Registration is open for the 171st Annual ISMA Convention, to be held virtually on Sunday, Sept. 13, beginning at 10 a.m. To help ensure that every county is represented with its maximum number of voting delegates, advance registration is required. Learn more and register for the virtual convention. More details of this year’s virtual convention and the online voting process will be shared as they become available.

Virtual district elections underway

Check your email for instructions on how to vote for your ISMA district officers! You will need this email to vote, as it contains a link to your  personal ballot. The link can only be used once and may not be forwarded to anyone or used by anyone else. Voting will remain open until Aug. 27 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time, and results will be published online or distributed via email after the voting period ends.

County delegates still needed

Several counties still need delegates to represent them in voting at this year’s convention. If you would like to volunteer, email Vicki Riley.  
District 1: Pike, Posey, Spencer
District 2: Daviess/Martin, Greene
District 3: Washington
District 5: Clay
District 7: Morgan
District 8: Jay
District 9: Benton, Fountain/Warren, Tipton
District 11: Carroll
District 12: Adams, Wells, Whitley
District 13: Fulton

Resolutions set to expire

The ISMA Board of Trustees decided that the 2020 House of Delegates (HOD) will conduct essential business only and will not consider new resolutions. During its virtual meeting, the HOD will entertain a motion to suspend the rules that require resolutions adopted in 2010 to expire if not readopted in 2020. The text of these expiring resolutions is online here. While some of these policies are obsolete or have achieved their purpose, they have been evaluated and will not impede or obstruct ISMA’s work over the next year until final action can be taken by the 2021 House of Delegates.

2019 resolution actions published

A list of actions taken in response to resolutions adopted by the 2019 House of Delegates is now available here. 

AMA president to address HOD

Susan R. Bailey, MD, president of the AMA, will address the 2020 House of Delegates in pre-recorded remarks. Dr. Bailey, an allergist/immunologist in private practice from Fort Worth, Texas, was elected president of the American Medical Association in June 2020. Previously, she served as president-elect of the AMA for one year, speaker of the AMA House of Delegates for four years and as vice speaker for four years.

Dr. Bailey served as chair of the AMA Medical Student Section, the Advisory Panel on Women in Medicine and the AMA Council on Medical Education. She also represented the AMA on the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the American Board of Medical Specialties and COLA.

She received her medical degree with honors from the Texas A&M University College of Medicine and completed her residency in general pediatrics and a fellowship in allergy/immunology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn.