June 2021

Meeting Minutes

June 24, 2021

SURPAS Council Meeting Agenda

Thursday, June 24th , 2021 11:30am-1:00pm 

Location: Zoom

 

Quorum:  

  • Acknowledgment statement, inc group norms/mutual respect (2’) 
  • Welcome, Zoom etiquette (2’) 
  • Introductions and approval of minutes (5’) 
  • Updates
    • Reporting vaccination status mandatory June 17
      • Masking may be required for those in direct contact with patients and those who work in the hospital
    • Parking enforcement returning back to normal (M-F 8am-4pm)
  • Council Membership Elections (15’)
    • Iti Kapoor (renewal)  — Renewed
      • Do you plan on joining any committees? (Arianna)
        • Would like to join the Family Committee or International Committee (Iti)
    • Rohini Datta (incoming) — Approved to join Council
      • What are you most excited about doing for postdocs (Ioana)
        • Interested in promoting events during NPAW and is interested in Diversity and Inclusion
        • Current STEM mentor and would like to extend this into SURPAS and provide mentoring opportunities for postdocs
    • Chuchu Wang (incoming)  — Approved to join Council
      • Are we students or employees? (Tim) What if you are told by some administrator that there is nothing we can do about a particular situation?
        • Find a solution to get the issue resolved if not at the institutional level (Chuchu) 
  • Leadership elections: (20’)
    • Co-chair – Position remains OPEN
    • Tim MacKenzie — running for Co-Chair
      • How do you plan to make postdocs feel more comfortable and welcome (Arianna)?
      • What are your top priorities? (Vimala)
        • We need to support each other and getting postdocs to recognize their value
        • Med School Faculty Senate – building relationships with Residents
        • Ability to for postdocs to have a voting? presence on the faculty senate
        • Match contributions for retirement accounts
      • How do you plan to avoid burning bridges (Bradley)?
      • How do you plan to support JEDI (Ioana)?
        • SURPAS should encourage postdocs to become more involved (Tim)
      • How would you support Committees? (Katie)
        • Vote on the agenda (Tim)
        • Is there anything that needs to be on agenda that is not – to make sure everyone’s needs are addressed (Tim)
    • Events Coordinator- Rohini Datta – VOTED IN
      • Do you have a specific plan in mind for mentoring – Was present at the SBPA mentoring event (Chinyere)
      • How do you plan to make time for planning events for postdocs? (Ioana)
      • Any upcoming plans given the emergence from COVID-19? (Tim)
    • Advocacy Coordinator- Arianna Celis – VOTED IN
      • What was your favorite part of the co-Chair position and what do you look forward to as an advocacy coordinator? (Ioana)
        • Understand what the needs are for the postdoc community – being where I couldn’t be when I was co-chair (Arianna)
      • We saw a 60% increase in healthcare premiums for postdocs with dependents – how will you solve these problems? (Tim)
        • Needs to know what all the issues are and bringing these issues with OPA
      • What is the one initiative that you will bring from your position co-chair to the advocacy coordinator position? (Bradley)
    • Community Engagement Liaison- Ioana Marin
      • What relationships have degraded over time?(Tim)
        • VPGE – need to reestablish meetings (Ioana) – VOTED IN
    • Financial Officer- Chuchu Wang – VOTED IN
      • Do you have any ideas for things that you would like to implement in this position? (Bradley)
        • Will collaborate with those involved to make budgeting decisions easy and transparent (Chuchu)
    • Communications Director- Vimala Bharadwaj – VOTED IN
      • Initiatives for the monthly mailer? (Ioana)
        • Would need some help to keep it up – social media chair (Vimala)
    • Social Media Chair- OPEN
    • Operations Manager-Julia Abitbol – VOTED IN
      • Is there anything you would like to change about SURPAS? (Katie)
        • Reach out to more postdocs to join SURPAS council
  • Upcoming Events (5’)
    • LRP Planning Committee Meeting- June 30th @ 11:30am
    • JEDI Committee Meeting-July 8th @10am
    • Watch the Euros- June 27th, July 3rd, & 11th @noon in The Patio
    • July Council Meeting -Wed, July 28th
      • Guest Speaker- Sarah Heilshorn (PACPA Chair)