MEDICAL INFORMATICS SECTION
2007-2008 Mid-Year Report

Goal 1: Recruitment, Membership and Leadership in the Profession
Kathy Kerdolff, past-chair, worked with the MIS Nominating Committee, to identify two candidates for the chair position. Elections will be held through SurveyMonkey beginning in mid-January. Eileen Stanley was selected by the MIS board as the section candidate for the MLA Nominating Committee. In an effort to improve awareness of the section, MIS plans to participate in the Section Shuffle event at the MLA conference and has contributed $200 towards the event. Janis Brown, chair, solicited volunteers in August to assist with various section tasks and received eight responses. The section also plans to conduct a member survey in late January using Survey Monkey to determine member preferences in order to respond better to member needs. Bette Sydelko, secretary-treasurer, has been working with Ray Naegele, to develop a new model for section banking and reporting to alleviate the problem of transferring the bank account with each change of secretary-treasurer.

Goal 2: Life Long Learning
For the annual meeting, Laura Barrett, chair-elect, has arranged two sessions. MIS is sponsoring a second year of Top Technology Trends with an expanded and slightly revised panel of experts. This year's panel session is co-sponsored with Educational Media & Technology Section. In a related effort, Eric Schnell created a Facebook group for MLA Technology Trends <http://usc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2464357736> to discuss new trends. (The group currently has 108 members.) In addition, the section is the lead sponsor of a contributed paper session on Technologies in Teaching. From nine abstracts submitted, four were accepted. The August call for volunteers identified three members who reviewed the paper submissions.

MIS is interested in utilizing social networking tools. Catherine Marlow chaired a newly created task force on social networking to determine ways that the tools can be used by the section. The MIS survey will ask members to indicate their interest in using some of the tools.

Goal 3: Advocacy
The responsibility for publicizing the Medical Informatics Section/MLA Career Development Grant is the responsibility of the MLA committee. However, Janis Brown, MIS chair, forwarded the message from MLA about the grant to MIS members and sent out a reminder prior to the deadline to help generate more applicants.

Goal 4: Creating and Communicating our Knowledge
Nic Cecchino, MIS web master, revised the MIS web site transferring the site into PHP to make changes and updates easier to accomplish in the future. Kathy Kerdolff and Marcia Henry are working on updating the section history using a Google doc as a means of collaborating.

MOTION
This report is informational and requires no action by the Board of directors.

Respectfully submitted,
Janis Brown, Chair, Medical Informatics Section

Officers & Committee Personnel, 2007-2008
Marie Ascher Bylaws Chair (06/06 - 05/08)
Laura Barrett Chair-elect/Program Chair (06/07 - 05/08)
Nic Cecchino Webmaster (12/03 - 05/08)
Sadie Honey Membership Committee Chair (06/06 - 05/08)
Kathy Kerdolff Immediate Past Chair/Nominating Committee Chair (06/07 - 05/08)
Susan Lessick Section Council Representative (06/05 - 05/08)
Catherine Marlow Social Networking Task Force Chair (09/07 - 01/08)
Brenda Seago Government Relations Liaison (06/04 - 05/08)
Bette Sydelko Secretary/Treasurer (06/07 - 05/09)
Lisa Traditi Professional Development Liaison/CE Committee Chair (06/04 - 05/08)
Elizabeth Whipple Section Council Representative-Elect (06/07 - 05/08)
Janis Brown MIS Section Chair (06/07 - 05/08)

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