TAFP Exec Jim White garners national awards

TAFP Executive Director Jim White receives the AAFP Executive Service Award from Patrick Tranmer, M.D., M.P.H., at the Annual Leadership Forum, May 10, in Kansas City, Mo.

posted 05.11.07

Hundreds of family physicians and Academy staffers rose to their feet to honor TAFP’s longtime executive, Jim White, at AAFP’s Annual Leadership Forum in Kansas City, Mo., May 5. The national Academy awarded White with both the Award of Merit and the Executive Service Award.

“It is a great honor to be recognized by the American Academy, friends and colleagues at this important conference,” White says. “I especially thank the TAFP and its leadership for nominating me and for supporting me throughout my career.”

White announced to the group that this would be his last trip to ALF, as he will retire at the end of this year after 25 years of service to the Academy.

“The greatest thing about my job is that I have loved doing what I do, and that is why I will be saddened to retire. But there is a time for everything and this is my time to start a new phase of my life,” he says. “I only hope I will have as much fun.”

According to AAFP, the Award of Merit “recognizes people who have been deemed by the Board to have contributed, in a distinguished manner, toward advancement of family medicine. It commends exceptional individual effort.” The Executive Service Award is reserved for chapter executives who have served for 25 years.