We have all had time to recuperate from an absolutely terrific 22nd Annual Scientific Session. I have even had a vacation, thank you. We know from your comments and ratings that you really enjoyed the 2009 sessions both in the Advanced Skills Day and particularly during the Annual. Our faculty was outstanding this year. The press said so. Click here to see the article posted on the AADEP website.
Great thanks are due the volunteer Chair of the course, Melissa Tonn, MD, MPH, MBA, FAADEP, and the co-vice chairs, Robert Barth, PhD, Associate Member and David Randolph, MD, MPH, FAADEP. Many thanks also go to our grantors and exhibitors who generously helped support the program. We are also grateful to those who donated auction items and who purchased those items to provide $3,100 for the AADEP foundation, VERITAS MEDICUS. And we had fun as well.
Speaking of comments, we appreciate your bearing with us through our glitches in the new evaluation technology. And to those 35 people who stayed until the very last question on Saturday, we are especially grateful. The new technology provides an outstanding overview in a third of the time. However, some of you actually liked the keypads so much that you neglected to return them to AADEP—we lost a dozen on-site which cost your Academy $600. If you happen to find them, return them to the address on the back, i.e. AADEP, 223 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 1104, Chicago, IL 60606-6900. Come on, send them back.
Are you thinking about attending the first half-day session on prevention and disability topics on May 1, 2009, at the Renaissance Worthington, Fort Worth, Texas? Presented as the morning session of the AADEP annual comprehensive course, we invite you to participate at a SPECIAL introductory rate of $250—or register for the entire three-day course on the Sixth Edition of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. We look forward to seeing you there.
Give us your comments on the annual and how we might be able to improve in 2010. You will not want to miss it.
Sandra L. Yost, MBA
AADEP Executive Director |
