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ASSEMBLY EDITION • ORLANDO, FLA

Delegates elect Larry Fields, M.D., president-elect

The AAFP Congress of Delegates yesterday chose Larry Fields, M.D., of Ashland, Ky., to be the Academy's next president-elect. 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.

• Student Board member - Gretchen Dickson of Pittsburgh

• Finalists for the AAFP position on the board of directors of the American Board of Family Practice - 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 the board.

Well-wishers crowd around Larry Fields, M.D., after his election as president-elect. "Raising the bottom line for FPs is the linchpin of the future," he said in a subsequent interview. "It's the key to student interest, to keeping people satisfied in practice, to keeping the doors open, to access."

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