2023 ACEP Council Meeting
This year’s annual ACEP council meeting was held in Philadelphia on October 7-8, 2023. The biggest news we have from the council meeting was the election of our own Texan, Dr. Alison Haddock as ACEP President-Elect! The council meets yearly immediately before the ACEP annual meeting. We meet for two days testifying and voting on resolutions and electing the next vice-speaker (every 2 years) and president-elect and one-third of the Board of Directors. Each state has delegates and each section has one delegate, plus there are eight delegates from EMRA (Emergency Medicine Residents Association) and one delegate from SAEM (Society of Academic Emergency Medicine) and one delegate from CORD (Council of Residency Directors). We are tied with Florida for the third largest number of delegates (twenty-one). California is the largest state with 34 delegates and New York is second largest with 30 delegates. Overall there are 427 eligible councilors. During the council meeting, Dr. Aisha Terry (Washington, D.C.) took over as president from Dr. Christopher Kang (Washington); Dr. Melissa Costello (Alabama) moved up from vice-speaker to Speaker; Dr. Mike McCrea (Ohio) was elected as vice-speaker; and board members elected were incumbent Dr. Jamie Shoemaker (Indiana), and Dr. Henry Pitzele (Illinois), Dr. Abhi Mehrotra (North Carolina), and Dr. Chadd Kraus (Pennsylvania). Also Dr. Jeff Goodloe of Oklahoma, who has multiple Texas ties, was elected by the Board to be Board Chair. The Texas councilors for this year were: Drs. Sara Andrabi, Angela Cornelius, Carrie deMoor, Bryan Dunn, Hilary Fairbrother, Diana Fite, Andrea Green, Robert Greenberg, Robert Hancock, Doug Jeffrey, A.J. Kirk, Sterling Overstreet, Heather Owen, Anant Patel, Dan Peckenpaugh, Lynn Rea, Marcus Sims, Theresa Tran, Gerad Troutman, Jim Williams, and Sandra Williams. We also had several alternate councilors in attendance: Drs. Jessica Best, Charles Maddow, Stephen Steward, Ira Nemeth, John Garrett, Lauren Bayless, Lee Boyle. Our councilors, of whom half are elected every year at the TCEP annual meeting, and our alternate councilors who are appointed by our board of directors, pay their own way including hotel accommodations to the council meeting. There is no reimbursement from TCEP. A total of 62 resolutions were considered at the council meeting, with several being commendation resolutions and several being memorial resolutions. Two memorial resolutions were for Texans Dr. John Ansohn and Dr. Roy Yamada. One Texas commendation resolution was for Dr. Ray Fowler. The multiple resolutions addressed so many problems that we see in emergency medicine, such as transfer challenges for rural EDs, mental health boarding issues, crowding in the ED issues, practice by NPs and PAs being “unsupervised practice of medicine” if not overseen by an emergency physician, growing epidemic of pediatric cannabis exposure, and multiple other issues. It was a highly productive meeting, and a more detailed report of all the actions will be forthcoming once they are finalized by the ACEP officers. Please feel free to e-mail me ([email protected]) or call/text me (713-301-3564) if you wish to discuss this report. |
