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Dear AACMFS MEMBER

Examine the cover of the latest Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons publication (January, 2023) and you will observe the AACMFS logo just below the AAOMS logo, and above the logo of the CAOMS. Look closer and you will see that the JOMS lists AACMFS among the organizations that consider them to be their official Journal. AAOMS president, Dr. Paul Schwartz lists the benefits of this association in the January 2023 newsletter that is in your email.

This recognition is a wonderful compliment to AACMFS and its members. We are a small, but very meaningful group. Congratulations to all, especially to Past President Dr. Rui Fernandez and Executive Director Dr. Brent Ward for their assistance in making this happen. The Journal has agreed to electronically publish the abstracts of our annual meeting and has invited us to contribute formal manuscripts and to be represented at their Editorial Board meetings.

I look forward to greeting you in Chapel Hill April 13-16 for the annual meeting. Remember that abstracts are due Friday, January 20, 2023.

Happy New Year and Best Wishes.

Tim

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”. — Benjamin Franklin

The AACMFS has created a 501(3) (c) charitable foundation that will enable the Academy to receive tax-deductible donations that will provide financial support for appropriate educational undertakings. The Chair of this Foundation is Dr. Eric Dierks. The first undertaking of the Foundation will be to develop a traveling scholar program that will provide financial support to one US or Canadian oral and maxillofacial surgeon each year. The grant will assist the recipient in traveling to another country for a 4 to 6 week period to interface with a local surgeon or surgeons to enhance the recipient’s fund of knowledge and expand their depth of experience. The specific details will be forthcoming and we anticipate the formalization of this program in early 2023, at which time applications will be accepted.

Please support the AACMFS Foundation by making a donation below:

https://aacmfsf.wildapricot.org/Donation/