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CMA annual
meeting briefs
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Membership fee for ’07, new CMA
affiliate, attendance up, remembering a medic, a CEO
retires
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By CMA Staff |
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Membership fee for ’07
The CMA
membership fee for 2007 has been set at $360, a $15 increase over
2006. The association says the increase is needed to handle expected
increases in operational expenses. The increase was approved by a
3-to-1 margin. Honorary Treasurer John Rapin reported that CMA
revenues exceeded expenditures by $721,000 in 2005. The
association’s net assets now stand at $243 million.
New CMA affiliate
The CMA accepted
the 111-member Canadian Spine Society as its 45th affiliated member
during the August annual meeting, and it may soon welcome one more.
Major Karen Breeck, a Canadian Forces flight surgeon, told the meeting
of the CMA’s Committee of National Medical Organizations, which
represents the affiliates, that Canada’s military doctors “are actively
looking to become an affiliate.”
Attendance up
The CMA’s 139th
annual meeting, held in Charlottetown August 21 to 23, attracted the
meeting’s highest attendance in recent memory. Final attendance of
delegates (248) and observers (186) was substantially higher than at
last year’s meeting in Edmonton. Overall registration reached 709, 27%
higher than last year. The meeting also received massive media coverage.
More than 40 journalists registered, and the second day of proceedings,
which featured the election of President-Elect Brian Day, resulted in
more than 250 reports in newspapers and on TV and radio.
Remembering a medic
Dr. Ruth
Collins-Nakai considers a visit to Canadian medical personnel serving in
Afghanistan a highlight of her presidency in 2005-06. She was pleased
that eight military physicians accepted an invitation to attend her
valedictory address at the August annual meeting. In her speech, she
paid tribute to Cpl. Andrew Eykelenboom of Comox, BC, who was killed in
an August 11 suicide bombing in Afghanistan. Eykelenboom, who served with
1st Field Ambulance, was the first Canadian medic killed in action since
the Korean War.
A CEO retires
Robert Hewett, the
former president and CEO of CMA Holdings, became one of the few
non-physicians awarded honorary membership in the CMA during the August
annual meeting. CMAH Board Chair Dr. Ian Warrack said CMAH assets had
doubled during Hewett’s 10-year term, and described him as “a visionary,
a leader and a true success story.” Hewett retired July 1, and has been
succeeded by Brian Peters.
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