Welcome to the STFM Messenger Online
The STFM Messenger is the official news publication of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Each month, members with e-mail addresses on file with STFM will receive an e-mail with links to the Messenger's online stories. Members will be also be able to access the Messenger's current issue as well as its archives on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org/Messenger.
We welcome your feedback on our member newsletter; send your ideas and comments to Traci Nolte, tnolte@stfm.org.
STFM Candidates Offer Position Statements for Upcoming Election
The STFM Nominating Committee has announced the 2008 nominees for president-elect, secretary-treasurer, and member-at-large of the STFM Board of Directors. The candidates have provided this information to help inform the STFM membership of the special contributions they can make to the leadership of STFM. Please review the following candidates’ statements and plan to attend the Candidates’ Luncheon on Thursday, May 1, at the STFM Annual Spring Conference, where all candidates will also give short presentations on their candidacies.
PRESIDENT-ELECT CANDIDATES
Terrence E. Steyer, MD, Medical University of South Carolina
William C. Wadland, MD, MS, Michigan State University
SECRETARY-TREASURER CANDIDATES
Alison E. Dobbie, MD, University of Texas Southwestern
Harry S. Strothers III, MD, MMM, Morehouse School of Medicine
MEMBER-AT-LARGE CANDIDATES
Kim Marvel, PhD, Fort Collins Family Practice Residency Program, Fort Collins, Colo
Deborah A. Taylor, PhD, Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, Me
View a PDF of all candidates biosketches and positions statements that you may print or save.
Your involvement in selecting and supporting our leaders is important. Ballots will be distributed at the annual meeting in registration envelopes. Only members in the active physician and nonphysician membership categories whose dues are paid for 2008 are eligible to vote. All ballots must be returned to the STFM Registration desk at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront by 5:30 pm on Thursday, May 1. Election results will be announced at the STFM Annual Business Meeting on Friday, May 2, 2008.
For those members eligible to vote who will not be at the annual meeting, absentee ballots are available by request. Contact mruhl@stfm.org.
A Gallery of Snapshots From the Predoctoral Education Conference Held January 24–27, 2008, in Portland
Conference attendees had plenty of colleagues to network at this year’s Predoctoral Education Conference. The conference had record attendance of 466. Here attendees take advantage of great one-on-one discussions during the Special Topic and Common Interest Breakfast on Saturday morning.
From left to right: STFM member Wanda Gonsalves, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, and second-year students Cerrone Cohen, Daniel Cobb, and Hallie Neal visited during a break at the preconference workshop, Utilizing Student Run Clinics to Foster Research in Medical Education. They all served as presenters during the workshop that was attended by more than 100.
Kenneth Ginsburg, MD, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, visits with an attendee during a book signing of his book A Parent's Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Your Child Roots and Wings. The book signing took place after his plenary, “Helping Trainees Survive the Medical Socialization Process With Their Souls Intact.” He focused on how to prepare trainees for a lifetime of service while giving them the tools to manage their own emotions and how to prepare trainees for what can often be an emotionally toxic training process. Dr Ginsburg also presented a special session, “Reaching Adolescents by Building on Their Strengths: Resilience in Action.”
Each year, STFM awards scholarships to medical students interested in careers as family medicine educators. These scholarships fund their trip to the STFM Predoctoral Education Conference. These students were introduced by their nominators at the conference luncheon on Friday. From left to right: Erin Ferenchick, Columbia University; Sara King, Tulane University; Vanessa Lauzon, University of Southern California; and Autumn Kieber-Emmons, University of Pennsylvania.
The 2008 Predoctoral Directors Development Institute kicked off during a preconference workshop at the Predoctoral Education Conference. Institute participants spent time in small round-table workgroups during the workshop. Participants will have a second all-day PDDI workshop in conjunction with the STFM Annual Spring Conference.Thanks to the PDDI Steering Committee and faculty for all their hard work!
