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The AAFP Congress of Delegates Oct. 13 chose Larry Fields, M.D., of Ashland, Ky., to be the Academy's new president-elect.
"Raising the bottom line for family physicians is the linchpin of the future," said Fields in a subsequent interview. "It's the key to student interest, to keeping people satisfied in practice, to keeping the doors open, to access."
Others elected or chosen by acclamation for the following positions are: speaker of the Congress -- Thomas Weida, M.D., of Hershey, Pa.; vice speaker -- Leah Raye Mabry, M.D., R.Ph., of San Antonio; directors -- Judith Chamberlain, M.D., of Brunswick, Maine, Ted Epperly, M.D., of Boise, Idaho, and Virgilio Licona, M.D., of Fort Lupton, Colo.; new physician Board member -- Maureen O'Hara Padden, M.D., of Camp Lejeune, N.C. (Uniformed Services); resident Board member -- Michael King, M.D., of Lexington, Ky.; and student Board member -- Gretchen Dickson of Pittsburgh.
Finalists for the AAFP position on the board of directors of the American Board of Family Practice are Craig Czarsty, M.D., of Oakville, Conn.; Barbara Hughes Kostick, M.D., of Fremont, Calif.; and Alain Montegut, M.D., of Brunswick, Maine. The ABFP will select one finalist next spring to serve a five-year term on its board.
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