Vital Times 2022 - 6

The President's Page
Edward R. Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA | CSA President
T
he 2022-23
California Society of
Anesthesiologists (CSA)
governance year began with
the first in-person House of
Delegates (HOD) session since
2019. Over the course of the
HOD weekend held in Newport
Beach, we held a fundraising
luncheon for the CSA Foundation, listened to project
presentations from the first cohort of the CSA and UC
Irvine Certificate in Healthcare Leadership Program
launched by Phillip Richardson, MD, MBA, FASA, and
Ron Pearl, MD, PhD, FASA, and were treated to a special
guest lecture by Sasha Strauss on how to communicate
as leaders and demonstrate value. We hosted Robert
Wailes, MD, President of the California Medical
Association (CMA), for an update on the Medical Injury
Compensation Reform Act (MICRA). Last year, we had
anticipated a fight to defend MICRA against a ballot
measure proposal funded primarily by trial attorney
Nick Rowley. However, prior to our HOD session, CMA
announced that an agreement had been reached
between all parties and already had the support of
Governor Newsom. AB 35 (MICRA Modernization),
sponsored by Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez
Reyes, (D-Colton) and Senator Tom Umberg, (D-Santa
Ana) and co-authored by 38 legislators, was signed into
law on May 23, 2022.
During the HOD session, I outlined our leadership
priorities for 2022-23: expanding public-facing
and internal member communications; continuing
leadership development; planning the CSA's 75th
Me with Dr. Ronald Pearl, Immediate Past President, at the June HOD
anniversary; and promoting wellbeing and professional
fulfillment within the CSA membership. I discussed
the challenges facing the specialty of anesthesiology
and the importance of growing CSA membership. I
summarized the value proposition as " Community,
Solidarity, and Advocacy " which also happen to have
the acronym CSA. The HOD passed the creation of
the Early Career Membership category, aligned with
the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), with
incentives to grow CSA and ASA membership and
recruit future leaders. The task force for California
Women Anesthesiologists became a standing
committee of CSA with HOD-approved bylaws, and
the HOD passed resolutions to explore major issues
of anesthesiology payment, practice models, and
environmental sustainability. These projects are
underway in collaboration with ASA but likely will not be
completed within the governance year.
A key initiative to support " Community, Solidarity, and
Advocacy " was launching an expanded Committee
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