CSMA PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
March 2021
Greetings to my fellow CSMA members:
CSMA will be holding our annual state meeting by Zoom this year on April 10th at 1pm. The registration form will be going out to all by email. Please strongly consider taking part if your schedule permits and register A.S.A.P. Your input helps our organization to be more pertinent to you and your needs.
COVID-19 is still holding strong and leaving us longingly wishing for a return to normal whatever that new normal may look like. Many may have lost a friend/co-worker or family member during the pandemic. My condolences for any suffering such a loss. This has been a stressful period for all whether still working or not with isolation, working short staffed, perhaps loss of job or wages and everything else that has come our way.
We all pay our yearly dues and as President I hope for more interaction between our members and our elected officers during the year. We encourage all to contact us if interested in becoming more active and/or interested in working on any of our committees. We would love to help you grow towards leadership in CSMA. The officers of our Society are here for any inquiries or ideas for CSMA you might have.
Our executive committee has tried to get things accomplished in a timely manner working around limitations that we may have come up against because of the pandemic. We have committees researching better ways to serve you, two of which are working on getting us to a point that we can offer some free CEUs this year among other things.
Please remember you are CSMA and we need your participation to make our Society work.
Thank you for allowing me to serve you.
Nancy Lizon, CMA (AAMA)
California Society of Medical Assistants President
March 2021
Greetings to my fellow CSMA members:
CSMA will be holding our annual state meeting by Zoom this year on April 10th at 1pm. The registration form will be going out to all by email. Please strongly consider taking part if your schedule permits and register A.S.A.P. Your input helps our organization to be more pertinent to you and your needs.
COVID-19 is still holding strong and leaving us longingly wishing for a return to normal whatever that new normal may look like. Many may have lost a friend/co-worker or family member during the pandemic. My condolences for any suffering such a loss. This has been a stressful period for all whether still working or not with isolation, working short staffed, perhaps loss of job or wages and everything else that has come our way.
We all pay our yearly dues and as President I hope for more interaction between our members and our elected officers during the year. We encourage all to contact us if interested in becoming more active and/or interested in working on any of our committees. We would love to help you grow towards leadership in CSMA. The officers of our Society are here for any inquiries or ideas for CSMA you might have.
Our executive committee has tried to get things accomplished in a timely manner working around limitations that we may have come up against because of the pandemic. We have committees researching better ways to serve you, two of which are working on getting us to a point that we can offer some free CEUs this year among other things.
Please remember you are CSMA and we need your participation to make our Society work.
Thank you for allowing me to serve you.
Nancy Lizon, CMA (AAMA)
California Society of Medical Assistants President
Message From CSMA President
Nancy Lizon, CMA (AAMA)
July 2020
Hello to my fellow California Society of Medical Assistant (CSMA) members.
This past year has been a difficult year for many, if not all of us, with COVID-19 and all else that has occurred whether affiliated with COVID or not. If you’ve lost your job, been cut back on hours, or worse, tested positive or had a family member test positive, I am truly sorry and my thoughts and prayers have included you. I would like to thank you for allowing me to help forge CSMA’s way to, I hope, a stronger presence and force within our career choice and state.
Any organization/group is only as strong as its members. My goal/hope is to get more of you interested and involved in working together to make our certification and expertise the only one employers will be willing to hire and pay a competitive wage for. Some of us may not get involved because life is busy with work, family, and other obligations. California is a large, spread out state and often we don’t even know who around us is also a CMA (AAMA) with like educational background and to perhaps have the opportunity for comradery and communication. CSMA is open to suggestions and comments on how to accomplish making us a better organization/resource for our members.
With COVID-19 cancelling group meetings/gatherings we will most likely be looking at most things occurring virtually. We have a committee checking more into our options for making it more widely available. This is where perhaps many/most of our younger members are anyway, but for those of us that are older this is a learning experience. This year got me introduced to Zoom and come to find out it wasn’t difficult at all and is much faster than a ton of emails between multiple people.
California has 500+ CMA (AAMA) members and unfortunately, for whatever reasons, we had very few take part in our virtual annual meeting. We need your voice to help us make the best choices for all members. I want to be a true representative for what our members want or need. Our National Conference is coming up in September and we’ll need to vote for what we feel is best for our state members on issues presented by AAMA. Please help us to be a true representation for our members. Feel free to email any of our officers and/or committee chairs with any questions or suggestions. The updated contact information should be on our website very soon but you’re always welcome to email me anytime at: csma2019president@gmail.com.
Thank you for striving to be the best and I wish all a better year. I hope to hear from you.
Nancy Lizon, CMA (AAMA)
California Society of Medical Assistants President
Addendum: I was just notified that the National Conference in Florida has been cancelled. I just wanted to let you know in case you were contemplating going.
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