Announcements
· Congratulations! Georgetown University and George Washington Family Medicine Interest Groups received the 2012 AAFP FMIG Funding Initiative.
· Congratulations to Dr. Babafemi Adenuga, Interim Chair and Assistant Professor at Howard University Department of Community and Family Medicine voted to Super Doctors® in the October 23, 2011 issue of The Washington Post Magazine.
· Congratulations to Tessie G Aikara, MD Family Practice La Clinica del Pueblo, recipient of the 2011 Pfizer Teacher Development Award. A reception was held at the center on Sept in her honor.
· The Georgetown University Department of Family Medicine is excited to announce the launch of a new Medical Humanities Fellowship under the direction of Dr. Caroline Wellbery. Fellows in this program will pursue projects related to arts-in-medicine and incorporate medical humanities/arts into teaching at pre- and post-doctoral levels. Our first Medical Humanities fellow is Dr. Christy Tharenos, who most recently was on the faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Missouri.
· The Department of Family Medicine was recently awarded a five-year, $1.2 million Residency Training in Primary Care grant from HRSA to develop an innovative residency curriculum. The department currently holds two other such grants, and we are looking forward to the opportunities that this award will provide for Residency Director Dr. Pat Evans and the rest of the Georgetown residency team.
· The Department of Family Medicine is very proud of Research Division Director Dr. Dan Merenstein, who won a Fulbright Scholarship this past spring to participate in health systems research at Hebrew University in Jersusalem. Dr. Merenstein left for Jerusalem in July and will remain there until January 2012 to compare evidence-based medicine compliance in the Israeli capitated payment system with the United States’ policy of fee-for-service care.
