Fall 2004 Newsletter

Dear Rocky Mountain Academy Members:

The 40th Annual Educational Conference will be held January 21-22, 2005 at the Hilton Denver Tech South. Information and registration is available on the RMAOEM website. If you have suggestions for sponsors or exhibitors, forward them to Sara Hutchison of Hughes & Stuart at sara@hughesstuart.com. If you have suggestions for “mailing” (ideally e-mail) lists of groups who might have interest in the conference, forward them to Sara Hutchison of Hughes & Stuart at sara@hughesstuart.com.

We continue to improve and update the website. We encourage all members and interested parties to visit the website at www.rmaoem.org and submit feedback. If you have not already registered an email address with us, please do so. We plan to forward the newsletter to you electronically in the future where possible.

New board members and officers will be elected at the annual general membership meeting to be held January 21, 2005. The RMAOEM Board wishes to solicit nominees for the positions of Vice-President and one non-Colorado general Board member. Please contact me if you are interested.

The Officers and Board have reviewed and revised the RMAOEM Constitution and Bylaws, as the last revision was 1991. Amendments to the current Bylaws require two-thirds written vote of the members having the right to vote. We will notify you about this process in the near future.

Specifically for Colorado, RMAOEM will provide input to the Colorado Medical Society Workers’ Compensation Advisory Committee on an important issue. Colorado is the only state left that uses the now long out of print AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Third Edition (Revised) for determination of impairment in state workers’ comp cases. A complicating issue is that in Colorado the particular edition of the AMA Guides that is used must be specified by the legislature in changes to the state Workers’ Compensation Act. John Hughes, M.D. will present the RMAOEM resolution that Colorado adopts the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 5th Edition, or if possible, the most current edition, to the Colorado Medical Society, toward a goal of attaining political support for the necessary legislation.

Sincerely,
Darrel K. Quick, M.D., M.P.H., FACOEM
President RMAOEM 2004
20 W Dry Creek Circle, Suite 100, Littleton, CO 80120
303-798-1009
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