2021-04-21 OMA Agenda - Board of Trustees

JOURNAL OF THE OBESITY MEDICINE ASSOCIATION (JOMA) Recommendations of the JOMA Working Group April 12, 2021

Working group members:

Angela Fitch MD Suzanne Cuda MD Marissa Censani MD Karli Burridge PA Justin Tondt MD Harold Bays MD

CONFIDENTIAL: This document is crafted on behalf of the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) JOMA Working Group, OMA Board of Trustees, and OMA staff. It should be considered confidential. OBJECTIVE: To provide the OMA Board of Trustees recommendations regarding logistical issues pertaining to a society journal (Journal of the Obesity Medicine Association or JOMA). RECOMMENDATIONS: Recommendation #1. A society journal is in the best interest of OMA and its members. Rationale: The reputation of a medical society largely depends on the degree it influences the clinical practice of medicine. Few resources are more effectual in enhancing the reputation of a medical society and influencing clinical practice than a quality, peer-review, society medical journal. Medical societies not engaged in academic contributions run the risk that the science, opinions, and practices of its members and leaders are devalued and perhaps ignored in the academic world. From a membership standpoint, more clinicians use the OMA Adult and Pediatric Algorithms in preparing for the Obesity Medicine Board exam than all other educational resources combined. However, from an academic standpoint, the OMA Obesity Algorithms often lacks authoritative standing, because the Obesity Algorithms are not published in peer review journals and not searchable by PubMed. Academic leaders gravitate towards Pub-Med searchable scientific statements and guidelines, even if the available scientific statements and guidelines are decades old and outdated. From a medical society standpoint, reputation and influence are higher among societies with an

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