22:08:40 EDT 2012

Way to go!!!!! Dr. Ross Lee. Congrats and the Best to you.

Beverly Roberts-Atwater, D.,O., Ph. D.

-----Original Message-----
From: Heidi Morris &lt;hmwhrs at aol.com&gt;
To: bellp &lt;bellp at ohio.edu&gt;; mweaver &lt;mweaver at az-osteo.org&gt;; hlthpol &lt;hlthpol at listserv.ohio.edu&gt;; coopern &lt;coopern at ohio.edu&gt;
Sent: Wed, Oct 31, 2012 6:48 pm
Subject: Re: [Hlthpol] HPF Director Provisional Appointee of IOM Committee

I want to congratulate Barbara on her appointment - she is a wonderful representative of our organization and exemplifies what hard work and dedication can do! 

I also want to speak about the recent comments about the concern regarding AACOM and the ACGME entering into a single unified accreditation system for graduate medical education programs in the US beginning in July, 2015.  Well, I think it is about time and I want you to know why from my perspective as a DO who completed an Osteopathic Internship at Grandview Hospital in Dayton, OH and an ACGME Family Medicine Residency that I had approved by the AOA with a Program Director who was a DO and military trained.

When I chose to do an ACGME residency, I did so because of many reasons none of them had to do with my not being DO enough.  I can tell you when I was at Grandview from 1989 to 1990, I had attendings that one day spoke to me and the next day after finding out I had gone to the 'dark side' treated me like dirt!  I received a wonderful education from that Family Medicine Residency at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, Ohio and in fact I received the education in women's health and OB that served me well especially when I worked at MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio as a Residency Director and Vice Chair of their Department of Family Medicine.  I founded their Osteopathic Internship and was over their dually accredited Family Medicine Program for a time. I believe they now have an Internal Medicine Program and may have other dually accredited programs at this large academic hospital that has 800 beds and also is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University. I was also blessed to be an Assistant Dean with OUCOM in Toledo and a DME at St. Vincent's and helped write the application for the Osteopathic General Surgery Program there under Dr. Connie Cashen.  I hold dual certification.  I also have an MHA from the School of Health Management, Kirksville, MO.  I was a Health Policy Fellow under Dr. Ross Lee and consider her a wonderful mentor - which is what I have considered myself as a dually certified DO PHYSICIAN.  

I always have considered myself a DO - even when I have held the hat as an ACGME Program Director and DO Program Director and Vice Chair of a large Academic Department.  I never forgot that I was a DO and I felt that by bringing the Osteopathic Internship to MetroHealth I could bring more educational opportunities to more Osteopathic physicians.  I was never less Osteopathic.  I see this as a great opportunity to expand and open doors.  This will help our younger physicians and not so younger physicians to obtain more residencies that perhaps they may not have had the opportunity to get into along with Fellowships.  When I held a position at another health system as a DME that was totally Osteopathic, it was a hard road to go.  I am also Fellowship trained in Academic Medical Education from NEOUCOM, Rootstown, Ohio - a 3 year fellowship that involved Leadership and Management, Curriculum Development and Research.  I wanted to improve curriculum, change how some of the rotations were done and present the AOA inspection as I had done previously at Metro, I received alot of grief because it was not " DO enough."  However, we passed with 100% and everything was fine in terms of the inspection and process.

The long and the short of it .... Please don't put down what you don't know.  I know this is a good move.  I have seen and worked both sides.  THIS IS  VERY GOOD TO HAVE AACOM AND THE ACGME TO COME TOGETHER.  We will not lose our identity.  At Metro, we started an OMT clinic in the Physical Medicine and Rehab Department under the new DME of Osteopathic Medicine.  The wait list was 6 weeks and clinics had to be added.  OMT along with the holistic approach and the teaching from DO to DO is what sets us apart.  I guarantee we won't lose our identity.  What we don't want to lose are the new graduates who chose to go strictly ACGME - let's learn to be flexible and work with our partners.  I have never regretted my decision that I made in 1990 - I know that the AOA and AACOM will not either.  

Thank you for your time.

Heidi A. Morris, DO, MHA

-----Original Message-----
From: Bell, Peter &lt;bellp at ohio.edu&gt;
To: Amanda Weaver &lt;mweaver at az-osteo.org&gt;; hlthpol &lt;hlthpol at listserv.ohio.edu&gt;; Cooper, Nancy &lt;coopern at ohio.edu&gt;
Sent: Tue, Oct 30, 2012 1:38 pm
Subject: Re: [Hlthpol] HPF Director Provisional Appointee of IOM Committee

Excellent!

