CCCC Med Rhet Standing Group – Rhetoricians of Health and Medicine

The CCCC Executive Committee made the decision to allow Special Interest Groups (SIGs) the opportunity to become a standing group.

Existing member groups may take on a more formal, long-standing relationship to CCCC by applying for Standing Group status. A Standing Group begins as a Special Interest Group (SIG) or other group with sustained organization and membership…. Standing Groups are formally reviewed by the CCCC Officers every three years. In recognition for this level of responsibility to CCCC, each Standing Group will be allotted one designated panel in addition to a business meeting at the CCCC Annual Convention, subject to the Program Chair’s approval. Standing Group panels will be vetted in consultation with the Program Chair. Standing Group business meetings will be held during the regular slots made available for such meetings by the Program Chair.

In 2015, the Medical Rhetoric SIG applied for and was granted standing group status.

Current executive committee members of the standing group are:

Chair: Kristin LaFollette, University of Southern Indiana, klafollett@usi.edu (term 2025-2027)
Associate Chair: Martha Karnes, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, mskarnes@ualr.edu (term 2025-2027)
Communication Officer: Amanda Pratt, Kennesaw State University, apratt27@kennesaw.edu (term 2025-2027)
At-Large Member: Priyanka (Priya) Ganguly, Texas Tech University, prigangu@ttu.edu (term 2026-2028)
Graduate Student Representative:
- Maggie Hart, University of Oklahoma, Maggie.C.Hart-1@ou.edu (term 2025-2027)
- Shalini Abayasekara, Ohio State University, abayasekara.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu (term 2026-2028)

Positions are for two years. A new graduate student representative will be elected each year to serve a two-year term. There will ideally be a total of two graduate student representatives per year: one new and one returning.