Volume X, ISSUE 2, 2018
Expanding Our International Footprint
One of my goals as President of ACOMS has been to expand membership opportunities
to engage colleagues from around the world in education, training, and fellowship.
Towards that end, ACOMS has embarked on the following initiatives:
1) Held a joint meeting with the Canadian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
(CAOMS) in 2017 in Vancouver, BC.
2) Became an educational sponsor in the upcoming 24 th Congress of the European
Association for Cranio Maxillo Facial Surgery (EACMFS)
3) Joined the Global Alliance for Surgical,
Obstetric, Trauma, and Anaesthesia Care
(The G4 Alliance), an international
consortium dedicated to building political priority for surgery in the
developing world
4) Began planning a joint meeting with La Asociación Latinoamericana
de Cirugía y Traumatología Bucomaxilofacial (ALACIBU) for 2020
As a society of surgeons, our health and relevance are only as strong
as our national and international presence. We live in a connected
world, in which clinicians and scientists can interact and exchange
ideas more easily than ever before. For us to remain insular is not
only a lost opportunity, but is also irresponsible to our membership.
Anyone who had the pleasure of attending the ACOMS and CAOMS
Joint Annual Conference in Vancouver, BC last year will attest to the
fact that our professional and personal lives are significantly
enriched through international exchange of ideas and culture.
Perhaps no professional society has been a greater enigma to North
American OMS than the EACMFS. To my knowledge, there has never
been a joint meeting between an American OMS society and
EACMFS. As a whole, they have had more in common with the
American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons (a plastic surgery-based
society) than they have had with our own OMS societies. I hope to
change that.
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IN THIS ISSUE
Welcome 2018 Board of Regents
Dr. Appugounder Awarded Elaine
A. Stuebner Scholarship
Ensuring HIPAA Compliance in
Text Messaging sponsored by MedPro
Annual Winter Meeting Recap
Upcoming Educational Courses