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Foundation President's Report

Dr. Baird This has been an outstanding year for your STFM Foundation. We had a record year for our Annual Giving Campaign, we funded a new Group Project Fund, we sponsored a record number of New Faculty Scholars to the 2007 STFM Annual Spring Conference, and we are in the process of setting up a new Advisory Committee for the Bishop Fellowship Program. We have kept you advised of our activities through a regular column in the STFM Messenger and will continue that practice.

In 2007 we increased the number of Trustees to allow greater participation in the Foundation's activities by STFM members. Elected to 4-year terms at the May 2007 Trustees meeting were Heidi Chumley, MD, Peter Coggan, MD, MSEd, and William Phillips, MD, MPH. Elected as the new STFM Board representative for a 2-year term was STFM President John Rogers, MD, MPH, MEd.

The Group Project Fund was set up to provide grants for STFM groups to address needs in their area of interest. The Foundation provides one half of the unrestricted net revenue from its Annual Giving Campaign for the Fund. That amounted to more than $30,000 for 2007. Proposals were solicited in the fall of 2007, and a special committee composed of the STFM Executive Committee and other leaders reviewed the proposals and selected four projects for funding. They are:

• Group on Adolescent Health. Adolescent Health for Primary Care: Development of a Web-based, Comprehensive, Competency-based Curriculum

• Group on Minority and Multicultural Health. Overcoming Obstacles to Writing for Family Medicine Educators

• Group on Information Technology. Teaching E-mail Communication in a Residency Program

• Group on Behavioral Science: Outgoing Third-year Family Medicine Resident Satisfaction

We will report progress on these STFM group projects as we receive regular reports on their programs.

The Bishop Fellowship Program continues to prepare senior faculty for new roles in health care education and administration. The 2007–2008 Fellows are Mark Penn, MD, MBA, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy; Charles Henley, DO, MPH, University of Oklahoma-Tulsa; and Josh Freeman, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center. For 2008–2009, three more Fellows (all family medicine department chairs) have been selected to begin their year-long experience in July. They are Joseph Hobbs, MD, Medical College of Georgia; William Hueston, MD, Medical University of South Carolina; and Jeff Susman, MD, University of Cincinnati. The 2008–2009 class will bring the number of Bishop Fellows to 18. This program is funded primarily through a charitable trust set up by Past STFM and STFM Foundation President F. Marian Bishop, PhD, MSPH.

The Foundation's Faculty Enhancement Program offers support for family medicine faculty to improve their skills and experience through mini-fellowships at other institutions. Since 1996, we have supported 43 scholars. The range of their projects is amazing and the benefit to their programs incalculable. Chosen for the 2007–2008 program were Alice Fornari, EdD, RD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Tina Kenyon, ACSW, New Hampshire-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, Concord, NH).

The New Faculty Scholars Program offers financial support to faculty members in their first 2 years “on the job.” The scholars attend the annual meeting and the pre-meeting faculty development session. In response to membership interest in increasing financial support to attend the annual meeting, the Trustees selected six scholars, bringing the total number of New Faculty Scholars selected to 90. This year's scholars are Rolf Montalvo Chen, MD, University of Texas HSC-Houston; Joseph Gibes, MD, Northwestern University; Corey Lyon, DO, Research Family Medicine Residency, Kansas City, Mo; Michael Park, MD; University of Colorado Rose Family Medicine Residency, Denver; Mari Ricker, MD, Providence Milwaukie Family Medicine Residency, Milwaukie, Ore; and Michelle Roett, MD, Georgetown University-Providence Hospital Residency, Washington, DC.

Our International Scholar this year is Agustina Pinero, MD, assistant professor of family medicine at the National University of Cordoba in Cordoba, Argentina. She is the 14th International Scholar sponsored by the Foundation. Previous scholars are from Paraguay (two), Ecuador, Argentina, Poland, South Africa (two), Taiwan, Chile, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, China, Moldova, and Malaysia.

The 2008 F. Marian Bishop Award will be presented to Alfred Berg, MD, MPH, professor and former chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington. Dr Berg is being recognized for his extensive research on clinical epidemiology in primary care settings and the research presence he has established for family medicine as a leader at CDC, the US Preventive Services Task Force, and NIH.

The Leland Blanchard Memorial Lecture will be given by John Wennberg, MD, MPH, founder and director emeritus of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He will look at the future of primary care and the role its practitioners will play in health care reform in his talk, titled “The Challenge of Practice Variations and the Future of Primary Care.” His message should be of vital interest to all STFM members.

