Students and Residents Elect New Leaders

More Positions Open Until Sept. 6

Aug. 8, 2024, News Staff — Residents and students elected their peers to leadership roles during the 2024 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 Aug. 1-3 at the Kansas City, Mo., Convention Center, will be confirmed by the AAFP Board of Directors (or other family medicine organizations) in the coming weeks. 

Those elected to resident leadership positions are: 

Resident/fellow member, AAFP Board of Directors: Aerial Petty, D.O., health policy fellow, Family Medicine Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Resident chair, FUTURE 2025 (National Conference): Kate Tian, M.D., University of Vermont Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program, Burlington

Resident alternate delegates, AAFP Congress of Delegates: Grace Kelly, M.D., University of Florida Family Medicine Residency Program, Gainesville; Tegan Koski, M.D., Naval Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, Jacksonville, Fla.

Those elected to student leadership positions are: 

Student member, AAFP Board of Directors: Mikala Cessac, University of Missouri - Columbia School of Medicine

Student chair, FUTURE 2025 (National Conference): Austen Ott, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis

Student member, AAFP Foundation Board of Trustees: Andrea Augustine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C.

Student alternate delegates, AAFP Congress of Delegates: Payal Morari, Kansas City University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Kansas City, Mo.; Sammy Khalil, University of South Carolina School of Medicine - Greenville

FMIG Network National coordinator: Alison Johnston, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine - State College

STFM Board of Directors: Samantha Bush, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Milwaukee

The conference drew 5,201 registrants, including 1,641 students and 1,389 residents. 

Several student and resident leadership positions that will be filled by appointment are open for applications until Sept. 6, including: 

• student and resident AAFP commission appointments, 
• FMIG Network regional coordinators, 
• student liaison to the Student National Medical Association, 
• student liaison to the Latino Medical Student Association, and
• student and resident member of the FamMedPAC board of directors,
• student and resident members of the American Family Physician editorial advisory board. 

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 choose a path to get involved at the national level or contact your chapter for other opportunities.