FPs Elected to AMA Offices at 2009 Meeting

FP David Barbe, M.D., M.H.A., of Mountain Grove, Mo., was elected to the AMA Board of Trustees during this year's annual meeting of the AMA House of Delegates, June 13-17 in Chicago. Barbe has twice been elected to the AMA Council on Medical Service, most recently serving as chair of the council. He also has served on numerous AMA committees, as well as on the association's Physicians Data Release Task Force.

Two FPs won seats on the AMA Council on Medical Education during the 2009 AMA meeting. Baretta Casey, M.D., M.P.H., of Pikeville, Ky., was re-elected to serve on the council, and Darlyne Menscer, M.D., of Charlotte, N.C., also was chosen by delegates.

In addition, family physician Edward Langston, M.D., of Lafayette, Ind., announced his candidacy for AMA president-elect on the final day of this year's meeting. He was nominated for the post by the AAFP and has been endorsed by the Indiana State Medical Association.

Langston has served on the AMA's board since 2003, and was board chair in 2007-08. Before that, he served on the Council on Medical Education for four years and was a member and chair of the AMA Service and Specialty Society.

Langston was a member of the AAFP Board of Directors from 1990-93 and served as AAFP vice president in 1993-94. He is a past president of the Indiana AFP.

A former rural physician, Langston earned a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He completed his family medicine residency at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville, Ind. Currently, Langston is coordinator of graduate education for St. Elizabeth Regional Health in Lafayette and practices at the American Health Network family medicine clinic in Lebanon, Ind.