08-03-2023_BoardBook

Past Progress and Future Plans for Obesity Pillars The OMA’s scholarly journal, Obesity Pillars has been displaying an ever-increasing number of views and downloads since its inception, with the past year hitting 50,000 PDF downloads. With regard to metrics, Dr. Bays shares that the Obesity Pillars submission to review time is about 2.9 weeks, the rejection rate is about 10%, and currently, Obesity Pillars does not yet have an impact factor. Dr. Bays believes that Obesity Pillars is about two years away from receiving an impact score. Further, Dr. Bays highlights his satisfaction with the quality of the clinical practice statements (CPS’) and the structure of the peer review process. Overall, Obesity Pillars’ performance is excellent in terms of its quality, timing, and statistics. Relative to the journal being PubMed searchable, Dr. Bays shares his concerns with the process of qualifying for this due to shifting requirements, but he will provide updates to the BOT in the coming months as these emerge. Dr. Cuda shares updates from the pediatric side of the journal stating that almost 50% of what is being published in Obesity Pillars is specific to children and adolescents. She highlights that the pediatric clinical specialty is strong right now and the contributions made in Obesity Pillars is drawing interest to the OMA from the adolescent providers. Additionally, Dr. Cuda suggests placing a greater emphasis on marketing for Obesity Pillars to allow for the publications to truly get the attention they deserve. With regard to general marketing and outreach, Dr. Francavilla-Brown suggests utilizing the Cision platform as well as other social media means by incorporating the BOT’s participation in this effort. She suggests specific recommended messaging that could be prepared by the OMA’s marketing staff so that members of the BOT could easily copy and paste to add to their own social channels. This would assist in elevating the OMA’s presence on social media and build familiarity with OMA’s audience. Further, Dr. Lazarus shared that having “Messages from the President” similar to what was recently distributed to OMA’s membership by Dr. Fitch that BOT members can also share on their social media pages would be of value as well. AMA Delegate Seats/Membership Task Force Updates and Proposal Dr. Alexander provided a summary of the background to the AMA documents included in the board book materials that outline the current state of the OMA’s membership trajectory. Given the AMA requirements regarding the percentage of the physician voting membership, the OMA is at risk of losing its AMA Delegate representation when evaluated by the AMA in 2026. The current data reveals that the NP/PA membership growth rate is surpassing the physician growth rate, and as such, there are some strategic options the OMA can take in order to maintain its AMA representation. 1) If the OMA allows the Clinicians in Training (CIT) category to become voting members, this tactic may help increase the “voting physician” percentages, however this tactic may not guarantee that the required AMA percentages would be realized. Currently, there are currently 645 CIT members, and it is estimated that this option may increase the voting percentages by 9%. Further, measurement of CITs is challenging as this membership category does not distinguish between residents, fellows, and medical students. For

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