LEAWOOD, Kan., Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American
Academy of Family Physicians held elections for its board of
directors this week at its annual Congress of Delegates, the
organization's governing body. Members of the board of directors
advocate on behalf of family physicians and patients nationwide to
inspire positive change in the U.S. health care system. The AAFP
represents 133,500 physicians and medical students.
- Sterling N. Ransone, Jr.,
MD, FAAFP is president. He is a third-generation family physician
in Deltaville, Virginia, and has
practiced rural medicine for more than 20 years. He currently
serves as physician practice director at Riverside Fishing Bay
Family Practice. He also serves as an assistant clinical professor
of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
- Ada D. Stewart, MD,
FAAFP, is board chair. Stewart is a family physician with
Cooperative Health, formerly Eau Claire Cooperative Health Centers,
in Columbia, South Carolina, where
she has practiced since 2012. She currently serves as lead provider
and HIV specialist. From 2003 to 2012, Stewart served as chief
medical officer and HIV specialist at the Richland Community Health
Care Association in Eastover and
Columbia, South Carolina. She
began her career as a National Health Service Corps scholar, caring
for underserved patients in rural South
Carolina. She is a preceptor for medical residents, medical
students and nurse practitioners. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, Stewart enlisted in the U.S. Army
Reserves and has achieved the rank of Colonel.
- Russell W. Kohl, MD,
FAAFP, is speaker of the AAFP Congress of Delegates. Kohl is a
family physician living in Stilwell,
Kansas, and serves as chief medical officer with TMF Health
Quality Institute, a Medicare quality improvement organization
serving Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, Puerto
Rico and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. He also cares for patients at Whiteman Air Force
Base as Senior Flight Surgeon and Commander with the 131st Medical
Group. He previously served as chief medical officer of
TransforMED, ran a full-scope solo practice in rural Oklahoma, and served as faculty at the
University of Oklahoma School of
Community Medicine.
- Daron W. Gersch,
MD, FAAFP, is vice speaker of the Congress of Delegates. He
is a family physician with CentraCare hospital in Long Prairie, Minnesota. Gersch works
full-time as the ER medical and trauma director at CentraCare -
Long Prairie hospital. He also
currently serves as the medical director at Mother of Mercy nursing
home in Albany, Minnesota. He is
on the Protect Initiative for the CDC and serves on the medical
review panel for familydoctor.org.
- R. Shawn Martin, is
executive vice president and chief executive officer of the AAFP.
Martin works with the AAFP Board of Directors on the mission,
strategy and vision for the AAFP, and provides representation to
other organizations, including those in the medical, public and
private sectors.
- Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD,
MPH, MBA, FAAFP, president-elect. She is a family physician
in Long Island, New York. She serves as founding chair and
professor of family medicine for the Donald and Barbara Zucker
School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
in Hempstead, New York, and chair
of family medicine for Northwell Health. She was previously the
director of the family medicine residency program at Southside
Hospital in Bay Shore, New York.
She was active in the Association of Family Medicine Residency
Directors, which presented the Silver Program Director Recognition
Award to her in 2015.
- Andrew J.P. Carroll, MD,
FAAFP, is a member of the board of directors. Carroll is a family
physician in Chandler, Arizona. He
is the founder, owner and medical director of Atembis LLC, an
integrated medical-behavioral family medicine practice in
Chandler. In addition to
traditional payer patients, he cares for uninsured patients, those
without a private or employer health plan, and those who are not
eligible for federal or state insurance benefits by providing
cost-conscientious care and arranging for diagnostic studies to be
done at or near no cost. Carroll's practice combines full-scope
family medical care as well as full breadth behavioral care through
a team-based approach. In addition, Carroll serves as chief medical
officer of accountable care services for Change Healthcare.
- Steven P. Furr, MD,
FAAFP, is a member of the board of directors. Furr is a family
physician in Jackson, Alabama. He
is the co-founder of Family Medical Clinic of Jackson, which also supports a small, rural
hospital and a local nursing home. Furr has cared for patients for
more than 35 years, including providing obstetric care for more
than 25 years. He is a certified medical director as well as a
certified medical examiner. Furr is an adjunct assistant professor
with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in
Mobile. He also serves as adjunct
assistant professor with the Department of Family, Internal and
Rural Medicine at the University of
Alabama School of Medicine, College of Community Health
Sciences in Tuscaloosa.
