ACEhp Advocacy Committee Announces Key Strategic Initiatives for 2015

WASHINGTON - Feb. 20, 2015 - PRLog -- The Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEhp) announced today its Advocacy Committee’s key strategic initiatives for 2015. The Committee’s primary mission is to advocate on behalf of the continuing education (CE) health profession.  Each initiative was designed to ensure that stakeholders across the health, education, and regulatory industries understand the value of continuing education and its impact on patient outcomes and system-wide improvements.

The Advocacy Committee’s three initiatives for 2015 are: Internal Advocacy; External Advocacy; and Tools and Resources. Internal Advocacy promotes timely and regular communications both to and with  members through interviews, white papers, live meetings, town halls, and more. External Advocacy focuses on how ACEhp will promote the value of CE to media, policy makers, patient groups, and other key constituents. Through Tools and Resources, ACEhp looks to assist members with their own self-advocacy by providing communication tools and plans of action that can be used or adapted for use by their respective organizations. Collectively, these three initiatives foster a proactive approach to issues impacting the CE stakeholders and focus on building a “shared responsibility” model of advocacy with ACEhp members.

The 2015 initiatives were established, in large part, based on feedback the Advocacy Committee received from current ACEhp members.

“Our advocacy efforts this year will be member-centric,” said Scott Weber, CEO of Med-IQ and ACEhp Advocacy Committee Chair. “It is important that this committee act in concert with membership to make certain every stakeholder in healthcare understands the value of our work and how we improve healthcare in this country.”

The ACEhp 2015 Advocacy Committee members include:

Chair: Scott E. Weber, CEO, Med-IQ

Gayla Bruner, RN, BSN; Director, CME, Memorial Hermann Hospital System

Terry Chang, MD, JD; Associate General Counsel and Director, Legal and Medical Affairs, AdvaMed

Jacob Coverstone, Director, Postgraduate and Continuing Education, Life Chiropractic College West; Vice President of Education & Credentialing, Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics

Jennifer D’Alessandro, MPA; Assistant Director, Clinician Education, NCQA

Derek T. Dietze, MA, FACEHP, CHCP; President, Improve CME, LLC

Heather Guerrero, MA, CHCP; Assistant Director, Independent Medical Education, Gilead Sciences Inc.

John F. Kamp, JD, PHD; Executive Director, Coalition for Healthcare Communication, Counsel, Wiley Rein LLP

Jack Kues, PHD, CHCP, FACEHP; Assistant Dean for CME, University of Cincinnati

Pamela L. Mason, BS, CHCP, FACEHP; Director, Medical Education Grants Office, AstraZeneca

Marissa Seligman, PharmD, FACEHP, CHCP; President and COO, Clinical Care Options, LLC

Catharine Smith, MA; Senior Director, Education, Society of Hospital Medicine

Destry Sulkes, MD, MBA; FCEhp Board President, Co-founder, Medivo, Inc

Alicia A. Sutton, CHCP; Executive Vice President, US HealthConnect, Inc.

Staff Consultant and Advisor: Mike Copps, Interim Executive Director and CEO, ACEhp

For more information about ACEhp Advocacy Committee, please visit ACEhp’s Media site (http://www.acehp.org/iMIS15/aCME/News/For_the_Media/aCME/...) or contact the ACEhp office at acehp@acehp.org, (202)367-1151.

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About the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions
The Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEhp) is an international membership community of 2,200 professionals dedicated to accelerating excellence in health care performance through quality education, innovation, advocacy, and collaboration. Founded in 1975, ACEhp is the recognized leader and trusted partner striving to close gaps in healthcare delivery by translating the best science and knowledge into effective professional development. For more information on ACEhp, please visit http://www.acehp.org.