TAPM News
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Annual TAPM / TNMHO
Meeting A Success
The annual convention of the Texas & New Mexico Hospice Organization and the
Texas Academy of Palliative Medicine was held in San Antonio, with well over 500
attendees! The meetings was a great success.
TAPM elected new officers, as follows:
President: Terry Whitehouse
President-Elect: Joseph Roosth
Secretary-Treasurer: Judith Piner
Immediate Past-President: Don McLarey
Osteopathic Board Exam
certifies more HPM specialists
More
hospice and palliative medicine specialists attained board certification via the
first American Osteopathic Association - Bureau of Osteopathic Specialties HPM
certification examination, given for the first time in November 2009. It
is anticipated that ABMS will continue offering its certification exam in
even-numbered years, and AOA-BOS will continue offering its certification exam
in odd-numbered years. As a reminder, after the 2012 ABMS examination,
only fellowship-trained physicians will be eligible to take either examination.
AAHPM launches patient /
consumer website
PalliativeDoctors
is a new web-site
produced by AAHPM with a grant provided by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. The site
is intended to explain the specialty of hospice and palliative medicine to
consumers and patients, including information about how to find a
board-certified palliative medicine specialist.
Please link to the following pages for past
year's news from TAPM:
2008 Archive
2007 Archive
2006 Archive
2005 Archive
2004 Archive
2003 Archive
2002 Archive
