A large delegation of Ohio Academy of Family Physicians leaders are in Washington, DC, April 18-19 attending the Family Medicine Congressional Conference (FMCC).
- Tom Houston, MD – president
- Ryan Kauffman, MD – president-elect
- Suellywn Stewart, MD – attending as a key contact
- Randy Wexler, MD – attending as FamMedPAC chair
- Sarah Sams, MD – attending as chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Governmental Advocacy
- Julie Petersen, DO – attending as resident member of the AAFP Commission on Governmental Advocacy
- Marcus Wing, DO – attending as an Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors resident scholarship recipient
- Valerie Good – a Pennsylvania student member who will soon be in Columbus, OH, doing her residency at the Grant Family Medicine Residency Program
- Anna Askari – attending as an AAFP medical student scholarship recipient.
The Ohio delegation of family physicians is scheduled to meet with Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, Congressman Pat Tiberi, Congressman Jim Jordan, Congressman Steve Stivers, Senator Sherrod Brown, and Senator Rob Portman.
Sponsored by the AAFP and the Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM), the FMCC educates participants on family medicine’s legislative priority issues, trains attendees on how to lobby on Capitol Hill, and allows participants to put these skills to use with federal legislators and their staff.
Congratulations to those Ohio family physicians selected to attend and receive scholarships to attend the FMCC. Thanks for taking the family medicine message to Capitol Hill!