TAFP member elected to ABFM board

TAFP member Carlos Roberto Jaén, M.D., of San Antonio, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine. Jaén is the chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is also an adjunct professor at the UTHSC School of Public Health at Houston and is co-director of the Center for Research in Family Medicine and Primary Care.

ABFM is the second-largest medical specialty board in the United States and facilitates certification and recertification to thousands of family physicians around the country throughout their years of practice. Jaén will serve on the ABFM Information and Technology Committee and the Research and Development Committee, and will serve a five-year term on the 12-member ABFM board.