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Thanks to those who completed the Student member survey.  Your student leaders are looking at the results for their trip to the AAFP National Conference.  We'll share survey results in the August issue. 

Be sure to check out the Illinois Block at the AAFP National Conference in Kansas City.  You'll see a new look and a team approach to building the family medicine future of our state.  And, there will be POPCORN!

AAFP National Conference Poster Presenters from Illinois

Congratulations to the Illinois attendees who are participating in the AAFP National Conference Poster Presentation Competition.  If you are going to the conference, stop by and see them!

Clinical Inquiry:

Rapidly Progressive Encephalopathy in a 49 Year Old Female: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Ranga Patri, MD

Community Project:

Active K: Filling a Need for Organized Physical Activity Among Kindergarteners

Katie Lowry and Daniel Sadowski

Research:

Investigation of First Year Medical Students' Career Preferences

Kimberly Clinite and Stephanie Kazantsev

Carson with Sen. Dick Durbin

Tar Wars Illinois winner takes 2^nd in DC 

Carson Fisher, soon to be a fifth-grader at Bureau Valley South School in Sheffield, took second place at the National Tar Wars Poster Contest in Washington, D.C.  The National Poster Winner was announced on July 16 at a banquet honoring all the state winners in Washington, DC.  The following morning, all the Tar Wars state winners headed to Capitol Hill to meet with their members of Congress.  Carson, his sister Kinzie and parents Chad and Angie met with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and legislative staff for Sen. Mark Kirk, followed by a meeting with their representative, Rep. Adam Kinzinger.

Read more on the IAFP blog http://illinoisfamilyphysicians.wordpress.com/

Chicago Med School and Lutheran General's Judi Gravdal, MD

Annual Foundation Sox Game a big hit for family medicine 

With perfect weather and over 150 baseball fans, IAFP celebrated our seventh annual Family Health Foundation of Illinois White Sox game fundraiser.  Ticket sales, combined with our corporate sponsorship totals over $3,500 for the Foundation.  Unfortunately (for most of the fans) Detroit jumped on the scoreboard early and prevailed 6-2.  Special thanks to our three corporate supporters, Cerner, Health Directions, LLC and ProAssurance for supporting the event and bringing such fun.  ProAssurance continued their tradition of hosting the pre-game social for members who could get to the park a little early!  Congrats to Aditi Vyas and Dan Neumann who each won two tickets in our random drawing!

 Our upcoming Family Medicine Midwest conference, October 4-6 in Milwaukee provides a tremendous and tangible opportunity for Midwestern residency programs and medical schools to collaborate on the shared mission of providing a strong primary care workforce to reduce the shortages currently predicted by many expert groups.  

DEADLINE is AUGUST 18!

Students can apply for a scholarship online.

The IAFP is serving as the meeting manager for the Family Medicine Midwest Foundation, which includes:  Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.   

If you have a news item to share, email it to Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com.

Congratulations to IAFP Resident Board Member Monica Fudala, MD of NorthShore University FMR who is one of seven Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching awards recipients from the University of Chicago.  These awards were given out to residents who demonstrated compassion and empathy in caring for patients, but who also served as a role model for students and colleagues, exhibited enthusiasm and skill in professional and personal interactions with students, and welcomed one-on-one mentorship.

Congratulations to IAFP board member Edward A. Blumen, MD of NorthShore University Health Systems for being awarded the first annual 2012-2013 Outstanding Preceptor Award from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced $12 million in Affordable Care Act funding to support primary care residency programs in 32 Teaching Health Centers across the nation.  Funding will help train more than 300 residents during the 2013-2014 academic year, doubling the number of residents trained in the previous academic year. Administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payment Program, created by the Affordable Care Act, expands residency training in community-based settings.  Residents will be trained in family and internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, and general and pediatric dentistry. Northwestern University/McGaw Family Medicine Residency Program is the only Illinois THC and was awarded $862,500.  Of the first class to graduate from McGaw in June 2013, seven out of eight are in community-based outpatient settings; with five of them remaining in the Northwestern community and two others in underserved clinics in Chicago.

Past president Ron Johnson, MD was quoted in an article in the July 15 Quincy Herald Whig describing the newly opened Pittsfield Clinic and Pike County Family Practice, which provides consolidated and expanded services.

Amit Garg, MD was featured in the July 12 Ottawa Times for earning his certification from the Department of Transportation for the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners. He's now the only physician in a 45-mile radius certified by NCRME to conduct physical qualification exams for commercial drivers, such as truck and bus drivers.  You can get that same certification Oct 12 in Davenport, IA (See the CME section for details).

Brian S. Rosborough, MD has been named chief medical officer of OSF St. Elizabeth Medical Center, as well as regional director of the OSF Medical Group's I-80 Region, according to the July 12 issue of the Ottawa Times.

Thomas Lee, MD of New Lenox provides insight on the importance and process of the sports physical required for youth sports team participation. The article appeared in the Mokena Patch on July 17.

This week's Crain's Chicago Business examined the track records of Chicago teaching hospitals in producing primary care physicians.  The article includes input from IAFP members Susan Vandenberg-Dent, MD, associate dean at Rush University and Lee Sacks, MD, chief medical officer for Advocate Health Care. 

Deb Clements, MD was featured in the Chicago Tribune July 1 about her new title as the first program director of the upcoming Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine Residency at Lake Forest Hospital. She recently joined Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine as the new chair of the department of Family Medicine.

Kathy Asbury, MD is quoted in the Quincy Herald-Whig July 9 article on a relatively new and scary phenomenon of inhaling or smoking alcohol under the belief that one can get drunk without ingesting the calories.    Not only is the practice dangerous, but the no-calorie belief is false. Fortunately, Dr. Asbury reports that they haven't seen this surface in Quincy yet.  

Joseph Welty, MD of Dixon is featured in the Sauk Valley News on July 4 along with his sons for their dedication to distance running, including the Dixon annual Reagan Run.  They have also run the Boston Marathon, including this year when explosions rocked the finish line, injuring hundreds of spectators.

On July 8 John Lee, MD was quoted in the in State Journal-Register in an article on the benefits of controlling your blood pressure and cholesterol levels in reducing heart attack risk.  Aaron Michelfelder, MD is quoted in this month's Men's Health magazine on that same topic.