AANnews · MAY 2018
CONTENTS Cover Neurology Now Is Brain & Life Early Registration Deadline Approaching for Sports Concussion Conference
Capitol Hill Report · · · · · · · · · 19 Buchwald Shows Value of Patient Group Collaboration with National MS Society · · · · 22 Conferences & Community Call for Course Proposals for 2019 Annual Meeting · · · · · 24
Webinar Helps You Manage Headache Care, Improve Your Practice President’s Colum Neurology Now Rebranded as Brain & Life—in English and en Español! · · · · · · · · · · 4 Through Their Eyes Recollections of Past AAN Presidents · · · · · · · · · · 6
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Tools & Resources New Registry Module Helps with Outcomes, MIPS Reporting · · · · · · · · · · 8 Using Neuro-specific Measures Can Gain Higher QPP Score · · · · · · · · ·9 Improve Patients’ Experience with Interactive Electronic Exam Room Posters · · · · · · 15 Podcast Central · · · · · · · · · 15 Practice Ambassador Program Considers 2017 Input, Begins 2018 Visits · · · · 16 AAN Publishes Guideline on Disease-modifying Therapies for MS · · · · · · · · 18 Academy Publishes Position Statements on Medical Marijuana and Opioids · · · · · 19
May 7 Is Last Chance to Submit Online Evaluations for Annual Meeting CME · · · · · 24 Board Member Gains Valuable Insight, Satisfaction Through Leadership Program · · · · · · 25 Neuro Film Festival Winners Announced · · · · · · · 26 Elevate Your Status, Enhance Your Professional Credentials with FAAN Designation · · · · · · · · · · · · 28 Education & Research Resident Sought to Join Continuum Editorial Board · · · 28 Subspecialty Fellowship Training Program Accreditation Applications Due June 1 · · · · · · · · · · · · 28 American Brain Foundation A Year of Innovation, Growth · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 29 Careers · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 30 Dates & Deadlines · · · · · · · · 31
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NEWS BRIEFS The AAN and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) held their annual leadership meeting on March 29. Among other topics, the ABPN updated AAN leaders on its MOC Part III Pilot Project, which is a professional journal articlebased assessment activity designed as an optional alternative to the current secure, proctored 10-year MOC examination. A select number of eligible ABPN diplomates were emailed invitations to participate in the pilot program in December 2017. The pilot project will run for three years, from 2019 to 2021, and, if approved by the ABMS, the ABPN plans to transition diplomates into this program in 2022 as a permanent alternative to the secure MOC exam. The AAN successfully nominated three members to participate on Acumen’s MACRA Episodebased Cost Measure Clinical Subcommittees. Medical Economics and Management Committee members Marc Raphaelson, MD, and John Ney, MD, MPH, will continue to participate on the Neuropsychiatry Subcommittee. AAN Coding Subcommittee member J. Mark Bailey, DO, PhD, will contribute to a new subcommittee: Musculoskeletal Disease Management—Spine. These subcommittees create episodebased cost measures to assess resource use in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System.
AAN Executive Director: Catherine M. Rydell, CAE Editor-in-Chief: John D. Hixson, MD Managing Editor: Angela Babb, CAE Editor: Tim Streeter Writers: Ryan Knoke and Sarah Parsons Designers: Siu Lee and Jim Hopwood Email: aannews@aan.com
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