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Balloting for the APPNA President-Elect (2024) and 3 Board of Directors (2024-2025) will begin August 9, 2023. Eligible voters will receive an email ballot from an outside third-party election company called Election Buddy.

This year’s election will be for one (1) President-Elect and three (3) Board of Directors from the slate of the contesting candidates.

The voting process will end August 24th at 11:59 PM CT.

If you have not received an email ballot, contact appna@electionbuddy.com to request the email be resent to you. Only those who became an Annual or Lifetime member or renewed their Annual memberships by July 9, 2023 are eligible to vote.

Election is by email only. The last day to update your email is July 31, 2023. The ballot will only go out to the email listed in your APPNA account by this date. After this deadline, ballots will not be sent to a different email.

Slate of Candidates for President-Elect 2024
Click on link next to name to view CV.

Joseph Emmanuel, MD CV
Humeraa Qamar, MD CV

Slate of Candidates for 3 BOD Positions (Term 2024-2025)
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Nauman Ashraf, MD CV
Furrukh Malik, MD CV
Sajid Mehmood, MD CV
Shahid Rashid MD CV
Mohammad Sanaullah, MD CV

TIMELINES ELECTION 2023 PRESIDENT-ELECT AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
All dates are the last date for the assigned task:

  • Call for Nominations May 22, 2023
  • Last date to submit nominations June 1, 2023
  • NEC to vet all nominees by June 16, 2023
  • Nominees acceptance and return signed affidavit and election fees by June 23, 2023
  • Last date to withdraw June 29, 2023
  • Final list of candidates July 3, 2023
  • Meet and Greet candidates on July 8, 2023
  • BOD candidates debate on Sunday July 16, 2023 at 4 pm EST
  • President-elect candidates debate on Sunday July 23, 2023 at 4 pm EST
  • Ballot starts August 9, 2023
  • Voting ends August 24, 2023, Midnight CST
  • Results announced September 3, 2023