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Come and visit your fellow Academy Liaisons during Career Corner at Annual Assembly this year!

Check out these reflections from our 2025 Annual Assembly Career Corner: Leveraging the Liaison Experience presenters on their experience being an Academy Liaison:

 

Meet Dr. Sarah Welch, DO, MPH

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center - VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System

Current Liaison Opportunity: American Geriatric Society (AGS) - Geriatrics for Specialists Initiative

What has been your favorite part of being an Academy liaison?

I enjoyed going to the American Geriatrics Society meeting and networking with organizations and leaders across academic medicine to increase awareness and knowledge for the surgical and related medical specialty care we all need as we age.

Describe a time you collaborated with external institutions/organizations or others.

I partnered with physicians in other specialties to study the role of ageism within different fields of medicine.

How has your time as a liaison been valuable in your career?

It has provided opportunities for research collaboration, funding and networking.

 

Meet Dr. Elizabeth Martin, MD, MPH, MHS

Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
Medical Director, Pediatric Rehabilitation
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

Current Liaison Opportunity: American Academy of Neurology/Child Neurology Quality Measures Workgroup

What has been your favorite part of being an Academy Liaison? 

I've enjoyed collaborating with child neurologists and the opportunity to offer a PM&R perspective as we developed quality practice guidelines.

Describe a time you collaborated with external institutions/organizations or others.

We met regularly with representatives across the country who participated in the AAN/Child Neurology Quality Measures Workgroup as we had the opportunity to propose, discuss and implement the recommended measures.

How has your time as a liaison been valuable in your career?    

In addition to opportunities for networking and collaboration, participation in this workgroup has resulted in the development of quality measures we believe will improve clinical practice for our patients and resulted in published recommendations.

 

Meet Dr. Ameet Nagpal, MD, MS

Division Chief, PM&R - Medical University of South Carolina
Professor, Department of Orthopedics and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Recent Liaison Opportunity: AMA’s Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force (formerly known as AMA’s Pain & Opioid Task Force)

What has been your favorite part of being an Academy liaison?

Interacting with physicians from other specialties in "in person" meetings with the AMA.

Describe a time you collaborated with external institutions/organizations or others.

We had annual meetings at the AMA headquarters to discuss AMA positions regarding chronic pain, opioids, etc.

How has your time as a liaison been valuable in your career?

It allowed me to understand parts of organizational medicine that occur at the level of AMA which is highly political.

 

Meet Dr. Marc Gruner, DO, MBA, RMSK

OrthoBethesda
Current Liaison Opportunity: Partnership for Quality Measurement: Committee Member

 

 

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