PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES 139 th ANNUAL MEETING
January 23-25, 2020 Call to Order
Paul E. Perkowski, MD, Speaker of the House called the opening session of the Annual Meeting to order at 2:00PM on Friday, January 24, 2020 at the Marriott Hotel in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Pastor Drew Rollins from St. Alban’s Chapel in Baton Rouge offered the invocation. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Recognition of Deceased LSMS Members Members passing in 2019 were: John Bernard, MD, Irving Blatt, MD, Joan Blondin, MD, Florence Jones, MD, Kenneth Kemmerly, MD, Thomas McNeely, MD, Irene Morin, MD, Robert Morrison, MD, O’Neill Pollingue, MD, James Stewart, MD, Paul Tennis, MD, Harry Winters, MD, Eugene Worthen, MD Recognition of 50 Year Anniversary Physicians The 50 Year Physicians include: Safeer Ahmad, MD, Ramon Aizpurua, MD, C. Barrett Alldredge, MD, Harish Anand, MD, Paul Azar, MD, Joseph Barron, MD, Emile Barrow, MD, Edwin Beckman, MD, Joseph Bocchini, Jr., MD, James Boyd, MD, Nagarajan Chandrasekaran, MD, Reuben Chrestman, III, MD, Jerry Drummond, MD, Craig Folse, MD, Julian Foreman, MD, A. Joanne Gates, MD, Victor Gunderson, MD, Gerald Hannan, MD, John Hevron, Jr., MD, Lewis Jones, MD, Frederick Korndorffer, MD, A. Gene Lampson, MD, Powlin Manuel, MD, Don Marx, MD, Bryan McCann, MD, Joseph Miceli, MD, Liang-Sien Oey, MD, Thomas Quaid, MD, Albert Richert, MD, John Romero, MD, Lawrence Russo, MD, Louis Sardenga, MD, Fayez Shamieh, MD, J. Wayne Smith, MD, Linda Stewart, MD, Hossein Tabari, MD, Robert Thornton, MD, John Walker, Jr., MD, Margaret Winkler, MD, Emery Worley, MD, Guy Zeringue, MD Remarks of the Speaker Paul E. Perkowski, MD, Speaker of the House began his remarks by welcoming all participants and thanking them for making the trip to Baton Rouge. He also thanked the sponsors of meeting. Dr. Perkowski explained that the meeting would follow the rules of Sturgis. Dr. Perkowski further announced that the procedure for elections for offices elected by the House of Delegates would be outlined by the Committee on Rules and Order of Business. The Speakers prepared election sheets for all elected offices and previously announced candidates for each office as a slate of candidates which will be presented to the House. As each position comes up for election, the Speakers will indicate the announced candidate(s) and call for any additional nominations from the floor. Elections for offices with more than one nominated candidate will be as follows: the ballot box will be in the back of the meeting room and after nominations are closed, staff will prepare ballots for distribution. Voting will take place for two hours. Any delegate has the right to extract any item from either the proceedings of the HOD or BOG to be debated. If anything was extracted from those proceedings, debate on those items only would occur immediately. Additionally, the Speakers reminded delegates that minutes from BOG meetings cannot be changed.
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