Home-based Primary Care Member Interest Group

Established: July 2021

The Home-based Primary Care Member Interest Group provides a forum for collaboration, idea-sharing, and advocacy for members who are practicing or interested in home-based primary care.

Who can join this MIG

Participation is open to any AAFP member interested in or seeking to learn more about home-based primary care.

Home-based Primary Care MIG objectives

Assist the AAFP in membership recruitment/retention of family physicians with shared professional interest.
Provide networking opportunities for AAFP members interested in home-based primary care by starting a dialogue, sharing articles, and creating events through the MIG’s online community.
Learn from one another.
Create the opportunity for Home-based Primary Care MIG members and others to meet face-to-face of the annual Family Medicine Experience.
Create AAFP membership awareness of the value and rewards of home-based primary care.
Advocate for educational resources and suggest topics for CME activities related to home-based primary care.
Work with the AAFP on home-based primary care advocacy efforts.

Long-term MIG goals

Work with the AAFP leadership and membership to bring home-based primary care back into the mainstream of healthcare.

MIG officers

Co-Chair: Danielle Whitacre, MD
Co-Chair: Kosta Deligiannidis, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Co-Vice Chair: Edward Foley, MD
Co-Vice Chair: Nick Schneeman, MD
Co-Secretary: Thomas Cornwell, MD, FAAFP
Co-Secretary: Domenic Casablanca, MD, FAAFP
Senior Advisor: Eliza Shulman, DO, MPH, FAAFP
Overseen By: Commission on Quality and Practice