This year’s PDDI participants include: Elizabeth Brown, MD, MPH; University of Rochester; Maria Brown, DO, Rush Medical College; Nitin Budhwar, MD, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School; Steven Crossman, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University; Stephen DeLapp, MD, Michigan State University; Adam Dimitrov, MD, Family Practice Franklin Square, Baltimore, Md; Greg Dobash, MD; Drexel University; Marguerite Duane, MD, MHA, Georgetown University;Suzanne Eidson-Ton, MD, MS, University of California-Davis; Jocelyn Gravlee, MD, University of Florida; Suzanne Leonard Harrison, MD, Florida State University; Steven Heim, MD, University of Virginia; Rahela Lemeh, MD, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center; Charmaine Alicia Martin, MD, Texas Tech University; Lisa Maxwell, MD, Christiana Care Health System; Katrina Miller, MD, University of South Carolina; Cathleen Morrow, MD, Maine-Dartmouth FMR, Fairfield, Me; Jacob Prunuske, MD, MSPH, University of Wisconsin; Bal Reddy, MD University of Texas Medical School at Houston; Ralph Samlowski, MD, University of Alabama; Robin Schroeder, MD, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School; Sarah Schumann, MD, University of Chicago; Tiffany Snyder, DO, University of New Mexico; Janice Spalding, MD, St Elizabeth Health Center FMR.
A big thank you goes to this year’s conference chair, Katherine Margo, MD. Her vision along with her chosen theme, “Igniting Students’ Passion for Serving the Underserved” realized a new conference record attendance, including a record number of students.
Dr Margo (left) visits here with Christine Jerpbak, MD, (center) Thomas Jefferson University, and William Shore, MD, (right) University of California, San Francisco.
THE PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE STFM BOARD OF DIRECTORS
FMDRL: An Online Learning Community
In a plenary at the 2007 STFM Annual Spring Conference, Jim Mold, MD, MPH, asked us if we could become a learning community.1 A learning community is a group of people who share common values and beliefs and are actively engaged in learning together from each other.2 Telling tales of individuals with a common purpose who had successfully come together to make a process work better, Dr Mold made the case for the possibility that family medicine could also accomplish this. He put this opportunity in the context of our history, listing concrete examples of how family medicine has led the way in health care innovations in recent decades. His list of family medicine firsts included recognizing the family system and patient’s context in health and health care, requiring periodic recertification for board specialization and creating a separate organization for teachers of the specialty, which I would add is multidisciplinary. His vision of a learning community undoubtedly spoke to all of our souls.
Family medicine is indeed a learning community. We at STFM have always had an implicit set of shared values and beliefs. But the publication of the Joint Principles of the Patient-centered Medical Home3 offers a more explicit framework to define our optimal practice. This commitment to a set of criteria with which we can measure our practices shared by four primary health care societies (AAFP, AAP, ACP, and AOA) has invited a conversation among primary care specialists and health care funders. It is time for a directed process of learning from each other about what specific behaviors support the principles clearly outlined in the PCMH. Through the foresight of our colleagues at STFM, we have the perfect technology in place to support such a process: FMDRL. The concept of an online learning community is not new. It is actually common enough that it also has a definition on Wikipedia; an online learning community is a common place on the Internet that addresses the learning needs of its members through proactive and collaborative partnerships. Through social networking and computer-mediated communication, people work as a community to achieve a shared learning objective...In an online community, people communicate via textual discussion (synchronous or asynchronous), audio, video, or other Internet-supported devices.4
How could FMDRL be part of the implementation of the PCMH? FMDRL has the potential to be THE space to share discoveries about best practices in the training of future family physicians to practice in the PCMH. While currently a search of FMDRL for “patient-centered medical home” identifies only three documents (all posted by our STFM president) and a single resource from the P4 project (Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice), there are four competency-based curriculum modules directly related to the PCMH already available: Group Visits, Chronic Care Model, Quality Improvement, and Advanced Access. The potential exists for innovations being implemented through the P4 project to be disseminated through FMDRL as one accessible, searchable data source. Minimally, all of the P4-related presentations at the upcoming meetings will be posted there. But the potential exists for P4 and other PCMH projects to set up sites that could take advantage of all of the features that FMDRL offers.
