Secretary-Treasurer's Report
Following is a brief summary of the December 17, January 24, February 28, March 28, and April 25 TSHS executive committee meetings (all were conference calls). No meeting was held in November.
[Editor's note: this report is for Spring 2019. It was submitted in a timely manner. The delay in posting was an oversight on my part.]
Topics discussed during the December 17 meeting included the following:
Update on the section treasury, including income and expenses
Update on section awards for 2019
Update on the section newsletter and the section blog
Review of the preliminary list of section officers (elected and appointed) for 2019
Topics discussed during the January 24 meeting included the following:
Review of the final list of section officers (elected and appointed) for 2019
Announcement of the winner of the JSM TSHS 2018 Best Contributed Presentation Award (note: the winner was Philip Sedgwick from St. George’s, University of London)
The 2018 TSHS Annual Report
Proposed updates to the section handbook
Update on the section treasury – close-out from 2018 and a look ahead at 2019
Nominees for TSHS Chair-Elect in 2020 (who are running in the 2019 TSHS election)
Update on the JSM 2019 TSHS Program
Section communications
TSHS awards that will be offered in 2019
Topics discussed during the February 28 meeting included the following:
JSM 2019 Awards booklet – making sure that the winners of the TSHS awards for 2018 are listed in this
Update on the section treasury, including updates on potential sponsorships for the section mixer
Council of Sections Report
Planning for the TSHS 2019 JSM program, including sessions, roundtables, the section executive committee meeting, and the section business meeting and mixer
Updates on publicity and communications
Potential TSHS-sponsored webinars for 2019
Calendar of TSHS business and activities
Topics discussed during the March 28 meeting included the following:
Planning for the TSHS 2019 JSM program, including updates on sessions, roundtables, the section’s executive committee meeting, and the section’s business meeting and mixer
Update on the section treasury, including updates on potential sponsorships for the section mixer
Updates on publicity and communications
Updates on potential TSHS-sponsored webinars for 2019, including a discussion of the logistics of hosting these
Update on TSHS award nominations for 2019
Update on the search for candidates to fill the TSHS Program Chair-Elect position for 2020
Topics discussed during the April 25 meeting included the following:
Updates on planning for the TSHS 2019 JSM program, including updates on sessions and roundtables, and an update on TSHS participating in staffing the JSM education table
Announcement of the TSHS Program Chair-Elect-Elect for 2019 (Program Chair-Elect in 2020 and Program Chair in 2021) – Jaya M. Satagopan of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Update on the section treasury, including updates on potential sponsorships for the section mixer
Update on communications
Updates on potential TSHS-sponsored webinars for 2019
Update on TSHS award nominations for 2019
Update on the ASA Speaker’s Bureau and on the ASA Committee on Membership and Recruitment, regarding the need to add potential speakers to the ASA speaker list
Complete sets of all meeting minutes can be found on the TSHS website, which is here.