Timothy Komoto Elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians

NEW ORLEANS — Timothy Komoto, M.D., a family physician in Mendota Heights, Minn., 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. Komoto was elected to a three-year term in October 2003 by the AAFP’s governing body, the Congress of Delegates.

Komoto is one of 10 physician-partners who own and operate the Bloomington Lake Clinics in the southern Twin Cities area and also serves as medical director at the Stevens Square Nursing Home. He is clinical adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Family Practice and Community Health; clinical preceptor and lecturer at College of St. Catherine, Adult Nurse Practitioner Program; and clinical preceptor for the Physician Assistant Program at Augsburg College.

As a member of the AAFP, Komoto has served on the Chapter Affairs Committee, the Chapter Assistance Program Board, the Commission on Continuing Medical Education and the Home Study Self-Assessment Advisory Board. He is a member of the Future of Family Medicine Task Force, which is charged with developing a strategy to transform and renew the specialty of family practice to meet the needs of people and society in a changing environment.

Active in the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP), Komoto received the MAFP’s Merit Award in 2003. He has served on a variety of committees for the MAFP, including Biomedical Ethics, Continuing Medical Education, and Ways and Means, as well as the Education Commission. Komoto was vice speaker of the House of Delegates for the MAFP and has held the officer positions of chair, president-elect, president and treasurer of the MAFP. He has represented the MAFP at the AAFP Congress of Delegates and is a member of the MAFP Foundation board.

Komoto received his bachelor’s degree at Mid-America Nazarene College in Olathe, Kan., and his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis in 1979. He completed his residency with St. Clare’s Hospital Family Practice Residency in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1982, the year in which he received the Resident of the Year Award from the New York Academy of Family Physicians. Komoto 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.

Komoto has been active on the local and state level in a variety of volunteer positions, including serving as a board member for the Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics and the Hennepin unit of the American Cancer Society. He also volunteers with the Healthcare for the Homeless Project, providing free healthcare for dozens of men at a Minneapolis shelter, and has participated in several medical mission trips to Nicaragua.