Business Meeting of the American Society of Andrology 1987

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ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANDROLOGY
March 9. 1987
Center City Marriott Hotel
Denver. CO
The meeting was called to order by President Wllllam Odell.
Dr. Odell announced the appointment of MigueJ Picher. M.D •• Ph.D • ., as the Executive
Secretary. The office wlll be located at Thomas Jefferson University., 314 Curtis. lOIS
Walnut Street. Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215-928-8674~"
The Treasurer's Report was given at the Executive Council Meeting and. wlll be included.
The figures indicate a profit from the 1986 Annual Meeting. 111 a~ation, there was
a $9,000 gain from the endowment funds. These monies were placed in secure money
market funds. ' -
Report of the 1987 Annual Meeting was given by Rupert Amann, PLn. One htmdred
thirty-two abstracts were .received; 5.4% were rejected. One hundred 'twenty-four
abstracts wlll be presented. There was an 80% cOfl'elation betweendle format desired
for presentation as stated on the abstract form and the actual mo4e of presentation
at the Annual Meeting. There were six commercial exhibitors. The final figures 'indicate
223 persons were preregistered. The final count was 247 total registrants. The breakdown
was 137 members, 56 non-members and 54 students. . . ...... . . .. .
A report of the Membership Committee was given by Larry Johnson, Ph.D. He stated
that the present membership ' is at 648. There are an additionaf 45 student members -- -,
for a total of 693. A total of 96 members (14%) did not renew last year. However,
93 new members did register for the Society. Letters will be sent to those who did
not renew. Letters wlllalso be sent to non-members who presented material or attended
this meeting. In 1987. the Society has received 25 new members plus an additional
12 student members.
Report of the 1988 Annual Meeting (Glen Cunningham). The meeting wlll be held in
the Marriott Hotel adjacent to the Medical Center. Houston, Texas. The postgraduate
cour$e wlll be Saturday. March 26th, and the meeting wlll run from March 27th to the _
29th. The postgraduate course director is Dr.' Richard Santen. The Sorono lecturer
wllI be Roger Gibbons, Ph.D •• who wllI speak on Inhlbin. Clinical workshops are scheduled
which are identified on the preliminary program sheet.
The Report of the Publications and Journals Committees. Six regular issues of the
.Journal were published In' 1986. These included 48 articles, one review article. and
one rapid communication (~hls was published within three months). Time to publication
Is now 11 months. Previously the time to publication was 9.8 months. However. three
manuscripts remained with the author for three months following the initial review.
Ninety- five manuscripts were submitted in 1986. 98 manuscripts in 1985. There was
a 34qb final rejection in 1985 and a 42qbfinal rejection rate in 1986. The time,of submis­sion
to completion of the first review was 1.8 months. There is presently a backlog
of five manuscripts. A request · for purchase of 32 additional pages was made by the