June232021_Agenda_Nominating_Committee_1st Call

APPLICANT INTERVIEW Nominating Committee

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS • How active do you consider you have been as a member of OMA?

She has been very active and is honored to have participated in several projects outside of committees. As well as her committee work, she also moderates at biannual conferences, fills out CME forms and has participated in partnership phone calls between OMA and primary care organizations. She is AANP’s representative for the collaborative certificate. More about collaboration: She was approached to represent NP’s for the novo funded grant for 100 primary care individuals (AANP, AAPA and OMA). They created programs, coached and taught. It has been great for her to be able to see the differences these participants are already making in their practices. The changes in the content level of their questions has been a dramatic difference. Working with OMA’s former Education Director, she consulted as to what the NP members need in terms of education. She has been a strong advocate for OMA being a clinician organization as opposed to physician. She has a comfort level already established with OMA board members. Very excited about OMA being the number one place for clinicians to go in obesity. To keep up that reputation, OMA needs to be inclusive. • What particular OMA programs drew your interest this past year? She has a masters degree in nursing education. She is very passionate about adult learning. She loves presenting and doing webinars. Education is her greatest strength but she also comes with experience which will benefit OMA during this time of growth. She has a passion for policy and organizational management that she has not yet had the opportunity to share with OMA. The speaker’s bureau has been very interesting, especially the policies behind creating the application. She is proud that they were able to launch it by the spring conference. They’re now creating a rubric for evaluation and letter responses to go back to applicants. Regardless of their experience or acceptance, she believes the letter explaining reasoning is most important to keep applicants involvement. • Name something OMA could do to make your membership experience better. She originally did not join OMA because there was not a voting NP/PA position on the board. She then remembered that you can’t change anything from the outside so she decided to step forward, become involved and evoke change. She took a huge step showing that they have a voice in the guiding part of the organization. She thinks that OMA needs to continue looking at percentages of member types and ensuring that those breakdowns are equally represented on the board. That will resonate will all clinicians. She thinks we need to continue to better enforce patient and clinician language in presentations. She commends OMA staff for implementing this in speaker reviews. She thinks that language is so important and that it will help us move forward as an organization. She thinks that OMA needs to continue to build the Obesity Medicine Academy online learning. Having the ability to learn from home is critical as people are starting their own practices and losing CME dollars. She is encouraged by OMA’s webinar efforts. She realizes that the OMA has a lot going on so she wants to ensure that staff is able to complete all projects and prioritize as they are growing too. The board needs to keep aware of what the staff capacity is.