Residents, Students Elect Peers to Leadership Posts
Deadlines Approaching for Many Appointed Leadership Roles
July 31, 2023, News Staff — Residents and students elected more than a dozen of their peers to leadership roles during the 2023 National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students.
Those who were elected by delegates to the National Congress of Family Medicine Residents and the National Congress of Student Members at the conference, held July 27-29 at the Kansas City, Mo., Convention Center, will be confirmed by the AAFP Board of Directors (or other relevant family medicine organizations) in the coming weeks.
“We are so excited about the diversity this class of elected leaders brings to the AAFP,” said Vice President of Medical Education Karen Mitchell, M.D. “These leaders bring a variety of backgrounds, identities and experiences that will strengthen the AAFP policies and priorities they help shape. This class represents gender, race and geographic diversity, as well as U.S. and international medical schools and allopathic and osteopathic training.”
The elected residents are:
Resident member, AAFP Board of Directors: Janet Nwaukoni, D.O., Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine Residency at Lake Forest, Ill.
Resident chair, 2024 National Conference: Bright Zhou, M.D., Stanford — O’Connor Family Medicine Residency, San Jose, Calif.
Resident alternate delegates, AAFP Congress of Delegates: Aerial Petty, D.O., Family Medicine Residency Program at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, New York; Rebecca Stoll, D.O., Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Residency, Rochester, N.Y.
Resident member, AAFP Foundation Board of Trustees: Kelly Dougherty, M.D., Mercy Family Medicine Residency, St. Louis
Resident member, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Board of Directors: Paola Lepe, M.D., Stanford — O’Connor Family Medicine Residency, San Jose, Calif.
Resident Member, Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors Board of Directors: Ijeoma Amanze, M.D., Family Medicine Residency Program of LSU Health Shreveport, Monroe, La.
The elected students are:
Student member, AAFP Board of Directors: Taree Chadwick, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Student chair, 2023 National Conference: Allison Smith, M.P.H., Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine — Center for Medical and Health Sciences, Lynchburg, Va.
Student alternate delegates, AAFP Congress of Delegates: Araminta Ray, East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine, Johnson City, Tenn.; Derek Southwick, University of Washington School of Medicine — Moscow, Idaho
Student member, AAFP Foundation Board of Trustees: Tameka Lawrence, Ross University School of Medicine, Phenix City, Alabama
National FMIG Coordinator: Ernie Rodrigez, M.B.A., Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara School of Medicine, Los Angeles
The conference drew 4,815 registrants, including 1,453 students and 1,320 residents.
Several student and resident leadership positions that will be filled by appointment remain available, including:
- student delegates to the AMA Medical Student Section (applications due Aug. 10),
- resident delegates to the AMA Resident and Fellow Section (applications due Aug. 10),
- student and resident to serve on the Annals of Family Medicine editorial advisory board (applications due Aug. 10),
- resident member for the Review Committee for Family Medicine (applications due Sept. 1)
- student and resident AAFP commission appointments (applications due Sept. 7),
- FMIG Network regional coordinators (applications due Sept. 7),
- student liaison to the Student National Medical Association (applications due Sept. 7),
- student liaison to the Latino Medical Student Association (applications due Sept. 7),
- student and resident members of the American Family Physician editorial board (applications due Sept. 7).
- student and resident members of the AAFP Center for Global Health Initiatives Advisory Board (applications due Sept. 7)
- student and resident members of the National Research Network Advisory Board (applications due Sept. 7)
AAFP members such as those elected at National Conference help shape the Academy’s policies and positions on issues that affect family medicine. Learn how you can take part in AAFP governance and then choose a path to get involved at the national level or contact your chapter for other opportunities.