AAFP Elects 2026–27 Board of Directors and Officers

October 21, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 21, 2026

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) elected its 2026-27 Board of Directors at the annual Congress of Delegates. Members of the board of directors are all family physicians or training to be family physicians. Representing 124,500 physicians, residents and medical students, the AAFP Board of Directors works to advance policies that strengthen family medicine, improve access to care and support healthier communities.

“Family medicine is stronger because of physicians who lead with purpose and stay grounded in the needs of their patients and communities,” said R. Shawn Martin, AAFP CEO and executive vice president. “Primary care is at an inflection point. These leaders have a strong pulse on what patients need and bring the experience, perspective and commitment needed to move our specialty forward and expand access to high-quality care.”

New Board of Directors Officers

  • Kisha Davis, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is president of the AAFP. She is the chief health officer for Montgomery County, Maryland. She previously served as vice president of health equity at Aledade in Maryland. She was vice chair of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), advising Congress, the secretary of Health and Human Services and states on Medicaid policy. Her AAFP service includes new physician director and later convener of the National Conference of Constituency Leaders. She is a past president of the Maryland Academy of Family Physicians.
  • Sarah C. Nosal, MD, FAAFP, is board chair of the AAFP. She is vice president for innovation & optimization and chief medical information officer (CMIO) at The Institute for Family Health, a New York Federally Qualified Health Center network with locations in Mid-Hudson, Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Nosal's focus is on the care of marginalized communities, with two decades of practice in the south Bronx. As CMIO, she secured financial support for IT infrastructure, and helped her institution become a regional leader in data sharing and ensuring equitable information access.‌‌‍‌​‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‌
  • Russell W. Kohl, MD, FAAFP, is president-elect of the AAFP. He is chief medical officer with TMF Health Quality Institute, a Medicare quality improvement organization serving several states. He also cares for patients through the non-profit Care Beyond the Boulevard, providing direct medical care to those living in homeless encampments throughout the Kansas City metro area, as well as serving as a colonel, chief flight surgeon and the Air National Guard Assistant to the National Guard Bureau Joint Surgeon General.
  • Daron W. Gersch, MD, FAAFP, was elected speaker of the AAFP Congress of Delegates. He is a family physician with CentraCare hospital in Long Prairie, Minnesota. He works full-time as the ER medical and trauma director, and provides ER care at CentraCare-Long Prairie, Melrose, Sauk Centre and Paynesville hospitals. He was most recently on the PROTECT Initiative for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and served on the medical review panel for FamilyDoctor.org​.
  • Beverly Jordan, MD, FAAFP, was elected vice speaker of the AAFP Congress of Delegates. A board-certified family physician and primary care sports medicine specialist, she has served rural Alabama since 2006. She is a senior partner and owner of Professional Medical Associates in Enterprise. She is also regional medical director for Aledade ACO, chair of the Alabama State Committee of Public Health and chair of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama board.

New Board Members

The following family physicians were elected to three-year terms as members of the Board of Directors.

  • Domenic Casablanca, MD, FAAFP, is a clinical director at the Middlesex Health Family Medicine Residency Program and secretary of the Department of Family Medicine at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut. He expanded the residency’s home-based primary care program and led the establishment of home-based practice sites at a local assisted living facility and a residential care home for patients with serious psychiatric illnesses. He is a former president of the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians.
  • Renee Crichlow, MD, FAAFP, is a national expert on health equity and artificial intelligence in health care. She is chief medical officer at Codman Square Health Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and is vice chair for health equity at Boston University's Department of Family Medicine. As a lecturer at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Crichlow teaches leadership in health equity and health policy to health system executives.
  • Jason Marker, MD, FAAFP, is associate director and clinic medical director at the Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in South Bend, Indiana. A past president of the AAFP Foundation and the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians, he has expanded leadership pathways in the specialty. He helped create the AAFP’s CME on the Go podcast series, which he has co-hosted from its first episode until 2026.

These individuals were elected to one-year terms:

  • Robert Assibey, MD, FAAFP, was elected to the Board of Directors as the new physician representative. He is a family physician practicing in Northern California, and is the CEO and founder of Wounds R Us, a mobile advanced wound care company that provides in-home advanced wound care to elderly patients. He earned his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine in Barbados and completed his family medicine residency at the San Joaquin General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in French Camp.
  • Ali Greenberg, MD, MSPH, MS, was elected to the Board of Directors as the resident physician representative. She is completing a fellowship in LGBTQ+ medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. She also supports inpatient service and helps coordinate the social justice curriculum at the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center family medicine residency program. She received her medical degree from the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Master of Science in Medical Science and MSPH in Social & Behavioral Interventions.
  • Lauren Hutchinson was elected to the Board of Directors as the student representative. She is a medical student at Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine in Meridian, Idaho.

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About the American Academy of Family Physicians
The AAFP is the largest national association of family physicians, representing 124,500 physicians and medical students. Family medicine’s cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on impactful care for people of all ages, races and genders across all medical conditions. The AAFP supports every stage of a family physician's career and provides evidence-based resources, advocacy and community to empower family medicine. To learn more, visit AAFP.org. For information about health care, medical conditions and wellness, please visit the AAFP’s patient education website, FamilyDoctor.org​.