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ABLS Email List Serve

The American Board of Laser Surgery, Inc.
A NEW and UNIQUE EMAIL LIST SERVE
for LASER PHYSICIANS and MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS

The American Board of Laser Surgery has created a new email list serve for laser physicians and medical practitioners. Business and social networks are growing in importance and the Board recognizes a unique opportunity for laser practitioners to connect, and share information and experiences with each other across a variety of medical specialties. The new list serve provides the opportunity for list members to conveniently reach out by email to other list members to ask questions, gain knowledge, learn about the experiences of others, and share your own. It is a knowledge resource at your fingertips.

You do not have to be a Diplomate of The Board to enroll on this list. Joining this list in no way creates any obligation to undertake the Board's certification program. The Board will not make broadband solicitations to the list members concerning its certification or other services.

A Unique Opportunity for Diplomate Members to Contribute to Our Study Materials and Earn Recognition as Contributing Authors: In addition to being part of an innovative network of fellow practitioners, list serve members who are diplomates of the Board, and who have appropriate qualifications, will be able to contribute to the ongoing evolution and updating of the Board's Proprietary Study Materials. We believe that "opening up" the Study Materials to a broader reach of expertise will be revolutionary in our ability to provide the very best certifying materials available in basic laser science and safety. It is a challenge indeed for a small development committee to cover all bases, and a vast amount of expertise exists outside of any board or professional society. So we seek to tap the wisdom of our diplomate practitioners!

Diplomates who contribute to the Study Materials – and whose contributions are vetted and accepted by the Board of Directors – will be listed on the Study Guide and Board’s website as contributing authors, and receive a special certificate of recognition from the Board. Through this program we believe we will continue to provide the definitive source of knowledge for basic laser medical science and safety. Interested Diplomate list members should email us and we will provide further information about this opportunity.

More About the List Serve: The list serve is not a discussion or formal educational forum, rather a professional knowledge network and resource. When you send out an email to the list with a question or request for information, the email is received by all other members on the list. Any members who feel they qualify to share insight and perspectives are free to email directly back to you, and you can choose when and how you would like to follow up. The replies to your questions do not go to the entire list to keep traffic reasonable and members’ inboxes manageable. Following the receipt of responses to a request, where you believe the information you received may be of interest to other list members, you may create a brief summary and email that back to the list. A list of all members will be on our website as a PDF file, so any member can see who might be available as a resource.

How to Enroll: Enrolling is easy. Just email the Board using the simple List Serve Enrollment Form on our Join Our List Serve page. You are required to provide your name, degree, laser medical specialty, email address, city and state / province (and country if outside the U.S.), and a website or institution where you currently practice. You must also agree to the list's Terms of Use by checking the box provided on the Enrollment Form.

Annual Contribution: The list serve will entail time to properly administrate and keep up to date. To support this we ask that all list members contribute a small annual fee of $95, payable by credit card using our secure PayPal on our Contact, Application & Payments page of the website. A renewal fee of $95 will be billed automatically to your credit card on an annual basis on your membership anniversary, however you may cancel prior to your one-year anniversary by simply emailing us.

Details About How the List Serve Works

Using the List: When you sign up, you will receive a confirmation email. Your enrollment information will be added to the Master List of list serve members which is available to view on our website as a PDF file. To email the list with a question, or request for information, simply address your email to "lasers@abls.talklist.com." This email will go out to all list members (note this email will only be delivered to the list from the email addresses of members who are enrolled, and anti-spam filters are used). If you choose to reply to a member's email request, please reply only to that member's email address, and not the list as a whole. If you have a question for the administrator, or wish to unsubscribe, simply send an email to "lasers1060@aol.com." These are the only two email addresses you need to use for the list, and keep in your address book.

You may also email another member using the information on the List Serve Members' List which contains each member's email address. This list does not contain phone numbers so that members can efficiently review requests by email.

When you receive a post to the list, it will show in the "To" line the name that the member normally uses for his/her email (e.g. "drjoesmith." The "Subject Line" will always be prefixed by "[lasers]" along with the topic of the post (e.g. "[lasers] looking for advice on latest skin resurfacing techniques"). The "[lasers]" prefix in the Subject Line of the email will let members know a post has been made by a fellow list member.

So for example,

From: drjoesmith
Subject: [lasers] Looking for advice on latest skin resurfacing techniques

It is strongly recommended that you word the subject line as succinctly and accurately as possible so a) list members quickly know what you are looking for, and b) can assess whether they can be of help.

When you feel it would be of interest to the list members as a whole to post back a summary of responses to a question where you received several answers, please put "SUMMARY" in caps in the subject line so members can identify your post as such. For example,

From: drjoesmith
Subject: [lasers] SUMMARY – responses on latest skin resurfacing techniques

Whenever you post to the list, you will automatically receive an email back that confirms the posting was received and has been distributed to the list. Any list members who respond to you will email you back directly, and the subject line will identify that a reply has been made.

Rules and Etiquette: As a list member, your email address will be available on the List Serve Members List to other members, and you recognize that based on your information another member may contact you directly. In order to make the list as viable as possible, it is important that you reply to direct emails from other members in a timely fashion.

The list serve is for connecting with other practitioners to request, share and exchange professional information. It may not be used for personal reasons or for soliciting business. It is also important that all communications are written in a professional, respectful and truthful manner. Misuse of the list serve may result in a reprimand and/or removal from the list by the administrator. The administrator will see all of the email requests just like any other list member, however will not see any direct communications between individual list members.

Privacy: The Board will not make the list available, as an email list, to any other organization. The List Serve Members List (as a PDF file), however, is publicly viewable on the ABLS website, and list members recognize they might receive emails from non-list members. These emails would not be identified as "[lasers]" … in the subject line, rather be addressed directly from an individual. The Board uses A-List as its list management service, and employs the available anti-spam filters and anti-virus software that A-List provides. While the Board believes the software employed by A-List is top notch, all list members accept that there can be no absolute guarantee. By enrolling on the list serve, all list members agree to fully indemnify The Board from any spam, viruses, or any other "malware" that might occur, however unlikely.

Terms of Use, Disclaimer and Liability Waiver: Any information requested or shared on this list is at the full discretion of the list members, and is in no way endorsed or verified for accuracy by the list administrator or The American Board of Laser Surgery. By enrolling on this list serve, members acknowledge and agree that The Board is in no way responsible for, nor is liable for, the accuracy of any information shared by the list members. All list members agree to fully indemnify The Board relative to the use of any information received from any one or more list members. If you are not willing to accept this disclaimer and waiver, you should not enroll.

Thank you for your consideration, and we hope you will join this list serve community of medical laser practitioners.

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