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From
Your Chapter President
It is a real pleasure to serve as your new President
of the New York State Chapter and Governor for the
Upstate New York region. Andrew VanTosh is the new Downstate Governor and will serve as President
of The New York Cardiological Society,
our educational affiliate. Our
gubernatorial terms run for three years,
but we shall exchange the Chapter presidency and the New York
Cardiological Society roles at the halfway
point.
New York
has two governors who represent approximately 3000
members at the national level. We appreciate the opportunity to serve
in these roles and hope to accomplish a great deal of good for our members
and patients in the coming years.
I would like to give a special thanks to
Paul
Kligfield
and Harry C.
Odabashian,
Jr., the outgoing
leaders. Under their direction we have been well-represented
nationally and the quality of the regional educational programs has
continued at its high level. We have remained a financially stable organization
and are committed to keeping our state chapter dues
unchanged, particularly during this time of economic
uncertainty. We plan to continue and build upon
their efforts at disseminating job opportunity information to graduating
fellows, encouraging them to remain in
New
York
State. We plan to engage trainees in
educational activities and you will see increased fellow presentations at
the annual educational meeting at the New
York Athletic Club in October. It will be a great
event,
well worth attending. As
always, we thank
Nancy
Weiner,
our executive
director, for all of
her dedication and effort in making the organization work
smoothly.
We also plan to continue to reach out to Affiliates
and provide key educational opportunities within all areas of the state
for their educational growth. I would also like to try to move the
Annual Meeting to Albany in
2010, perhaps with a legislative and/or
public health focus, along with an
opportunity to visit Empire
State
Plaza and the truly impressive
New York
State
Museum. I am open to
suggestions for speakers! Endowed
lectureships, such as the Berger Lecture
and the New York Cardiac Center Lecture,
will remain outside of New York
City thus distributing some of our educational
activities throughout the state.
Finally,
the incoming national
president,
Dr. Alfred
Bove, has
identified 2009 as the ACC "Year of the Patient" and we join him in
this focus. We must be firmly committed that all New Yorkers receive
all the cardiovascular care that they need. Are any of your patients part of the
64% of patients with inadequately treated blood pressure? Are everybody's lipids at goal
level?
Are patients with heart failure receiving the
state-of-the art treatments described in the new ACC/AHA Guidelines
released on
March
26,
2009
? Similarly,
are life-saving therapies such as
ICD's, cardiac transplant and destination
VADs being offered to all eligible candidates in all parts of the
State?
We have a lot
to do and it will be an exciting time for the
NY ACC.
I welcome your comments and
suggestions at John_Bisognano@urmc.rochester.edu.
John
Bisognano, MD, PhD,
FACC
Second Annual Cardiac Care Associate
Symposium
June
5,
2009
The Second Annual Cardiac Care Associate Symposium presented by The New York
Cardiological Society and the New York State Chapter of the
American
College
of Cardiology, will be held on
Friday,
June 5,
2009 at the New York
Athletic Club in
New York City. This unique academic event
is designed to enhance current knowledge about the etiology,
prevention, intervention and management of cardiovascular
disease. Presentations will provide Cardiac Care Associates with
evidence-based approaches to the treatment and care of the cardiac patient
as well as provide information regarding current and new
cutting edge technologies. The target audience includes nurse practitioners,
physician assistants,
nurses, technologists as well as
physicians and all members of the cardiac care team.
The full day meeting will include
lectures, case studies and Q & A.
Click on the following
link to view
the full Program
Brochure
Please encourage your colleagues and all members of the cardiac
care team to attend. For further
information, please contact the New York
State Chapter at 212.686.0228 or email nweiner@nycms.org.
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Meet Your New
Presidents
JOHN D.
BISOGNANO,
MD,
PhD,
FACC
President,
New York
State
Chapter,
American
College of
Cardiology
Upstate
Governor,
American
College of
Cardiology
John D. Bisognano has been
a New
York
State cardiologist since
he joined the staff at the University of Rochester Medical Center in
2001. He is a graduate of SUNY –Syracuse College of Medicine and
received post-graduate training at the
University of
Michigan and the
University of
Colorado. He has been
involved in clinic-based and hospital-based practices at
Rochester’s
Strong
Memorial
Hospital and is now
Director of Outpatient Cardiology Services at
University of
Rochester,
where he also is very involved in medical
student,
resident, and fellow teaching.