From: hlthpol-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu [mailto:hlthpol-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu] On Behalf Of Amanda Weaver
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:22 PM
To: hlthpol at listserv.ohio.edu; Cooper, Nancy
Subject: Re: [Hlthpol] HPF Director Provisional Appointee of IOM Committee

Dr. Ross-Lee is such an outstanding representative of the osteopathic medical profession and so dynamic.  Thanks for all of your many contributions to our profession.

Amanda Weaver, MBA
Executive Director
Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association
5150 N. 16th Street- #A-122
Phoenix, AZ 85016
(w) 602-266-6699 (f) 602-266-1393
(c)   602-8815269 

From: hlthpol-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu [mailto:hlthpol-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu] On Behalf Of Shannon Jimenez
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 5:27 PM
To: 'Gddonfl'; Anthony.Ognjan at mclaren.org; hlthpol at listserv.ohio.edu; coopern at ohio.edu
Subject: Re: [Hlthpol] HPF Director Provisional Appointee of IOM Committee

Congratulations Dr. Ross-Lee!

Shannon Jimenez

From: hlthpol-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu [mailto:hlthpol-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu] On Behalf Of Gddonfl
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 5:59 PM
To: Anthony.Ognjan at mclaren.org; hlthpol at listserv.ohio.edu; coopern at ohio.edu
Subject: Re: [Hlthpol] HPF Director Provisional Appointee of IOM Committee

Fantastic news!!!!!

Gail Dudley, DO, CHCQM, FAIHQ, MHA, FACOPF    

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Ognjan &lt;Anthony.Ognjan at mclaren.org&gt;
To: hlthpol &lt;hlthpol at listserv.ohio.edu&gt;; Nancy Cooper &lt;coopern at ohio.edu&gt;
Sent: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 9:33 am
Subject: Re: [Hlthpol] HPF Director Provisional Appointee of IOM Committee
GREAT NEWS!

Doc O

&gt;&gt;&gt; "Cooper, Nancy" &lt;coopern at ohio.edu&gt; 8/6/2012 11:11 AM &gt;&gt;&gt;

Hi Fellows:  HPF Director Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., is a provisional appointee to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education (from Inside OME – AACOM 8/6/12):

IOM Announces Provisional Appointments to Committee on Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education Share: 

On July 31, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced provisional appointments to its Committee on Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education. The committee was formed to conduct an independent review of the governance and financing of the nation’s GME system and issue recommendations for consideration by Congress. According to the IOM, the Committee will convene for 21 months to “(1) assess current regulation, financing, content, governance, and organization of U.S. GME and (2) recommend how to modify GME to produce a physician workforce for a 21st century U.S. health care system that provides high quality preventive, acute, and chronic care, and meets the needs of an aging and more diverse population.”

The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) is pleased to announce that Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, New York Institute of Technology’s Vice President for Health Sciences and Medical Affairs, and Acting Dean of the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, is listed among the provisional members. Her appointment, and that of other members, will not be finalized until after a 20-day public comment period on the membership of the Committee.

See the IOM website for more information about the Committee and to view the full provisional Committee membership.

Nancy Cooper, Coordinator

Health Policy Fellowship

307 Grosvenor Hall

Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Athens, Ohio  45701

Office (740) 593-2017

Cell (740) 707-8425

Fax (740) 593-1730

coopern at ohio.edu

Confidentiality Notice: This email communication, including all attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and attachments. Please note that this email and attachments may be copyright protected. 

_______________________________________________Hlthpol mailing listHlthpol at listserv.ohio.eduhttp://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/hlthpol

_______________________________________________ Hlthpol mailing list Hlthpol at listserv.ohio.edu http://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/hlthpol 

_______________________________________________ Hlthpol mailing list Hlthpol at listserv.ohio.edu http://listserv.ohio.edu/mailman/listinfo/hlthpol 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/hlthpol/attachments/20121102/4a0f7f21/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/png
Size: 327 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/hlthpol/attachments/20121102/4a0f7f21/attachment-0003.png 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/png
Size: 322 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/hlthpol/attachments/20121102/4a0f7f21/attachment-0004.png 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/png
Size: 315 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/hlthpol/attachments/20121102/4a0f7f21/attachment-0005.png 