Election Results
Delegates Choose Roland Goertz, M.D., President-elect
By News Staff
10/14/2009
The AAFP Congress of Delegates today elected Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., of Waco, Texas, to be the Academy's next president-elect. Others elected or chosen by acclamation for the following positions are
Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., of Waco, Texas, is escorted to the podium after winning the race to be the AAFP's new president-elect.
- Speaker of the Congress -- Leah Raye Mabry, M.D., of San Antonio
- Vice Speaker -- John Meigs Jr., M.D., of Brent, Ala.
- Directors -- Reid Blackwelder, M.D., of Kingsport, Tenn.; Conrad Flick, M.D., of Cary, N.C.; and Laura Knobel, M.D., of Walpole, Mass.
- New physician Board member -- Chris Lupold, M.D., of Lancaster, Pa.
- Resident Board member -- Robert Stenger, M.D., M.P.H., of Portland, Ore., and
- Student Board member -- Brooke Sciuto, of Bethesda, Md.
Finalists for the AAFP position on the board of directors of the American Board of Family Medicine, or ABFM, are
- Alan David, M.D., of Milwaukee;
- Thomas Hansen, M.D., of Omaha, Neb.; and
- Thomas Weida, M.D., of Hershey, Pa.
The ABFM will select one finalist next spring to serve a five-year term.
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