2001 NBME 6-01-01 Board transcript

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1 NEVADA STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS

2 BOARD MEMBERS PUBLIC INFORMATION

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13 Friday, June 1, 2001

14 In the Conference Room at the Offices of the

15 Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners

16 1105 Terminal Way, Suite 301

17 Reno, Nevada 89502

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25 Reported By: Cindy Lee Brown, CCR #486

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1 A P P E A R A N C E S

2 Arne D. Rosencrantz, President

Susan S. Buchwald, M.D., Vice President

3 Paul A. Stewart, M.D., Secretary-Treasurer

Dipak K. Desai, M.D.

4 Jaculine C. Jones, Ed.D.

Cheryl A. Hug-English, M.D.

5 Joel N. Lubritz, M.D.

Donald H. Baepler, Ph.D.

6 Robin L. Titus, M.D.

Larry D. Lessly, Executive Director

7 Maureen E. Lyons, Deputy Executive Director

Richard J. Legarza, J.D., General Counsel

8 Charlotte M. Bible, J.D., Asst. Chief Deputy Atty. General

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1 RENO, NEVADA; FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2001; 5:00 P.M.

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3 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: It's 5:00 o'clock. We'll

4 call this meeting to order. We are going to go through

5 agenda item number four, one, two, three and four. Just so

6 you know, that's what we're going to be doing tonight. It's

7 executive session and personnel.

8 Our first announcement is Larry Lessly's

9 appointment as Executive Director to the USMLE Committee on

10 Irregular Behavior. Why don't you tell us about that,

11 Larry.

12 MR. LESSLY: Based on my experience in working

13 on this board, they thought I was most qualified on

14 irregular behavior. So that's the committee that looks at

15 examinees who are doing something wrong during the exam

16 process which they may wish to not give credit for the exam.

17 And there are a couple of members of the federation and one

18 executive director, so they asked me to do that.

19 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: And the announcement of the

20 appointment of Donald Baepler, Ph.D., to the Program

21 Committee of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the

22 United States, Inc.

23 Don, do you know what you're going to be

24 doing?

25 MR. BAEPLER: This is a committee to aid

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1 people. The past president, the president and president

2 elect and five other people will be meeting in the Hyatt

3 Regency in San Diego on July 20th. The federation board

4 meets on the 21st. I think we have a joint dinner on the

5 evening of the 20th.

6 As I understand it, it basically sets the

7 program for the year, speakers, that type of thing. That's

8 about all I really know.

9 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: Does that constitute one

10 meeting a year?

11 MR. BAEPLER: I don't know that.

12 MR. LESSLY: It will be more than one.

13 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: I would think it would be

14 more than one. It's an important meeting, and the State of

15 Nevada is happy to have your appointment to that.

16 Congratulations.

17 MR. BAEPLER: Thank you.

18 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: Approval of minutes. Do I

19 have a motion?

20 MR. DESAI: So motion.

21 MS. BUCHWALD: I second.

22 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: March 2nd, 3rd and April

23 9th. We have a motion to second. Any discussion?

24 All in favor?

25 Any opposed?

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1 (Whereupon the motion was voted on and carried unanimously.)

2 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: Chair votes in favor of the

3 motion. The motion carries.

4 Internal Affairs Committee report.

5 MS. BUCHWALD: Yes. I think everybody on the

6 board actually sent in, and thank you so very much, their

7 evaluations on a new form. We felt that the previous form

8 was not actually giving us an adequate assessment or an

9 appropriate assessment of people's performance and didn't,

10 particularly, give constructive feedback either.

11 And the committee met with Larry and, of

12 course, Dr. Baepler, and that new form was the outcome of

13 that. So I would certainly be open to any feedback. But I

14 believe that this form is now in place, and I think it

15 functioned very well for the last evaluations. And I

16 presume it will stay in place until something better comes

17 along or is needed.

18 Any concerns about that form?

19 Thank you. That's it.

20 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: Okay. Agenda item number

21 four, personnel, and I think we're going to go to executive

22 session.

23 MR. LESSLY: I guess that we'll go to

24 executive session, and everyone except Mr. Legarza and I

25 will be excused.

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1 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: Do I have a motion?

2 MR. DESAI: So motion.

3 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: Second?

4 MS. BUCHWALD: I second.

5 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: All in favor?

6 Opposed?

7 (Whereupon the motion was voted on and carried unanimously.)

8 (Whereupon a closed meeting was held.)

9 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: We are in open session.

10 MS. BUCHWALD: Mr. President, as President of

11 the Internal Affairs Committee, I would like to move that

12 effective July 1st, 2001, the board grant a three percent

13 increase in compensation to Betty L. Tonner and Casey N.

14 Jinks and an eight percent increase in compensation to all

15 other board staff, with the exception of Lynette Nason and

16 Bryce Rader, whose compensation shall be evaluated at a

17 later date when requested by the executive director.

18 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: We have a motion. Do I have

19 a second?

20 MR. STEWART: Second.

21 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: Any discussion?

22 All in favor?

23 Anyone opposed?

24 (Whereupon the motion was voted on and carried unanimously.)

25 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: Chair votes in favor of the

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1 motion. The motion carries.

2 MS. BUCHWALD: In addition, Mr. President, I

3 would like also to move that effective, again, on July 1st

4 2001, in recognition of Mr. Lessly's and Mr. Legarza's

5 extraordinary additional duties that they assumed and their

6 organizational skills during this legislative session, that

7 they each be given a one-time bonus of $5,000.

8 MR. STEWART: I will second that motion.

9 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: We have a second. Any

10 further discussion?

11 I'd just like to make a comment as

12 president. I was up here a few days with them, and I was

13 really impressed at the organization that Mr. Lessly and

14 Mr. Legarza had and how they coordinated that with

15 Mr. Barengo and how things worked. And we came out of the

16 legislature with a real effective session. And I'm real

17 pleased with the motion because I think it's a great idea.

18 All in favor?

19 Anyone opposed?

20 (Whereupon the motion was voted on and carried unanimously.)

21 MR. ROSENCRANTZ: Chair votes in favor of the

22 motion. The motion carries. I think that will end our

23 meeting for this evening.

24 (Whereupon the evening recess was taken at 6:15 p.m.)

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1 STATE OF NEVADA, )

2 ) ss.

3 COUNTY OF WASHOE. )

I, CINDY LEE BROWN, Certified Court Reporter in

and for the County of Washoe, State of Nevada, do hereby

certify;

That I was present at the above-entitled matter

on June 1, 2001, and took verbatim stenotype notes of

the proceedings entitled NEVADA STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL

EXAMINERS BOARD MEETING, and thereafter transcribed the same

into typewriting, as herein appears;

That the foregoing transcript is a full, true and

correct transcription of my stenotype notes of said hearing.

Dated at Reno, Nevada, this 2nd day of May,

2001.

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CINDY LEE BROWN, CCR #486