Because there is the capacity for both listserves and wiki Web-spaces through FMDRL, the communication is not limited to one direction. The listserve feature can be used to dialog among a large group of educators about ideas and archive these dialogs in a searchable manner. The Web-spaces can be used to support collaborative work. STFM groups can set up spaces that have limited access, where only members can work on a document. The document can be developed and eventually published on FMDRL, with or with out peer review, for access by all. We invite the P4 project and other STFM members to take advantage of this tool and start our PCMH Learning Community. Groups interested in this should contact Traci Nolte at tnolte@stfm.org to set this up.
References
1. Mold J. Can family medicine become a learning community? http://www.fmdrl.org/1088 (PowerPoint and MP3 of talk available)
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_community. Accessed December 28, 2007.
3, http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/Joint%20Statement.pdf
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_learning_community
STFM Competency-based Curriculum, the New Model, and the Patient-centered Primary Care (or is it Family Medicine!) Home
Are you struggling to translate the concepts of the New Model and the patient-centered primary care medical home into reality? Have you been looking for resources to develop group visits or implement advanced access? Are you befuddled by the chronic care model and quality improvement? If you answered yes to any of the above—or just want to expand your resources—STFM can help! The STFM Competency-based Curriculum is now available on the Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL)—and offers you wonderful curriculum outlines and resources in four important areas:
• Group visits, led by Julie Schirmer, LCSW http://www.fmdrl.org/group/index.cfm?event=c.showWikiHome&wikiId=15
• Advanced access, led by George Valko, MD http://www.fmdrl.org/group/index.cfm?event=c.showWikiHome&wikiId=25
• Quality improvement, led by Peter Carek, MD, and Bill Shore, MD http://www.fmdrl.org/group/index.cfm?event=c.showWikiHome&wikiId=22
• The chronic care model, led by Jeff Susman, MD http://www.fmdrl.org/group/index.cfm?event=c.showWikiHome&wikiId=21
Developed over the past 2 years as part of STFM’s response to the Future of Family Medicine, these instructional units can be just the catalyst your predoctoral group or residency program have been seeking. Each unit contains model goals, objectives, evaluation materials, checklists, teaching activities, and faculty development suggestions. Go to http://www.fmdrl.org/group/index.cfm?event=c.showgrouppage&gid=1000005 to see what’s available to help support your local efforts, including additional resources such as a summary of initial findings from the TransforMED project, presentations on developing registries and implementing the EHR, and paths to planned care. Whatever your need in keeping up with this changing landscape, FMDRL is likely to have resources to help.
The ongoing success of the Competency-based Curriculum and FMDRL depends on you: your comments, additional materials, and suggestions for other resources. We hope other modules covering such important topics as evidence-based medicine, change management, team-based care, and quality and safety will make this resource robust and the “go-to” place for educators of all stripes.
Additionally, there is already movement to adapt these resources for our preceptors out in the community. This PEP III project is in the early stages of development, but if you have thoughts how we could assist your teaching in the community, please let us know.
Finally, as the Family of Family Medicine begins to seriously evaluate the continuum of education—from early medical school through residency and into practice—developing robust workspaces and repositories of information will be key elements for success. We hope you will be a part of the future of family medicine education and provide feedback on how FMDRL and our competency-based curriculum could better meet your needs.
Good News: National Research Service Awards Now Available
The National Research Service Awards (NRSA) program is funded from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Funds from NIH go to both the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Each agency has its own NRSA program. In the NIH reauthorization late in 2006, unfortunately, the language that authorizes these programs was inadvertently left out. AHRQ has different authorizing language than HRSA does, so funding the program through AHRQ was not seriously harmed. However, HRSA did not have such authorizing language and HRSA was not allowed to continue the program unless new authorizing language was enacted into law.
After almost a year of concern over the ability of HRSA to continue with the NRSA program, Congress included language in the FY08 Labor/HHS appropriations bill that gives authority to HRSA to continue the program this year. Guidance for the applications is now posted on the Web. The application deadline is February 29, 2008. Unfortunately, it is hard to search for the page on the Web site, but the link below will get you to the appropriate page.
Senator Kennedy Follows Through on His Promise
At the end of last year’s Congressional session there was a great deal of discussion about adding bill language to help increase the production of primary care physicians. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), chair of the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, promised to hold hearings early in this session on the question of primary care shortages.
