MINUTES OF THE

AMERICA NEPAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

3:30PM, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 2003

 

Board Member Attendees

Gaury Adhikary	Sanjaya Khanal	Julia Shepardson
Donald Blair	Janak Koirala	Roshan Shrestha
Khagendra Chetry	Subarna Pradhan	Kristin Stueber
Bhargab Dixit	Sunil Sharma	Brendan Thomson
Shiva Gautam	Fred Shepardson	Libby Wilson

 

Member Attendees

Edith Bacon	Pema Dorje	Ian Macmillan
William Brant	Francis Faile	Narayan Neupane
Bill Brewster	Richard Katzman	Prabhat Pokhrel
Chandra Chataut	Sohan Khatiwada
Pradeep Dhital	Hillary Liss

 

Non-Member Attendees

Manju Karki	Dan Haig	Kamal Pradhan
Andy Haig	Rekha Hamal-Chetry	Sabeena Pradhan

 

Minutes

Sanjaya Khanal called the meeting to order at 3:30 pm.

1. Election of Board of Directors

The following were re-elected to the ANMF Board for 3 year terms:

• Don Blair
• Khagendra Chetry
• Bhargab Dixit
• Janak Koirala
• Cliff Tabin

Sharada Bhandary requested to leave the board and if he agrees, will join the Advisory Council.

The following were elected to 3 year terms as new members of the ANMF Board:

• Bill Brewster
• Hillary Liss
• Ian Macmillan
• Richard Katzman

2. Approval of the Minutes of the 2002 Annual Meeting

Minutes of the 2002 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles were approved without changes.

3. Changes to the Articles of Incorporation

Approval of the amendment to the Articles of Incorporation from the State of New York is still pending. The changes are:

• The name America-Nepal Medical Foundation, Inc. is being changed to America Nepal Medical Foundation (the hyphen between America Nepal is deleted and the “Inc.” is removed.)
• Two additional purposes for which the Corporation is formed are added to paragraph 3 and are as follow:
  1. To support construction of facilities to promote the advancement of medical training and practice in Nepal.
  2. To promote the advancement of medical training and practice in Nepal.

The membership unanimously reaffirmed its approval of these changes. They were approved earlier in February, 2003 by written vote of the members.

4. Outreach Presentation

It was agreed that outreach materials should be prepared so members could more easily do individual presentations to local groups. Materials would include a PowerPoint presentation that can be personalized and would be based on the presentation given by Sanjaya Khanal earlier in the day.

5. Board Bios

It was agreed that board member biographies would be added to the website. Each board member will be sent the bio material we currently have to edit for accuracy.

6. ANMF and Canadian Law

Ian Macmillan will research ANMF’s non-profit status in Canada and whether Canadian members have the same tax benefits as US members. He will investigate establishing non-profit status in Canada if necessary.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:00pm.