American Academy of Family Physicians

• Local Physician Receives Honorary Degree From American Academy of Family Physicians

PETERSBURG - Shirlene T. Moten, M.D., MPH, a family physician in Petersburg has achieved the Degree of Fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians, the national medical association representing 100,300 family physicians, residents and medical students. The degree was conferred on more than 130 family physicians during a convocation on Saturday, Sept. 17, in conjunction with the AAFP's annual meeting. The Degree of Fellow was established in 1971 by the AAFP Congress of Delegates (revised in 1992) as an avenue for special recognition of AAFP members who have distinguished themselves among their colleagues, as well as in their communities, by their service to family medicine, the advancement of health care to the American people, and by their professional development through medi...

• Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va.
• November 16, 2011

• American Academy of Family Physicians Conference

Held in Boston from October 14-17, the most recent Scientific Assembly meeting of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) was the first such conference where there has been a booth sponsored by an organization opposing infant male circumcision. Family medicine physicians are performing the second greatest number of infant circumcisions in the United States after obstetricians, with pediatricians coming in third. When we suggested to several of them that they just stop performing the procedure, their facial expressions indicated that this was a radical idea that they had never considered before.

• Attorneys for the Rights of the Child Newsletter
• Vol. 8 Nbr. 1, December 2009

• The American Academy of Family Physicians Launches Consumer Alliance with First Partner: The Coca-Cola Company

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Janelle Davis, +1-800-274-2237, ext. 5222, jdavis@aafp.org, or Amanda Holt, +1-800-274-2237, ext. 5223, aholt@aafp.org, both of the American Academy of Family Physicians; or Kirsten Witt of Coca-Cola North America, +1-404-676-0314, kwitt@na.ko.com

• U.S. Newswire
• October 06, 2009

• Aid for Women, on Its Own Behalf, Teri Augustus, L.M.S.W., Margot Breckbill, R.N., Tracy Cowles, M.D., Willow Eby, R.N., Vicki Epp, L.B.S.W., Margaret Estrin, M.D., Herbert Hodes, M.D., Traci Nauser, M.D., Colleen O'Donnel, R.N-C., Staci Morgan, D.O., Beth Mcgilley, Ph.D., Trina Wheeler, L.M.S.W., and Sherman Zaremski, M.D., on Behalf of Themselves and Their Adolescent Patients and Clients Under the Age of Sixteen, and as Representatives of a Class of Similarly Situated Individuals, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Nola Foulston, in Her Official Capacity as District Attorney, 18Th Judicial District of Kansas, and as Representative of a Class of all County and District Attorneys in the State of Kansas, and Phill Kline, Acting in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of the State of Kansas, Defendants-Appellants. American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Association, American Medical Women'S Association, American Nurses Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Society for Adolescent..., 441 F.3d 1101 (10th Cir. 2006)

Laura B. Shaneyfelt, Hulnick Law Offices, Wichita, KS, and Bonnie Scott Jones and Simon Heller, Center for Reproductive Rights, New York, NY, for Plai...

• Federal Circuits

• American Academy of Family Physicians and Metlife Foundation Collaborate to Create New Educational Materials to Address Childhood Obesity

To: HEALTH EDITORS Contact: Janelle Davis, American Academy of Family Physicians, +1- 800-274-2237 Ext. 5222, jdavis@aafp.org; Ted Mitchell, MetLife Foundation, +1-401-827-3236, tjmitchell@metlife.com

• U.S. Newswire
• October 22, 2009

• The American Academy of Family Physicians Launches Consumer Alliance with First Partner: The Coca-Cola Company.

LEAWOOD, Kan. -- The American Academy of Family Physicians today announced the Consumer Alliance, a new corporate partnership program, with its first ...

• Business Wire
• October 06, 2009

• Business Joins Labor in Push for Government-Run Health Care

[...] does the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Catholic Health Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, the Healthcare Leadership Council and the medical products conglomerate Johnson & Johnson. It supports legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, and it urges states to pass laws to require employers to pay for their employees' health insurance.

• Human Events
• August 19, 2009

• American Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Barbara Doty was elected to a three-year term with the American Academy of Family Physicians board of directors. Doty is a practicing family physi...

• Alaska Business Monthly
• Vol. 26 Nbr. 12, December 2010

• UnitedHealth Group, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American College of Physicians Join to Advance Innovative Primary Care Model.

UnitedHealth Group and physician groups to launch "medical home" pilot program to reward primary care doctors who improve patients' total health MIN...

• Business Wire
• August 06, 2007

• American Academy of Family Physicians and Metlife Foundation Collaborate to Introduce New Approach to Problem of Childhood Obesity

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Ted Mitchell of MetLife Foundation, +1-401-827-3237, tjmitchell@metlife.com; or Adam Lee of American Academy of Family Physicians, +1-800-274-2237, Ext. 5221, alee@aafp.org

• U.S. Newswire
• September 03, 2008