On February 12 a hearing is scheduled on the question of shortages of primary care physicians. Instead of the normal format, it will be a roundtable discussion with experts discussing current data and trends. We expect Kevin Grumbach, MD, chair of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, to testify. An additional hearing is expected to address the question of nursing shortages.
Following the February 12 hearing, HELP committee staff will be meeting with representatives of groups involved in Title VII and VIII. They expect the two hearings to give them the background they need to develop an understanding of what can and/or should be done regarding the reauthorization of Title VII and VIII. We have already begun this process by meeting with both Majority and Minority staff. We expect to meet with them many times in the coming months as the Committee develops its ideas and plans for the health professions reauthorization. Unfortunately, this is an election year, so the legislative year is very short. We will have to see if Congress will be able to move forward to enactment. At the very least, we hope that some substantive work will be done on the reauthorization in preparation for the 111th Congress.
Hill Briefing: Title VII and VIII
The Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition (HPNEC) is planning a Capitol Hill briefing on Title VII and VIII on February 7. STFM and the other family medicine organizations are members of this coalition, which supports increased appropriations for the health professions programs—including our primary care medicine and dentistry cluster. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) facilitates this coalition and helps staff it. We are planning to have a family medicine speaker as one of the three main speakers at the briefing. In addition, booths will be set up around the room to enable Congressional staff to discuss specific grants showcasing the effectiveness of Titles VII and VIII.
Annual Family Medicine Congressional Conference
Make plans to attend the Family Medicine Congressional Conference May 19–20, 2008, in Washington, DC.
There is no one more qualified than you to speak up for health care. Let us show you how to do it.
Day 1: Learn how to lobby. Day 2: Go do it.
Get started in beginner tracks. Develop your expertise in advanced tracks.
• Learn how to practice real-world advocacy.
• Understand family medicine’s legislative issues.
• Visit with Congressional offices.
Gain advocacy skills that will help you work with your hospital CEO, DIO, or GME office. Learn from and interact with senior-level AAFP, AFMAA, and influential US government officials.
For complete information and to register for this conference, go to http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/cme/aafpcourses/conferences/fmcc.html
HRSA Is Seeking Grant Reviewers
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is soliciting grant reviewers for various programs in its Division of Medicine and Dentistry. HRSA is urgently looking for Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, and General Pediatrician physicians, as well as PhD, or EdD faculty who work in medical education training programs to serve as grant reviewers for the following programs:
Residency Training—Review Dates: February 20-22, 2008
Physician Faculty Development—Review Dates: March 12-14, 2008
Academic Administrative Units—Review Dates: March 18-20, 2008
If you are interested in serving as a reviewer or would like more information, please contact HRSA Reviewer Administrator Jeannie B. Davis at (301) 442-4767 or jdavis@hrsa.gov.
Register Now for the 2008 Conference on Families and Health in New Orleans
The Sheraton New Orleans has extended the hotel reservation deadline from February 6 to February 15, so be sure to make your reservations now while there are still rooms available.
The theme of this year’s Conference on Families and Health is “The Medical Home Team: Collaborating With Families and Communities to Restructure Health Care” and will be held February 27–March 2 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in historic New Orleans!
The New Model of Family Medicine practice envisioned in the Future of Family Medicine report, embodying the essential elements of the Patient-centered Medical Home, which all three primary care disciplines have now embraced, is our collective destination. We are all challenged to upgrade our classic family medicine concepts of the “patient-centered, family-oriented, and community-responsive” practice.
Plenary speakers for the 28th Annual STFM Conference on Families and Health will address these three operating principles for change:
- “Creating a Patient- and Family-centered Practice”
Susan Frampton, president, Planetree, Derby, Conn - “Collaborative Medical Home-building 101: Harry Potter Learns Pratice Jazz”
William Miller, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Bethlehem, Pa - “Bringing the Joy Back Into Family Medicine: A TransforMED Practice’s Experience With the New Model of Family Medicine”
Susan Nelson, Steele Ford, Kathy Steen, Harbor of Health, Memphis, Tenn
To learn more about the 2008 Conference on Families and Health, and to register online, visit www.stfm.org/famhealthconf/fm08/index.htm. You can search sessions, view the conference schedule, make hotel reservations, and register online.
