Representation at the Meeting:
 

Anesthesiology	Jim Daniel
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	Frank Markland
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Cell and Neurobiology
Children's Hospital	Gary Lerner
Emergency Medicine
Family Medicine
Medicine	Ahmet Baydur & Richard Lubman
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology	Joseph Landolph, Ebrahim Zandi, Lucio Comai
Neurological Surgery
Neurology
Norris Medical Library	Russell Smith
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ophthalmology	Ron Green
Orthopedics	Thomas Hedman
Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery	Daniel Kempler
Pathology
Pediatrics	Cynthia Stotts
Physiology and Biophysics	Herb Meiselman, Austin Mircheff
Preventive Medicine	Dan Stram
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences	Richard Lamb
Radiation Oncology
Radiology
Rancho Los Amigos Hospital
Surgery	Jeff Peters
Urology

Also attending: Bruce Gross, Om Sharma

The President Loren Laine, called the meeting to order at 12:10 PM.  The minutes of  April 4,  2000 meeting were approved after verification by Representatives Herb Meiselman (Physiology and Biophysics) and Om Sharma (Medicine) that the language of their motion was accurately recorded. The minutes were subsequently approved without opposition.

Minutes of April 4, 2000 meeting

The Secretary Peter Heseltine read the results of the balloting for Representatives and Alternates. A roll call was taken and a quorum was noted to be present. The President and Assembly welcomed the new delegates.

Ballot results - 2000

Leslie Bernstein, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs described a plan to divide the clinical track into two. The new track will be called Clinical Scholar and is for "those not on the frontier of science", but is a way to acknowledge their accomplishments. This track is in use at other medical schools.  She described the track and referred to the document listed below. She announced that the new track had the support and approval of the Provost and all but one of the Department Chairs and would be implemented by July 2000. In reply to questions from the floor, she said that the Clinical Scholar would use the title Associate Professor and Professor unmodified as is the present custom with the clinical track. She said that the University would rule on whether a Clinical Scholar could chair a Ph.D. program. While she recommended that the Clinical Scholar be offered a rolling contract, this would be up to the individual departments.  She stressed that this was not an "out" for the academic track, but could be decided as appropriate for a faculty member at the three year review of the academic track. She agreed that the title had economic value in the world external to the University.

A Motion to Approve the concept was brought by Jeff Peters (Surgery), but was rendered moot by a Motion to Table, proposed by Herb Meiselman (Physiology & Biophysics) and seconded by Daniel Kempler (Otolaryngology). The Motion to Table was approved by a vote of seven in favor and five against, with 3 abstaining.

 Proposal: Clinical Scholar and Clinical Educator designation, for faculty not on the tenure track

This resolution, passed at the last meeting, was reviewed in the light of information received by President Laine. He reported  that at least one member of the Faculty involved in the above Settlement Agreement did not wish the details to be released.  A Motion to Rescind the above Resolution was proposed by Om Sharma (Medicine) and seconded by Herb Meiselman (Physiology and Biophysics). The motion was approved 14 for and 1 against with none abstaining.

The Secretary Peter Heseltine called for nominations from the floor for Officers of the MFA Executive Board. there being none nominations were closed

Nominating Committee slate

Peter Heseltine, Secretary distributed voting papers for the election of Officers, to the Representatives of the Assembly, with instructions that "write-in" votes were permitted.  An examination of the ByLaws reveals that the requirement for the President of the MFA to rotate annually between the Basic Science and the Clinical Departments applies to the candidate's home Department and not their own academic interest. On the first count a tie was declared between Julie Nyquist (Pediatrics) and Richard Lamb (Psychiatry).  A second vote was cast by the Representatives and Julie Nyquist, on gaining a majority of the votes, was certified President-Elect. Also by a majority of votes, Dennis O'Leary, Om Sharma and Peter Heseltine were elected Members-at-Large of the Executive Board. The other candidates not elected were Robert Israel and Robert Stellwagen.

MFA Officers 2000

The meeting was adjourned at 1:40 PM