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May 2020 Member of the Month
Member of the Month: Triwanna Fisher-Wikoff, MD, FAAFP
Fort Worth family physician adapts patient care to the pandemic, draws strength from her team
By Kate Alfano
posted 05.01.20
Triwanna … more
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) resources
As more cases of COVID-19 are confirmed, family physicians should focus on preparation and prevention. Patients will likely have questions and concerns, and you may experience an increase in patients with respiratory symptoms. Now is the time to prepare yourself and your practice for the possibility that the virus will spread. TAFP will share resources as this situation evolves.
The Texas Department of State Health Services COVID-19 resource page for health professionals includes criteria to guide testing for persons under investigation, a health care professional preparedness checklist, and information about personal protective equipment.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established a site to house information about the virus as it is discovered.
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January 2020 Members of the Month
Members of the Month: Bharat Joshi and Sanjana Bhattarai
Married physicians balance family and careers to find personal and professional joy
By Kate Alfano
posted 01.02.20
Bharat Joshi, MD, and … more
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December 2019 Member of the Month
Member of the Month: Mahdi Awwad, MD
Academic family physician excels in teaching, maternal-child health, and full-spectrum care
By Kate Alfano
posted 12.06.19
Mahdi Awwad, MD, is an assistant … more
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August 2019 Member of the Month
Member of the Month: Melissa Martin Jacaman, MD
Laredo native returns to her hometown to help build family medicine residency program
By Kate Alfano
posted 08.01.19
Born and raised in the … more
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Your Academy in 2019 and beyond
By Jonathan Nelson
TAFP’s new strategic plan focuses on helping members care for patients
Last fall, the TAFP Board of Directors approved a new strategic plan for the Academy designed to strengthen the organization and ensure it works to help members do what they do best: take care of their patients and their communities. The plan is the culmination of a yearlong process led by TAFP’s elected leaders and a select group of other leaders. It will help guide Academy actions and endeavors for the next three to five years.
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Restoring funding to family medicine residency programs a top priority for TAFP in the 86th Lege
By Jonathan Nelson
We’re well into the third week of the Texas Legislature and now that the opening ceremonies are out of the way, lawmakers are beginning to get down to business. Both the House and the Senate have released their proposed budgets for the coming biennium, and both have announced committee assignments. Now the real work begins.
This session TAFP aims to fight for the restoration of funding for our family medicine residency programs to help address the increasing shortage of primary care physicians practicing in the state.
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Innovators Competition
TAFP Behavioral Health Integration Innovators Competition — Win $10,000
Share your model of behavioral health integration and you could win
The goal of TAFP’s Behavioral Health Integration … more
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October 2018
Member of the Month: Rathna Nuti, MD
Frisco physician practices sports medicine with a family medicine touch
By Perdita Henry
posted 10.03.18
Rathna Nuti, MD, is in the process of crafting … more
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Family Medicine Leadership Experience
The third class of the Family Medicine Leadership Experience poses on the dais in one of many hearing rooms at the State Capitol at the end of a long day of advocacy training.
Learning to lead … more