Individual Committee Charges 2008

Status of Committees 2007-2008

Chapter 1 has created 20 committees in recent years although not all are active currently. In addition, the Nominating Committee, and the Board and Executive Committee regularly serve the Chapter membership and are chaired by the President of the Chapter. There are specific guidelines as to the composition and qualifications for membership, election guidelines, and duties of the Board and Executive and Nominating Committees. The guidelines for the 19 other committees are found in Article VIII, Section 3, of the Chapter By-Laws:

The Chapter shall have other committees as may from time to time be designated by resolution of the Board of Directors. All Fellows, (voting non-voting, resident fellow, or candidate) are eligible for committee membership. Committee chairpersons and members are appointed by the President. Additional committees shall act in an advisory capacity only to the Board, and shall be clearly titled "Advisory Committees". There can be advisory members that serve as liaisons to the President and Executive who are available as consultants when specific issues are raised. Many of those are listed here.

General Charges to Committees

The Executive Committee and the Board of Directors appreciate the dedication and hard work evidenced by all active committee members, and especially by the chairpersons of the 20 committees which help direct and reflect the goals for our chapter's activities. Active participation in committee activities strengthens both the sense of membership for the individual and for the chapter, by sharing perspectives and working together to advocate for pediatricians and for child health in Northern California.

(1) To actively participate in the chapter's Campaign Against Violence and to assist in providing education to the membership regarding the issue of Managed Care.

(2) To recruit one to two resident members on each committee to actively participate and provide liaison to the resident section and to their training programs.

(3) Each committee chair is to recommend to the President a minimum of one new committee member under the age of 40.

(4) Each committee chair is to hold at least one meeting per year and up to four meetings per year. (Committee chairs are reminded that subcommittee meetings on more pressing issues may be held with agreement of the President.)

(5) Each committee chair is to enforce the Board of Director's policy that in order to remain a committee member, each member must attend at least one meeting per year.

(6) Each committee chair to maintain liaison with the corresponding National Committee chair on an ongoing basis.

Advocacy

Charge: To work on legislative issues relating to child health at the local and state level.

Behavioral/Developmental Pediatrics Pediatrics and Children with Special Needs

Chairs: J. Lane Tanner, MD and Renee Wachtel, MD
Charge:
1) Continue participating in the annual Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics Day at UC5F.
2) Continue exploring appropriate definition of behavioral pediatric service categorization, including
developing a joint Subcommittee with select members of the Children with Disabilities Committee.
3) Continue to study and disseminate information to membership about treatment options for children with behavioral/emotional disorders.
4) Work with Injury & Poison Prevention, Youth, School Health and Child Abuse Committees on behavioral approaches to violence prevention.

Child Abuse and Domestic Violence

* Chairs: Kevin Coulter, MD and James Crawford, MD

Charge:
1) To monitor relevant regulations and make appropriate policy recommendations to the Board regarding abuse and neglect of children and youth and domestic violence.
2) To explore expansion of liaison efforts with other community child advocacy reource in order to more effectively decrease and prevent child violence.
3) To collaborate with other committees (including Injury Prevention) in educational efforts toward violence prevention.

CATCH

Chair: Aparna Kota, MD
Charge:
1) To have a rural pediatric workshop in conjunction with the Annual Spring Meeting to discuss relevant issues.
2) Consider proposing a continuing medical education meeting around topics related to rural pediatric practice.

Child Health Financing

Chair: Inactive
Charge:
1) Monitoring and developing legislation for financial child health care.
2) To develop an information resource regarding child health financing and to work closely with the District Managed Care Project.

Children with Disabilities

Chair: Felice Parisi, MD & Donald Mangravite, MD

Charge:
1) To identify means of more effective advocacy for children with disabilities and for pediatricians caring for these children within managed care settings.
2) To re-address quality of care standards in community residential facilities for children with disabilities.

Community Health

Chair: Aparna Kota, MD
Charge:
1) To monitor legislation and policy changes which may affect AFDC, CC5, Medi-Cal, and general access to health care for children.
2) To advocate for appropriate carve-outs and identify and publicize (via articles in chapter newsletter and California Pediatrician) model programs which advocate for appropriate qualityervice6 for children with special health care needs.
3)To collaborate with other committees (Injury Prevention, Youth, School Health, etc) in our Chapter campaign against violence.