Questions? Contact Margaret Henry at 800-274-2237, ext. 5415, mhenry@stfm.org.
2008 STFM Annual Spring Conference—Join Us in Baltimore This Spring
The STFM Program and Research committees have developed a program that is sure to motivate you to new levels of achievement as we strive to "Strengthen Core and Stimulate Progress: Assembling Patient-centered Medical Homes." The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has gained prominence and momentum this past year as a solution for a health system that is recognized as unsustainable in its current form. The PCMH is being advanced by physician and patient organizations, community health systems, health care corporations, health insurance companies, and many business groups, who all support federal legislation to make the PCMH part of the law of the land. Our ship is coming is, we just need to be ready!
Presentations in the following areas will provide us with the knowledge and skills that will allow us to fulfill the dream of the PCMH and thrive in a changed health care system:
• Transmitting family medicine's core values to students, residents, and patients
• Equipping faculty, residents, and preceptors to manage relationships, information, and processes
• Training students, residents, and faculty to achieve characteristics of the PCMH: patient-centered care, whole-person orientation, team approach, elimination of barriers to access, information systems, focus on quality, and core services.
• Redesigning our departments' and programs' medical practices to achieve characteristics of the PCMH.
The Annual Spring Conference will be held April 30–May 4 in Baltimore.
Brochures are in the mail to all STFM members; however, members can now search for presentations, download a PDF of a brochure or a registration form and make their hotel reservations by visiting http://www.stfm.org/annualconf/an08/index.htm.
Hotel Accommodations
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, 700 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore, MD 21202. Reservations: 888-511-7809. Online Reservations: http://marriott.com/bwiwf?groupCode=stfstfa&app=resvlink
Conference hotel rates are $185 single/double (plus tax). Reservation deadline is April 9, 2008.
Be sure to request the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine group rate when making your reservations.
Exhibits
The Exhibitor Prospectus and Advertising Opportunities Brochure for the Annual Spring Conference are now on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. For more information about exhibiting your program at the conference, contact Priscilla Noland at 800-274-2237, ext. 5410, or pnoland@stfm.org.
For complete information on the Annual Spring Conference, go to http://www.stfm.org/annualconf/an08/index.htm.
The following conferences are now accepting submissions. Consider submitting today.
Conference on Practice Improvement
Submissions can now be entered online for the Conference on Practice Improvement, to be held December 4–7, 2008, in Savannah, Ga. The conference theme is “Blueprint for the Medical Home.” The submission deadline is March 10, 2008. The direct Web URL is http://www.stfm.org/stfmpresenter/submission/start.cfm?confid=152.
Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine
Online submissions are requested for the Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine, to be held September 25–28, 2008, in Chicago. The theme for 2008 is “Integrating and Expanding Behavioral Science in the New Medical Home.” We invite proposals that will show how behavioral science concepts and skills are essential to building the medical home and proposals that expand the role of the behavioral sciences and behavioral scientists in the medical home. To submit, go to http://www.stfm.org/stfmpresenter/submission/start.cfm?confid=153. Submission deadline is March 21, 2008.
Conference on Families and Health—February 27–March 1, 2008, New Orleans
Predoctoral Directors Development Institute—April 30, 2008, prior to the 2008 Annual Spring Conference in Baltimore
Annual Spring Conference—April 30–May 4, 2008, Baltimore
Faculty Development Series—April 30, 2008. Workshop I: Teaching and Learning Skills (in conjunction with the Annual Spring Conference in Baltimore)
Faculty Development Series—April 30, 2008. Workshop VIII: Making the Case for Cultural Proficiency: A Workshop for Medical Educators (in conjunction with the Annual Spring Conference in Baltimore)
Family Medicine Congressional Conference—May 19–20, 2008, Washington, DC.
Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine—September 24-28, 2008, Chicago
Conference on Practice Improvement—December 4–7, 2008, Savannah, Ga
Do You Have an Open Position to Fill? Consider STFM’s Positions and Opportunities Book
STFM will publish its annual Positions and Opportunities Book for distribution with conference materials at the Annual Spring Conference April 30–May 4, 2008, in Baltimore. This publication will be a valuable, organized reference to current opportunities in family medicine education.
