AMA
Section Council Requests Names of House of Delegate
Attendees
Officials from the Society’s Section Council on
Anesthesiology of the American Medical Association (AMA)
would like to know the names of the ASA members planning
to attend the AMA’s House of Delegates Interim
Meeting on December 6-9, 2003, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Section Council is open to all anesthesiologists
who attend the AMA House of Delegates meeting. The Section
Council meets to discuss resolutions and other issues
of importance to anesthesiologists. Meetings usually
take place on Saturday and Monday of the AMA House of
Delegates meeting. If you are attending the House of
Delegates meeting, the Society would welcome your participation.
To be placed on the mailing list to receive information
on the Society’s AMA Section Council meetings,
please send your name, address, telephone number, fax
number and reason for attendance to Denise M. Jones
at the ASA Executive Office, 520 N. Northwest Highway,
Park Ridge, IL 60068-2573; or fax (847) 825-1692.
2004 Membership Dues
Announced
The ASA membership
dues for 2004 will be as follows:
Active: $450
Affiliate: $225
Resident: $25
Educational: $225
Educational (student): $25
Medical Student: $10
This information is being provided for those who
wish to renew their membership in December. The 2004
dues statements will be mailed to the membership in
December 2003, although members may renew their dues
online through the “Members Only” section
of the ASA Web site <www.ASAhq.org>.
Dues payments are deductible by members as an ordinary
and necessary business expense; in the case of membership
dues paid to a section 501(c)(6) organization such
as ASA, this means the “business expense”
deduction will be denied to the extent that membership
dues are spent by the organization on lobbying.
At the time of the distribution of the dues statements
for the coming year, ASA is required (in order to
avoid paying a proxy tax) to provide members with
an estimate of what the nondeductible lobbying percentage
will be for that year. For 2004, the percentage of
dues related to lobbying is 9%. Therefore, 9% of dues
paid to ASA in 2004 will be disallowed as a deduction.
This percentage will also be included on your 2004
dues statement.
Anesthesiology groups paying association membership
dues on behalf of an employee (e.g., resident, anesthesiologist
assistant) should bear in mind that they must include
in the employee’s taxable income on Form W-2
that portion of the association’s dues that
the association reports to the IRS as attributable
to lobbying expenses.
In
Memoriam
Notice
has been received of the death of the following
ASA members: |
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Alejandro
M. Berba, M.D.
Surprise, Arizona
September 30, 2003 |
Donald
W. Miller, M.D.
Lincoln, California
May 17, 2003 |
Irl
T. Sell, M.D.
Nathrop, Colorado
September 1, 2003 |
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Harold
F. Chase, M.D.
Keene, New Hampshire
October 1, 2003 |
Detlef
Nick, M.D.
Nastaetten, Germany
September 15, 2003 |
Manjula
R. Shah, M.D.
Oswego, New York
September 27, 2003 |
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Adrian
J. Delaney, D.O.
Kansas City, Missouri
October 4, 2003 |
Daniel
W. Polland, D.O.
Grand Junction, Colorado
August 7, 2003 |
Law
Sone, Jr., M.D.
Dallas, Texas
August 18, 2003 |
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Matthew
J. Deren, M.D.
Greensboro, North Carolina
September 12, 2003 |
David
H. Ralston, M.D.
Los Angeles, California
July 31, 2003 |
Ross
Tappan, M.D.
Reno, Nevada
July 15, 2003 |
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Ohanes
Der Ohanesian, M.D.
La Jolla, California
July 22, 2003 |
Richard
M. Rosenblatt, M.D.
Los Angeles, California
August 4, 2003 |
Beau
Charles Tedesco, M.D.
Raceland, Louisiana
August 28, 2003 |
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Robinson
P. Kirkpatrick, M.D.
McConnelsville, Ohio
August 7, 2003 |
Peter
Safar, M.D.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
August 3, 2003 |
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