Health and Wellness Committee

Description

Develop and disseminate strategies, content and resources for promotion of preventive medicine, healthy lifestyle/wellness and best care practices among both professionals and patients. Incorporate all member/patient constituency groups (Women, Minority, LGBTQI, Medically Underserved) in these resources and related activities. 

Charge

1. Identify opportunities to promote the importance of health and wellness for members and their patients and to engage members in health & wellness initiatives.
2. Develop content (blogs, videos, podcasts, webinars, CME programming, etc.) on health & wellness topics of interest to ACOFP members.
3. Recommend health and fitness activities/events for Annual Convention.
4. Administer Namey/Burnett Award and vote on submissions.
5. Develop and submit at least two PEHs related to health & wellness topics of interest to ACOFP members for OFP publication consideration over the course of the year.
6. Create a blog post or series to provide education and awareness about the importance of sharing pronouns and how to do so to create an inclusive environment. (DEI rec.#8)

Commitment

Meets at Annual Convention and OMED plus 2-3 conference calls per year. These conference calls may be divided amongst the committee to specifically discuss items that pertain to a constituency group or designated project . Up to 2 hours reviewing submissions for the Namey/Burnett Preventive Medicine Writing Award. 

Chair

Kathleen R. Strunk, DO

Vice-Chair

Bernadette A. Riley, DO, FACOFP

Staff Liaison

Emily Stephens

Committee Members

Medina Culver, DO, Member
Gretchen Goltz, DO, Member
Jennifer L. Gwilym, DO, FACOFP, Member
Kathy Henley, DO, Member
Jennifer Sue Johnson, DO, MBA, FACOFP, Member
Alexander Kowalski, DO, Member
Patrick Leary, DO, FACOFP, FAOASM, Member
Alicia A. Martin, DO, Member
Roberteen McCray, DO, Member
Natalie Nevins, DO, MSHPE, FACOFP, Member
Merideth Norris, DO, FACOFP, Member
Carol Penn, DO, MA, ABOM, FACOFP, Member
Samantha Plasner, DO, Member
Rebeccah Rodriguez-Regner, DO, FACOFP, Member
Kerry M. Scott, DO, MBA, FACOFP, Member
Ronald W. Torrance, II, DO, FACOFP, Member
Nalini Velayudhan, DO, Member
Peter Bidey, DO, MSEd, FACOFP, Board Liaison