USPHS Physicians Professional Advisory Committee -- About the PPAC

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	About the PPAC
		• Mission • Leadership • Committees and Working Groups New! • Categories of PPAC membership	• Charter • Bylaws • Information for new Medical Officers New! • Organizational charts • Physician category challenge coin New!

	Mission
		• Provide advice and consultation to the Surgeon General on issues relating to the professional practice and the personnel activities, civil service and Commissioned Corps of the Medical Category • Provide advisory assistance to the Chief Professional Officer and, upon request, to the Agency and/or Program Heads of the Public Health Service, and to non-PHS Programs that routinely use PHS personnel
	Leadership
		• PPAC LEADERSHIP • 2009 • 2008 More information • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2009 OFFICERS • Chair: CDR Tejashri Purohit-Sheth (CDR Lori Newman, Chair through 8/2009) • Vice Chair: CDR Sheryl Lyss • Executive Secretary: CAPT Barbara Stinson • Chief Professional Officer: CAPT Clare Helminiak • 2008 OFFICERS • Chair: CDR Narayan Nair • Vice Chair: CDR Tejashri Purohit-Sheth • Executive Secretary: CAPT Barbara Stinson • Chief Professional Officer: RADM David Rutstein / Biography and Messages • 2007 OFFICERS • Chair: CAPT Jeffrey Kopp • Vice Chair: CDR Narayan Nair • Executive Secretary: CAPT Barbara Stinson • Chief Professional Officer: RADM David Rutstein / Biography and Messages • 2006 OFFICERS • Chair: CDR Jeff Brady • Vice Chair: CAPT Jeffrey Kopp • Executive Secretary: CAPT Barbara Stinson • Chief Professional Officer: RADM David Rutstein / Biography and Messages • 2005 OFFICERS • Chair: CDR Sarah Linde-Feucht • Vice Chair: CDR Jeff Brady • Executive Secretary: CAPT Barbara Stinson • Chief Professional Officer: RADM David Rutstein / Biography and Messages
	Committees and Working Groups
Return to top		Medical officers are welcome to participate in any of the PPAC committees. If you have an interest in any PPAC committees please contact the committee chair. Unless otherwise noted, committees are open to all medical officers (voting or non-voting). • PPAC Committees and Working Groups (08/2009)
	Categories of PPAC membership
		• New guidelines for voting membership in PPAC Posted 4/20/2009 • Voting Members for 2009: see description in bylaws • Selection of PPAC members: evaluation criteria 12/2007 • Other categories: see description in bylaws • Ex-Officio Members: (non-voting) • Emeritus Members: (non-voting) • Affiliate Members: (non-voting) • Alternate Members: (voting) • Participants: (non-voting) • Liaison: (non-voting) • Procedures to become Ex-Officio and Affiliate member 09/2005
	Charter
		• Charter 6/2007 • Charter 08/2004
	Bylaws
Return to top		• Bylaws 10/2005
	Information for new Medical Officers
		• Welcome Booklet (2009) for new Medical Officers New! 09/2009 • Welcome Packet (2006) with introductory information about the PHS CC • Pay information for new Medical Officers coming out of Residency, Posted 2/27/07 • From the PPAC • Compensation and Special Pay: details • General Information about the USPHS Posted 3/4/07
	Organizational charts
		• Organizational chart (partial) of the USPHS Prepared by PPAC Chair, CAPT Jeffrey Kopp 1/2007 • Organizational chart of the Department of Health and Human Services 1/2007
	Physician Category Challenge Coin
		• Front side • Reverse side • How to order


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