AsMA Associate Fellows Group

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2024 AFG Breakfast Invitation

The Leadership Team of the Associate Fellows Group would like to issue a cordial invitation to all members, aspiring members, past members who are now Fellows, and colleagues, family and friends, to join us at the 2024 AFG Breakfast and business meeting.

The Breakfast will be held from 07:00 to 08:30 CDT on Tuesday 07 May in Michigan 1A, 1B, 1C at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, IL. Tickets are US$50, and can be purchased through AsMA. There is a hard deadline of COB Thursday 02 May for ticket purchases.

As is customary, we are expecting to have a number of guest speakers from within the AsMA Executive as well as the Chair of the Fellows Group, Dr Warren Silberman. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear their invaluable insights!

In addition, we will be inducting the new members of the AFG, and conferring the Ellingson Award for 2024 as well as the AFG’s own Service Awards.

This year’s poster can be found below in JPEG and PDF formats, and feel free to download. We would also like to mention that the AFG Breakfast is open to “all comers”, so feel free to invite colleagues, friends and family if you would like to share this occasion with them.

2023 AFG Breakfast Invitation

The Leadership Team of the Associate Fellows Group would like to issue a cordial invitation to all members, aspiring members, past members who are now Fellows, and colleagues, family and friends, to join us at the 2023 AFG Breakfast and business meeting.

The Breakfast will be held from 07:00 to 08:30 CDT on Tuesday 23 May in the Rhythms Ballroom at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, LA. Tickets are US$50, and can be purchased through AsMA. There is a hard deadline of COB Wednesday 17 May for ticket purchases.

As is customary, we are expecting to have a number of guest speakers from within the AsMA Executive as well as the Chair of the Fellows Group, Dr Warren Silberman. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear their invaluable insights!

In addition, we will be inducting the new members of the AFG, and conferring the Ellingson Award for 2023 as well as the AFG’s own Service Awards.

This year’s poster can be found below (and can also be downloaded via this page). We would also like to mention that the AFG Breakfast is open to “all comers”, so feel free to invite colleagues, friends and family if you would like to share this occasion with them.

2023 AFG Breakfast Flier

2022-23 ‘Slate’ and other updates

The AFG Leadership Team ‘Slate” of Officers and Committee members is now ‘live’ on the website: http://asmaafg.org/2022-23-slate-of-afg-executive-and-committee-positions/.

Please also check the updates regarding the Road to Fellowship and the amount of the annual Dues for AFG membership.

2022 AFG Breakfast

The Leadership Team of the Associate Fellows Group would like to issue a cordial invitation to all members, aspiring members, past members who are now Fellows, and colleagues, family and friends, to join us at the 2022 AFG Breakfast and business meeting.

The Breakfast will be held from 07:00 to 08:30 PDT on Tuesday 24 May in the Naples 7 Room at the Peppermill Resort Hotel, Reno, NV. Tickets are US$50, and can be purchased through AsMA. There is a hard deadline of Friday 20 May for ticket purchase.

As is customary, we are expecting to have a number of guest speakers from within the AsMA Executive as well as the Chair of the Fellows Group, Dr Warren Silberman. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear their invaluable insights!

In addition, we will be inducting the new members of the AFG, and conferring the Ellingson Award for 2022 as well as the AFG’s own Service Awards.

This year’s poster can be found below. We would also like to mention that the AFG Breakfast is open to “all comers”, so feel free to invite colleagues, friends and family if you would like to share this occasion with them.

2021-22 Slate of Officers and Chairs

Sincere congratulations to all the 2021-22 AFG Officers and Chairs!

The AFG is fortunate to have assembled a fantastic team to ‘take care of business’ leading into the 2022 AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting in Reno, NV.

Read the list of new Officers and Chairs here. There are links on this page to profiles for each team.

We would also like to express our thanks to the outgoing Leadership Team, many of whom had stayed on after becoming Fellows in order to support the AFG through the coronavirus pandemic.

We look forward to seeing many AFG members in person for the AFG Breakfast in Reno!