Programs and institutions with positions available should submit copy to Family Medicine Classifieds, c/o Russell Johns Associates, PO Box 1510, Clearwater, FL 33757-1510. E-mail: familymedicine@medical-admart.com. 800-237-7027. Fax: 727-445-9380. When you send in your ad, be sure to note that the ad is being submitted for the STFM Positions and Opportunities Book.
Increase your ad exposure and take advantage of our special combination pricing. For more information on placing your ad, contact Susan Deakins, Russell Johns Associates, at 800-237-7027. Overnight delivery: 1001 S. Myrtle Avenue, Suite 7, Clearwater, FL 33756-3930.
Click here to see full pricing information for the Spring 2008 Positions and Opportunities Book.
History Center Issues Call for Memorabilia as Part of Future “Peacemakers” Exhibit
As part of its efforts to document the contributions of family medicine to the cause of peace in the world, the Center for the History of Family Medicine (CHFM) has issued a call asking family physicians to contribute memorabilia for a future exhibit to be titled “The Peacemakers: The Story of Family Physicians as Humanitarians.”
The Center, the only resource center devoted exclusively to preserving the collection, conservation, exhibition, and study of materials relating to the history of family medicine in the United States, is seeking material from family physicians to help tell the story of general practitioners (GPs) and family physicians who have worked for peace and humanitarian causes, have served on the front lines during epidemics or other emergencies both here and around the world, and who have worked for peace and justice, either as activists, missionaries, or in other capacities. The CHFM is especially looking for letters, diaries, journals, photographs, written or oral reminiscences, and related items from GPs and family physicians on these topics. Written materials may be in the form of either originals or copies.
According to CHFM Manager Don Ivey, these materials play a crucial role in helping to document and preserve the story of the specialty. Although many GPs and family physicians have served as peacemakers, activists or humanitarians both here and abroad, the story of their work throughout the years has never been adequately documented. “Recognizing that the role of family medicine is not only confined to treating the individual, but also to advancing the welfare of mankind as a whole, we seek to pay tribute to the many family physicians who have devoted their lives and careers to this effort,” Ivey said.
The CHFM is located at AAFP headquarters in Leawood, Kansas. For more information or to donate materials to the Center, contact Center staff at 800-274-2237 (ext. 4420 or 4422), fax: 913-906-6095, or chfm@aafp.org.
In Memoriam
STFM sadly reports the death January 26 of Jonathan (Jack) Rodnick, MD, of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California-San Francisco. A longtime STFM member, Jack was the 15th president of STFM in 1987–1988 and had previously served on the Board as member-at-large. He was the editor of the Family Medicine International Column and was the special issue editor of the October 2007 Family Medicine Special Issue on Global Family Medicine Education. He had a strong interest in family medicine in developing nations and worked closely with the AAFP on its international activities and had just begun a term as the chair of the AAFP Commission on Science. He was selected in 2007 as the STFM representative to the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca).
A memorial service to celebrate Jack's life and his contributions will be held Sunday, March 2, at 2 pm in Toland Hall at the University of California, San Francisco (located at UC Hall, first floor, 533 Parnassus Avenue. The memorial will be followed by a reception at the Faculty-Alumni House (745 Parnassus Avenue). For questions about the memorial, please contact Coral Ruppert at 415-206-6245.
If you wish to send a note of condolence to Jack's wife, Judy Harding, and do not have her home address, send your correspondence c/o Judi Mozesson, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine, Box 0900, UCSF, San Grancisco, CA 94143-0900, and she will make sure it gets to Judy.
If you plan to attend the memorial and would like to speak at the service, please notify Kevin Grumbach, MD, at kgrumbach@fcm.ucsf.edu. Or feel free to share any reminiscences with Kevin that you would like him to share with those attending the services.
Members Sponsor STFM Memberships for Students and Fellows
Thanks to all the STFM members who voluntarily sponsored a new member in conjunction with their 2008 STFM membership dues statement. STFM was able to provide 22 new students and two new fellows a 1-year STFM membership because of your generosity. Each year, STFM offers this sponsorship elective during your membership renewal process. Please consider sponsoring a student, resident, or fellow with an STFM membership next year. You have the option to choose a particular honoree or simply donate to the scholarship fund.
