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New Academy leaders take charge “There is a great opportunity
with the upcoming 2008 elections, with the new AAFP campaign to
business and government, and with our own efforts here in Illinois
to establish the medical home provided by family physicians as the
solution to the current dysfunctional health system,” said Steven
Knight, M.D., IAFP president. “We
must work on increasing payment to family physicians within the
current system, while promoting our solutions for health care reform
at the same time. This
is no easy task, but it is what we must do to ensure that patients
who have medical homes can keep them and to provide medical homes to
those who do not have them.” The diversity of family medicine
experiences will help to keep the IAFP board in tune with members
throughout the state. IAFP
board representation spans the various sectors of Illinois.
The newly elected board officers are: Javette Orgain, M.D.,
president-elect from Chicago. Dr.
Orgain works at Mile Square Community Health Center on Chicago’s
south side and is also a dean at UIC College of Medicine Patrick Tranmer, M.D., first
vice president from Oak Park. Dr.
Tranmer is the head, department of family medicine at UIC College of
Medicine in Chicago David Hagan, M.D., second vice
president from Gibson City in central Illinois.
Dr. Hagan is a solo, private practice physician. The new board members from the
class of 2010 are: Tina Brueschke, M.D., of Geneva,
who earlier this year started her own practice, Prairie View Family
Medicine in Elburn, 60 miles west of Chicago Dennon Davis, M.D., of Kathryn Stewart, M.D., of Oak
Park, who serves as medical director of care management at Mount
Sinai Hospital on Chicago’s near west side.
Dr. Stewart is serving her second term on the IAFP board,
having previously served 1999-2002 Our new physician board member
is Kristin Drynan, M.D., of North
Aurora, who is joining four other family physicians at Geneva Family
Practice this week, after serving five years in the Sterling/Rock
Falls communities in northwestern Illinois. The resident board member is
Ravi Shah, M.D., a third year resident at UIC Masonic Family
Medicine Residency on Chicago’s north side. Jeffrey Griesemer is the student
board member, and is a fourth year student at Dr. Tim Vega of Peoria was
elected to his first full-term as IAFP Delegate to the AAFP Congress
of Delegates. Dr.
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