Texas student and resident appointed
to AAFP leadership posts

Two TAFP members have been appointed to positions within AAFP, Lindsay Botsford, M.D., and Christina Sheu.

TAFP resident member Lindsay Botsford, M.D., was appointed to the AAFP Commission on Governmental Advocacy. Botsford is in her second year at Baylor College of Medicine Kelsey-Seybold Family Medicine Residency Program in Houston. She began studying health policy as an undergraduate at Rice University where she majored in Policy Studies with a focus in Health Care Management and Policy. After that, Botsford was named a Truman Scholar and worked at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Within TAFP, she has served on the Commission on Health Care Services and Managed Care and as Texas’ Alternate Delegate to the AAFP National Conference. Within TMA, she served on the TMA Board of Trustees and is currently on the TMA Council on Legislation.

TAFP member Christina Sheu, third-year medical student at the University of Texas Medical School, was appointed to serve as AAFP Regional Family Medicine Interest Group Coordinator. At UT Houston, she has served in many capacities with the Family Medicine Student Association including Membership Coordinator, Secretary and Treasurer. With her leadership, Sheu doubled the number of medical student members from UT Houston in 2008. As regional coordinator, she will work with other FMIG coordinators in the region to strengthen their programs. Sheu serves as secretary of the TAFP Section on Medical Students.