- Jennifer. L. Brull, MD, FAAFP, is a member of the
board of directors. She is a family physician in Plainville, Kansas. Brull has practiced family
medicine in rural Kansas for 19
years. She is CEO and owner of Prairie Star Family Practice in
Plainville. In addition, she
serves as regional medical director for five accountable care
organizations of independent primary care practices located in
Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Colorado and Utah. She serves the Rooks County Health
Center Surgical Clinics as medical director and operations manager,
and formerly served 12 years as health officer for the Rooks County
Health Department. She is also the Kansas Medical Director for
VaxCare.
- Mary F. Campagnolo, MD,
MBA, FAAFP, is a member of the board of directors. She is a
family physician in Bordentown, New
Jersey. Campagnolo has practiced family medicine for 35
years, currently at Virtua-Primary Care of Mansfield, part of Virtua Medical Group. She
also serves Virtua Health, a 5-hospital health system in southern
New Jersey, as medical director
and designated institutional official for graduate medical
education. She oversees the accreditation and operations of five
Virtua-sponsored residencies, as well as the training for more than
400 students, resident physicians and fellows from numerous
affiliated regional academic medical centers each year.
- Todd D. Shaffer, MD, MBA,
FAAFP, is a member of the board of directors. He is a family
physician in Kansas City,
Missouri. Shaffer has practiced family medicine for 29
years. Since 1995, he has served the University of Missouri—Kansas
City School of Medicine as assistant professor, associate
professor, and then professor of family medicine. He also served as
family medicine residency program director from 2002 to 2017.
Shaffer practices the full scope of family medicine through
University Physicians Associates at Truman Medical Centers and the
Lakewood Medical Pavilion.
- Gail
Guerrero-Tucker, MD, FAAFP, is a member of the
board of directors.
She is affiliated with Gila Valley Clinic in Safford, Arizona, as well as Mt. Graham
Regional Medical Center in Safford. She graduated from University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2002.
She spent 20 years working in the banking industry before attending
medical school in 1997.
- Teresa L. Lovins, MD,
FAAFP, is a member of the board of directors. She is a
physician owner at Lovin My Health DPC in Columbus, Indiana—her own hometown direct
primary care practice—which opened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
She previously worked in a variety of practice settings and helped
to get both an employer-based clinic and a group practice off the
ground. D
- Sarah C. Nosal, MD,
FAAFP, is a member of the board of directors. She is Vice President
for Innovation & Optimization and Chief Medical Information
Officer at The Institute for Family Health, an FQHC network with
30-plus Mid-Hudson, Bronx,
Manhattan and Brooklyn locations. She secured financial
support for IT infrastructure by enrolling clinicians achieving
meaningful use across the system. As CMIO, she helped her
institution become a regional leader in data sharing and ensuring
equitable information access.
- Karen Smith, MD, FAAFP,
is a member of the board of directors. She established her own
independent private practice in 2003 in Raeford, North Carolina. Smith also serves as clinical
instructor at the Department of Family Medicine & Community
health at Duke University, adjunct
instructor at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and
adjunct instructor in the Division of Health Sciences at
East Carolina University.
- Samuel E. Mathis, MD, FAAFP, is the new physician
member of the board of directors. He serves as assistant professor
at the School of Medicine and Family Medicine Residency Program in
the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He is also the medical director at
the UTMB Employee Health Services.
- Amanda Stisher, MD, is
the resident member of the board of directors. She is a third-year
family medicine resident at the Family Medicine Residency Program
at University of Alabama at Birmingham
in Huntsville. A member of the
AAFP since 2015, Stisher currently serves as the resident chair of
National Conference. She is the resident member of the Subcommittee
on Student and Resident Issues and the Subcommittee on National
Conference Planning, both on the Commission on
Education.
- Amy Hoffman is the
student member of the board of directors. She is a fourth-year
medical student at the Penn State College of
Medicine-University Park Campus, State College, Pennsylvania. At Penn State, Hoffman volunteers at the free,
student-run clinic, LionCare, caring for underserved residents of
rural central Pennsylvania. As a
Global Health Scholar, she has traveled to Ghana to learn about health care systems and
policy. She is currently implementing a culinary medicine
curriculum to teach others about safe, economical, and culturally
appropriate meal preparation to promote health.
About the American Academy of Family
Physicians
Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents 133,500
physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the largest
medical society devoted solely to primary care. Family physicians
conduct approximately one in five office visits -- that's 192
million visits annually or 48 percent more than the next most
visited medical specialty. Today, family physicians provide more
care for America's underserved and rural populations than any other
medical specialty. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing,
personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care.
To learn more about the specialty of family medicine, the AAFP's
positions on issues and clinical care, and for downloadable
multi-media highlighting family medicine, visit www.aafp.org/media.
For information about health care, health conditions and wellness,
please visit the AAFP's award-winning consumer website,
www.familydoctor.org.
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