Arthur N. Schuman, Board Chair of S&S Management Services, Inc., Bloomfield-based association management firm, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut State Medical Society for his distinguished service to organized medicine.

Schuman’s firm serves as the Executive offices to four county medical societies as well as numerous specialty medical associations in Connecticut and throughout the country.

Jacquelyn T. Coleman, CAE, Senior Vice President of S & S Management Services, Inc., of Bloomfield, has been selected by the American Medical Association to receive its prestigious 2009 Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award. The Award is presented for contributing “substantially to the goals and ideals of the medical profession … sustained over a significant term of service.”

The following professional associations nominated Ms. Coleman for this award: The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS), the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP) and the Connecticut Psychiatric Society (CPS) – professional associations with whom Ms. Coleman has worked during her distinguished 32 years as an Association Executive. S & S Management services, Inc., is a firm specializing in association management, public relations and government relations for business and professional associations.

Founded in 1980, S & S Management Services, Inc., celebrated its 34th Anniversary during the summer of 2014.

With a highly qualified staff of 24 professionals, the firm now services the association management needs of over 25 local, state, national and international associations.

S & S Management Services and its executives have been honored many times and are the recipients of such awards as: The President’s Award and the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Family Physicians; the Leadership Award from the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors National Association; the Amicus Award from the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law; the Dedicated Service Award from the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians; the Leadership Award from the Associated Sheet Metal Contractors of Connecticut; the Distinguished Service Award from the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Medical Society, and the Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Medical Association, among others. The firm took a leadership role in forming the Connecticut Society of Association Executives (CSAE), and four S & S executives have served as president of this Association. Three have received the highest CSAE honor – the Connecticut Association Executive of the Year.