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	About the PPAC
		• Mission • Leadership • Sub-Committees and Working Groups New! • Categories of PPAC membership • Charter	• Bylaws • Information for new Medical Officers • Organizational charts • Physician category challenge coin • PPAC Archives

Return to top	Mission
		• Provide advice and consultation to the Surgeon General on issues relating to the professional practice and the personnel activities, civil service and Commissioned Corps of the Medical Category • Provide advisory assistance to the Chief Professional Officer and, upon request, to the Agency and/or Program Heads of the Public Health Service, and to non-PHS Programs that routinely use PHS personnel
Return to top	Leadership
		• PPAC LEADERSHIP • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2011 OFFICERS • Chair: CDR Paul Jung • Vice Chair: CAPT Susan Lukacs • Executive Secretary: CAPT Barbara Stinson • Chief Professional Officer: RADM Clare Helminiak • 2010 OFFICERS • Chair: CDR Tejashri Purohit-Sheth • Vice Chair: CDR Sheryl Lyss • Executive Secretary: CAPT Barbara Stinson • Chief Professional Officer: RADM Clare Helminiak Biography • 2009 OFFICERS • Chair: CDR Tejashri Purohit-Sheth (CDR Lori Newman, January 2009 - August 2009) • Vice Chair: CDR Sheryl Lyss (CDR Tejashri Purohit-Sheth, January 2009 - August 2009) • Executive Secretary: CAPT Barbara Stinson • Chief Professional Officer: CAPT Clare Helminiak • 2008 OFFICERS • Chair: CDR Narayan Nair • Vice Chair: CDR Tejashri Purohit-Sheth • Executive Secretary: CAPT Barbara Stinson • Chief Professional Officer: RADM David Rutstein
Return to top	Sub-Committees and Working Groups
		Medical officers are welcome to participate in any of the PPAC committees. If you have an interest in any PPAC committees please contact the committee chair. Unless otherwise noted, committees are open to all medical officers (voting or non-voting). • PPAC Sub-Committees and Working Groups (Updated 9/2011) If your rank, name or committee membership is incorrect, please contact the committee chair.
Return to top	Categories of PPAC membership
		• New guidelines for the selection of voting members Posted 4/20/2009 • Procedures to become Ex-Officio and Affiliate member: See Bylaws Section 1B
Return to top	Charter
		• Charter 6/2007 • Charter 08/2004
	Bylaws
Return to top		• Current Bylaws (as of 9/9/2010) • Bylaws (Old version - 10/2005)
Return to top	Information for new Medical Officers
		• Welcome Booklet (2010) for new Medical Officers 05/2010 • Welcome Packet (2006) with introductory information about the PHS CC • Pay information for new Medical Officers coming out of Residency, Posted 2/27/07 • Compensation and Special Pay: details • General Information about the USPHS (05/2010)
Return to top	Organizational charts
		• Organizational chart (partial) of the USPHS Prepared by PPAC Chair, CAPT Jeffrey Kopp 1/2007 • Organizational chart of the Department of Health and Human Services 1/2007
Return to top	Physician Category Challenge Coin
		• Front side • Reverse side • How to order
Return to top		PPAC Archives
		The PPAC Archives contain information from the PPAC website that is no longer current, but might still be of interest, such as membership lists and meeting minutes. Click here to access the PPAC Archives


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