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Dear Friends,

It is incredibly hard to believe that we are only a few short weeks away from the opening of CISTM10! We hope you have already made your plans to attend – if not what are you waiting for??? CISTM10 promises to be a great meeting and you certainly will not want to miss out on all the new information as well as meeting friends, old and new, from around the world.

Membership renewal. It is that time of year again and just a reminder that if your payment is not received by March 31 – all of your member benefits, including clinic listings, list serve participation as well as the journal will be suspended until your fees are paid. The easiest and quickest way to accomplish this is through online renewal. Please let us know if you need a replacement username and password to log onto the system.

Membership payments. We need your help in this area. We know that many of our members’ dues are paid by their place of employment. Unfortunately, there are times we receive checks with no clue as to who the payment should be applied to. We then spend, at times, a few hours, trying to track down the member’s name that goes with this payment. There have been a few instances where we were never able to figure it out and the check had to be returned. If your institution or employer is paying for your membership fee, please ask them to return the membership form or at the very least, put your name somewhere on the check. This way it saves us a great deal of time and also ensures that you receive the proper credit for your payment.

Clinic listings on the web. This is not an automatic process. Joining the ISTM or updating your membership information does not automatically transfer over to the clinic listing. You will need to enter this data separately by logging onto member services and choose ‘manage clinic listings’ from the ‘member management’ heading. New listings require a very short form to be completed and once submitted take a maximum of 48 hours to be posted. Updates to your current listing can also be completed from this same section.

ISTM Certificate of Knowledge Examination. The deadline for registering to sit for the is April 16, 2007. If you are planning to take the exam this year, please be sure to get your application into our office prior to the deadline – applications received after that date will not be accepted. Extensions to this deadline will not be given! Please remember that we cannot accept faxed versions of the exam application as the required two pictures are not clear when they are faxed.

We look forward to seeing many of you in Vancouver. Please be sure to stop and say hello. It is always a treat to spend a little time catching up on the past 2 years. As we say here in the South of the U.S., it reminds us of ‘old home week.’

Until next time, remember that “if there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again” (William Penn).

Take care,

Brenda and Brooke