I’d like to express my sincere appreciation to all of you who chose to support the Foundation in 2007, in years past, and in the future. We received $101,400 in donations to our 2007 Annual Giving Campaign, a new record. We could not have expanded current programs and developed new initiatives without your help. I'd also like to recognize the volunteer efforts of the Foundation Trustees and officers, who shepherd all of these programs. Because of this collective effort, we are making a difference for family medicine.

Macaran Baird, MD, MS

Trustees and Officers

Foundation Trustees

Elizabeth Burns, MD, MA
University of North Dakota

Heidi Chumley, MD
University of Kansas Medical Center

Joseph Scherger, MD, MPH
University of California, San Diego

John Midtling, MD, MS
University of Tennessee at Memphis

John Rogers, MD, MPH
Baylor College of Medicine

Foundation Officers

President
Macaran Baird, MD, MS
University of Minnesota

Vice President
Peter Coggan, MD, MSEd
GRMERC, Grand Rapids, Mich

Secretary
Cynda Johnson, MD, MBA
East Carolina University

Secretary-Treasurer
William Phillips, MD
University of Washington

Executive Director
Roger Sherwood, CAE

Foundation Donors

President's Club

Robert Avant, MD
Macaran Baird, MD, MS
Janice Benson, MD
Marjorie Bowman, MD, MPA
Elizabeth Burns, MD, MA
Peter Coggan, MD, MSEd
Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH
Scott Fields, MD
John Frey, MD
Robert Froelich, MD
Win Froelich, MD, JD
Sim Galazka, MD
Elizabeth Garrett, MD, MSPH
Robert Graham, MD
Kevin Grumbach, MD
Caryl Heaton, DO
Vincent Hunt, MD
Cynda Johnson, MD
John Pfenninger, MD
William Phillips, MD, MPH
John Rogers, MD, MPH, MEd
Joseph Scherger, MD, MPH
Thomas Schwenk, MD
Edward Shahady, MD
Roger Sherwood, CAE
Jay Siwek, MD
Susan Skochelak, MD, MPH
Jeannette South-Paul, MD
Harry Strothers III, MD, MMM
David Swee, MD
James Tysinger, PhD
Richard Usatine, MD
Raymond Walker, MD, MBA
Michael Zubkoff, PhD

Trustee’s Club

Bruce Bagley, MD
Melissa Bradner, MD, MSHA
Anthony Catinella, MD
Byron Crouse, MD
Robert Cushman, MD
Sabina Diehr, MD
Alan Douglass, MD
Linda French, MD
James Gill, MD, MPH
Robin Gillard, MD
James Herman, MD, MSPH
William Hueston, MD
Rick Kellerman, MD
Joel Merenstein, MD
David Mersy, MD
Lewis Miller, MS
Carlos Moreno, MD, MSPH
Paul Paulman, MD
John Saultz, MD
Philip Sloane, MD, MPH
Frank Snope, MD
Christine Stabler, MD
Jeffrey Stearns, MD
Terrence Steyer, MD
Jeff Susman, MD
William Wadland, MD
Deborah Witt, MD

Director’s Club

Bruce Ambuel, PhD
Carole Bland, PhD
Stephen Bogdewic, PhD
Benjamin Chaska, MD
Leanne Chrisman-Khawam, MD
Heidi Chumley, MD
Jack Colwill, MD
William Crump, MD
David Deci, MD
John Delzell Jr, MD, MSPH
Alison Dobbie, MD
Stephen Earls, MD
Bernard Ewigman, MD
Troy Fiesinger, MD
Edgar Figueroa, MD
Joshua Freeman, MD
Patricia Glowa, MD, and Donald Kollisch, MD
Mark Goedecker, MD
Judith Gravdal, MD
Larry Green, MD
Mary Hall, MD
Larry Halverson, MD
Nancy Hansel, DrPH
Dona Harris, PhD
Charles Henley, DO, MPH
Martha Illige, MD
Paul James, MD
Mark Johnson, MD, MPH
Kathleen Klink, MD
Anton Kuzel, MD, MHPE
Robert Lachance, MD
James Lally, DO, MMM
Lars Larsen, MD
Richard Leedy, Jr, DO
Randall Longenecker, MD
Kim Marvel, PhD
Timothy Munzing, MD
William Mygdal, EdD
Betsy Naumburg, MD
Thomas Nicholas, MD
Daniel Ostergaard, MD
Judith Pauwels, MD
Perry Pugno, MD, MPH, CPE
Jacob Reider, MD
Russell Robertson, MD
Jonathan Rodnick, MD
Denise Rodgers, MD
Richard Sadovsky, MD
Johanna Shapiro, PhD
Roger Shewmake, PhD, LN
William Shore, MD
Michael Sitorius, MD
James Stevermer, MD, MSPH
David Sundwall, MD
Deborah Taylor, PhD
Barbara Thompson, MD
William Ventres, MD, MA
Vincent WinklerPrins, MD
Carmen Wong, MD

