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JOIN US!  IAFP Annual Meeting - November 7-9

You need to do this over the weekend! The hotel deadline is MONDAY and they are pretty strict!

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

• No Registration Fee for Illinois member students and residents!  Must register online using this link

Schedule of for the student and resident section, it's going to be fun and informative! Sessions on the Affordable Care Act, Money Management, a panel of FPs from "the real world" and the opportunity to network with Illinois' best! 

Scholarships are available for downstate residents and two downstate students (SIU and University of Illinois Rockford, Peoria and Urbana, plus SLU Belleville residency).  View the application here. MUST BE SUBMITTED BY MONDAY OCTOBER 20TH AT NOON TO GET HOTEL RESERVATIONS. 

Questions: Contact Ginnie Flynn at gflynn@iafp.com. 

IAFP organized and managed the third annual Family Medicine Midwest Conference last weekend in Minneapolis, uniting residents, faculty, physicians and students from 11 states under the family medicine flag to build our future workforce. This multi-state collaboration continues to grow in popularity and reputation
Just a few statistics:
175 students, 46 FM residency exhibits, 34 organizational supporters, 425 pre-registrants, and 25 on-site registrants. Everyone enjoyed great plenary sessions, high quality workshops, seminars, research presentation and posters! A speed date luncheon exposed students and residents to the many career possibilities available through family medicine training.

Check out the Facebook page for great photos!
Special thanks to Host committee chair Andrew Slattengren, D.O. (University of Minnesota - North Memorial Family Medicine Residency) and Lisa Regehr from the Minnesota Academy for their amazing hospitality and work in making this meeting such a success in Minneapolis

Thank you to our Illinois Residency Programs who exhibited on Saturday
University of Chicago (NorthShore) Family Medicine
Advocate Christ Family Medicine
MacNeal Family Medicine Residency
University of Illinois at Rockford and Rural Track
SIU Center for Family Medicine - Springfield
University of Illinois at Chicago
McGaw Medical Center at Northwestern and Lake Forest
Adventist Hinsdale Family Medicine
UIC/Advocate Illinois Masonic Family Medicine Residency
West Suburban Medical Center
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Family Medicine
Cook County Loyola Provident Family Medicine

Congratulations to our Student Scholarship Winners
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine Allison Couture
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Joanna Curran and Jalia Tucker
Loyola University Chicago -- Stritch School of Medicine Emily Pinto Taylor, Rachel Anderson and Brett Lullo
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Mania Kupershtok
Rush Medical College Arielle Hirschfeld, Karena Rounsaville, Stephanie Schmitt, George Warpinski and Scott Hong
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Lauren Hobbs, Kimberly Clinite and Arielle Hirschfeld
University of Illinois at Chicago Tiffany Lu, Lauren Segelhorst, Errin Varnado, Michael Belmonte, Kristina Dakis and Lindsay Schwartz
University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Rockford Kendall Marszalek
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Elise A.G. Duwe and Lydia Chen   

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

Amber Peterson, MD was credited by Western Illinois journalism student Sandra Sepaniak for finding her breast tumor.  Student name gave a first person account of her surprising diagnosis and treatment as a 21 year-old college student with a 15 cm tumor in the October 15 issue of the Western Courier.

IAFP past president, Carrie Nelson, MD, special projects director for Advocate Physician Partners gave insight into the Advocate physician participation in the Medicaid Accountable Care Entity (ACE) program and how it's a compatible format to their existing ACO systems with Blue Cross Blue Shield and Medicare to provide high quality and low cost care.  The article appeared in the October issue of Modern Healthcare.

Thomas Cornwell, MD was chosen to receive a Caregiver Action Network (CAN) Award as part of CAN's Advancing Excellence: Best Practices in Patient and Family Engagement Recognition Program. Specifically, he was selected as one of "25 of the Nation's Best Practices in Patient and Family Engagement."  The Caregiver Action Network is the nation's leading family caregiver organization working to improve the quality of life for the 65 million Americans who care for loved ones with chronic conditions, disabilities, disease, or the frailties of old age.  The award celebrates efforts to work with patients and families to improve healthcare quality, safety and cost savings. 

The Annals of Family Medicine article featuring the research by the Robert Graham Center on Illinois Health Connect and Your HealthCare Plus in this week's AAFP News, AAFP Smart Brief email on Thursday, and in PCPCC Monthly Review Newsletter.