Dear AHI Member,

We would like to share with you the highlights from the June board meeting and results from the survey. The minutes are available to members at the website A4HI.org

June Highlights:

• Board is set to vote on an AHI Leadership Award for Advancing the Scholarship of Health Care Improvement.
• Education Committee will promote and advertise the AHI Duncan Neuhauser Curricular Innovation Award. We request that the Board help spread the news.
• Boel Andersson-Gare and Johan Thor propose an AHI Node in conjunction with the Swedish Jonkoping Academy for Improvement graduate degree in Leadership and Improvement in Health and Social Welfare. The affiliation would promote AHI membership, networking and collaboration, scientific symposiums in healthcare improvement, and bilateral exchange of scholars.
• New AHI officers are Shirley Moore, President (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA), Mark Splaine, President-Elect (Dartmouth University Medical Center, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA), Peter Buerhaus, Secretary-Treasurer (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee USA), and Peter Wilcock, Secretary-Treasurer Elect (Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Salisbury, England)

WWW, Social Networking Help Needed

The Web Committee remains in need of volunteers who take an interest in either the technical or content development of the AHI web site. This is an important way to become involved. If you are interested in serving as a member of the Web Committee, please contact Suzanne Bateman at suzanne.bateman@vanderbilt.edu

ACADEMY HEALTH Meeting June 27-June 30

Quality Interest Group: Saturday June 27 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM at the Marquette Room, Hilton Chicago Hotel.

• If you are attending the AH meeting, let's gather at the Quality Interest Group. It will be a chance for us to interact and to explore how the two Academies can relate in the future. Saturday
• Keynote speaker is Carolyn Clancy MD, Director of AHRQ
• No fee but registration required, see web or Mail/Fax. Fax to 202-292-6800 or mail to AcademyHealth, 1150 17th Street NW, Suite 600, Washington DC 20036
• Advisor Committee includes Gerald Arnold PhD MPH, James Burgess PhD, Cheryl Damberg PhD, Susan Felt-Lisk, Rita Mangione-Smith MD MPH, and Myles Maxfield PhD.

Cheers,

Ted Speroff, Ph.D.
Center for Health Services Research
GRECC/HSR 4th Floor
VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System
1310 24th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37212