People in the News -- August

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected AAFP member Carlos Jaen, M.D., Ph.D., of San Antonio, to serve on a national advisory committee responsible for overseeing the future of personal health records and the technology necessary to create them.

Jaen is one of six new additions to an existing committee of seven individuals that was created when the foundation launched its Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records project. Committee members were chosen based on leadership in their respective fields and their commitment to the program.

Jaen is a practicing family physician and has served as chair of the department of family and community medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio since 2001. He's been active in family medicine and public health research since 1985. In 2005, Jaen was appointed to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Advisory Council.

AAFP member Emmett (Lee) Rice, D.O., of San Diego, has received the Dr. Jerry C. Lee Endowed Chair at National University in San Diego.

Rice is the CEO and medical director of LIFEWellness Institute in San Diego. As the Dr. Jerry C. Lee chair, he will be responsible for furthering the aims of the university's Center for Integrative Health, which was established in 2007 to provide education about integrative health and to help people live healthier lives.

Rice has been a team physician for numerous sports organizations in San Diego, as well as for the Rock & Roll Marathon and the Senior Olympics. He was the team physician for the USA Men's and Women's Volleyball Teams for 20 years through four Olympiads.