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We have a new fax number: 630-559-0739
 Keenan Selected to Represent Chapters on Family Medicine for America's Health Implementation Committee
Reported by AAFP to Constituent chapters on July 2.
As Doug Henley, MD, AAFP executive vice president announced last month, the Family Medicine for America's Health: Future of Family Medicine 2.0 Implementation Committee accepted his recommendation to add one AAFP chapter executive to the Implementation Committee. The Committee selected Illinois' own Vincent D. Keenan, CAE to join the group. Call it a 25th Anniversary gift! Vince participated in his first meeting on June 27, and will be a strong voice for all chapters throughout the implementation process. Both the strategic plan and the communications plan will be revealed in Washington, DC during the AAFP Assembly, October 22-25.
Save the Date: IAFP Annual Meeting - November 7-9
 Join your colleagues for a fun filled weekend getaway this fall! Catch up with Academy business at the Assembly, celebrate the specialty at the Awards banquet, and spend some fun time in the pool with your family and friends! That's right, we're heading to Key Lime Cove resort in Gurnee!
Find more information (and online registration) on our annual meeting web page
- New this year, a student and resident track, including opportunities to present!
- No Registration Fee for Students and Residents
- Awards Dinner featuring FP of the Year, Teachers of the Year and a salute to our executive leader Vince Keenan for 25 years of service!
- NETWORKING!!!
- Travel Support available for downstate students and residents, contact Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com for more information.
Schedule of events - click here for schedule
Congrats to all the Illinois Scholarship Recipients to AAFP National Conference:
Students: Alicia Adams, Olatokunbo Adegboro, Annette Dekker, Mark Frakes, Jared Henrichs, Armetria Humphrey, Aaron Jennings, Shanti Leon Guerrero, Tiffany Lu, Melissa Mondala, Mina Tanaka, Davietta Butty and Resident: Lovella Kanu,
For those of you who are going to the conference, join us at our Illinois reception, 6-8 p.m on Friday August 8 at the Midland Theater, Windows on Main room. Visit any Illinois residency booth to pick up your invitation!
 About the AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students
Capture the vision of family medicine at the 2014 AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students, August 7 through 9 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Train Your Brain: Gain insight into the specialty through workshops, procedural skills courses, main stage sessions, musculoskeletal clinics, and more.
Meet Your Match: Find the best residency program for you or explore career options in the Expo Hall. More than 300 family medicine residency programs and more than 50 physician employers, fellowship programs, and medical missions come together in one place, saving you the time and expense of traveling across the country for interviews.
Make a Connection: AAFP National Conference is for people like you who have a fire for family medicine. You'll get to connect with other residents, students, and faculty through networking and social events.
Be a Leader: Make a difference in yourself and the AAFP. Expand your leadership skills through the Student or Resident Congress.
Make your family medicine vision come to life. Register today.
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| Family Medicine Midwest |  Get ready for our region's premiere family medicine collaborative event. Find your family medicine future and have some great fun in a wonderful Midwestern city - Minneapolis, MN. Our residency fair is filling up fast, with over 40 programs from across the Midwest. Learn more at www.iafp.com/fmm and then make your plans to be there!
Apply online for a scholarship - Deadline is August 18 
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AAFP President Answers Student Questions via Video
July 8 marked the launch of Family Medicine On Air, a series of live video events with family medicine leaders and medical students. In this 15-minute video, AAFP President Dr. Reid Blackwelder answered questions submitted by medical students from across the country. UIC student Mustafa Alavi, the AAFP National FMIG coordinator moderated the event and UIC's Lauren Segelhorst, the Region 2 FMIG coordinator submitted a question live on behalf of the Midwest. Topics covered included Direct Primary Care, patient satisfaction, family medicine leadership and more!
Watch the 15-minute clip on the FMIG Network YouTube channel
Scholarships available for Illinois Rural Health Association Conference
IRHA is pleased to provide "conference scholarships"* sponsored by ILLINI HOSPITAL and the IRHA Board to cover the lodging, travel and registration costs for students interested in attending the August 14-15th Educational Conference at the Keller Convention Center in Effingham. *Holiday Inn overnight accommodations Aug. 13 & 14nd; $75 gas card and conference registration fees, which includes all meals.
Criteria - Students currently enrolled in or who have graduated within the past twelve months from a health professions program (e.g. medical school) and have an interest in service to rural health and who otherwise would have to pay for the conference out of pocket (without reimbursement).
