NLM invites nominations for IHTSDO standing committees due June 29, 2012

Call for nominations: As a member of the United States with the international health terminology standards development organisation (IHTSDO) National Library Medicine (NLM) is the Advisory nomination of potential candidates to four IHTSDO standing committees – content, quality assurance, implementation and innovation and technical. These committees have an important role in the further development of SNOMED CT and IHTSDO clinical terminology. Nominations are due to NLM by COB June 29, 2012 (see details below).

The current list of statutes and recent reports of each Committee are available on the website of the IHTSDO. The committees are described in section 9.4-9.9 articles of the IHTSDO.

About half of the 12 members of each Standing Committee shall serve terms which expire in December 2012 the people elected to the slit will serve for 2 years (Jan. 2013-Dec 2014). There may be additional work the Committee due to the occurrence. People elected to fill those slots in the mid-term will be for 1 year (Jan-Dec 2013).

The members of the Committee whose terms are expiring eligible for adjusted to the same Committee, provided they do not serve more than six years in this Committee.  Adjusted to the same Committee is possible after sitting with at least one year from the date you left the Committee.  There are no contra-indications to a member leaving one Committee, the nominees for the other.  The members of the Committee are eligible for the business must submit a nomination package (see details below).

Because of changes to the articles of the IHTSDO, approved in April 2009, the majority of positions for each Committee are in large places and can be completed by persons nominated by the IHTSDO members from each geographical region.  Currently, the region of the Americas includes the United States and Canada.

The process of appointing the United States: All U.S. SNOMED CT Affiliate licensees (aka, all United States DIRECTLY licensees) may vote to choose candidates U.S. IHTSDO committees. A timeline of elections and nominations:

4 June – 29 June: NLM accepts nominations of potential candidates to four IHTSDO standing committees. Only candidates with the complete nomination packages will be accepted (see below for details and the necessary forms). July 16-17 August: USA SNOMED CT branch to cast the votes of their three major candidates for each Standing Committee. Instructions for casting ballots will be sent to the United States of SNOMED CT branch 16 July. For each Of the three candidates who received the largest number of votes become nominated U.S. Committee. September 1, 2012: NLM will submit the names of three (3) candidates receiving the highest number of votes as the nominees for each of the four committees to the IHTSDO for consideration by the General Assembly of the IHTSDO. October 22-26, 2012: IHTSDO is to announce the final results of the elections during a meeting of the General Assembly held in conjunction with the IHTSDO community of practice meeting.

The responsibilities of the Committee and logistics share: English is the language of the IHTSDO, but the members of the Committee must be prepared to take additional steps to ensure understanding by those for whom English is a second language. Teleconference arrangements are available for all meetings of the committees, but, given the presence of IHTSDO members (currently Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Lithuania, Malta, New Zealand, Polish, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States), schedules a meeting may not be comfortable for all the respective time zones. IHTSDO invites members of the Committee to participate in at least one of the two major meetings of the IHTSDO each year. The members of the Committee of the United States who need aid in meetings face to face the NLM will support travel to IHTSDO one meeting per year. Committee members must participate (in person or via teleconference) in at least 50% of their Committee meetings to maintain its position of the Committee. The members of the Committee the UNITED STATES may also be called upon to provide advice and input to the NLM in matters related to the IHTSDO and SNOMED CT.

Submission of nominations: Nominations are due to NLM by COB June 29, 2012. Please submit your nomination packets NLM by email (nichsr@nlm.nih.gov) with the subject "us nominations is the IHTSDO standing committees". Each nomination package must include:

The completed Nomination Form (PDF, Word) 1 page mini curriculum vitae highlighting key areas the applicant's experience and expertise to 1 page of interest outlining why the candidate is suitable for the Committee a specific question and why the candidate believes that it is important to the work of the Committee. Note: nominations must be Special Committee. Complete matrix of skills for relevant Committee summarizing the key aspects of the background content (PDF, Word), quality assurance (PDF, Word) implementation and innovation (PDF, Word) technical (PDF, Word) completed the Declaration of interests (PDF, Word) nominated

Individuals may nominate themselves. Questions about the process of nomination should be sent to nichsr@nlm.nih.gov, include the subject line "us nominations is the IHTSDO standing committees".

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