Board of Commitees
Audit Committee
Chair: Uri Bergmann, Ph.D
Committee Members: Sara Gilman, MFT; Amy Konkle, M.D.; Stephen LaMotte, Ph.D.
The Audit Committee provides a crucial link between the Board and the independent auditor, and serves a key role in helping the Board to fulfill its fiduciary duty to oversee EMDRIA’s finances.
The Audit Committee performs the following functions:
- Recommends to the Board the selection of the independent auditor who reports to the Audit Committee.
- Makes recommendations regarding the scope of the audit.
- Reports to Board on review of audited financial statements and management letter from auditor and auditor’s financial review.
- Establishes policies to prevent financial fraud.
- Evaluates internal control environment.
Leadership Committee
Chair: David Sherwood, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Uri Bergmann, Ph.D; Warren Faber, Ph.D.; Sara Gilman, MFT; Dorothy Hyde, LCSW, DCSW. Purpose of the Leadership Committee:
- To help prepare members for volunteer services and to foster development of leadership skills,
- To oversee coordination of volunteer services,
- To nominate a slate of qualified candidates for the Officers and Directors positions on the Board,
- To oversee Board orientation,
- To determine which awards will be presented at the Awards Ceremony at the annual conference and to select recipients for such awards (This portion of the committee would include the Chair of the Research Committee as well as regular committee members) Such communications are an integral part of the Board’s main responsibility, which is to create vision and to develop pertinent and congruent goals for the organization.
The Ownership Linkage Committee helps answer and respond to the following questions:
- Who are those who hold a share in EMDRIA’s future?
- How do we reach them?
- What questions do we ask?
- What do we do with that information when we get it?
You can contact us at: info@emdria.org