Deadline for applications: July 25th, 2014. Link to brochure and application
AAMC Video competition - diversity in the future of medicine
How can your medical school and/or teaching hospital work with your local elementary school, high school or district to increase the diversity of future physicians and scientists?
The AAMC is challenging medical schools and teaching hospitals to engage community partners and develop new models to work with local elementary schools, high schools, colleges, and community-based organizations to increase the diversity of future physicians and scientists.
Individuals at medical schools and teaching hospitals are invited to form a 3-6 person team led by a medical student or resident in partnership with community members to produce a 5-minute video proposing an innovative way your institution would like to engage individuals within the K-12 public education system.
TOP PRIZE IS $7,000! - Deadline is September 5.
Learn more at AAMC Web site
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AAFP Needs Your Medicaid Payment Parity Stories
On May 29, AAFP launched a member campaign to collect stories on how Medicaid primary care payments help practices, patients, and communities. AAFP will bring a selection of these stories to Capitol Hill over the summer to convey to Congress how important continued funds are to the delivery of timely and quality health care. Member stories from more than two dozen states have been collected, but AAFP would like more. Use the campaign link posted on the AAFP website to share your views with Congress.
Get more insider perspective on this issue from AAFP's In the Trenches blog,
Support AAFP's efforts for strong FDA Regulation of e-cigarettes
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will accept public comments on a proposed rule to provide it with authority to regulate e-cigarettes and other tobacco products until Aug. 8.
Sign a petition to share your concern about e-cigarettes.
The AAFP sent a letter in support of the FDA's assertion of authority to regulate all nicotine delivery devices, regardless of flavor, on June 2. As nicotine is an addictive drug, the AAFP's position specifies that the FDA must have full regulatory authority on all tobacco products and nicotine delivery devices, and must be permitted to use the same procedures it uses to regulate tobacco. Add your name to a petition by Aug. 1. You will be listed in a letter to the FDA, together with other family physicians who are concerned about the current lack of regulatory oversight on the manufacture, distribution, and safety of e-cigarettes.
Cigars seek protection from Congress
Cigar manufacturers are once again asking Congress for special treatment so that they can continue to make their products without any oversight or regulation whatsoever. Contrary to what their lobbyists are saying behind closed doors:
- Cigars ARE tobacco products;
- Cigars ARE bad for you; and
- Cigars ARE being sold at a low price and in a variety of flavors that attract kids.
Don't let them fool Congress: The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids has an easy to use system to Tell your representative "No Cigar" on special treatment for cigar products!
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If you have a news item to share, email it to Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com.
Janet Albers, MD, IAFP president-elect, has been selected to be the chair of the Department of Family Medicine at SIU School of Medicine. She began her new position July 1, replacing John Bradley, MD, who retired effective June 30. Dr. Albers will continue as CEO for the SIU Family Health Center FQHC until her replacement is hired.
IAFP past-president Edward A. Hirsch, MD had been named Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria. He will have overall responsibility for planning & directing care strategy, enhancing quality & safety, promoting effective use of resources and clinical integration, and will lead Children's Hospital's relationship with the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP).
William Bird, MD has been named New Chief of Quality and process for CGH Medical Center according to the June 23rd Sauk Valley News
Dr. Steven Befus died in 2003 at age 51. But his medical missionary work in the midst of Liberia's worst civil wars made a lasting impact in the family medicine residency program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. According to the June 26 Peoria Journal-Star, UICOMP officials presented the first the first Befus Humanitarianism Award to his widow, Sue, during the residency program's graduation ceremonies. The honor includes a $1,000 donation from UnityPoint Health-Methodist Proctor Foundation to the charity of the recipient's choice. Befus, his wife, and three children, all under the age of 5, left for Liberia in 1981, soon after he completed the family medicine residency at Methodist. He returned to Peoria periodically, either to raise money or to renew his visa. During those intervals, he taught at UICOMP. Read more here
Anad Salem, MD has been voted Mentor of the Year by the SIU School of Medicine first year students in Carbondale. Salem was one of 14 nominees, according to the July 10 Southern Illinoisan.
Bernard Ewigman, MD, MSPH, endowed chair of family medicine at University of Chicago NorthShore, has accepted a position on ADFM Board (Association of Departments of Family Medicine) and as Chair of one of their Strategic Committees.
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