http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly.html News from the 2008 Congress of Delegates in San Deigo, as well as coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Scientific Assembly. en-us Copyright 2012 American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080926tar-wars.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080926tar-wars.html Members of the Reference Committee on Health of the Public and Science heard impassioned testimony during the 2008 Congress of Delegates about a public health issue that's near and dear to AAFP members: tobacco cessation. The testimony came in response to a recommendation in a report from the AAFP Board of Directors to the Congress on the Board's work with the AAFP Foundation Board of Trustees to secure long-term financial support for the Academy's Tar Wars program, as well as its efforts in the areas of tobacco cessation, education and research. cborgmey@aafp.org Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:05:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080924reprod-spec.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080924reprod-spec.html This year's AAFP Congress of Delegates made women's contraceptive options a focus of discussion, adopting a number of resolutions aimed at safeguarding payment for those options. The delegates also adopted measures supporting ongoing representation by members of the Academy's special constituencies. bbein@aafp.org Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:10:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080924aafpawards.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080924aafpawards.html Each year at the AAFP Assembly, the Academy recognizes members and others for their outstanding contributions to family medicine. Several people were honored during this year's Assembly. ann@aafp.org Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:05:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080924cod-flu-dtcscreens.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080924cod-flu-dtcscreens.html Tiny Rhode Island played a big role at the 2008 AAFP Congress of Delegates in San Diego, when the testimony of one of that constituent chapter's delegates gave his colleagues an inside look at a state-based system that's working to ensure adults get needed immunizations and physicians avoid the hassles that can snarl the vaccine acquisition and administration process. cborgmey@aafp.org Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:05:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080919phys-rank.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080919phys-rank.html Call it what you like -- physician profiling, ranking or tiering -- family physicians are leery of health insurers' increasingly prevalent practice of measuring and sometimes publicly reporting on physicians' performance. Judging from some of the testimony offered during a hearing of the Reference Committee on Practice Enhancement, which considered this topic at the 2008 Congress of Delegates on Sept. 15, they have reason to be. cborgmey@aafp.org Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080918keynote.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080918keynote.html The AAFP's Scientific Assembly opened in San Diego with a couple of keynote speakers that packed -- and rocked -- the house. Democrat Terry McAuliffe faced off against Republican John Kasich. With the country poised to elect a new president, the audience found itself privy to some spicy exchanges about political views between the two. sporter@aafp.org Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:05:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080918epperlyspeech.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080918epperlyspeech.html Incoming AAFP President Ted Epperly, M.D., of Boise, Idaho, pledged to give "every ounce" of his energy during his presidential term to help restore America's health care system. He promised to help make primary care -- and especially family medicine -- the foundation of a system that supports the patient-centered medical home. sporter@aafp.org Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:30:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080917codretailhealth.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080917codretailhealth.html At a time when retail health clinics are expanding, the AAFP Congress of Delegates has asked the Board of Directors to study a detailed policy on retail health clinics that entails almost a dozen different guidelines. bbein@aafp.org Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:45:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080917codruc.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080917codruc.html Family physicians are getting tired of the status quo when it comes to CMS' continuing failure to appropriately value the evaluation and management, or E/M, services FPs and other primary care specialists provide. That fact was very much in evidence during the 2008 Congress of Delegates, when on Sept. 16, delegates referred two strongly worded resolutions on this issue to the AAFP Board of Directors -- adding more fuel to a long-smoldering fire. cborgmey@aafp.org Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:30:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080917electionresults.html http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/annual-assembly/20080917electionresults.html The AAFP Congress of Delegates today elected Lori Heim, M.D., of Vass, N.C., to be the Academy's next president-elect. ann@aafp.org Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:10:00 CDT News From 2008 Annual Assembly