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Thomas Koinis Elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians

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Thursday, October 02, 2003

Contact:
Amanda Denning
American Academy of Family Physicians
(800) 274-2237, Ext. 5223
adenning@aafp.org

NEW ORLEANS — Thomas F. Koinis, M.D., a family physician in Oxford, N.C., 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. Koinis was elected to a three-year term in October 2003 by the AAFP’s governing body, the Congress of Delegates.

Koinis is a family physician with Oxford Family Physicians, Duke University Affiliated Physicians. He is also medical director for the Brantwood Retirement and Nursing Center, medical examiner for Granville County and consulting associate in community and family medicine, Duke University Medical Center. He is team physician for the J.F. Webb High School football team and a member of the North Carolina Immunization Advisory Council.

A member of the AAFP since 1983, Koinis has served the organization in a variety of roles, including as a member of the Academy’s Reference Committees on Health Care Services and on Special Issues, and as chair of the AAFP’s Chapter Affairs Committee. He has also served on the AAFP Foundation Advisory Council.

Koinis has been very involved in the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP), serving as chairman of the Publications Committee; editor of North Carolina Family Physician; and district director, treasurer, president-elect and president of the NCAFP. He also has represented the NCAFP to the AAFP Congress of Delegates and served the NCAFP Foundation as trustee, vice-president and president.

Koinis received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in polymer science from Case Western Reserve University. He earned his medical degree at the CWRU School of Medicine in 1980 and completed his residency with the Blackstone Family Practice Residency Program, Medical College of Virginia in 1983. Koinis is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice.

Koinis has been active in his local community as a member of the Business and Industry Advisory Council of Granville County and board member, vice president and president of the Granville Education Foundation.

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Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents more than 93,000 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the only medical society devoted solely to primary care.

Nearly one in four of all office visits are made to family physicians. That is 215 million office visits each year – nearly 48 million more than the next medical specialty. Today, family physicians provide the majority of care for America’s underserved and rural populations.

In the increasingly fragmented world of health care where many medical specialties limit their practice to a particular organ, disease, age or sex, family physicians are dedicated to treating the whole person across the full spectrum of ages. Family medicine’s cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care.

To learn more about the American Academy of Family Physicians and about the specialty of family medicine, please visit www.aafp.org.

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