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| Front row: Sue Barman,
Douglas Eaton, Dale Benos, D. Neil Granger. Back row: Irving Zucker,
Gary Sieck, Carol Leidtke, Tom Lohmeier, Peter Wagner, Curt Sigmund, Rob
Carroll, Helen Raybould, Kenneth Baldwin, Jeff Sands. |
The APS Council hosted a Strategic Plan
meeting on October 29-31 at The Woodlands Resort and Conference Center,
Houston, TX. Attendees at the meeting included APS section chairs, selected
members of the Trainee Advisory Committee, members of the Long-Range
Planning Committee, committee chairs, and the APS managers. The meeting
attendees used the results of the Membership Survey (conducted in spring
2005) and informational documents provided by the APS committees and
sections to begin the process of drafting a new Strategic Plan. The Council
will meet in February 2006 to finalize the new Strategic Plan. The new
Strategic Plan will be published in a future issue of The Physiologist.
The APS Council held their fall meeting on November 1, 2005 at The Woodlands
Resort and Conference Center, Houston, TX. Council was presented with
reports from the Joint Program, Finance, Membership, Publications, and Women
in Physiology committees. APS staff members Marsha Maytas, Robert Price, and
Margaret Reich joined the meeting to assist with the committee report
presentations.
The Joint Program Committee presented a proposal for an APS Conference
entitled Sex Steroids in Physiology and Pathophysiology of the
Cardiovascular-Renal System. The goal of the conference is to bring together
a critical mass of scientists who have interests in the roles of sex
steroids in the physiology of the cardiovascular and renal systems to
promote exchange of ideas and potential collaborations in the future. The
conference is tentatively scheduled for October 2007. Council approved the
conference proposal.
The Publications Committee reported that the Journal Impact Factors made a
strong showing in 2004 as they had in previous years. They also reported
that more articles have been added to the Classic Articles series. The
essays are located on the APS web site at
http://www.the-aps.org/publications/classics/index.htm. Both the essays
and classic articles can be accessed free of charge.
The Publications Committee has made the decision to discontinue the
Translational Physiology Call for Papers, which was instituted for all
journals in June 2001; Translational Physiology will remain as an article
type. In 2004, 130 papers were submitted and 54 were published in this
category. In 2005, 93 articles were submitted and 58 have been published to
date.
The Publications Committee recommended that Council reinstate the benefit of
free color to student members since they will now be charged a student
membership fee. Color is free if the first or last author is an APS member.
Council approved the reinstatement of this benefit for students.
The Finance Committee presented Council with the final 2005 budget and the
proposed 2006 budget, both of which were accepted and approved by Council.
The Finance Committee reported on The Katrina Fund. The fund was started by
APS to help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows cope with the affects
of the storm. APS provided an initial commitment of $50,000 to the fund,
and, through October 5, the Society had received $14,355 in outside
contributions to support this effort. Funds are being provided through
unrestricted grants of $2,000 to help students and fellows replace
belongings, pay for relocation costs, etc. APS has been working with chairs
of the affected departments to assess the needs. To date, APS has received
51 applications for assistance, authorized 35 awards, and distributed 23
payments totaling $46,000.
The Women in Physiology Committee reported that L. Gabriel Navar, Department
of Physiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, has been selected as
the 2006 Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor Awardee. Navar has had a
tremendous mentoring career, having mentored 21 predoctoral students, 42
postdoctoral fellows, and four visiting scientists during the past 40 years.
Many of these mentees have gone on to a wide variety of positions, in
academia as well as in medicine, and are leading successful scientific
careers. Navar will receive his award at the EB06 meeting.
Additional details of the Council’s 2005 fall meeting and the Strategic Plan
meeting will be presented to the membership at the 2006 APS Business
Meeting. The Business Meeting will be held at EB06 on Tuesday, April 4 at
5:45 pm in the Moscone Convention Center (San Francisco), room 134. All APS
members are invited to attend.
Council Action Items:
- Council approved the recommendations of
the Finance Committee accepting the 2005 estimated budget and approved the
2006 proposed budget.
- Council approved a proposal for an APS
Conference entitled Sex Steroids in Physiology and Pathophysiology of the
Cardiovascular-Renal System.
- Council unanimously approved a motion to
transfer the following 14 regular members to emeritus membership status:
Jack K. Barclay, Maurice F. Crass, Otto Hansen, Carlton F. Hazelwood,
Thomas F. Hornbein, Thomas A. McKean, Bryan D. Myers, Buford L. Nichols,
Oakley S. Ray, Donald B. Stratton, Zvi Talor, Stuart R. Taylor, Barry L.
Zaret, Douglas P. Zipes.
- Council unanimously approved the
requests of 9 regular members for reinstatement: Theodore J. Angelopoulos,
Eberhard E. Fetz, Christopher S. Garrard, Ravinder K. Gill, H. Craig
Heller, Herbert F. Janssen, Benjamin M. Rigor, Seema Saksena, Saul Yedgar.
- Council unanimously approved the
selection of Allen Cowley as the 2006 Daggs Awardee.
- Council approved selection of L. Gabriel
Navar as the Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Awardee.
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