Dear NEMSC Members,
It my great honor to assume the Presidential reigns of our organization from my good friend and fellow Master, Chuck McQuade. My heartfelt thanks to him for all of the hard work he has performed while Secretary, Vice President and President of our Study Club. His work with the day to day responsibilities of the Club, locating and hiring speakers, gathering together the archives, and most recently many hours of work completing our AGD PACE application is greatly appreciated. Thank you Chuck!
Thanks to our Treasurer, Webmaster and Past-President Roger Oppenheimer who has worked tirelessly to obtain non-profit status for our Club and who constantly works behind the scenes to maintain and record our finances, member lists and of course our website. Our club continues to remain in good financial shape, which is one reason why our course tuition can be maintained way below the usual for courses of the quality we offer our members.
We welcome our new Secretary Frank D’Auria, who is well on the way to making the Secretary’s job look easy. Way to go Frank! Thanks to our Vice President Steve Root, for his assistance in the past as Secretary, and with his help with program coordination and design. I look forward to working with him as my “right hand”.
Many thanks to those of you that help with venue and speaker arrangements, in particular our Past-President Pete McKeever, who seemed to be involved in some way with just about every program we’ve put on for the last few years. Thanks also to Rich Rapoport, Dan Steinke, Ned Bitsack and Steve Esposito for their current and past work on programs and venue arrangements. I encourage all of you to take a more active role in the club — we need your help.
At our last meeting in Farmington, CT, we welcomed new members Brad Heim and Phil Eng to the Club. We wish them a long and intellectually prosperous tenure as members. We say farewell to those members who leave us because of retirement, and recognize for our club to thrive we must work harder to recruit new members to add to our ranks. One of my goals as President will be to recruit members from the new Mastertracks. We have already contacted the Presidents of current Mastertracks and plan to distribute brochures and meet with them to introduce our Study Club. I urge you all to recruit your fellow Track members and any other Fellows or Masters you know to come to our meetings, and join us as members.
Another goal is to be more responsive to your C.E. needs and suggestions through regular member surveys, which will shortly be available online. I encourage you to not only fill out these surveys but to contact me or any officer directly with your needs and suggestions.
Of course my most important goal will be to continue to provide you with the lowest cost/highest quality continuing education available. Our programming for the next 2 years promises to be superb. Our upcoming program March 16-18 in Montreal, will focus on Radiology with Dr. William C. Scarfe. Dr. Scarfe’s discussion will include state of the art interactive software sessions for caries diagnosis and MRI/CBCT interpretation, as well as a show case of the latest and greatest equipment. The Fall 2012 program will take place at UConn with Dr. Tom Taylor discussing the latest advances in Removable Prosthodontics, especially as related to implants. The Spring 2013 program in Biddeford Maine will focus on Anatomy, Dissection and TMD with Dr. Henry Gremillion. We have other exciting programs in the works, which we’ll inform you about in the coming months. As you can see, we are chock full of fantastic learning opportunities for our members! I promise our courses will continue to be cutting edge, of the highest quality and dollar for dollar your best value anywhere.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as your President. I look forward to hearing from all of you and hope to see you in Montreal!
Marc,
Marc B. Gainor, DMD, FACD, MAGD
President, NEMSC
