Last Chance to Submit Family Medicine Photos

We need your best photos of family medicine for the 2013 Annual Report to the Membership in February!  Your photo could be on the cover! E-mail your photos along with permission to use them and the names of any IAFP members in the photo to Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com by January 14, 2014.

Keeping you informed:  Final Member Briefing on the ACA:  FAQs.  IAFP took the questions posed by members at our annual meeting and delivers answers to you in this simple document.  You can also find all four briefings on our web site www.iafp.com.

Member Briefing #3: Serving patients who gain coverage Jan. 2014 via the Affordable Care Act.

Briefing #2 addresses Medicaid expansion, which is processed through ABE (Application for Benefits Eligibility). 

Briefing #1 addresses the Health Insurance Marketplace, called GetCoveredIllinois.  

Residency Programs Would you like an IAFP leader to visit your residency program?  Email Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com with possible dates/time and she'll work on scheduling a visit for you. 

Chicago Faculty Position 

UIC /Advocate Illinois Masonic Family Medicine Residency seeks a full time Faculty Physician interested in maternity care for our 24 resident program located in a lively, diverse north-side Chicago neighborhood.Our dually accredited, community based residency in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood offers an opportunity to work with strong residents and skilled colleagues dedicated to excellence in residency education. All faculty teach and practice at our FMC and supervise the inpatient team at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Additional responsibilities include maternity care and supervision of residency deliveries. Maternity call is shared with five FM faculty who practice obstetrics.

Contact Peggy Wiedmann, MD

email: margaret.wiedmann@advocatehealth.com

or leave a  message with Christine Curry 1-773-296-8248

Are you looking for a great opportunity at a high-functioning, small practice in a great location?  Established northwest suburban Niles family practice is seeking a full or part -time family physician to join growing practice.  Patient panel is well-established, and the practice has stability along with flexibility and strong leadership.  Practice is part of Advocate ACO with meaningful use E.H.R. and in the process of NCQA PCMH recognition. The successful candidate should be Board Certified or Board-Eligible, with graduating residents considered. Start date of April 1. Compensation is negotiable. Malpractice and benefits provided; and partnership potential available.

Please respond with CV/resume to Ellen Brull, MD at esbrull1@gmail.com.

Mt. Vernon- Established Family Practice Clinic has full-time position available, with opportunity for partnership.  J1 & H1 sponsorship available. Clinic is located in Mt. Vernon, IL (family friendly community). For telephone or interview appointment, please send credentials with contact information to carefirst@sbcglobal.net

Please visit our website at www.carefirstmedicalcenter.com for information regarding the Clinic.

Medical Director- Family and Adult Medicine at Erie Family Health Center

Site Medical Director for new Erie Waukegan site opening July 2014 - Apply at www.eriefamilyhealth.org. The Site Medical Director for Waukegan will collaborate with: the Site Health Center Operations Director regarding all aspects of site management; the Medical Directors for Family and Adult Medicine, Child and Adolescent Medicine, and Women's Health to recruit, retain, and develop clinical providers; improves the quality of care of patients at the site by working with site providers, QI and Erie provider leadership to establish evidence-based best practices for the site; leads the clinical team to insure cohesive care throughout the site; maintains referral relationships with the site's hospital partners; gets to YES with Erie's patients and employees to help provide service excellence.
Requirements: MD or D.O from accredited institution, licensed physician in Illinois. Additional master's level degree in public health, management and administration or equivalent experience, preferred. Board Certified in primary care discipline. Federal DEA license, CPR certification. Two or more years of clinical primary care experience. Previous leadership experience preferred. Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred, proficiency in medical Spanish required.

Private Family Practice full time position available in Evergreen Park. Offers busy practice with in house laboratory, DEXA scan, PFT, etc. Established EHR system. In professional building next to Hospital for convenient rounding. Attractive compensation and benefits. Start date January 2014. Contact Dr. Scott Hanlon: 708 423 2662, scotthanlon@sbcglobal.net

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

Congratulations to our members and all the family physicians listed in this year's Top Docs issue of Chicago Magazine:  Eva M. Bading, MD (Maywood), Stephen Behnke (Schaumburg), Brian A. Chicoine, MD (Park Ridge) John M. Hickner, MD (UI-Chicago) Deborah Miller, MD (Glenview), Mark C. Potter, MD (UIC), Stephen K. Rothschild, MD (Chicago), William A Schwer, MD (Rush), Julie V. Taylor, MD (Chicago) and James Valek, MD (Chicago and also IAFP's 2007 Family Physician of the Year).

Mark Loafman, MD of Chicago authored an editorial on Family Medicine obstetrics as part of training and practice in this month's American Journal of Clinical Medicine

Robert S. Heck, MD of Chicago passed away on December 31.  His obituary in the Beverly-Mt. Greenwood Patch revealed that he practiced for more than 40 years on Chicago's southwest side after completing residency at Cook County Hospital.  He was a former Chair of the Board of the IAFP. He was also well-known for his musical gifts as a bass singer and played cello in the Southwest Symphony.

Kohar Jones, MD of Chicago authored a stunning column in the January 9^th Chicago Sun-Times about the South Side youth she worked with this summer and their views of the violence of "Chi-raq" and the constant gun violence they see around them.  Read her column here.

Kameron Matthews, MD, Medical Director for Mile Square Health System is quoted in a January 3^rd Modern Healthcare article about Mile Square's new facility, which expects 76,000 patient visits in its first year, combining primary, urgent and specialty care in one community health center site.

Tariq Butt, MD of Chicago has been named vice president of health affairs, from deputy medical officer at Access Community Health Network:

UnityPoint Health Methodist/Proctor named IAFP member Keith Knepp, MD as its new Chief Operating Officer. In new role, Knepp will be responsible for hospital operations at both campuses as well as having direct oversight of Surgery/Anesthesia services, Oncology, Imaging, Lab, Pharmacy, Informatics and Quality and Safety.

We missed one:  Russell Robertson, MD, dean of Chicago Medical School, co-authored an article in the November issue of Health Affairs called Accelerating Physician Workforce Transformation Through Competitive Graduate Medical Education Funding."