User:Laith Bustani/Ontario Medical Association Section on Hospitals Medicine

'The Ontario Medical Association Section on Hospitalist Medicine ...

Taxonomy
Organizational Type: Subsection of Non-Profit Corporation Parent Organization: Ontario Medical Association Relative Importance: Depends on how you measure it. Registered members = 4% of physicians providing inpatient care in Ontario. However, active efforts to represent all physicians affected by their recommendations/initiatives in accordance to the section's identified charter.

Current Membership
Date: June 30th 2011. Source: Personal Email Communication to direct inquiry re: membership stats between OMA staff and Laith Bustani. Membership Self-Identified Association With Section on Hospitalist Medicine. 177 primary and 322 secondary members

The section on Hospitalist Medicine, currently felt to be the most active advocate for physicians providing inpatient care across Ontario (~ 12,000 individuals based on best guesstimates from MOHLTC and OMA data) is charged with taking responsibility for extending the skills and knowledge derived from service by its individual physicians to their patients to work with the Ontario Medical Association and Ministry of Health and Long Term Care

Institutional Memory and Brain Trust
The following is a list of the past chairs of the section on Hospitalist Medicine Along With What They Feel Was Their Most Significant Contribution to the individuals they were responsible to:

Section Chairs

 * Bob Maloney, Chair up to 200?
 * Marcel Dore, Chair 2006 - 2008
 * Mira Bacco Shannon, Chair 2008
 * Kunuk Rhee, Chair 2008 - June 27th 2011
 * Laith Bustani, June 27th 2011 - Present.

Section Excutive

 * 2006:
 * 2007:
 * 2008: Annual AGM Attendance:  packed room
 * 2009: Annual AGM Attendance:  a few people
 * 2010: Annual AGM Attendance:  ?
 * 2011: Annual AGM Attendance:  Kunuk Rhee (roll outgoing chair), Bill Coke (roll vice-chair), Shariq Lhodi (secretary), Karen Slatkovsky (hospitalist, Guelph General Hospital),