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MN-ACP Council Election- Please Vote!

MN-ACP members-
Voting for one open position on the MN-ACP Council is now open. MN-ACP Bylaws provides for an election annually for "at large" positions on the MN-ACP Council. Below are the nominees for the one open position….. both are outstanding candidates. The election will be open until July  30, 2016. All Members, Fellows and Masters are eligible to vote.

With this election, we will abide by the national ACP policy of no campaigning and no mass email solicitation of votes.

Ballot names appear in alphabetical order. A biosketch of each candidate is provided below Please respond by July 30, 2016. Click “Done” at the bottom of the page to submit your ballot.

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* 1. Members-at-Large (vote for one):

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* 2. This ballot is confidential. Your name or member number is required to ensure election integrity according to the organization's Bylaws.

Your Name or ACP number:

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* 3. Comments/suggestions for the 2016-2017 MN-ACP Council:

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When you have completed your selection, click “Done” at the bottom of the page to submit your ballot.

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Tseganesh Selameab, MD, FACP

Tseganesh Selameab, MD, FACP
Tseganesh Selameab, MD, FACP
Current occupation(s): Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota , Medical Director Hennepin County Adult Detention Center, primary care provider at HCMC, and director of HCMC's primary care pathway

Brief summary of training
Internal Medicine Residency Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005-2007
Internship Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004-2005
MD University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2004
University of Minnesota, BS Microbiology, Child Psychology, General Chemistry 1999

What qualities would you bring to the MN ACP Council?
I have served on the Council for one year and have participated in the strategic planning process for the coming three years. I have a passion for education and for using my role as an internist in service to the broader community. My work at Hennepin County Medical Center has allowed me to work with medical students and residents with a focus in ambulatory medicine. I started the primary care pathway to better train our residents to provide longitudinal care for the urban and underserved population. As the medical director of the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center I have seen how the intersection of medicine and public policy has had profound effects on the lives of the patients I serve there. These experiences have fueled my desire to work with organizations that can promote and support these values. As a general member of ACP I have seen how this organization is committed to education and community. I am hoping that by serving on the MN-ACP Council I can deepen my ties with ACP and my current work as an internist in the greater community.

What would be your areas of interest in working on the Council?
I would be interested in serving on the Health and Public Policy Committee, or the Scientific Program Committee

Any additional comments? It would be an honor to continue serving and represent our members on the MN ACP Council

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Neel Shah, MB, BCh, FACP

Neel Shah, MB, BCh, FACP
Neel Shah, MB, BCh, FACP

Current occupation(s): Consultant Hospitalist, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Genetics,
Division of Hospital Internal Medicine/Department of Clinical Genomics
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Brief summary of training
Medical Genetics Fellowship at Mayo Clinic, 2009-2011                  
Mayo Cancer Genetic Epidemiology Training Program, 2009-2011                     
Internal Medicine Residency, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006 – June 2009
Transitional Internship, The Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK, 2003-2004    
Edinburgh University Medical School (MB, ChB) , Scotland, Great Britain, 1998-2003                                                              

What qualities would you bring to the MN ACP Council?
In the five years since completing training, I have been progressively gaining experience as a clinician and medical educator, within a diverse and varied practice, and have become very familiar with the operations of several large healthcare organizations and medical societies.

I have learned that the role of physicians within the healthcare team is now in constant flux, and cannot be taken for granted. I have witnessed healthcare as a business, where the bottom line is made to serve the mission, but I have also seen examples of the mission being bent to serve the bottom line. There is a fine line between job security and fulfillment, and burn out, and the pressure to deal with more patients, with ever-increasing acuity, and greater needs to be educated (and indeed re-educated in an environment of so many misleading internet information sources). Internists in general, hospitalists included, have struggled to establish their practice identity with the lay public. Now with independent advanced practice providers working side-by-side, or in our stead, we need to be ready to continue to define our value and purpose.

What would be your areas of interest in working on the Council? 
There are many issues where ACP must support its members. My practice has exposed me to many of the needs of today’s internists, some of which cannot be solved unilaterally, but where a strong, clear voice can advocate on behalf of patients and physicians alike.

I am particularly interested in addressing challenges affecting hospital-based practice, such as healthcare reform and evolving reimbursement, methods to genuinely improve healthcare quality and reduce medical error, the management of behavioral/violent patients, academic work-life balance, resident/fellow and medical/allied-health student education, cancer and end-of-life care, precision medicine and pharmacogenomics, and ethics.
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