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It is so important to maintain a certain level of activity within our professional organizations. There has been a tendency over the last number of years to attend meetings on specific topics usually hosted by special interest groups. The net result is that the attendance and the content of our regional, national and international PERFUSION meetings has suffered and the networking required to build a strong profession has diminished. I would like to thank Maggie and others who have commented on the OSCP site regularly. Although not quite as good, we can have virtual meetings on line to discuss issues that will affect us all.

I recently completed a health law certificate and during this program I heard that the provincial government is trying to sort out what to do with all the small marginal groups that are not yet covered by the regulated health professions act. We need to be a strong group with 100% Ontario membership if we are to represent Perfusionists effectively when these disussions come up. In addition we need to support our national society and our educational institutions.

The executives of our societies need to know that you care. They have plenty of busy work to do but can always be influenced to spearhead a popular issue if the mebership so desires.

Please send in your dues to Lynn Lean for OSCP and to the National office for the CSCP. Please let your executive teams know what is on your mind. We cannot afford to be coamplacent. In addition please contact Fiona Cherryman to volunteer your time to teach at the Michener.

Professional status comes with certain obligations. I sense that we could all use a renewed effort to raise awareness about who Perfusionists are and what it is we do.

David

Please call Mike Aubin and/or Karim Bandali to provide your services to teach in the lab. This is an urgent request. Thanks

SPRING MEETING 2009 OF THE NYSSP AND OSCP

May 1 - 3, 2009

The Spring meeting of the New York State Society of Perfusionists (NYSSP) and the Ontario Society of Clinical Perfusion (OSCP) will take place in Niagara Falls, Ontario from May 1 - 3, 2009..

Venue:

Embassy Suites by Hilton Falls View (view of Horseshoe Falls) Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

www.embassysuitesniagara.com

Tentative Program:

Microplegia, Re-Perfusion Injury, Adult Congenital Surgery, Effects of Cerebral Monitoring on Blood Gas Management, TEE Interpretation and Application, New Technologies.

Workshops and Abstract Presentations please contact:

Ruby Bahk: 516-466-2994

e-mail : Ruby Bahk rbahk@nshs.edu

School of Cardiovascular Perfusion

Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

North Shore University Hospital

225 Community Drive,

South Entrance

Great Neck, NY 11021

Each year at the OSCP meeting there is a lot of discussion revolving around communication. Invariably the potential of the web site is cited as a solution to many of the problems. Unfortunately the individuals who could post content here do not. We probably need to do an analysis of the reasons this site is not used more routinely by the membership. The Quebec association has a private to members section and a public section. I think that we should take this route so that we can increase our public profile on the web and still have profession specific discussions and resources available to the membership alone.

There is some renewed interst in professional development that everyone should participate in. Do you think we should add every mebers e mail address to our list? let'shear form the executive on this one.

Do you think that we should enter the entire e mail list of OSCP members for this site or should it continue to be a voluntary sign up?

The recent international consortium meeting in Montreal was a great success. There were several excellent presentations by perfusionists, surgeons, anesthetists, IT specialists and others from Canada.The CSCP is a supporting member of this group that has as its objective developing evidence based guidelines, promoting the integration of these guidelines into practice, identifying gaps in the literature, encouraging research and evaluating improvementss related to adoption of these guidelines.The web site is www.icebp.org