His clinical interests include refractory
hypertension,
heart
failure, preventive cardiology and cardiac
rehabilitation and he has been actively involved in research in
those areas. He has served as NYACC Councilor for four years and has
worked on the annual Berger Lectureship as well as on numerous other projects. Dr.
Bisognano is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and
Cardiology, and is also a designated
specialist in Hypertension by the American Society of
Hypertension.
ANDREW
VANTOSH,
MD,
FACC
President,
The New
York Cardiological
Society,
Inc.
Downstate
Governor,
American
College of
Cardiology
Andrew M. VanTosh trained in
cardiology at Johns Hopkins and
Yale
University,
and has been a practicing cardiologist in New York for over 20 years. He is board
certified in medicine,
cardiology, and nuclear
cardiology. He is
currently Director of Nuclear Cardiology at
St.
Francis
Hospital,
Roslyn,
New York, and a faculty member
at S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook. Dr. Van Tosh has been active
in the New York State ACC Chapter for a decade, having served
two terms as a councilor
and as Chapter treasurer. He currently heads the Imaging Sub-committee, in which role he
has worked closely with local insurers to help set and modernize
guidelines for noninvasive imaging. Dr. Van Tosh is also
a state chapter representative to the Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee, which sets CMS
policy for healthcare issues in NY. On a local level, Dr.
Van Tosh has helped provide cardiology outreach to underserved areas, serving as cardiologist at
Betances
Health
Center, on
the lower East Side of Manhattan. On the national level,
he is a member of the ACC Advocacy Committee,
and represents NY at the ACC Legislative Conference, in which ACC representatives
meet with members of Congress to help frame healthcare policy.
Membership Approves
2009 Slate of Candidates
The membership of the New York State
Chapter has unanimously voted to approve the 2009 Slate of
Candidates as presented by the Committee on Nominations. The
following is a list of the newly elected and re-elected councilors
and secretary-treasurer:
District
1 - Bronx,
Kings, New
York,
Queens and
Richmond counties
Mark H.
Goldberger, MD, FACC,
Manhattan
District
2 - Nassau and
Suffolk counties
Srihari S.
Naidu,
MD,
FACC,
Mineola (second
term)
Sanjay
Doddamani, MD,
FASE,
FACC,
Manhasset
District
3 - Dutchess,
Orange,
Putnam,
Rockland,
Sullivan,
Ulster
and Westchester
counties
Robert
N. Belkin
,
MD,
FACC,
Hawthorne
(second term)
Ronald Preston, MD, FACC, White Plains
(second term)
District
4 -
Albany,
Clinton,
Columbia,
Delaware,
Essex, Franklin,
F
FFulton,
Greene,
Hamilton,
Montgomery,
Otsego,
Rensselaer,
Saratoga,
Schenectady,
Schoharie, Warren
and Washington
counties
Bruce E. Coplin,
MD,
FACC,
Albany
District 5 - Broome,
Cayuga,
Chenango,
Cortland,
Herkimer,
Jefferson,
Lewis,
Madison,
Oneida,
Onondaga,
Oswego,
St. Lawrence and Tompkins counties
Jorge
Davidenko,
MD,
FACC,
Syracuse
District
6 -
Chemung,
Livingston,
Monroe,
Ontario,
Schuyler,
Seneca,
Steuben,
Tioga,
Wayne
and Yates counties
Maurice E.
Varon,
MD,
FACC,
Rochester
(second term)
District
7
-
Allegany,
Cattaraugus,
Chautauqua,
Erie,
Genesee,
Niagara,
Orleans
and
Wyoming
counties
Andrew J.
Luisi,
MD,
Buffalo (second term)
Secretary-Treasurer
James T.
Mazzara,
MD,
FACC,
Manhattan
(second
term)
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Mark Your
Calendar
2009 Annual
Meeting
The 81st Annual Scientific Session of
The New York Cardiological Society and the 19th Annual
Meeting of the New York State
Chapter,
American
College of
Cardiology, Cardiology
2009: The Practice and Science
of Quality Care
, will
be held on
Saturday, October
3,
2009 at the New York
Athletic Club in New York
City. Among the topics to be discussed are Political
Advocacy, Electronic Medical Records and Payor
Advocacy and Appropriate Use Criteria. Once again this year the
program will include presentations by New York State Fellows in
Cardiology. The target audience includes members of the New York
State Chapter of the American College of
Cardiology, other practicing
physicians, cardiology
fellows-in-training,
nurses, nurse
practitioners, physician
assistants, cardiovascular
technicians and medical
students.
The summer edition of The
Cardiologist will include a complete program schedule in addition to
a registration form. A program brochure will be mailed to all members
during the summer. For further information, please contact the New
York State Chapter office at 212.686.0220.
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Member
Correspondence
Spam
Alert
Increasingly New York State Chapter
membership correspondence is being sent via email. We have been
advised that a significant number of New York State Chapter emails
are not being recognized and end up in spam folders.
Please adjust your spam filters and/or
speak with your IT person in order to permit correspondence from the
following email address: nweiner@nycms.org
This sender address will be used for
all mass New York State Chapter correspondence.
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New
York
State
Budget
Adopted
The New State
Legislature passed a $131.8 billion budget that includes important
provisions on both the expenditure and revenue sides to address an
unprecedented $17.7 billion revenue
gap. Importantly, the budget continues a multi-year focus
advanced by Governor Paterson to “rationalize the State’s Medicaid
reimbursement system, and provide increased investment in primary
and preventive care.” These investments include $68 million to
enhance reimbursement for primary and preventive care under the
State Medicaid program. Including the Medicaid physician
reimbursement enhancements appropriated in the 2008-09 State
Budget, the new monies will total $188 million in
enhanced fees for physicians and other primary care
providers.”
Of significant
note to physicians, is the fact that the proposed $400
increase in physician biennial registration fee was NOT
included in the budget
for FY 2009-2010. Additionally a proposal that would have eliminated
the “prescriber prevails” exception to the Medicaid
Clinical Drug Review
Program and
legislation that would have expanded the Preferred Drug List to
include anti-depressants were rejected. The final budget also did
not include language that had been proposed in the Executive Budget
that would have prohibited gifts in excess of $50 from
pharmaceutical and device manufacturers to physicians; enacted
mandatory reporting requirements, established penalties for failure to comply
and created a state reporting program for continuing medical
education. The budget appropriates $110M for health information
technology including: $25.7M for HIT construction and equipment
funded by the American recovery and reinvestment act of
2009, $34M for federal grants for the office of
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and $50M for
federal grants for state electronic records revolving loan
program.
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Salt Initiative
The New York State Chapter has partnered with
the New York City Department of Health and other public health
organizations in working toward the goal of reducing population salt
intake by at least 20% during the next five years. Under the plan
proposed by Dr. Thomas R. Frieden,
Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene, targets will be set for
certain food categories. Although Dr. Frieden has jurisdiction over
only New York
City, he is
presenting the plan as a “national salt-reduction initiative” that
includes support from a half-dozen other health departments around
the country and national and regional medical organizations.
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Upcoming Meetings
17th
ANNUAL
DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF CARDIAC
ARRHYTHMIAS
Saturday, May
2, 2009
The Princeton/Columbia Club of
New
York
New York City
SECOND ANNUAL CARDIAC CARE ASSOCIATE SYMPOSIUM
Friday, June
5, 2009
New York Athletic Club
New York City
81st ANNUAL
SCIENTIFIC SESSION
THE
NEW
YORK CARDIOLOGICAL
SOCIETY
19TH ANNUAL
MEETING
NEW
YORK STATE CHAPTER,
ACC
CARDIOLOGY
2009: THE PRACTICE AND SCIENCE
OF
QUALITY CARE
Saturday, October 3, 2009
New
York
Athletic
Club
New York
City
13th ANNUAL
NEW
YORK CARDIAC CENTER
LECTURE
CARDIAC RISKS OF NON-CARDIAC SURGERY
Lee Goldman,
MD, MPH
SUNY-HSC Stony Brook
Tuesday , October
27 , 2009
Up-to-date meeting information appears on the
New
York State Chapter website www.ny-acc.org |
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