Early Childhood Adoption and Dependent Care

Chair: Vacant
Charge:

Environmental Health

Chair: Brian Linde, MD and Mark Miller, MD
Charge:
1) Continue monitoring legislation and environmental regulations which may affect child health, including lead screening.
2) Support collaborative efforts to develop a regional center for environmental pediatrics.
3) Continue efforts to educate pediatricians and parents about environmental tobacco smoke, environmental hazards (e.g. alar, etc), and propose legislative regulations for manufacturers to ensure compliance with product minimum safety standards for children.
4) Schedule a joint meeting with the Bioethics committee to discuss topics of mutual concern.

Fetus and Newborn

* Chair: Arthur D'Harlingue, MD
Charge:
1) To describe the current debate on newborn early discharge for both the chapter newsletter and California Pediatrician, and to state recommendations to the Board re: any action needed on this issue.
2) To continue monitoring legislation and other policy issues relevant to fetal and neonatal health.
3) To advocate for the pediatrician involved in perinatal health care.

Infectious Disease

* Chair Dean Blumberg, MD 

Charge:
1) Publish articles on new vaccines for chapter newsletter and/or California Pediatrician, advising membership of relevant considerations in their use.
2) Continue review of tuberculosis skin test policy.
3) Continue to monitor legislation and regulations relevant to infectious diseases in children and advise Board of recommended action.

International Child Health & Health of Special Groups  

Chair: Deborah Miller, MD
Charge:
1) Promotion of child health care access for special groups.
2) Monitor impact of Prop. 187 and other legislation on health care access, and advise Board of any appropriate indicated action.
3) Explore developing brother/sister relationship with pediatricians in Mexico to address issues of mutual interest.

Medical Informatics

Mark M Simonian, MD

Nominating

Chair: George Monteverdi, MD
Charge: As described in Chapter 1 By-Laws.

Medical Education

Chair: Gena L. Lewis, MD
Charge:
1) To provide continuing medical education meetings for the Chapter membership.

Membership

Chair: Open position
Charge:

Newsletter

Co-editors Mika Hiramatsu, MD and Mark Simonian, MD

Obesity

Charge: To develop strategies for obesity prevention and management; to encourage healthy life style choices for families and children; to develop resources for obesity related issues.
Chair: Sophia Yen, MD

Public Relations

Chair: Lisa Asta
Charge:
1) Serve as a resource to the media and to our membership for pediatric issues.
2) To provide membership with recommendations and consider developing media skills workshop for members in conjunction with National AAP.
3) Distribute and regularly update Public Relations Handbook to Board and Committee Chairs. Make this handbook available for sale to the membership.

School Health

Chair: George Monteverdi, MD & Renee Wachtel, MD
Charge:
1) To promote more active participation of committee members who are currently school board members or actively involved with their local schools, and to encourage their contact with younger or resident members of the chapter.
2.) To collaborate with other appropriate committees (Youth, Injury Prevention, etc) in pursuing the Chapter's campaign against child violence.
3) To study issues relevant to school health and managed care and to publish considerations in chapter newsletter and/or California Pediatrician.
4) To have a joint meeting with the Youth Committee to discuss issues of mutual interest.

SGA

Chair: Shannon Udovic-Constant 
 

Charge: The Committee on Substance Abuse is concerned with the prevention, early recognition, and appropriate management of substance abuse by young people and initiates professional and public education in this area.

Vintage Docs

Chairs: Harvey Kaplan, MD and William Feaster, MD
Charge:

Young Physicians

Chairs: Dana Weintraub, MD and Christina Tanguay, MD
Charge:
1) To encourage residents and young physicians to become active, participating members of Chapter 1
2) To provide mentorship to younger pediatricians
3) To convene the annual Life After Residency program for PL3s in Northern California
4) To convene the AAP 102 program to introduce residents and new members to Academy activities and programs.
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Youth  

Chair: Tonya Chaffee, MD
Charge:
1) To continue to collaborate with other committees (Injury Prevention, School Health, Child Abuse, etc) in the campaign against child violence.
2) Schedule a joint meeting with School Health committee to discuss issues of mutual interest and define action items which invite combined effort.

The Constitution and By-Laws, Legislation, Membership and Newsletter committees have designated responsibilities that do not necessitate a separate charge.

Created December 12, 1996 Last Updated 04/14/08