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December 2011
AMPHL's new Educational Outreach and Mentorship Committee is very busy brainstorming, setting up goals, and figuring out plans of action. They are figuring out how they can reach as many deaf/Deaf/HOH high school and undergraduate college students as possible to provide guidance and advice to those who might be interested in becoming health care professionals. They are working with mentorship leader Philip Zazove to revise and improve AMPHL's mentorship program. They are working with AMPHL President Candie Corriher to get branches of AMPHL set up in every state, which will assist them with improving mentorship and in making small regional or state AMPHL gatherings and mini-conferences a reality.
AMPHL's Conference Committee has been busy researching Austin, TX as a potential location for our next conference, which is likely to be held in 2013 or 2014. They have started checking into hotels and conference meeting rooms in Austin, TX.
AMPHL is working on improving its social networking. Brian Hartman, Sam Atcherson, Stephen Wagner, and Candie Corriher are all moderators of AMPHL's Facebook page and they worked together to create rules for AMPHL's social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, AMPHL Forums). These rules are posted on the AMPHL website at http://www.amphl.org/docs/socialnetworkrules.pdf. Stephen Wagner plans to work on making AMPHL's LinkedIn page more active and get more companies, schools, and organizations added as contacts. Sarah Hein has taken over the Twitter account which hasn't been used for very much other than announcements about AMPHL's conference way back in August. She will help AMPHL staff make important announcements on Twitter and she also plans to use Twitter quite a bit for the Educational Outreach and Mentorship Committee.
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September 2011
There have been some recent changes in AMPHL's Administration. Samuel Atcherson has joined Thomas Kavic to become co-chair of AMPHL's registry committee. Danielle Rastetter has joined Stacey Cordwell Carroll to become co-chair of AMPHL's Advocacy Committee. Jessica Huang resigned her position as an AMPHL director. Christopher Moreland and Sarah Bannon have become AMPHL's new conference co-chairs with a tentative Austin, TX location in mind for AMPHL's next conference.
Editor Philip Zazove is hard at work on the September 2011 issue of AMPHL PULSE. If you have anything that you would like to submit (an article, exciting personal news, items for sale for our classifieds, etc), please email him at pulse@amphl.org ASAP!
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Conference planning
We have all been VERY busy with AMPHL conference planning!
Name badges are printed. The conference programs are being picked up at the printers on Wed.
The interpreters and captioners have been given copies of Power Point and abstracts.
The AV needs of presenters and exhibitors have been finalized.
Total head counts for the Meet and Greet and meal packages for Sat/Sun (included in conference registration) have been sent to the hotel.
The head count so far for the Saturday night dinner social has been shared with the Old Spaghetti Factory. Meal tickets for the Saturday night dinner social have been printed and are ready to sell for $14 per person. Plans have been made for a chartered bus to/from the Satuday night dinner social and flyers on bus leave times have been printed. Bus passes have been printed for those who do not have a conference name badge (ie family members not attending the conference who are joining us for social events).
Copies of AMPHL's brochure have been made. Conference feedback forms have been made and printed. Copies of AMPHL's Statistical Registry form have been made.
All presenter bios are ready for speaker introductions.
Plans for a Silent Auction of stethoscopes has been finalized and all items labelled with bid sheets to go with them.
ETC!!! We are all ready for this weekend!!!!!!!!!
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May 2011
AMPHL has finalized its list of interpreters for the conference and is finishing up their contracts. Dot Hearn will be the interpreter coordinator.
Planning is underway for an AMPHL conference meet and greet on Friday August 5 in the late afternoon/early evening, as well as for a social event on Saturday evening August 6. Details should be announced by late June/early July at the latest.
Facebook recently changed its group page format, which resulted in some concerns about our AMPHL Facebook page. AMPHL plans to have an open discussion with conference attendees on preferred methods of communication amongst AMPHL subscribers (AMPHL Forums, Facebook, Linked In, Yahoo Groups, Google Groups, etc). AMPHL may make some changes after getting feedback from everyone at the conference.
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March 2011
AMPHL has been very busy with preparations for the August 6-7, 2011 AMPHL conference!
Presentation proposals were reviewed after the March 6, 2011 deadline and out of 21 presentation proposals, 17 of them were accepted. Two of the proposals that were turned down may be turned into informal discussions/workshops if there is enough interest in the topics.
Now that we know who our presenters will be, lots of work is being done to get interpreters lined up and to put the accepted presentations into a real conference schedule. Lots of emails are flying around amongst AMPHL's administration related to planning informal group discussions/workshops and social events during the conference time.
We have even started ordering items needed for the conference such as an AMPHL table runner and nametags/ribbons.
Several people ran into some kinks with our online registering for the conference as attendees and exhibitors. Those problems were quickly fixed thanks to our wonderful co-webmaster Faiz Shakir (aka our REAL webmaster), and we hope that everything goes perfectly smooth from here!
AMPHL PULSE editor Philip Zazove has done a great job putting together the March 2011 issue. It has more pages than any issue yet, and AMPHL Administrators helped make that possible by submitting quite a few interesting articles.
Director Stephen Wagner has pushed AMPHL further into cyberspace by setting up a new LinkedIn page for us. We are excited to not only have a main website and a Facebook page, but now also a LinkedIn page. It allows yet another way for all of us to stay connected!
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