Annu Navani, MD AAPIO President 2505 Samaritan Drive, Suite 601 San Jose, CA 95124 E-mail: president@aapio.org

It is truly a pleasure and an honor to serve as the President of your organization. I have served AAPIO in many forms over the last few years and have shared the wonderful experience of seeing AAPIO evolving and constantly escalating to stronger and a more vibrant entity year after year. Much of the credit goes to our unparallel leadership, incredible vision and amazing efforts from all of you who have been involved with AAPIO.

The past year has been a remarkable one under the leadership of Dr. Karim Hussain. Dr. Hussain and his outgoing dedicated team deserve a heartfelt applause for their hard work and commitment.
AAPIO has come a long way since 1983. What started as a potluck dinner with a handful of visionary leaders has now matured to a 25 year old, 1000 member strong organization. None of this would have been possible without the guidance of our AAPIO Past Presidents and leaders, our hardworking executive committee and you all.

AAPIO serves the vital roles of providing educational opportunities for its members, coordinating community work such as health fairs and charity clinics and a place for physicians to meet socially and exchange ideas. In the coming year, we want this to be nurtured further and escalated to the next level.

In the coming year we will maintain the AAPIO culture and integrity. We will also add more value to being a part of AAPIO. We would like to further involve our members in various community and educational efforts. To me, moving forward means moving forward with all, old and new, experienced and young. In order to be successful, we need to involve young physicians of our community as well. We would want new and younger members to become more involved and accept leadership roles as they are the AAPIO of the future. If you are not already a member, I urge you to become a member TODAY. Membership application is available on this website.

Your participation in the various AAPIO sponsored events is the key in accomplishing AAPIO’s mission. We also need more involvement from each and every one of you. I hope you will continue to support us in the coming years as you have done in the past.

AAPIO is your organization. It is an honor and a privilege to serve as your president. I would like to invite you all to come together this year and strengthen your organization. Let us all work together towards transforming the dreams of our membership and the potential of our organization into reality this year.