COM Faculty Council September 1999 meeting minutes

The September 7, 1999 meeting in the Hugh Hill Conference Room was called to order by Faculty Council President, Dr. Saeed Khan at 5:10 PM.

Members Present: Paul Oh, Colin Sumners, Shae Kosch, Jon Williams, Saeed Khan, Tom O'Brien, Richard Condit (for Lung-Ji Chang), Mike Clare-Salzler, Sati Kalra, Dan Driscoll (for Sallie Chesrown), Cynthia Karle (Dean's Office), Daniel Arrington (Dean's Office), Kathleen Shiverick, Mike Hocking, Tom Wright.

Members Absent: Robert Newman, John Aris, Timothy Morey, Brad Pollock, Bradley Bender, Stephen Nadeau, Don Walker, Steven Roper, John Davis, Tariq Bhatti, Patrick Antonelli, Michael Herkov, Robert Zlotecki, Charles Bush, Bruce Mast, Wayne Bottom, Peter Gearen.

1. Faculty Mentorship Program
Saeed Khan and Shae Kosch, in a meeting with Dr. Timothy Van Susteren (Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education and Faculty Development), have developed a plan for the role/job description of the individual who will ultimately fill the Faculty Mentor position. This plan will now be discussed with Dr. Ken Berns and the Department Chairs.

2. Election of Faculty Representative to the Shands Board of Directors
After some discussion of the nine faculty nominees for this position, votes were cast (by secret ballot) by the Faculty Council Representatives who where present. The result was that Jon Williams (Professor of Radiology) is the new faculty representative to the Shands Board of Directors. Jon will serve a two-year term effective immediately. Congratulations Jon.

3. COM Strategic Plan
The recently developed COM Strategic Plan has now been posted on the Faculty Council website. Faculty are urged to read over the Strategic Plan, and if you have comments, Please email them to Saeed Khan . Faculty are also urged to attend the 2 or 3 general COM faculty meetings that will be held in the near future. These meetings will be used to discuss individual aspects of the plan.

So, faculty can voice their concerns or make comments through Saeed Khan <khan@ufl.edu>, and through attendance at these general faculty meetings. Remember, if you have a concern, but do not voice it, there will be no opportunity to change the plan.

4. Email Lists
Cynthia Karle (Dean's Office, Computer Services) explained that she had been asked by an individual from the College of Pharmacy whether he could have access to our COMFAC email lists. In this particular instance, COM faculty members would be sent emails from the Drug Information and Pharmacy Resource Center, which may be relevant to some.

Faculty Council members had no objections to the disbursement and use of this email list in this case. In addition, it was pointed out that if someone wished to use our COM email lists, all they need to do is follow the link from the COM website.

5. College Incentive Fund
Michael Clare-Salzler reported that he has met with Peter Pevonka regarding the CIF grants to faculty, and discussed the possibility of forming one or two faculty committees that will review the grant applications. These discusssions are continuing.

6. UF Bank Awards
Kathleen Shiverick raised the issue of UF Bank Awards to COM faculty for 1999. The issues were as follows: (1) How did the COM fare in the distribution of UF Bank dollars for 1999; (2) Did COM faculty receive UF Bank Awards in 1999.

During the discussion, it was revealed that certain COM faculty had received UF Bank Awards in 1999, but aside from that, no further information was available.

Marya Fancey, Secretary
Department of Physiology
University of Florida
PO Box 100274
Gainesville, FL 32610
Tel: 352-294-0526
Fax: 352-294-0191