Organization Structure
FITE'S MISSION
FITE's Mission
To advance healthcare outcomes by enhancing the field of interventional and therapeutic endoscopy to provide cost effective, safe and minimally invasive procedures.
Our Vision
The foundation will enhance & promote the expansion of the field of advanced therapeutic endoscopy thereby increasing access to specialized endoscopic procedures while reducing cost and morbidity for patients in a manner that promotes uniform quality, training and credentialing in order to optimize healthcare value and outcomes for patients.
We recognize that therapeutic endoscopy will play a greater role in the care of digestive diseases, cancers, and obesity in the future. The foundation will function to develop awareness, research, and pathways for complex procedures. This includes: standardization of training, creation of criteria for uniform credentialing and privileging, advocating for reimbursement codes for niche interventions, research collaborations and support dedicated to interventional endoscopy, and accelerate development of devices or performance of procedures necessary to enhance the growth of the field and patient care. The foundation would strive to improve or eliminate obstacles or barriers in order to provide better care for all patients.
FITE'S GOALS
TRAINING STANDARDS
Establish standards for training in interventional endoscopy in collaboration with interventional endoscopy program directors and practitioners.
ACCREDITATION
GUIDELINES
COMMUNICATION
COLLABORATION
Foster collaboration with existing GI, surgical, & oncology societies to further common goals. This would include ACG, AGA, ASGE, AASLD, ABOM, etc
ADVOCACY
RESEARCH
INDUSTRY RELATIONS
FITE'S 5 YEAR VISION
5 YEAR VISION |
Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
Year 5 |
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| CERTIFICATION | Establish a 5-year roadmap leading to a board certification. | Establish certification criteria for individuals, AEF programs, endoscopy units, and procedures | Establish criteria for FITE COE designation for hospitals and programs | Pursue the road map for IE to become an officially accredited specialty | Engage legal consultation for the processto establish IE as an officially accredited specialty |
| Engage similar subspecialty groups in discussions on the process to move to certification | Create universal guidelines for hospital privileging & “accreditation” of hospitals through a certification process | Establish criteria for FITE COE designation for hospitals and programs | Establish IE training as an officially accredited education track with the ACGME | Establish a board certification process for IE | |
| Determine the levels of certification for individuals, AEF programs, endoscopy units, and procedures | Provide a certificate template for qualifying 4th year training programs | ||||
| Establish a roadmap for an easy system to serve as a repository for data collection and maintenance for trainees and physicians |
| ADMINISTRATIVE | Create platform of communication via FITE | Reassess roles and responsibilities and expand as needed | Finalize appropriate reimbursement for complex and novel work | ||
| Initiate marketing plans: website, brochures, social media | |||||
| Establish a calendar of meetings with councilors and committees | |||||
| Accept initial reports to the executive committee members to the governing board | |||||
| Define individual executive responsibilities for operations | |||||
| Establish a document repository for committee work. |
| CLINICAL CARE/ GUIDEINES | Identify areas in need of clinical guidelines | Quantify and define metrics for practice and delivery of IE on a consensus basis | Establish a platform of collaboration to enhance the presence of IE in oncology and other key specialties | Establish a platform of collaboration to enhance the presence of IE in oncology and other key specialties | Provide pathways for improvement in programs where quality metrics are beneath benchmarks |
| Implement quality metrics guidelines with respect to the practice and delivery of IE | Establish value-based care models with 3rd party payers |
| MEMBERSHIP | Engage advanced IE program directors, interventionalists in establishing expectations | Actively recruit interventionally trained endoscopists | Engage other countries for broadening the mission and vision of FITE | ||
| Initiate marketing plans: website, brochures, social media | Have social media lead defined | ||||
| Define criteria for levels of membership including grandfathering process, affiliate levels, full membership | Define leadership roles for allied health care providers |
| RESEARCH | Establish a FITE research account for industry sponsored studies | Establish research PIs for registry trials and multi-site research collaborations | Engage other countries for broadening the mission and vision of FITE | ||
| Determine need for a research consultant | Initiate a study with FITE members | ||||
| Create a roadmap for developing a collaborative research group | Establish data collection tools for collaborative research | ||||
| Establish a FITE research account for industry sponsored studies | Create a national registries platform for programs and society members | ||||
| Determine need for a research consultant | Establish endoscopy research ethics guidelines/SOPs |
| INDUSTRY RELATIONS | Establish and cultivate types of collaborative industry relationships | Establish connection with payers for the purpose of creating platforms for reimbursement | Establish connection with payers for the purpose of creating platforms for reimbursement | Engage other countries for broadening the mission and vision of FITE | |
| Define the financial structure to accept industry support | Define an “industry liaison” who will be a relationship manager | Define a roadmap for bringing new technologies to market using the power of FITE |
Directors and Co-Founders
Governing Board 2021-2022
Committees
Ambassadors
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