September 2000 • Volume 6 • Number 9
Policy center sports new name to honor former EVP
A surprise announcement came after dinner one evening at the AAFP Board of Directors meeting in Vancouver, Canada, July 25-30. The Academy's policy center in Washington is now the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care, in honor of former Executive Vice President Robert Graham, M.D.
Graham acknowledged the honor with these words: "Your generosity in naming the center for me will have a double meaning because, for the 30 years of my professional career, I have essentially worked in only two places, the Academy and Washington. To have something in Washington that is in my name and something that makes a contribution to the discipline ... I'd never have thought of this, so the surprise is even more profound. Thank you very much."
The policy center, which opened July 8, 1999, serves to bring a family practice point of view to the frequent health care debates that are spawned in Washington.
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