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Ernest Bove, MD NEAUA President |
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Ernest Bove, MD NEAUA President |
The New England Section, in partnership with the AUA, will fund the trip of four residents, fellows and/or young urologists* to attend the 2021 Advocacy Summit in Washington, DC. The Section recognizes that engagement of young urologists in urologic advocacy is important to the specialty - please prepare your best work for submission!
To apply for this funded trip, please complete an online application including submission of an essay. Essays should be a maximum of 750 words and address one of the following topics:
All Health Policy Competition applications and essays are due January 1, 2021.
*Young urologists are considered those 10 years or less out of residency, or 13 years or less out of fellowship continuous after residency graduation.
Authors are also encouraged to submit their Health Policy essays to Urology Practice for publication consideration. Note that any essays submitted to the journal will need to be submitted in the format followed by Urology Practice, including article length and appropriate citation of references. Winners of the Section Essay Competition should disclose this information accordingly if submitting to the journal.
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The NEAUA 2020 Virtual Experience offers select sessions planned for 2020 including panels, symposia, and abstract presentations for a total of 15.75 AMA PRA Category 1 credits. Registrants have access to the virtual system until August 2021, so you can consume the material and receive your credits at your own pace. Register and start earning credits on the NEAUA website.
The virtual experience would not be possible without the generous support of NEAUA industry partners, which include Astellas/Pfizer, Exact Sciences, and Janssen at the platinum level, and Abbvie, Allergan, AUA, Blue Earth Diagnostics, Coloplast, Myriad Genetics, Retrophin, and UroGen at the bronze level. We encourage all members and attendees to visit our industry partners in the digital marketplace to learn more.
The New England Section is excited to be planning its next live, face to face meeting for urologists within New England! Please mark your calendar and save the date for the NEAUA 2021 Annual Meeting in Burlington, Vermont, and encourage your colleagues, trainees, and advanced providers to attend as well. meeting.neaua.org
By Kevin R. Loughlin MD, MBA, Harvard Medical School
One of the many advantages of living in New England are our traditions. Whether enjoying our extensive coastline during the summer or our beautiful mountains in the winter, the natural beauty of New England is breathtaking. More
A virtual lecture series was developed by Urology Program Directors in Massachusetts to facilitate ongoing education during the height COVID-19 crisis in early 2020. New England Section members have graciously volunteered their time and expertise to provide talks on a variety of urology based topics. The virtual lecture series is now open to the full New England Section community and will also be recorded for replay. See upcoming lectures scheduled through January 2021. An online library of past lectures is available to NEAUA members.
Congratulations to NEAUA members who have recently joined the section or who have converted to associate or active member status!
New Active Members of NEAUA Michael Alavian, East Greenwich, RI Michael Grant, Boston, MA Kai Hammerich, Burlington, MA Steven Kardos, New Haven, CT Gerard Pregenzer, Hartford, CT Timothy Tran, Providence, RI Joseph Yared, Lebanon, NH Michael Zavaski, Brookline, MA | New Associate Members of NEAUA Ramy Abou Ghayda, Boston, MA Gabriella Avellino, Boston, MA Gabriel Belanger, South Portland, ME Sanchita Bose, Boston, MA Jonathan Brajtbord, North Easton, MA Madeline Cancian, Providence, RI Alper Cesmebasi, Boston, MA Atip Chatsudthipong, Providence, RI Katherine Cotter, Worcester, MA Zita Ficko, Lebanon, NH Julia Finkelstein, Boston, MA Matthew Goland-Van Ryn, Slingerlands, NY John Griffith, Manchester, CT Michelle Kim, Boston, MA Benjamin King, Burlington, VT Urszula Kowalik, South Burlington, VT Alexander Lubin, Providence, RI Joseph McQuaid, Cambridge, MA Duncan Morhardt, Boston, MA Chintan Patel, Cambridge, MA Stephen Ryan, Portland, ME Keyan Salari, Boston, MA Briony Varda, Boston, MA Dmitry Volkin, Trumbull, CT Hsin-Hsiao Wang, Boston, MA Anton Wintner, Boston, MA Kevin Yang, Burlington, MA Dimitar Zlatev, Boston, MA | New Resident Members of NEAUA Alejandro Abello, Boston, MA Britney Atwater, Worcester, MA Yefri Baez, Boston, MA Brittany Berk, Boston, MA Joseph Black , Boston, MA Dylan Buller, West Hartford, CT Ankur Choksi , Edison, NJ Vincent D'Andrea, Boston, MA Augustyna Gogoj, West Hartford, CT Karim Hanna, Boston, MA Timothy Hewitt, West Hartford, CT Tashzna Jones, Brooklyn, NY Sreeya Komaravolu, Providence, RI Gregory Kunkel, Allentown, PA Jennifer Lindelof, Bloomfield, CT Soum Lokeshwar, Miami , FL Kaylee Luck, Lebanon, NH Sarah Moore, Providence, RI Faizanahmed Munshi, Providence , RI James Nolan, West Hartford, CT Andrew Orlando, Boston, MA Aaron Pereceman, Burlington, MA Adrian Richey, Essex Junction , VT Marie-Therese Valovska, Natick, MA Joanna Wang, Boston, MA Adam Wiggins, Burlington, MA Jonathan Xu, Burlington, MA Kendrick Yim, Boston, MA |
The New England Section Education Fund was created to support NEAUA educational activities in future years. Given recent changes seen in healthcare, politics and industry and knowing there will be more change in the future, the NEAUA leadership established the Fund as a way to ensure longevity of Section education regardless of the landscape. Contributions from the membership will go directly towards the intent of the Education Fund and support educational activity for all members. For the smallest of all the Sections, New England has always been and continues to be one of the strongest. Please consider the New England Section’s Education Fund in your year-end giving.
Donate to the Section Education Fund
The Section Education Fund is part of the New England Section 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and its IRS EIN number is 04-2440813. All donations to the Section Education Fund are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
Congratulations to the New England Section for winning the inaugural AUAPAC Section Contest! From August 2019-August 2020, the Section members contributed $5,075 to AUAPAC. The Section won various categories of measurement including highest individual donation amount and most funds raised per capita, and tied for highest number of resident/fellow donations during the contest period. The Section will receive a $5,000 grant from AUA Inc. as a result which it will put back into supporting health policy and advocacy activities. This contest was friendly competition between eligible AUA Sections designed to encourage individual donations to AUAPAC, which represents the voice and broad interests of all its domestic members in Washington, DC.
Based on a partnership between the New England Section of the AUA and the American Association of Clinical Urologists (AACU) the following provides updates on legislative processes and issues affecting urologists. Contact the AACU government affairs office at 847-517-1050 or info@aacuweb.org for more information, or with comments or suggestions.