MEETING MINUTES

I. Call to Order, 7:15am by President Dr. Rich Howard

Present: Members: Bamberger, Bobb, Cameron, Fadell, Heithoff, Howard, Kelly, Tobias, Trzeciak, Zachary.

Guests Dr. Kit McCalla, Phoenix, AR

II. Approval Minutes 9/22/00, Boston Meeting: Approved

III. Secr. /Treas. Report

A. Finances, 10/1/01

1. Balance $7711.56

B. Membership Status

1. Roster 64 Members

2. Candidates 16

C. Resident Paper Awards

This year’s winners; SPONSOR: HAND BIOMECHANICS LAB, inc, manufacturer of the WRIST JACK

First Place $500.00

M. Sean O’Brien, D.O.

Hillcrest Health Center, OK

“Management of Severe Irreducible Fractures of the Distal Radius and Ulna in Children”

Second Place $300.00

Mario Sachetti, D.O.

Hanover, PA

“Tendon Interpositional Arthroplasty for the Painful Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint”

IV. Webmaster Report, Dr. Brent Bamberger WEB SITE: www.aoaohand.net

A. Website is currently down for unknown reasons. Dr. Bamberger is investigating.

B. Dr. Cameron offered the services of his brother-in-law for website development and maintenance. Dr. Cameron will contact Dr. Bamberger with more information and Dr. Bamberger will report back to the section.

V. Old Business

A. CAQ/ASSH Update

1. Certificates have been approved by the BOS and are in print. Members should expect them in the mail within next month or two.

B. Electronic Presentations on Disc

1. This year’s talks will be taped and audio will hopefully be merged with video.

2. A disc will be produced for each section member, available to all other AOAO members, AOAO training programs, students etc. Charge for non-section members to be determined based on production costs.

VI. New Business

A. Officer Criteria: By-Law Change

1. At last year’s meeting, Dr. John Martin made a motion, seconded by Dr. Bamberger to require passing the CAQ to be an officer of the hand section beginning the fall of 2002. This would require a By-Law change, and according to the By-Laws, this “amendment” was sent to the membership prior to this year’s meeting and voted on at that time.

After discussion, this amendment was voted down, and the selection criteria remain unchanged. Officer election remains open to the entire Section membership.

B. Guest Speaker Honorarium

1. Due to the special circumstances surrounding this year’s meeting with uncertain travel in the wake of terrorist actions in the US, as-well-as unfortunate timing of this year’s ACA Annual Meeting coinciding with the ASSH, the Section voted to give Dr. John Lubahn an additional $500.00 honorarium.

C. Scientific Paper and Poster Judging

1. Dr. Doug Bobb requested assistance from Hand Surgery Section members to help the AOAO judge scientific papers and posters. The 2^nd VP will assume this role and will be the contact person and available help the AOAO as necessary. He/she will recruit other members of the Section if needed.

D. Hand CAQ

1. The current CAQ Test Writing Committee members are Drs. Howard (Chairman), Bamberger, Cameron, Kelly and Tobias.

2. This committee will schedule a conference call ASAP to assign taxonomy coding to each test question as requested by the AOBOS.

3. The Section recommended the CAQ be offered by the AOBOS every other year. It was requested the schedule be established as far in advance as possible so candidates can plan accordingly. Therefore, if it were next given in 2002, then it would be offered every even year thereafter.

4. It was recommended information regarding this exam be posted on the Section’s website.

C. Officer Election. Dr. Mark Trzeciak was elected as third Vice President. He will be in charge of the 2004 meeting. Therefore, the current officers are:

President: James Kelly, D.O., Buffalo, NY

1st VP: Scott Fried, D.O., E. Norriton, PA

2nd VP: Stefan Zachary, D.O., Madison, WI

3^rd VP: Mark Trzeciak, D.O., Columbus, OH

Respectively Submitted,

Steven J. Heithoff, D.O.

Secr. /Treas. Hand Section, AOAO