New Members
| Alabama | Mississippi |
| Kimberly Owens | Amber McIlwain |
| Alaska | Missouri |
| Tonya Caylor | Allison Heider, MD |
| Daron DyKema, MD | Peter Koopman, MD |
| Kirk Socfield, MD | Gregory O'Donnell, MD |
| Brad Warrick, MD | |
| Arizona | Jon Welsh, MD |
| Javier Zayas-Bazan, MD | |
| Nevada | |
| Arkansas | Whitney Law |
| Philipp Narciso, MD | |
| New Hampshire | |
| California | Dominic Geffken, MD, MPH |
| Dan Ciccarone, MD, MPH | Cynthia King, MD |
| Enrique Gonzalez Mendez, MD | |
| Vanessa Lauzon | New Jersey |
| Erik Olsen, MD, MS | James Feldman, LCSW, PhD |
| Richard Silva | Anu Kotay |
| Ynolde Smith, DO | |
| Lucia Sommers, DrPH | New Mexico |
| John Bettler | |
| Delaware | Samuel MacBride, MD |
| Autumn Kieber-Emmons, MPH | John Miller, MD |
| District of Columbia | New York |
| Eileen Moore, MD | Erin Ferenchick |
| Mimi McEvoy, MA | |
| Florida | Christopher Morley, MA, CAS |
| Lorna Fountain, MD | Daniel Myers, ACSW, MSW |
| Jennifer Hale, MD | Jessica Ryan, MD |
| Deepa Kamath, MD | |
| North Carolina | |
| Illinois | Jessica Schorr Saxe, MD |
| James Nee, MD | |
| Ohio | |
| Iowa | Ramana Murthy Gokula, MD |
| Anita Simison, MD | Theresa Lengerich, PsyD |
| Allison Macerollo, MD | |
| Kansas | |
| Alexander Ivanov | Oklahoma |
| Sara Oberhelman | Darin Mann, MD |
| Louis Mulkey, DO | |
| Louisiana | |
| Sara King | Oregon |
| Eddie Espanol, III | |
| Maine | Michael Hudson, MD |
| Barbara Moss, DO, MPH | Ryan Palmer |
| John Santa, MD, MPH | |
| Maryland | |
| Diana Mahoney | Pennsylvania |
| Kristen Oldach | Kristopher Fayock |
| Michael Frost, MD | |
| Massachusetts | David Keith, OMS I, MSPH |
| Robin Baltrushes | Maged Labib, MD |
| Elise Cheng | Rowena Ravano, MD |
| Konstantinos Deligiannidis, MD, MPH | Gordon Zubrod, MD |
| Dennis Dimitri, MD | |
| Cynthia Jeremiah, MD | Texas |
| Winfred Frazier | |
| Michigan | |
| Stephen DeLapp, MD | Utah |
| Robin DeMuth, MD | Rholinda Lange |
| Christina Porucznik, PhD, MSPH | |
| Minnesota | |
| Mitchell Callahan | Vermont |
| Allyson Hayward, MSW | Sarah Grimm |
| Irene Sia, MD, MSc | |
STFM Foundation Meets 2007 Annual Giving Goals
I’m delighted to report that the STFM Foundation has reached a milestone, receiving more than $100,000 in annual giving contributions from March 1 through December 31, 2007. Many of you did, indeed, show that holiday spirit (or tax savvy) between December 15 and 31, donating more than $15,000 in that 2-week period.
Because we reached our goal, our matching requirements were met for the Bishop Fellows fund, we will be able to maintain the increased support for our New Faculty Scholars, and we will have approximately $30,000 available for our new Group Project Fund.
All this was accomplished with just 354 STFM members making individual contributions and seven departments of family medicine contributing a cumulative total of $7,500. Imagine the potential for research and award support if we could inspire twice as many members to become part of our Foundation family!
Next month we will report on the Group Project Fund proposals that were accepted, hoping many of you will find that the inspiration to support the Foundation as we follow each project’s progress.