TAFP leaders to head AAFP commissions

Two TAFP leaders were chosen to chair AAFP commissions in 2010 during the AAFP Scientific Assembly in Boston, Mass. Stephen Benold, M.D., will head the Commission on Finance and Insurance, and Kaparaboyna Ashok Kumar, M.D., F.R.C.S., will head the Commission on Membership and Member Services.

Benold has served on the AAFP Commission on Finance and Insurance for the past five years. In addition to being a board-certified family physician in Georgetown, Benold is a board-certified financial planner with special training in the selection of management of investments, insurance products and retirement plans. He previously served as TAFP treasurer, TAFP president and TAFP Foundation president, and is currently the investment advisor for TAFP and the TAFP Foundation.

Kumar has been a member of the AAFP Commission on Membership and Member Services for the last four years, and last year served as chair of the Chapter Relations sub-committee. He also served a three-year term on the Committee on Special Constituencies. Kumar, who serves on the faculty for the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is also the current president of TAFP and carries the distinction of being the first international medical graduate to hold that office in Texas.