Authors: Ron PerryAnnual NAPA Meeting will be held on 25 May from 0800-1000. POC is NAPA President - CDR CDR_DB.Location:Boston Convention & Exhibition Center415 Summer StreetBoston, MA 02210 United States of America

Authors: FleetAdmiralRonHow can the NAPA site better serve it's members? Send me an email.

Authors: FleetAdmiralRonMany pages are in the process of updates. The member's only section (professional development) and some other areas updated today. More to follow. Send me your suggestions.

Authors: FleetAdmiralRonAs Director of the world's largest (and in my opinion absolute finest) PA Program, I am looking into the possibility of putting together some sort of CME offering for Military PAs. With budget constraints as they are, we are all having great difficulty in securing funding to travel to CME conferences. With that in mind, I was thinking about one of two options:Coordinate an annual CME event in San Antonio (mid-point between fleet concentration areas, and home to many Army and AF PAs). Would be no more than 2 days.Coordinate an annual CME which is recorded and broadcast via something such as VTT/VTC.I am not envisioning either option as being a money-maker for the IPAP or NAPA. Rather, looking at it as the right thing to do for our PA community.I am not looking at the option of doing this on East Coast or West Coast because we have our PA...

Authors: FleetAdmiralRonShipmates,Let's get the word out regarding NAPA Awards. We have four categories and have had some positive momentum since reviving this important program a few years ago. Please see the Awards Program page for additional information. Expect additional information to be posted/emailed in the near future.Thank you!FleetAdmiralRon

Authors: FleetAdmiralRonShipmates,Share your pics and write-ups regarding recent awards/recognition. Send to any of the NAPA Officers for possible consolidation into an article and/or NAPA web site posting.Also - Please consider nominating some hard chargers for NAPA and AMSUS awards! Stand by for more direction and guidance from our NAPA President and Awards Chairperson.Thank you.RP

Authors: FleetAdmiralRonShipmates,This NAPA website costs $600/year. The money comes from people paying dues. When folks do not pay their dues, NAPA does not generate enough revenue to sustain operations. Do you want this website to remain online and active? If so - contact the NAPA President (CDR_DB) STAT and let him know.Thanks!FleetAdmiralRon, Active Duty Director

Authors: FleetAdmiralRonBUMED NOTICE 1520 is out...dated 04 April 2012...provides info on applying for DUINS. The Navy PA community has five opportunities for some great training (3 ortho, 2 emergency med). Start working on your packages!NAPA Navigator newsletter. Get your articles, stories, photos, announcements in ASAP. Send to our editor - JJ. Thanks!AAPA Renewal. Don't forget to inform AAPA that you want NAPA listed as YOUR constituent organization. We need this done by each and every Navy PA...to ensure we keep our seats in the AAPA House of Delegates.ACTION PHOTOS. Send your action shots to KA. As you recall, she put together the PA Motivator a year or so ago. She wants to do another one with current pictures. Contribute to the cause!Oh...don't forget to pay your NAPA dues. Only $30 per year!

Authors: FleetAdmiralRonEffective today, I am turning the NAPA Webmaster position over to gdany99. In 2010, I led a team to build this new site for our Navy PA community and have served as your Webmaster since then. I hope you have found the site to be useful, relevant, and current. It has been a lot of hard work and long hours to get us where we are now and I certainly appreciate your support and faith in me as we developed and launched the site two years ago. Special thanks to my fellow NAPA BOD members who have been instrumental to our ongoing success.Our new Webmaster is eager to take over and has great ideas for further improvements. He shares my belief that this site needs to remain as a central place for ALL Navy PAs (active, reserve, retired, students) to refer to keep track of what is happening in our community.I ask...

Authors: FleetAdmiralRonOur NAPA Navigator editor (JJ) would like to hear from you. Send him your stories, clinical articles, promotion and award pics, etc. We would like to get another issue together NLT 15 April. Thanks.