Message from the President – Jeri Stull

President’s Message

Jeri Stull

SAO – Nashville Tennessee October 15-17, 2020

We are still on for Nashville! “ ” 2020–A Perfect Vision???

This clever tag line… I developed this while brainstorming soon after our Executive Director, Heather Hunt, accomplished a major success landing the Omni Hotel in Nashville in late 2015. Now it seems less clever and more ironic.

The past three months have been a crazy, alternate universe for our country and the world that no one could have predicted. As I am writing this, most of us have been back to work at some capacity for over a month. It feels great to see our patients! I love my new scrubs but I have a love / hate relationship with my face shield… I can’t believe what it looks like at the end of the day.

The 2020 SAO Meeting has NOT been

cancelled. Life is better smiling with friends and colleagues at the 2020 Nashville Meeting… even if we are still wearing masks!

The 2020 Meeting Team has been hard at work for years to achieve an amazing meeting experience. We have booked engaging speakers, and planned exciting social and networking events. A special thanks to my Meeting Chair, Dr Debbie Sema, and our Executive Director, Heather Hunt, because to say that it has been tumultuous is an understatement. Some Constituencies have already cancelled their fall meetings due to travel outside of the country or areas that still haven’t fully reopened at this time. With uncertainty, even in the South, about what the fall will look like for schools, meetings, sports, and other large gatherings we have pivoted and are continuing to plan the live meeting but we are also investigating a virtual platform.

Please respond to the SAO Meeting

Survey, because this will give us great information for our final planning. If you did not receive the survey, reach out to Heather (hhunt@saortho.org) or me (jeristull@gmail.com) and we will be glad to forward you a link or get your feedback verbally. At this time we are planning on opening registration late July or August. We are living in uncertain times, but I am certain that if we can all meet in Nashville for the 2020 SAO Fall Session… we will have a fantastic experience in Music City, and we will front the group as we “put our band back together”.