January 3, 2025—The STFM Board of Directors has approved funding for a new 2-year task force to advance responsible, outcome-driven, and people-centered artificial intelligence (AI) through a community of clinicians, scholars, and educators in family medicine.

Task force members will develop and implement strategies and resources to educate family medicine education teams and learners on advances in AI. The primary objectives of task force's 2-year plan align with STFM new strategic objectives to:

• Advance the adoption, implementation, scholarship, and evaluation of ethical AI in family medicine education
• Identify and promote opportunities to elevate family medicine educators to leadership roles in AI
• Identify and promote how the use of AI can improve efficiency and reduce burdensome tasks for clinicians, scholars, and educators in family medicine

Specifically, the task force will:

• Conduct a gap analysis
• Identify and aggregate available training and resources
• Create new resources, as needed
• Create and implement a plan for faculty development
• Create and implement a plan for disseminating resources

The task force will be chaired by STFM President-Elect Steven Lin, MD, Director, Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team, Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Additional task force members include:

• Rika Bajra, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Ian Bennett MD, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine
• Linda Chang, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford
• Enitza George, MD, MBA, MSAI, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
• Karim Hanna, MD, USF TGH Family Medicine Residency Program
• John Hayes DO, MCW-Prevea Green Bay Family Medicine Residency Program
• Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH, University of Washington School of Medicine
• Winston Liaw, MD, MPH, University of Houston
• May Lin, DO, Touro University
• Yun Shi, MD, PhD, UT Health San Antonio
• Margaret Ann Smith, Stanford School of Medicine
• Brent K Sugimoto, MD, MPH, LifeLong Medical Care Family Medicine Residency Program
• Mary Theobald, MBA, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
• Timothy Tsai, DO MMCi, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Steven Waldren, MD, MS, American Academy of Family Physicians
• Yun Liu, Google Research