Alabama Physician Elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians

SAN DIEGO – John Meigs, M.D., FAAFP, a family physician in Centreville, Ala., has been elected vice speaker of the Congress of Delegates, the governing body of the American Academy of Family Physicians, at the organization’s annual meeting here. As vice speaker, Meigs will serve as an officer on the AAFP’s Board of Directors. The AAFP represents more than 93,000 physicians and medical students nationwide.

Meigs has been in private practice in Centerville, his home town, for more than 25 years. He is one of five physicians serving Bibb County and its population of 22,000. Outside of his private practice, Meigs serves as chief of staff at Bibb Medical Center, a rural hospital in Centreville. As an AAFP board member, Meigs will advocate on behalf of family physicians and patients nationwide to inspire positive change in the U.S. health care system.

A member of the AAFP since 1979, Meigs has served on numerous commissions and committees, including the Scientific Assembly Resolutions Committee and the Committee on Rural Health. He most recently chaired the Commission on Health of the Public. He has been a delegate or an alternate delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates since 1996.

At the state level, Meigs is an active member of the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians, having served on its board of directors since 1991, including terms as president and chairman. He has also served on the Alabama AFP Executive Committee and chaired the Public Relations Committee and Education Committee. Meigs also serves as vice president of the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, the charitable arm of the organization.

Meigs currently serves as speaker of the House of Delegates and College of Counselors for the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and as the ex-officio member of its Board of Censors.

Meigs is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and a clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine. In 2003, he was awarded the University of Alabama School of Medicine Argus Award for Best Attending in Family Medicine.

Meigs is an active member of his community, as indicated by his service as a deacon at Brent Baptist Church, a member of the Brent Civitan Club and as president of the Bibb County Junior Miss Board of Directors. In 2004, he was named Bibb County Citizen of the Year by the Kiwanis Club of Centreville.

Meigs earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and his medical degree from the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He completed his family medicine residency at UAB/Selma Family Practice Residency Program where he also served as chief resident.

He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and has the AAFP Degree of Fellow, an earned degree awarded to family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education.