Marin Granholm Elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians

WASHINGTON – Marin Granholm, M.D., a family physician in Bethel, Alaska, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The AAFP represents more than 94,000 physicians and medical students nationwide. Granholm was elected to a one-year term by the New Physician Constituency during the AAFP National Conference of Special Constituencies and was confirmed today by the AAFP’s governing body, the Congress of Delegates, at the organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

As the new physician member of the AAFP board of directors, Granholm is responsible for representing the interests and opinions of the New Physician Constituency to the AAFP board and Congress of Delegates. She previously served as the resident representative to the AAFP Committee on Rural Health and resident delegate to the AAFP’s National Conference of Residents and Students.

Granholm currently serves as director of residents and students for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, a full-service health care provider to the frontier Alaska Native population. Her professional interests include chronic pain and HIV treatment.

Beyond her involvement in the national and state academies, Granholm has volunteered in medical missions outside the United States, delivering health care to rural villages in Honduras and Africa. In local communities, she has served as a volunteer physician in free health clinics and as an AIDS educator.

Granholm earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1996. She earned her medical degree from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in 2000, earning the Family Medicine Departmental Award. Granholm completed her residency with the Alaska Family Medicine Residency Program in Anchorage, Alaska.