People in the News -- August

The AMA Board of Trustees has awarded David Ellington, M.D., of Lexington, Va., a member of the AAFP Board of Directors, a seat on the AMA's CPT Editorial Panel. The panel is responsible for maintaining the CPT code set and is authorized by the AMA Board of Trustees to revise, update, or modify CPT codes, descriptors, rules and guidelines. The panel is composed of 17 members, 11 of whom are physicians nominated by national medical specialty organizations. Ellington will serve a four-year term that commences with the CPT Editorial Panel's October meeting. In order to serve in his new capacity, Ellington will step down as the Academy's representative to the AMA's CPT Advisory Committee.


AAFP member Cynda Johnson, M.D., M.B.A., has been selected as the founding dean of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Va. The new medical school, which is a joint venture of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., and Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, is targeting August 2010 as the date for its first admissions. Previously, Johnson was dean and professor of family medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, N.C. Johnson attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and earned her medical degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine. She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.