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March 5, 2026
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Dear NYACP members,
It’s hard to believe that the March 2026 Presidents Message puts us only about 6 weeks away from the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting. It feels nice right now to think about being in sunny San Francisco in April, since as we write this, we just had our biggest blizzard in a decade, and there are 18 inches of snow on the ground in Brooklyn! Or, as John says, “eh, child’s play”. It’s nice to have somewhere else be the snow capital of the US, even if only temporarily. Hopefully by the time you all read this, a lot of that snow will have melted, and we will have started to turn the corner towards Spring. Along those lines, the vernal (or Spring) equinox is coming up soon on March 20th. Here are some fun pearls about the vernal equinox from the Farmer’s Almanac: On the March equinox, the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere receive roughly equal amounts of sunlight; neither hemisphere is tilted more toward or away from the Sun than the other. In fact, equinoxes are the only two times of year when the Sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us on Earth!
As for our usual sports update, of course the big news this past month was the winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy. Turned out, there was a lot of drama and excitement and some wonderful results for the U.S. team. We won the most gold medals ever for the USA in the winter Olympics (twelve).
Membership Spotlight
Using Your Voice as a Physician Advocate
ACP has created a toolkit so that physicians can be better informed and better advocates to patients and their profession. The modules outline the motivation and potential uses of media and legislative advocacy for internal medicine physicians.
The toolkit is made up of five modules designed as self-contained voiceover PowerPoint presentations by ACP members, which can be viewed either independently or together with the other modules.
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Attention NYS Licensed Prescribers
If you are due to renew your NYS 3-year opioid-pain training mandate or, if you need to take the 3-hour training for the first time, the NY Chapter ACP is offering a newly updated online CME training program that has already been approved by the NYSDOH.
ACP Internal Medicine Meeting 2026 Featuring Local Speakers
ACP’s premier internal medicine meeting will take place April 16–18 in San Francisco, California. We encourage you to register and support your local colleagues.
Meet the Spring NYACP Advocacy Interns!
NYACP’s newest advocacy interns share what inspired them to join the program and how they plan to integrate advocacy into a career in medicine.
Pascale Lafortune, MD, Northwell LIJ/Hospice and Palliative Care Fellow
Gurpreet Singh, MD, Geriatric Fellow, Zucker School of Medicine
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