Submitted by Bart Green, DC, MSEd

Position: Chiropractic Health Care Section Awards Committee Chair

The Section Awards Committee had a busy start to the year and would like to update you on our activities. The Awards Committee is comprised of the CHC Section chair (Bart Green), the Section Chair (Paul Dougherty), the Section Chair-Elect (Lori Byrd), and a member at large (Rand Baird). Our first accomplishment was creating a running list of all previous Section award recipients, going back to 1993 when chiropractic members were part of the Radiological Health Section. We thank the Section members who helped us with this task. This list is important because it helps Section members nominate colleagues for the appropriate Section award without unnecessarily duplicating such an award. The list of previous recipients is now included in the call for nominations for Section awards.

We have also updated the awards nomination form, to make it easier for Section members to nominate colleagues for an award and distributed the nominations form very early through the Section newsletter, giving the Section’s membership ample time to bring forth nominations. Nominations for awards are due by August 15, 2011.

In addition to selecting the award recipients, one final piece of business for 2011 will be to change the date for nominations for awards. For some reason, the CHC Section’s deadline for nominations is the 15^th of August, while most of the other sections use a date in May as their deadline. There is a good reason to have a date in May as the deadline, which is that May 31 is the last day for award recipients’ names to be submitted to the APHA office for inclusion in The Nation’s Health. CHC has missed this opportunity for 16 years, which is unfortunate. We will be submitting a request to change the date in the Section manual to May 1 so that starting in 2012 the names and photographs of our Section award winners will be published in The Nation’s Health with the other sections.

The Awards Committee could use the energy of one or two new members. The committee is fun and has a great purpose, which is to recognize out industrious Section members. If you have been looking for a way to become more involved in the Section, please consider the Awards Committee. Interested members may contact Awards Committee Chair Bart Green, at bngreen@aol.com.