ASRM: Association of Reproductive Managers Professional Group

for the Association of Reproductive Managers. Membership in the ARM is free for ASRM Members. If you'd like to become a member of the ARM, tell us.

The Association of Reproductive Managers (ARM), a Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), is committed to advancing the art and science of fertility practice management through leadership, research, and education. ARM’s mission is to create a forum through which fertility program business managers and physicians can form nationwide interrelationships to keep abreast of critical fertility practice management issues; to provide educational programs designed to help advanced assisted reproductive technology (ART) programs improve the operations of their practices from both internal and external standpoints including planning, marketing, and financial functions; to solve management problems including the identification and correction of deficiencies; and to provide guidelines for enhancement of the organization’s capabilities.

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ARM Officers

Rita Gruber, BA Chair
Maria Elana Amado, 1st Vice Chair
Robert R. Strickland, M.Ed., CMPE, 2nd Vice Chair
Rita Gruber, BA Program Chair

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A Message from the Chair

To our new members, this letter is a word of welcome. For our members who have been with us, we want to take this opportunity to express our thanks and appreciation for your continued participation and support.

ARM has ambitious goals for 2009 to reorganize and renew our professional group and highlight its importance and contributions to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and to the physicians we serve. Every day, you go to work at your individual practices, dedicated to helping patients become a family. Now, we’re inviting you to broaden your commitment and share your special skills, knowledge, vision, and administrative expertise with us as we bring ARM to the forefront of the ASRM professional groups.

Our primary objectives are to:

Revise the ARM bylaws, with a more open, democratic method to elect officers, appoint the postgraduate chair, and accept members’ requests to join committees, etc. Jil Clowers from ASRM will guide and mentor us through this process;
Update our website beginning sometime this summer, once ASRM has finished with all its 2009 website changes;
Open communication among all our members; and
Formalize a combination member satisfaction survey/needs analysis that ARM can use to plan programs, develop peer training, and offer other services for all RE personnel in a leadership role in his/her competency.

This is a work in progress; and we want you to be involved. Thank you!

Rita Gruber, BA
ARM Chair

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Regional Meetings

Below is the current listing of 2008 Regional meetings. While each region has their own meeting, members can attend more than one meeting if they wish in any of the regions.

ARM Southeastern Regional Meeting
Date: Thursday and Friday, June 5 – 6.
Location: Wyndham Orlando Resort, Orlando, Florida. Phone: 1-800-421-8001
Registration Fee: $149
Contacts: Faith Westbrook at fwestgbrook@piedmontreg.com, Phone: 864-232-7734, Fax: 864-232-7099 and Marie Snyder at marie.snyder@repromedgroup.net, Phone: 813-676-8838, Fax: 813-676-8812

For more information: http://www.asrm.org/Professionals/PG-SIG-Affiliated_Soc/arm/2008SouthEast.pdf

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Educational Program Announcements

ARM has several activities including a postgraduate course, seminars and workshops, and roundtables on tap for the ASRM Annual Meeting in the Fall. Check your preliminary program for more details.

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WHY SHOULD YOU BECOME A MEMBER OF ARM?

HERE’S SOME WORDS OF WISDOM FROM OFFICERS OF ASRM

“Is the ASRM a strong society”, asks Michael Soules, M.D., President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in his President’s Message in the Winter 2001 issue of ASRM News—“the answer is both yes and no”. It is strong in terms of its meetings and programs, staff and structure, finances, and its growing international ties, states Soules, but its one area of weakness is its current membership. ASRM has gone beyond being simply a fertility society to a Society that represents all aspects of reproductive medicine, Dr. Soules explains, and important areas of reproductive medicine have not been adequately represented on a national level.

The late J. Benjamin Younger, M.D., former Executive Director of ASRM, was a staunch advocate for ARM and was integral to establishing ARM as a Professional Group because he recognized not only the importance, but also the necessity for today’s reproductive physicians to have management skills as well as medical skills. “I hope that physicians take a personal interest in ARM and its offerings," said Younger, "for both themselves and their administrators.”

ARM is still a small organization, but that’s the good news! That means that if you actively contribute, you will be seen and your voice will be heard—you personally can make a difference in the quality, credibility, and visibility of the fertility management profession.

Becoming an active member of ARM requires application for membership to ASRM and a designation to join the ARM Professional Group. As a dual member of ASRM and ARM, you’ll benefit from access to the most in-depth and up-to-date information about this continually changing specialized medical discipline. A few of the many services and membership benefits include subscriptions to ASRM’s and ARM’s publications, reduced fees at meetings and postgraduate courses, and multiple opportunities for interaction with others in the field with mutual or interrelated interests. Additionally, both ASRM and ARM have comprehensive and interactive web sites with members-only areas. The cost of annual membership to ASRM for allied health professionals is $125.00 and includes you among more than 9,000 reproductive health care professionals from more than 100 countries.

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