2006-2007 Goals and Objectives

Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession

Objective 1: Increase MI Section membership
Objective 2: Locate and encourage previous MIS members to return to the section
Objective 3: Obtain the section members list from MLA headquarters quarterly
Objective 4: Send letters to new members and encourage active participation in their section
Objective 5: Provide a slate of qualified candidates and elect a Chair-Elect, a Section Council Representative-Elect, Secretary/Treasurer, and submit a candidate as the MIS nominating committee nominee.
Objective 6: Maintain the listserv.

Who, Expertise Needed:
Membership chair & committee Sadie Honey University of California, San Francisco, Kalmanovitz Library & Knowledge sadie.honey@library.ucsf.edu is the 2006-2007 chair of the Membership committee. She has Amy Harper harperam@mail.nlm.nih.gov and Elizabeth Whipple whipplee@mail.nih.gov (both Associate Fellows at the National Library of Medicine) to assist her on the committee.

Time Needed:
The Membership committee will evaluate membership increases for the Mid-Year and Annual reports.

Resources Required:
Quarterly MIS membership lists from MLA

Product Outcome:
Increased membership and active members

Evaluation:
Increased membership, two candidates running for each office.

Goal 2: Life Long Learning

Objective 1: Provide strong sponsored programs at the annual conference in Philadelphia, 2007.
Objective 2: Form a MIS Technology Committee to identify "new technologies" experts and invite them as speakers in an MIS sponsored program at the MLA annual conference in Philadelphia.
A. Committee works towards adding this program as an annual MLA event.
Objective 3: Establish an electronic journal club on technology trends and forecasting using established journal club procedures.
Objective 4: Keep track of MIS members' participation in paper and poster sessions at the annual conference and post names and events on the webpage.

Who, Expertise Needed:
MIS members for the Technology committee, technology experts, MIS member to lead the journal club, MIS members participating in the annual conference (papers, posters, CE's).

Time Needed:
Initial program planning for the 2007 MLA conference. 2 years to develop an annual event, program, or symposium for the "New Technologies" program.

Resources Required:
MIS committee members, funds to bring in technology experts, MIS members to count attendees and moderate MIS programs.

Product Outcome: Excellent, well attended MIS sponsored programs at the MLA annual conference, web list of MIS member activities at the conference.

Evaluation:
Count the number of people attending the "New Technologies" sponsored program, and other sponsored programs at the MLA annual conference in Philadelphia, May 2007.

Goal 3: Advocacy

Objective 1: Award the Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grants to two individuals. The grant recipients are selected using a competitive application and review process.
Objective 2: Contribute a donation of $3,000: $2,000 to the principal, and $1,000 specified as in memory of Jean Sayre, late Chair of this Section to the Donald A.B. Lindberg Research Fellowship Fund. This initial amount is for back payment of the budgeted funds from 3 previous years. MIS will continue to contribute $1000.00 annually until the fund is stable.
Objective 3: Post the names of the MLA Career Development Grant recipients and provide a description of the funded projects on the webpage.
Objective 4: Locate past-recipients not spotlighted on the webpage and update the webpage with the information.

Who, Expertise Needed:
Webmaster to update MLA Career Development Grant information; Secretary/Treasurer to distribute funds and write letter to the Lindberg fund.

Time Needed:
One month after award winner is posted on MLA webpage; 2 months after bank transfer of MIS account to MLA bank.

Resources Required:
Budgeted funds.

Product Outcome:
Funded projects that are relevant to Medical Informatics, updated webpage with award recipients' programs.

Evaluation:
Successful grant recipients.

Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge

Objective 1: Collaborate with other MLA sections and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to provide programs of interest to MIS members and other MLA members.
Objective 2: Provide up-to-date and archival MI section information on the webpage.

A. Form a web committee to review the MI Section's website and make recommendations to the board for additions/deletions to the website.

Who, Expertise Needed:
Janis Brown jbrown@usc.edu is the MIS Program Committee Chair 2006-2007. She and her committee recommend exceptional programming for MIS members. Nic Cecchino ncecchi1@jhmi.edu is the MIS Webmaster for 2006-2007. Web Committee to review the MIS webpage quarterly.

Time Needed:
annually.

Resources Required:
Product Outcome: Good attendance at the co-sponsored programs. Up-to-date website with useful information for MIS members.

Evaluation:
Attendance counts, website information is current and useful.

Goal 5: Building a Network of Partners

Objective 1: Sponsor a program of experts on "new technologies" or "revolutionary technologies" and invite them to talk at MLA.

Who, Expertise Needed:
Janis Brown jbrown@usc.edu is the MIS Program Committee Chair. She and her committee will locate Technology Experts for panel discussions.

Time Needed:
3months.

Resources Required:
Funds for technology experts.

Product Outcome:
Excellent revolutionary program at MLA 2007 in Philadelphia.

Evaluation:
Count number of attendees at invited speaker programin Philadelphia.

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