July 2014

 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. Seven chapter executives expressed their willingness to serve by submitting a personal statement of interest and CV to the Implementation Committee. The Committee selected Illinois' own Vincent D. Keenan,
CAE to join the group. Call it a 25^th 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, 2014.

IAFP Annual Meeting - November 7-9

Earn CME credits, complete a SAMs module at one of our many workshops, 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 in 2 Slides, 2 Minutes, 2 Questions - details to come next month.
• 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!

Come on up to Key Lime Cove and connect with the best in Illinois family medicine! The IAFP Annual Meeting is a wonderful way to learn, connect and participate in our Academy.

This year we will host a joint session just for Student and Resident Members on Saturday morning, then join the full membership for the All Member Assembly Luncheon.  The new Board of Directors will be installed, which includes resident Emma Daisy, MD and student Kristina Dakis. 

Here is the schedule:

8:00-8:30        Breakfast with the full membership

8:30-9:00           Welcome, icebreakers

9:-9:30              Future of Family Medicine 2.0 Update and briefing on All Member Assembly

9:30-10:00         BREAK

10:00-11:00       2 minutes 2 slides 2 questions

11:00-11:30    10 minute crash courses on topics to be determined     11:30-12:00       "Ask the FPs" panel of IAFP leaders from various practice settings take your questions

Travel Scholarship Available - We are pleased to offer one scholarship opportunity for travel, sponsored by a Foundation grant from BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois.Two residents from any SIU program, Univ. of Illinois at Peoria or SLU-Belleville, willing to travel together and share a room on Friday night at the Key Lime Resort are eligible to apply. Each scholarship includes mileage for round-trip drive and Friday night stay at the resort.  The driver will receive a check for the mileage upon check in at the Resident and Student event on Saturday November 8. Use this form to apply by October 1!  Direct any questions to Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com or 630-427-8004.

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, MD

For those of you who are going to the conference, join us at our Illinois reception, 6-8 p.m. Friday August 8 at the Midland Theater, Windows on Main room.  

Get ready for our region's premiere family medicine collaborative event.  Find your next class of residents, find your first job, showcase your own research and talents and have some great fun in a wonderful Midwestern city - Minneapolis, MN.

Get more information in the conference brochure online

Online registration is now available!

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

Please use this link to open the full document with details on all these job openings

Central IL Opportunities through AIMS Physician Recruiting

Faculty position opening

Multiple positions available with teaching opportunities

Opening for faculty physician at this program in Aurora

PCC has openings for physicians at their clinics on the Near West Side and in Oak Park.

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

The Deerfield Record editorial board praised Matthew Plofsky, MD of Deerfield in their July 17 edition for his fundraising efforts for St. Baldrick's pediatric cancer research in honor of a young patient who died from leukemia last December.  Learn more about his efforts here. 

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 23^rd 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.