Eddie Richardson, Jr, MD
Eddie Richardson, Jr, MD, of Eatonton, and Past Georgia Academy Chapter President and Georgia Healthy Family Alliance President has been selected to serve on the American Academy of Family Physicians Board of Trustees! The AAFP Foundation Board of Trustees is responsible for maintaining a proper balance among the interests of AAFP members, Foundation staff, and the general public. The Board is responsible and accountable to the organization’s donors, constituents, and the community at large.
Michelle Cook, MD, of Atlanta, was recently featured on an MSNBC news story focusing on WellStar’s decision to close Atlanta Medical Center last year.
Dr. Michelle Cooke, who formerly worked at a WellStar family medicine office and has since opened a private practice that charges a membership fee rather than accepting insurance, said many of her new patients haven’t seen physicians for more than a year as they struggled to find appointments.
“Unfortunately, I think we’re going to see a huge rise in morbidity and mortality, just because a year of people not getting their blood pressure checked, a year of not getting appropriate cancer screenings, like mammograms, pap smears — so much of that builds up that we’re going to see terrible effects in the next five to 10 years,” she said.
Michelle Cooke, MD
Bonzo Reddick, MD, of Savannah, has recently published a book entitled: Health Equity: A Guide for Clinicians, Medical Educators & Healthcare Organizations.
The global pandemic led to renewed interest in health disparities; however, numerous medical schools, residency programs, outpatient clinics, and hospital organizations were not equipped to teach about health equity.
In Health Equity: A Guide for Clinicians, Medical Educators & Healthcare Organizations, Dr. Bonzo Reddick presents a framework for addressing health disparities that can be applied to most situations of systemic and institutional bias and to situations of personal bias and discrimination. The scenarios, anecdotes, and interactive activities within this book will enlighten and refresh health educators, physicians, resident physicians, medical students, health professions students, and other healthcare and allied health professionals.
Whether used as an introduction to health disparities, a text to assist in teaching about health inequities, or a tool to help your organization develop a framework for achieving health equity, this is an essential guidebook for those ready to reassess their approach to the equitable care of all people.
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Bonzo Reddick, MD
Beulette Hooks, MD of Midland, past GAFP and Alliance President, has been selected as one of the founding members of the AAFP Board Nominating Committee.
As reported by AAFP News, the AAFP Board Nominating Committee is charged with identifying the skillsets needed to best represent members on the Board of Directors, as well as with identifying and vetting potential candidates for elected leadership positions, including president-elect, speaker, vice speaker and at-large directors.
This work requires committee members who bring a wide range of experiences and perspectives to the job, and who can appropriately represent all our constituencies. In selecting the founding members of the committee, I was tasked to include people from all chapter sizes, current and past state and national leaders, and past members of the National Conference of Constituency Leaders Advisory Group, as well as to incorporate other important skills, traits and characteristics.
- Kevin Bernstein, M.D., M.S., FAAFP, of the Uniformed Services AFP
- Emily Briggs, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, of the Texas AFP
- Mary Campagnolo, M.D., M.B.A., FAAFP, of the New Jersey AFP
- Jack Chou, M.D., FAAFP, of the California AFP
- Beulette Hooks, M.D., FAAFP of the Georgia AFP
- Gretchen Irwin, M.D., M.B.A., FAAFP, of the Kansas AFP
- Louis Kazal, M.D., FAAFP, of the New Hampshire AFP
- Mike Sevilla, M.D., FAAFP, of the Ohio AFP
- David Schmitz, M.D., FAAFP, of the North Dakota AFP
- Tasha Starks, M.D., M.P.H., of the Arkansas AFP
- Kelly Thibert, D.O., M.P.H., of the Nevada AFP
- Juan Carlos Venis, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, of the Indiana AFP
Also serving are Board Chair Tochi Iroku-Malize, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., FAAFP; Ada Stewart, M.D., FAAFP, chair of the AAFP Commission on Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness in Family Medicine; and Janet Nwaukoni, D.O., resident member of the Board of Directors.