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Minutes of the
Medical Education Foundation for Arkansas
Board of Directors Meeting
Alan K. Wilson, MD, President
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May 5, 2018
he Medical Education Foundation for Arkansas (MEFFA) Board of Directors met at 12:00 p.m., on Friday, May 5, 2018,
at DeGray Lake State Park. Members present were Drs. Alan Wilson, Amy Cahill, Jim Citty, Scott Cooper, James Graham, and
Chris Westfall. David Wroten and Penny Henderson, Arkansas Medical Society, also attended the meeting.
The following business was received and transacted:
1. Minutes of the May 5, 2017 meeting were approved.
2. The Board re-elected current officers for 2018-2019:

Alan Wilson, MD – President

Jim Citty, MD – Vice President

Steve Magie, MD – Secretary/Treasurer

3. The Board reviewed financial information and 2018 tax return.
4. Prior year contributions were reviewed.
5. The Board discussed funding requests for 2017-2018.  The Board approved the following requests from UAMS:
Total Amount of Grants for 2018: $46,138
$ 2,500.00 COM Curriculum – support for the annual Teach the Teacher Conference
$13,908.00 Surgical Visualization for Clinical Procedure Teaching Lab - equip the CPTL laboratory with steel
shelving, storage drawers, two ceiling-mounted surgical lamps, two ceiling-mounted cameras, a computer,
and two NextGen GE LOGiQe Ultrasound laptop machines with four probes.
$ 1,000.00 Geriatric Virtual Reality – expand the experiential portion of the week of Geriatrics topic in the M4 year
with virtual reality including dementia, delirium, hearing, and vision loss.
$ 7,980.00 Breast exam and needle biopsy simulator – to enable students to differentiate between normal and
abnormal breast examinations and different breast pathologies.
$ 8,000.00 Ultrafest – to provide medical students with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and knowledge of
Point of Care Ultrasound via a regional symposium held at UAMS.
$ 9,750.00 Food as Medicine – introduce medical students to the concept of Culinary Medicine through two didactic
lectures and a “hands on” three-hour cooking session where they will prepare a healthy meal at the
Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Institute of Arkansas.
AMS Distinguished Lecture Series – grants of $1,000 for each of the following speakers:
$ 3,000.00
• Larry Suva, PhD, College of Vet Medicine, Texas A&M (requested by the Department of Physiology)
• Angela Catic, MD, Baylor College of Medicine (requested by the Department of Geriatrics)
• Brenda Roman, MD, Boonshoft College of Medicine, Wright State University, (requested by the Department of Psychiatry)
$46,138.00
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned.
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