ISSM Call for Nomination

There will be an ISSM election at our next Business Meeting at 17.00 hours on Tuesday 28 Sep 2010 at the Coex Convention Center in Seoul.

There has been a ByLaws change since 2008 regarding the election process. The new election protocol is described in Section 7.6 of the Bylaws. I have copied below this section of the Bylaws. Briefly, the Nominating Committee will nominate 1 candidate for each open position. It is very important for all members to know that in addition to the candidate nominated by the Nominating Committee, any member in good standing may be nominated for election by presenting to the Secretary General a petition for nomination signed by any 20 full members of the Society. Petitions for nomination must be received by the Secretary General by 06 August 2010. There will be no nominations from the floor at the Business Meeting on 28 Sep 2010. Nominations from the floor are not permitted by the ISSM ByLaws (see below.)

The positions that are open for nomination in 2010 are President-Elect, Treasurer and one Member-at-Large from each of the the North American, Africa-Gulf and Latin American regions. Please remember that the Members-at-Large are elected by the entire membership and serve the entire Society, not only the region in which they reside. The Board of Directors has a Member-at-Large from each of five geographic regions, a policy which is intended to produce geographic diversity for the Board.

For the election this September, the Nominations Committee has decided to nominate Wayne Hellstrom, current ISSM Secretary General, for President Elect for the 2010-2012 term. If he is elected, there will be an opening for Secretary General. The Nominating Committee has decided to nominate Annamaria Giraldi for a 4 year term as Secretary General. If Dr. Hellstrom is not elected President Elect, he will continue as Secretary General for the remainder of his term to 2012.

 Thus, for this election, it is possible for any member of the society to petition for nomination for either President Elect or for Secretary General. The Nominating Committee has decided to nominate Luca Incrocci for another 4 year term as Treasurer. The Nominating Committee has decided to nominate Arthur Burnett, Tarek Anis and Luiz Otavio Torres for the three openings as Members-at-Large of the Board of Directors. In addtition to petitioning for nomination for President-Elect or Secretary-General, ISSM members may petition for nomination for Treasurer or Member-at-Large. Anyone who wishes to place his or her name into nomination is advised to submit a petition signed by 20 ISSM members to the Secretary General prior to 06 August 2010.

Section 7.6. Method of Election

(a) A Nominating Committee shall be formed for each election. The Nominating Committee shall be chaired by the Immediate Past-President of the Society. The Nominating Committee shall consist of all Past- Presidents plus one member from each Regional Society. Each Regional Society shall determine whether its representative to the Nominating Committee shall be elected by members of the Regional Society or shall be appointed by its Board of Directors. The term of office of each Regional Society representative shall be two years.

(b) The Nominating Committee shall nominate one candidate for each open position. The Nominating Committee shall consider the need for diversity of geography, gender and professional specialty in making its nominations. The Nominating Committee shall respect the international nature and spirit of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and shall assure that the various regions of and disciplines within the Society are adequately represented on the Board of Directors.

(c) In addition to the candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee, any member of the Society who is not delinquent of dues or ineligible by law to serve as a company director in the State of California may be nominated for election by presenting to the Secretary General a petition for nomination signed by any 20 full members of the Society. This petition must be received by the Secretary General least 84 days before the biennial meeting at which the election is due to take place.

(d).If in addition to the candidate nominated by the Nominating Committee, there are other candidates, the Board of Directors shall make available by any and all reasonable means a biography of each candidate and a statement from each candidate explaining to the members of the Society the reasons that he or she should be elected. The biography and statement must be made available to the members of the Society 42 days or more prior to the election.

(e) Nominations for election will be determined by this process in advance of the biennial meeting of ISSM members. There will not be nominations from the floor during the biennial meeting of the members.

(f) In an election at the biennial meeting of the members, the candidate for each office receiving the most votes shall be elected.

Published 07/03/2010