APMA News - November/December 2021 - 6

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6 APMA News November/December 2021
Jeffrey R. DeSantis, DPM, FACFAS, President
Counting Our Blessings
Happy Holidays! It's the time of year to share our gratitude and reflect on the
many blessings in our lives. As we approach the end of another year that has challenged
our health-care system, our practices, and our sanity, some blessings may
have come into sharp focus: health, family, friends. Others may be harder to spot,
but it's worth taking inventory. Here at APMA, we're taking stock and giving thanks,
as well.
In this issue of APMA News, we gratefully acknowledge the unparalleled contributions
of Jay Levrio, PhD, retired deputy executive director and chief operating
officer of APMA. I encourage you to read about Dr. Levrio, beginning on page 10,
to understand the profound impact his four decades of service have had on our
specialty and our association. Dr. Levrio retired this year after being diagnosed
with a serious illness in 2020. I hope you will join me in sharing your gratitude for
his service and your support for him and his family.
We're also deeply grateful to our corporate supporters. These companies, whether
corporate partners, sponsors, or exhibitors at our events, believe in the work
you, our members, do every day, and they support it by providing APMA the financial
resources to support you. Their commitment to podiatric medicine and surgery
helps fuel events, education, communications, and more. Please take the time
to read our Special Corporate Section, beginning on page 20. I encourage you to
thank these companies by considering their products and services in your practice.
I am personally grateful for the strides we have made as a specialty in working
with our colleagues in medicine. We've come a long way in recent years, and while
there are certainly challenges left to overcome, I'm thankful for our growing and
mutually beneficial relationship with societies like the American Academy of Orthopaedic
Surgeons and the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. We've
worked together in many ways this year, not least of which was successfully advocating
with Anthem to change its Clinical Appropriateness Guidelines for the Musculoskeletal
Program, Appropriate Use Criteria: Small Joint Surgery. As a result of
our mutual efforts, Anthem/AIM agreed to address many of our concerns about
their ankle reconstructions guidelines. Specifically, ankle arthroplasties, including
implants, will now be added to the clinical guidelines if the arthrodesis has failed
and there is now a non- or mal-union. Progressive peripheral neuropathy and immune-suppressed
patients will be recommended to be removed from the exclusions
for ankle arthroplasties if the patients are symptomatic. Read about more of
APMA's many victories on behalf of our specialty at www.apma.org/victories.
I'm also grateful that we were able to host the APMA Annual Scientific Meeting
in person in Denver and to be looking forward to our first in-person House of Delegates
meeting in two years in March. It is such a relief to be able to connect in
person with colleagues and friends and make new connections.
I look forward to seeing many of you in person soon. In the meantime, I wish
you peace, joy, and good health this holiday season and always.

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