Thomas Kintanar Elected to the Board of Directors of the

NEW ORLEANS — Thomas A. Kintanar, M.D., a family physician in Fort Wayne, Ind., has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The AAFP represents more than 94,300 physicians and medical students nationwide. Kintanar was elected to a three-year term in October 2003 by the AAFP’s governing body, the Congress of Delegates.

Kintanar is in private practice with Associated Family Medical Consultants, P.C., in Fort Wayne and serves as clinical associate professor of medicine at Indiana University.

Kintanar has served the AAFP as a member of the Committee on Scientific Programs and chairman of the Committee on Special Constituencies. He was also a minority delegate to the AAFP’s Congress of Delegates. Kintanar is a member of the Board of Directors of the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians, which he has served as president-elect, president and chair.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree in microbiology from Indiana University in Bloomington in 1978, Kintanar received his medical degree from Southwestern University, Matias H. Azner Memorial College of Medicine, Philippines in 1983. He completed the Fort Wayne Indiana Family Practice Residency Program in 1986. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice and is an AAFP Fellow, an earned degree awarded to family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education.

Kintanar is active in the Fort Wayne community, currently serving on the board of directors and as director of medical education for St. Joseph Hospital, on the governing board of the Fort Wayne Medical Education Program, and as medical director of the Applewood Nursing Home, Regency Nursing Home, Wood Youth and Youth Services, and Heartland Hospice.