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MEMBER NEWS
TAFP member elected AAFP Vice Speaker
TAFP has a new leader at the national level. At the recent AAFP Congress of Delegates meeting in Orlando, Fla., your outgoing Texas AAFP Delegate, Leah Raye Mabry, M.D., won her bid to become vice speaker of the AAFP Congress of Delegates. The campaign began long before her plane landed in Florida. All year, Mabry has been preparing for this new challenge and she shared her vision for the Academy with delegates from across the country.
Mabry is a long time leader in Texas and at the AAFP. She is a past president of TAFP and she has served three consecutive two-year terms as a delegate to AAFP. She is also a registered parliamentarian, making her uniquely qualified for the job. She was aided in her quest by campaign manager and fellow delegate, Roland Goertz, M.D., and by alternate delegates Lloyd Van Winkle, |
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also be a voting member of the AAFP Board of Directors.
TAFP past president appointed to oversight panel
In December, Gov. Rick Perry named longtime TAFP leader and past president Lewis Foxhall, M.D., as one of seven appointees to the State Health Services Council, which will advise the commissioner of the Department of State Health Services and the executive commissioner of Health and Human Services Commission. The State Health Services Council is one of the five newly created advisory councils initiated by the consolidation of the state’s health and human services agencies called for in H.B. 2292 by the last Texas Legislature.
Foxhall says he is looking forward to working with the commissioner of DSHS, Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., who is also a member of TAFP.
TAFP member announces run for AMA council seat
Dale Moquist, M.D., of Houston, chair of the AAFP’s delegation to the AMA House of Delegates, launched his candidacy for a seat on the AMA Council on Medical Education at the association’s interim meeting Dec. 4 - 7 in Atlanta, Ga. Moquist, an AAFP delegate to the AMA since 1998, was nominated for the post by the national academy and has been endorsed by the Texas Medical Association.
As for why Moquist chose to make a run for the Council on Medical Education in particular, it was a logical fit, he says.
“If you look at what the Council on Medical Education does, it deals with undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education and continuing medical education — lifelong learning,” Moquist says.
“I’ve been precepting medical students for over 20 years,” he explained. “I’ve been a full-time academic since August of 1988, and I’ve been very active in organizing and working with continuing medical education and presently serve as chair of the committee for CME of the Texas Academy (of Family Physicians). It only made sense that would be the council that I would go for.”
Source: News from the AAFP, Dec. 2004,
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Here’s to TAFP’s new Fellows
Congratulations to nine TAFP members who have achieved the degree of Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (F.A.A.F.P.). They are: Welson Lloyd Ash, M.D.; Jason Andrew Hughes, M.D.; Floyd E. Jernigan, M.D.; Indumathi Kuncharapu, M.D.; Angela Latham, M.D.; Gary W. Piefer, M.D.; Shirley P. Pigott, M.D.; Paul Clark Redman, M.D.; and Eliot J. Young, M.D.
The degree was conferred to 256 family physicians during a convocation on Oct. 16, 2004, in conjunction with the AAFP’s 2004 Annual Scientific Assembly in Orlando, Fla. Established in 1971, the AAFP Degree of Fellow recognizes family physicians who have distinguished themselves through service to family medicine and ongoing professional development. Criteria for receiving the AAFP degree of Fellow consists of a minimum of six years of membership in the organization, extensive continuing medical education, participation in public service programs outside their medical practice, conducting original research and serving as a teacher in family medicine.
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