Volunteer for a SASGOG Committee
To achieve the SASGOG mission, we rely heavily on member involvement and active committee participation. Committee participation provides our membership with opportunities for national service and growth in leadership. In turn, the organization benefits from unique perspectives that advance our shared mission. SASGOG is committed to recruiting committee members who can provide those unique perspectives.
Each SASGOG Committee has a different responsibility aimed at helping the Society pursue its mission to enhance women’s health by supporting academic generalist physicians in all phases of their careers and to support education and scholarship, while fostering excellence in research.
In the third quarter of the calendar year, SASGOG members at all career levels are solicited to volunteer for their preferred committee. Committee Members typically serve for 3 years. Click here to apply!
Questions? Contact SASGOG.
To view this year’s committee rosters, click here.
Communications Committee: The Communications Committee is responsible for determining how we communicate with our members, colleagues, and affiliated organizations. They also oversee and coordinate all social media, website, and relevant SASGOG communications both internally and externally to ensure messages are consistent, appropriate and align with the vision and mission of the organization.
Development Committee: The Development Committee is charged with determining guidelines for how development funds would be solicited, under what circumstances they would be solicited, and how these funds would be used going forward. The Development Committee identifies potential donors and connects them with worthy projects.
Finance Committee: The Finance Committee serves SASGOG by:
- Maintaining SASGOG’s financial solvency through prudent socially-conscious investment and diligent oversight of spending to grow the organization’s impact and support to its members.
- Tracking funds allocated for specific purposes such as the Annual Meeting, Pearls of Exxcellence and the PROGRESS research course, as well funds related to routine income and expenses for SASGOG.
- Proposing an annual balanced budget for Board approval.
- Collaborating with the Board and other committees to provide a financial perspective on SASGOG activities.
Membership Committee: The Membership Committee will propose and implement initiatives to grow membership and retain current members (individual and institutional). Specific responsibilities include membership growth, current membership retention (through identification and communication of member benefits), membership types definition and dues collection.
Dues are collected from members based on an anniversary date, requiring a defined process to message and collect within an acceptable timeframe.
Mentorship Committee: The Mentorship Committee has three goals: incorporate mentorship topics in SASGOG Annual Meetings, provide mentorship support and opportunities to SASGOG members through our yearly mentee/mentor pairing and through initiatives outside of meetings, and to engage diverse SASGOG members.
Nominating Committee: The Nominating Committee shall seek appropriate candidates and submit a slate of at least one nominee for each vacant or elective office when necessary to the Board not less than 90 days before the Annual Meeting of each election year.
Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Committee (PSQI): The PSQI Committee:
- Creates valuable, new resources for SASGOG members seeking to implement improvements.
- Provides opportunities for SASGOG members to pursue scholarly activity related to patient safety and quality improvement.
- Enriches the science of patient safety.
- Positions SASGOG as a valued patient safety & quality improvement resource for members, the Ob-Gyn community, and other stakeholders in medicine beyond our specialty.
Members have passion for and experience with pursuing improvements and a working knowledge of PSQI science. Committee members are expected to attend monthly meetings, author and edit entries within SASGOG’s Lexicon and attend the annual conference. Committee members also have the option of making additional contributions, including generating content for the Safety Pearls of Exxcellence and our annual meeting, enriching our new webinar series that highlights SASGOG members’ outstanding PSQI projects, and identifying new activities to expand the value we offer SASGOG members.
Pearls – Publications Committee: The Pearls-Publication Committee is charged with overseeing the publication and revision of the Pearls documents, mentoring junior authors, and making editorial decisions. The Committee is also responsible for overseeing all SASGOG publication work, advising the Board on external publication opportunities, selecting editors for external publications and for participation in the selection of volunteers to work on academic task forces.
Program Committee: The Program Committee develops and executes the Annual Meeting. Activities include content development, reviewing session proposals, speaker outreach, and program evaluation. The committee meets virtually every one to two months. Attendance at the Annual Meeting is required, with exceptions made for appropriate circumstances.
Research Committee: The Research Committee is responsible for developing and implementing SASGOG’s strategy to elevate research among academic specialists by improving access to collaborations, networks, funding, basic research skills, mentorship, publications and other outlets for dissemination.