The deadline for next year's panel at AsMA 97 is approaching. Please
submit abstracts to AsMA by 31 Oct 96 with an info copy to me.
Our theme in Chicago is Night Vision Goggles. Dr. Chuck Antonio has volunteered
to organize this part of the panel. He thinks we will justify two sessions,
so if there are papers on other topics, we can give you the usual 10+5
minute format for your presentation. Be aware, though, that the usual criteria
for acceptance apply to individual papers. Be good science ... or be elsewhere!
Seriously, a few of the papers we review each year are rejected for lack
of science or for duplicating another paper.
If you haven't presented before, please do. Most often, we have the highest
attendance and most interesting, current topic of any AsMA panel. Operational
findings, especially those concerning night vision, will enhance our panel
and educate other aerospace medicine physicians.
If you have some research brewing, write the abstract now!
Cheers!
Geoff McCarthy
E-mail: gmccarthy@falcon.al.wpafb.af.mil or NYDU27A@Prodigy.com
The President can be reached at IAMFSP@AOL.COM)
Greetings from San Antonio! I very pleased to report that I have run into
LtCol Bob Munson a couple of times around Brooks AFB and that he seems
to have survived the trip back from Farnborough in one piece. While he's
happy to be back home, he says he misses the flying already. I've invited
him to go with me in the Mooney but, outside of helping him shop for a
plane of his own, there isn't much else I can do to help him.
I'm getting the Fall newsletter out early because I need to reach everyone
about the upcoming scientific program in May. Please see the letter above
from Col McCarthy in the Scientific Program Chair Section.
Look for the Winter Newsletter in February. I take the Aerospace Medicine
Board Exam in November and follow it with a TDY to Dallas to work with
American Airlines for two months. In the month of January I will be in
Seattle working with Boeing at Renton Field courtesy of Dr. Fred Tilton.
I must say that the Occupational Medicine Residency Year of the Aerospace
Medicine Residency has some exciting rotations. I'm currently at Kelly
AFB for a two month rotation in the Occupational Medicine Clinic. I have
been very impressed with the teaching available there. Other electives
include the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, Region 8 of the Texas
Department of Health, a public health elective and four months of clinical
electives at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center. The Occupational Medicine
Year has been given accreditation by the ACGME and really is a world class
program leading to U.S. Board Certification in Occupational Medicine.
(NOTE TO READERS, THIS SECTION GIVEN AS REPORTED BY MEMBERS)
Col (Sel.) Rodger Vanderbeek, USAF is currently TDY to Little Rock AFB
in Arkansas, U.S.A. for training as a MC-130 aircraft commander. He is
now stationed at Hurlburt Field in Florida where he serves as the Command
Surgeon for the United States Air Force Special Operations Command. He
reports that instruction in the MH-53 will follow his introduction to the
MC-130. His new E-mail is sgrvande@hqafsoc.afsoc.af.mil.
EDITOR'S NOTE: I've asked for a brief article to print in an upcoming newsletter
so stay tuned.
Major William 'Bill' Tarver reports that he has completed the USAF residency
in Aerospace (and Occupational) Medicine and is now assigned as the Chief,
Aeromedical Services for the 8th Medical Group at Kunsan Air Base. For
those of you familiar with the traditions of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces,
he reports that he has been initiated into the 'Wolfpack' and is looking
forward to flying the F-16D. His E-mail is tarverw@kunsan.af.mil. I'm sure
that he would appreciate some mail. The weather report from Kunsan is 'hot
and humid.' We wish him the best. Fortunately, the tour is a one year assignment.
Second Lieutenant William Hallier has moved now that he has started his
third year at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
in Bethesda, Maryland.
He has completed a rotation in OB-GYN at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center
in San Antonio, Texas and Psychiatry at Andrews AFB in Camp Springs, Maryland.
He continues at Malcolm Grow in Outpatient Internal Medicine and is looking
forward to Inpatient Internal Medicine at Wright-Patterson AFB in mid-November.
He likes clinical medicine a whole lot more than the lecture hall. To quote
him, 'I think clinical medicine is a blast and definitely makes sitting
in a lecture hall for two years worthwhile.' He is looking forward to taking
the Aerospace Medicine Primary Course at Brooks AFB next winter. His E-mail
is s98hallier@usuhsb.usuhs.mil
Major Philip J. Lavallee is a first year resident in aerospace and occupational
medicine at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine in
San Antonio, Texas and is currently studying for a Master of Public Health
degree at the University of Texas School of Health.
Major William B. Klein reports that he has moved from Mountain Home AFB
to Europe.
CAPTAIN Bruce K. Bohnker, USN has moved to the Executive Officer billet
at the Naval Hospital in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He says it is, 'One of the
"flying a big metal desk" equivalents that I always heard about.
He was 'underway' during the May AsMA meeting and regretfully reports the
loss of two crews in a CH-46 mid-air collision with an AH-1T. 14 crew and
passengers died in that mishap. He notes that mishaps like this remind
him of the importance of his flight experience and the insights it provides
him. His E-mail addresses (two) are:
gan1xo1@gan10.med.navy.mil or bbohnker@tecnet1.jcet.jcs.mil
Dr. Robert H. Huxter, M.D. is currently serving as the Regional Coroner
for Metropolitan Toronto.
Major Elliot Rosenberg reports that he is currently assigned as the Chief,
Human Factors Section, Flight Safety Branch, Israeli Air Force Aviation
Safety & Inspection Directorate. He recently completed a Preventive
Medicine/Public Health Residency in Israel, authored an Aviator Fatigue
Countermeasures Guide and a new human factors magazine titled 'Heart of
the Envelope' in Hebrew for the Israeli Air Force. His E-mail address is:
rosenber@ccsg.tau.ac.il
Now I'll put on my treasurer hat and provide the current financial status of the IAMFSP. As of today, 25 September 1996, we have $1,209.95 in savings and $1,442.01 in checking. This will decrease slightly with the cost of this newsletter. I don't have the latest bill for the homepage but it is only $10/month.
Each September, with the publishing of the AsMA directory issue, the Secretary-Treasurer scrubs the address list against the AsMA addresses. Please update any changes promptly. Unless I hear differently, I will preferentially use the AsMA address of record. Please take the time to fill out and return the attached membership information update page if you have experienced any change. I also would like to have any news of members that you would like to share.
The following members are delinquent in dues of $10 per year after the year posted by their names. We are not doing badly, only 34 of 82 members are delinquent and 10 of the 34 are only one year out.
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Note: if you want to know if you are on the list contact us at IAMFSP@AOL.COM
If your name is on the above list, please remit $10.00 per year (U.S.
dollars) to IAMFSP. If you are more than one year out of date the fee is
$10.00 per year. 96 dues were due at the May Scientific Program of the
Aerospace Medical Association. All IAMFSP members should keep their AsMA
dues current as well.