Our Spring meeting was held on April 13, 2007 in Sturbridge, MA and was attended by 22 enthusiastic region members.  Even in April there was snow flying in New England so we missed our northernmost members from Vermont. But attendees enjoyed presentations on activities in advocacy, research, and education. A main presentation by Linda Sagor and Heather Forkey highlighted their program addressing the medical needs of children in foster care. President Clai Dungy joined us from afar providing an APA update and insight into the diversity of the APA regional activities. Other topics included resident call and night float hours, an intervention on resident knowledge of pediatric disaster medicine, and resident training in advocacy. There were presentations by medical students and fellows with robust feedback given about their works in progress. And for the first time ever, we offered a hands on mini workshop lead by Frank Overly and Lei Chen entitled, “Stimulating Simulation: Introduction and Overview of High Fidelity Medical Simulation”.   

We have enjoyed the successful development of a Region 1 “Buddy System” at almost all of our major academic centers, matching up more senior long standing members with new members.

We are thrilled to have our Region 1 members recognized at the APA/PAS meeting in Toronto. These accolades include: Tracy Lieu, with the APA Research Award, and Lewis R. First, with the Miller-Sarkin Mentoring Award. And we are anticipating great works from out 4 educational scholars from Region I: Ada Fenick (Yale), Alison Holmes (Dartmouth), Edward McGookin (Brown), and Bonny Whalen (Dartmouth).