2021 AFG Breakfast Proceedings

The AsMA Associate Fellows Group held a very successful Breakfast during the recent Aerospace Medical Association meeting in Denver. Retiring AFG Leadership Team member, Dr Swee Weng “Buzzlite” Fan, kindly volunteered as the offical AFG photographer for the occasion, and has produced this fabulous slideshow of the Breakfast proceedings, which can be viewed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RXtUfU10tGo. Our sincere thanks go to Dr Fan! 🤩

2021 AFG Breakfast

The Leadership Team of the Associate Fellows Group would like to issue a cordial invitation to all members, aspiring members, past members who are now Fellows, and colleagues, family and friends, to join us at the 2021 AFG Breakfast and business meeting.

The Breakfast will be held from 07:00 to 08:30 MDT on Tuesday 31 August in the Windows Room at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. Tickets are US$50, and can be purchased through AsMA. There is a hard deadline of Thursday August 26th for ticket purchase.

As is customary, we are expecting to have a number of guest speakers from within the AsMA Executive as well as the Chair of the Fellows Group, Dr Warren Silberman. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear their invaluable insights!

In addition, we will be inducting the new members of the AFG, and conferring the Ellingson Awards for both 2020 and 2021 as well as the AFG’s own Service Awards.

This year’s poster can be found below. We would also like to mention that the AFG Breakfast is open to “all comers”, so feel free to invite colleagues, friends and family if you would like to share this occasion with them.

AFG Breakfast Poster 2021

2021 Class of Fellows Announced!

Congratulations to all the new Fellows announced by AsMA on July 9th! Special congratulations to all the members of the Associate Fellows Group who have achieved advancement, especially our current Chair Dr Christopher Backus and Chair-Elect/Membership Chair Dr Justin Nast.
https://www.asma.org/news-events/asma-news/2021-class-of-fellows-announced


Each year a high proportion of the AFG members nominated by the AFG for Fellowship consideration achieve advancement, so it is a great reason to be part of the AFG! 😀

New Officers and Chairs for 2020-21

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Officers and Chairs for 2020-21.

The newly installed members of the Executive Team are:
* Dr Christopher Backus, AFG Chair
* Dr Joseph Butterfield, Senior Chair-Elect
* Dr Justin Nast, Junior Chair-Elect
* Dr Ronald Robinson, Treasurer.

We also welcome a new Deputy Chair to the Ellingson Award Committee, Dr Joseph Hudson.

Sincere thanks are due to our outgoing Treasurer, Dr Danny Pizzino and AFG Chair, Dr Rowena Christiansen.

Due to the extraordinary circumstances with the COVID-19 global pandemic several members of the AFG Leadership Team who were elevated to Fellow earlier in 2020 will be staying on in an acting capacity to support the AFG until additional AFG Leadership Team members can be recruited through the 2021 Call for Nominations and AFG Breakfast during the AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting in Reno, Nevada.

However, any AFG members interested in joining the Leadership Team in the interim are encouraged to reach out via the AFG email address: [email protected].

2020 AFG Ellingson Award

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 AFG Ellingson Award is Dr Douglas D Boyd for his research article “Occupant Injury Severity in General Aviation Accidents Involving Excessive Landing Airspeed,” published in the April 2019 edition of the Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance (AMHP) AsMA journal. The award will be presented during the AFG Breakfast at the 2021 AsMA Annual Scientific Meeting in Reno, Nevada.

The runners-up were Dr William D Porter (co-authors: Nicole Powell-Dunford; Grant D. Wilde; Alaistair J. R. Bushby) for the research article, “Asthma and Rotary-Wing Military Aircrew Selection” published in the July 2019 edition, and Dr David L Lerner (co-authors: Ranjit S. Chima; Kirang Patel; Allen J. Parmet) for the technical note, “Ultrasound Guided Lumbar Puncture and Remote Guidance for Potential In-Flight Evaluaton of VIIP/SANS” published in the January 2019 issue.

Congratulations to all the authors involved!

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