What has your Chapter done lately?

• The Wisconsin Chapter of the AAP is a primary resource for our senate and assembly when dealing with children's issues.
• The AAP itself also gets more than twice as many "hits" from the media than does the Family Practice group, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
• Dr. Carl Eisenberg has established a relationship with the leadership of AARP of Wisconsin promoting universal access for Wisconsin's children.
• Past chapter president Dr. Eisenberg and Chapter Health Disparities chair Ernestine Willis represented the chapter and participated in the Wisconsin AARP program for grandparents raising grandchildren.
• The chapter held its annual meeting April 28, 2007 at the Blue Harbor Resort in Sheboygan.
• We've worked hard and successfully for the passage of the booster seat bill.
• The chapter has formalized its international linkage with the Sociedad Nicaraguense de Pediatria (Nicaraguan Society of Pediatrics).
• Chapter's membership in many coalitions include Wisconsin Primary Care Consortium, Children' s Health Alliance of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Council of Families & Children, among others.
• The Chapter has increased member communication through a Chapter wide distribution list that currently reaches about half of the Chapter voting Fellows.
• The Senior Pediatrician Committee began a Chapter History Project which included assistance from a UW-Milwaukee history graduate student who has used her work researching the early years of the Chapter's activities as her Master's thesis. A visit to the AAP's archivist provided the committee with history project insights and interviewing technique information.