Mentor’s Club

Stoney Abercrombie, MD
Suzanne Allen, MD, MPH
Richard Allen, MD, MPH
Marc Babitz, MD
Helen Baker, PhD, MBA
Robert Baldor, MD
B. Lewis Barnett, Jr, MD
Juliann Binienda, PhD
Erika Bliss, MD
Richard Blondell, MD
Richard Bonanno, MD
Robert Bratton, MD
Emily Bray, MD
David Brechtelsbauer, MD
Steven Brown, MD
James Calvert, MD
James Campbell, PhD
Lucy Candib, MD
Peggy Carey, MD
Jason Chao, MD, MS
Catherine Churgay, MD
Norma Ciriacy (in memory of Ed Ciriacy, MD)
Jerry Clements, MD
Anthony Costa, MD
Paul Crawford, MD
Steven Crawford, MD
Timothy Creamer, MD
Patricia Darcy, MSW
Alan David, MD
Ardis Davis, MSW
Lynne Diamond, MD
Allen Dietrich, MD
Patrick Dowling, MD, MPH
Patrick Fahey, MD
Eugene Farley, Jr, MD, MPH, and Linda Farley, MD
Raymond Feierabend, Jr, MD
Tim Ferguson, MD
Karl Fields, MD
Donald Fink, MD
Corrine Ganske, MD
Thomas Gilbert, MD, MPH
Dwenda Gjerdingen, MD, MS
Reynold Golden, MD
Wanda Gonsalves, MD
Victoria Gorski, MD
Ken Grauer, MD
Dana Greco, CAE
Alvin Haley, MD
Debra Harvey, MD
Fern Hauck, MD, MS
Richard Holloway, PhD
Larry Johnson, MD
Patrick Keenan, MD
Christina Kelly, MD
Sandford Kimmel, MD
Richard Kiovsky, MD
Jeffrey Kirchner, DO
Susan Labuda-Schrop, MS
Daniel Lasser, MD
Patricia Lebensohn, MD
Patricia Lenahan, LCSW, MFT
Shou Ling Leong, MD
David Little, MD
Michele Lundy, MD
Russell Maier, MD

Mentor's Club Continued

Katherine Margo, MD
Renee Markovich, MD
Appleton Mason III, MD
Karen Barnes Mitchell, MD
Joan Morrill, MA
Delbert Morris, MD
Jeffrey Morzinski, PhD, MSW
Charles Mouton, MD, MS
Jane Murray, MD
Peter Nalin, MD
Andrea Nazar, DO
Thomas Norris, MD
Adriana Padilla, MD
George Parkerson, Jr, MD, MPH
Mark Penn, MD, MBA
Stephen Permut, MD, JD
Michael Petrizzi, MD
Theodore Phillips, MD
Sam Pickens, MD
Catherine Pipas, MD
Susan Pohl, MD
Yar Pye, MD
David Quillen, MD
Donald Ransom, PhD
William Reichel, MD
Elisabeth Righter, MD
Jeffrey Ring, PhD
Roger Schauer, MD
James Schneid, MD
F. David Schneider, MD, MSPH
E. Robert Schwartz, MD
William Schwer, MD
Kirsten Searfus, MD
Milton Seifert, Jr, MD
Kent Sheets, PhD
Deborah Simpson, PhD
William Simpson, MD
Mindy Smith, MD, MS
David Steele, PhD
Walter Stelmach, MD
G. Gayle Stephens, MD
Moira Stewart, PhD
William Stewart, MD
Linda Stone, MD
John Sutherland, MD
Roslyn Taylor, MD
Joseph Tollison, MD
Chrerolee Trembath, MD
Marc Tunzi, MD
George Valko, MD
Daniel Van Durme, MD
H. Bruce Vogt, MD
Lisa Ward, MD, MscPH
Gregg Warshaw, MD
Ellen Whiting, MEd
L. Thomas Wolff, MD
Richard Younge, MD, MPH
Nikitas Zervanos, MD
Richard Zimmerman, MD, MPH
Kathy Zoppi, PhD, MPH

