Congratulations Doug!!!!
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 07:02, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com> wrote:
Lots of good news with medicine and wiki lately!
- Wikimedia Medicine is established at the chapter rank!
- stable leadership and membership in the organization for years!
- lots of medicine + wiki + university partnerships!
- ongoing medical content programs!
- people are enjoying!
- 20% of the Wikimedia Foundation board of Trustees are highly engaged
in medicine
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 12:36 AM Rajeeb Dutta <marajozkee(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Congrats Shani & Doug Taylor and all my best
wishes for your upcoming
future endeavour.
Best Regards,
Rajeeb Dutta.
(U: Marajozkee)
Sent from my iPhone
On 13-Aug-2019, at 4:43 AM, Shani Evenstein
<shani.even(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> If you've seen my post yesterday then you might have expected this this
> announcement as well; if you haven't -- as some of you may know, I will
> soon be joining the Board of Trustees (August 15), and am therefore
> required to resign my formal role as Chair of Wikimedia Medicine
(a.k.a.
WikiProject Medicine Foundation). This means a new vacancy in the board
has
to be filled and a new Chair must be appointed.
I'm happy to report that in an online board meeting earlier this month
the
board chose *Doug Taylor* to serve as the new
Chair for our newly
approved
Thematic Organization. Doug has been part of
WikiProject Medicine for
years
> now and has diligently served as the group's formal secretary. Doug not
> only has the institutional memory of the organization, but has actively
> taken part in a variety related activities in the UK and in
collaboration
with
other countries. Doug also brings management skills to the board,
experience from the board of Wikimedia UK, as well as a deep
understanding
> of the movement as a whole, which I have no doubt will allow the
> organization to grow and expand its activities around the world.
>
> As Doug transitions into his new position as Chair, *Dr. Stuart Ray*
will
be
supporting him as Vice Chair and continue to serve as co-treasurer,
and
> *Mossab* will continue to serve as Membership Admin. A new secretary
will
> be appointed soon, hopefully during the
board's in-person meeting at
> Wikimania. The board will also soon co-opt a new board member to fill
out
> the vacant spot, till the next election in
2022.
>
> I'll remain involved in the organization as an 'adviser to the board'
and
look
forward to seeing this Thematic Organization grow, as well as to
continue contributing to medical-related topics as a volunteer and
lecturer
at the Tel Aviv University.
Best,
Shani Evenstein.
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