American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) admits the American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture
Monday, January 27, 2014
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Posted by: Amanda Hauserman
American Veterinary Medical Association
(AVMA) admits the American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture (AAVA) in the
House of Delegates (HOD) as a Constituent Allied Veterinary Organization On Saturday, January 11, 2014, the AVMA HOD
overwhelmingly voted to approve AAVA's admission to the AVMA HOD as an AVMA
constituent veterinary organization. I've come to realize that this may not
necessarily be news to many or most AAVA members or interested friends of the
academy due to the rapidity with which news travels in the age of the
electronic communications. I had originally planned to release the results of
the AVMA HOD vote in the usual manner, the AAVA monthly, electronic newsletter.
However, I felt that I needed to release something directly from the horses
mouth rather than everyone else having all the fun.
We will still reserve more detailed information for
another forum to keep this as brief as possible.
However, I think its important to make sure some hard
working people are given due credit regarding the long journey to this
beginning. I say beginning because this is only a start to veterinary
acupuncturists' ability to work more closely with our colleagues in being the
guardians for the health and welfare of those under our charge.
This accomplishment was begun two years ago by the AAVA
Membership Committee under the chairmanship of Leslie Phillips and hard work of
the committee members; Drs. Kevin May and Robert N. Schwyzer. The AAVA Board
members; Drs. Susan Wynn, Patricia Baley, Kimberly Henneman, Keum Hwa Choi,
Liane Sperlich, Ron Carsten, and Tim Holt; made vital contributions to the
effort. Our Executive Director played an important role during key
communications with AVMA and in building the membership since joining AAVA in
2005. Amanda Hauserman, AAVA Associate Director, worked long hours to
reorganize our membership database so that we had accurate data to send AVMA.
And Dr. Mili Bass, AAVA editor-in-chief, who was asked to contribute her
experience, as a ten year AVMA HOD delegate for Tennessee, to advise AAVA and
represent AAVA during its resolution review by the AVMA Reference Committee
twice in the last two years. Gratitude must be extended to the International
Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS), Chi Institute, and the Medical
Acupuncture for Veterinarians (MAV) for allowing AAVA to distribute pamphlets
for free student memberships to their foundation course students by AAVA
volunteer recruits. I am indebted to Dr. Cheryl Chrisman for her recruiting
effort and the American Association of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine
(AATCVM) members who responded to help achieve our membership goals. Many
thanks to Dr. Nancy Scanlan for her support, guidance, and recruitment effort and
the acupuncturists from the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association
(AHVMA) who responded to help build AAVA membership.
Hopefully I hadn't left out any key personnel, but
forgive me if I did, and know that the decline of my 65 year old memory doesn't
lessen my appreciation for your contribution.
Thank you all, for giving AAVA this opportunity,
Ken
Ken Ninomiya, DVM, CVA (IVAS 91)
President,
American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture
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