AIMS Highlights

An Historic Perspective

compiled by

Dennis E. Park

AIMS Executive Director

1977-78

 

• AIMS formed; Carl L. Bauer, MD, elected as the first AIMS president. More About AIMS Origin?
  
• The AIMS board of directors began planning, writing bylaws, and establishing goals and objectives.
  
  

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  1979

• First AIMS Journal published
• First AIMS chapter formed in Montezuma, Mexico  

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  1980

• Active membership in North America reached 400
  
• AIMS directors met in Dallas, Texas, at the 1980 General Conference
  
• AIMS co-sponsored the first continuing medical education course with the Health Department of the Australasian Division
  

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• 1981

• Jamaica AIMS chapter formed
  
  
• AIMS Argentina chapter organized
  
  
• AIMS offices moved to the newly-opened Alumni Center building
  
  

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  1982

   

• AIMS co-sponsored four European medical conventions
  
• P. William Dysinger, MD, AIMS president-elect, participated in a workshop in Washington, D.C., to plan how U.S. Private\Voluntary Organizations (PVO) could best help the current health needs of Lebanon
  
  
• AIMS Brazil chapter formed
  
  

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  1983

• During March/April, Dr. P. William Dysinger, AIMS president-elect, visited the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. Upon his return, Dr. Dysinger observed, "The strength and future of AIMS is in its local
  chapter development
  
  

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  1984

• AIMS comes under the umbrella of the Alumni Association
  
  
• AIMS board of directors approved and placed high priority on the development of a Health Evangelism Study Guide
  
  
• In April the AlMS-Mexico chapter was formed in Montemorelos, Mexico
  
  
• On September 20-23, AIMS Argentina held a preventive medicine congress at River Plate, Argentina
  
  
• On November 1 -3, the Adventist health professionals of French speaking Europe (AMAL - MMS chapter met at Seminaire Adventiste, Collonges, France
  

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  1985

• On July 5,1985, Dr. Carrol S. Small presented an AIMS report at the General Conference Session in New Orleans

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  1986
• AIMS president Eloy Schutz MD, presented a speech at the Congress of Medicine at Montemorelos University

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  1987

• In August, AlMS-Mexico convention was held in Mazatlan, Mexico

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  1988

• The Adventist Medical Study Guide (AMSG) advisory committee formed
  
  
• AIMS assisted Philippine Union College Health Services by sending medical supplies and equipment
  

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  1989

• AIMS produced a "Special Edition" of the AIMS Journal that reviewed AIMS' history and shared how to form an AIMS chapter
  

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  1990

• AIMS Health Evangelism Study Guide published

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  1991

• In May, the Southern Mexican Union AlMS-Mexico Inter-chapter Reunion was held

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  1992
• The AIMS Journal spring issue featured the Adventist medical work in the South Pacific Division
  
  
• The autumn issue of the AIMS Journal featured the medical work in South America

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  1993

• The AIMS Annual Meeting held on Sabbath, February 6, during APC '93 featured the medical work in Russia
  

  
  

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  1994

• Dr. A. Gordon Goude began compiling a list of all Adventist physicians and AIMS chapters to develop a data base and compile a worldwide directory of AIMS members
  

  
  

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  1995

• Larry Thomas, MD, AIMS president and Dennis Park. AIMS executive director attended the 56th General Conference Session at the Jaarbeurs Convention Center in Utrecht The Netherlands
  
  
• AIMS manned a booth at the General Conference and held an international meeting on July 5, during the GC Session
  

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  1996

• The newly formatted AIMS Journal introduced with the winter issue
  

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  1997

• G. Gordon Hadley, MD, installed as AIMS president on March 1,1997
  
  
  

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  Dennis Park
  AIMS Executive Director

   

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