Donor's Club

Christine Alexander, MD
William Allen, MD
Laurence Bauer, MSW, MEd
Otis Baughman, III, MD
Elizabeth Baxley, MD
D. Michael Baxter, MD
Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH
Karen Becker, MD, MPH
Mark Boyd, MD
Wesley Bradford, MD
Mary Braza, MD
Daniel Brewer, MD
Frances Brickfield, MD
Stacy Brungardt, CAE
Osvaldo Bustos, MD
Jeffrey Cain, MD
Kelly Caldwell-Chor, MD
Alexander Chessman, MD
Colleen Conry, MD
Jesse Crosson, PhD
Michael Crouch, MD
Daniel David, MD
Joseph DeGaetano, DO
Luz Deguzman, MD
Perry Dickinson, MD
John Di Sabato, MD
Mary Frances Duggan, MD
Kimberly Duir, MD
Adelmo Dunghe, MD
John Earwood, MD
Robert Eidus, MD
Stephen Elgert, MD
John Ely, MD, MSPH
Stanley Erney, MD
David Evans, MD
Michael Floyd, EdD
Randall Forsch, MD, MPH
Stuart Forman, MD
Edith Fresh, PhD
Michael Friedman, MD
Ted Ganiats, MD
David Garr, MD
Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH
John Geyman, MD
Roland Goertz, MD
Abina Goncalves, MD
Kristen Goodell, MD
Kimberly Griswold, MD, MPH
Jan Grouse, MD
Douglass Haddock, MD
Susan Hadley, MD
Wacha Hadya
Jimmy Hara, MD
Robert Hatch, MD, MPH
Warren Heffron, MD
Richard Hines, MD
Thomas Hines, MD
Joseph Hopkins, MD
Linda Hubbell
Janice Huff, MD
A. Patrick Jonas, MD
William Kane, MD
Mitchell Kasovac, DO
Susan Kaye, MD
Tina Kenyon, MSW
Paula Knabe, DO
Joseph Konen, MD, MSPH
Stanley Kozakowski, MD
Adarsh Krishen, MD
W. Ross Lawler, MD
Thomas Leaman, MD
Evelyn Lewis & Clark, MD, MA
Maurice Lindblom, MD
Alma Littles, MD
James MacKenzie, PhD, MSW
Masaji Maezawa, MD
Barbara Majeroni, MD
Robert Mallin, MD
Robert McDonald, Jr, MD
Kathleen McGarr, MD
Richard McKinney, MD
Lisa Nash, DO
Lisa Navracruz, MD
Donald Nelson, MD
Morton Nelson, MD, MPH
Linda Nieman, PhD
Terri Nordin, MD
Susan Obata, MD, MS
Amy Odom, DO
Heather Paladine, MD
Michael Parchman, MD
David Pepper, MD
Lia Pierson Bruner, MD
Lee Radosh, MD
Jo Marie Reilly, MD
Julie Robbs, MA
Randy Robinson, MD
Joanne Rochon, MD
Thomas Rosenthal, MD
Mona Sarfaty, MD
Maryjean Schenk, MD, MPH, MS
Cheryl Seymour, MD
Hugh Silk, MD
William Simpson, Jr, MD
Pam Snape, MD
Howard Stein, PhD
Mary Stephens, MD, MPH
Richard Streiffer, MD
Alvin Strelnick, MD
Clydette Stulp deGroot, EdD
Anne Sullivan, MD
Brother Francisco Tanega, MD, MPH
Stephen Taplin, MD, MPH
Titus Taube, MD
Sara Thompson, MD
Robert Thompson, MD
Robert Tortolani, MD
Scott Tripler, MD
John Tudor, MD
John Van Schagen, MD
Hideki Wakabayashi, MD, PhD
Jenny Walker, MD, MSW, MPH
Don Wedemeyer, MD
David Werdegar, MD, MPH
H. Thomas Wiegert, MD
Jason Wilbur, MD
Michael Wolkomir, MD
Jon Woo, MD