Meetings are held on the last Friday of each month (*except November and December when the meeting dates are adjusted for the holiday recesses), from 9:30am to 11:00am.

General Assembly meetings will be held via Zoom and are open to all current, benefits-eligible staff. Advance registration is required and available here.

Our guest speaker for the month of August will be Sarah Van Orman, MD, MMM, FACHA, Vice President and Chief Campus Health Officer, Office of the SVP for Health Affairs.

Sarah Van Orman, MD, MMM, FACHA  has spent her professional career as a college health physician, university health services administrator, and chief health officer for campus health services. She is currently the Vice President and Chief Campus Health Officer at the University of Southern California where she is also a Chief of the Division of College Health and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine in the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Dr. Van Orman provided leadership on campus public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, guiding policy and operational decisions that helped the university safely return to full in-person resumption of activities. She continues to oversee comprehensive medical, mental health, prevention and education initiatives that enhance student wellness, increase access to health services, and address critical issues impacting our student population. In addition to responsibilities to her role for student health, she also assumed the following responsibilities for campus health as of August 1, 2023:

• Campus-wide prevention and health promotion programs and policies that emphasize adoption of evidence-informed and data-driven approaches; supporting individual and organizational wellness;
• Clinical health-related aspects of risk, crisis and emergency response, including emergency preparedness, coordination with local public health entities, and health communications;
• University employee occupational health programs; and
• Clinical direction for employee healthcare benefit plans.