ASSOCIATION OF FAMILY MEDICINE ADMINISTRATION
PHYSICIAN ADVISORS
2011-12
AFMA’s Board of Directors is responsible for the selection of Physician Advisors for the organization who advise the board on a number of details related to AFMA decisions and activities. They participate in elements of the Fall Board meeting, including RPS speaker selection and selection of the plenary speaker for the conference. They have also committed to writing articles pertaining to pertinent topics for the AFMA newsletter throughout the year. Finally, they meet with the board during RPS each year to review what each committee has been working on, the goals of the organization and to ask questions regarding how they can better assist us in the year to come.
The collaboration allows for AFMA to play a huge role in administration of our specialty while giving us the benefit of having leaders in our field for advice when needed. It is truly a win-win situation! Our advisors for 2011-12 include:
Gregory H. Blake, MD, MPH
University of Tennessee Medical Center
Dr. Blake received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas in 1977. He completed his residency in family practice at Dwight David Eishenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia. Dr. Blake spent four years at Martin Army Community Hospital, Ft. Benning, Georgia, where he was director of the Family Practice Residency Program. He joined the faculty of the University of OK, Oklahoma City, in 1984 and earned a Master of Public Health degree. Dr. Blake was Residency/Fellowship Director at the University of MI Medical Center at Jackson from 1989 until he joined the Knoxville program in 1995.
Dr. Blake currently serves as senior physician in the 134th Medical Group, TN Air National Guard. He served as commander of the 129th Medical Cleaning Company, A National Guard during Operation Desert Storm. Lieutenant Colonel Blake served as a flight surgeon for the 171 st Air Expeditionary Refueling Wing during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has completed the Army Command and General Staff College and the Air War College. Special interests include weapons of mass destruction and medical organization and readiness for natural or manmade disasters.
Information retrieved from: http://gsm.utmck.edu/hss/hss_blake.htm
Stanley M. Kozakowski, M.D., FAAFP
Hunterdon Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program, Flemington, NJ
Dr. Stan Kozakowski was born and raised in New Jersey. He graduated from the New York Medical College in 1981. He completed his family practice residency training at the Lancaster General Hospital Family and Community Medicine Residency Program in Lancaster, PA. Following residency, he entered private practice in rural Warren County, NJ. He has been teaching family medicine at the Hunterdon Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program in Flemington, NJ since 1987. Dr. Kozakowski has served as the director of the program since 1996. He has served on the faculty of the nationally recognized Duke Faculty Development Workshops Series. Dr. Kozakowski has held a number of national leadership positions including serving as the president of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors and as the president of the Family Medicine Education Consortium. He is the Chair of the Council of Academic Medicine of Family Medicine, serves on the steering committee for the national “Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice” (P4) project, and serves as a consultant for Residency Program Solutions program of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Kozakowski is a frequent speaker and facilitator at regional and national conferences and an author of many publications on a variety of academic Family Medicine topics. He is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Albany Medical College.
Dr. Kozakowski’s interests include master teaching, competency-based education and self-evaluation systems. He has been recognized as “Outstanding Voluntary Faculty Member of the Year” by the Department of Family Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, NJ. Dr. Kozakowski lives in rural Hunterdon County with his family. He continues to remain active as a practicing family physician and the program director of the Hunterdon Medical Center.
Mark Mengel, MD, MPH
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
Mark Mengel, MD, MPH. Dr. Mengel received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1981 and completed an internship and residency in Family Practice at Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, Washington (1981-83). He was chief resident during his last year of his Family Practice Residency Program at Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, Maine (1983-84). Dr. Mengel completed a second residency in Preventive Medicine at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle (1984-86) and also received a Master of Public Health degree.
In 1986, Dr. Mengel was appointed Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Oklahoma. From 1991-1993 he was Associate Professor of Family Medicine and predoctoral director on the faculty at the University of Texas Medical School, Houston. In 1993, Dr. Mengel became the founding program director of the Family Practice Residency Program at Beverly Hospital, a community hospital near Boston. The program became formally affiliated with Boston University in 1999 and Dr. Mengel was promoted to Clinical Professor. In 2000, Dr. Mengel became Professor and Chair of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Saint Louis University where he built the Department’s research and clinical programs. In 2008, Dr. Mengel accepted the position of Vice-Chancellor for Regional Programs and Executive Director of the Area Health Education Center network for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Dr. Mengel is author or co-editor of numerous articles and books in his field, including the Handbook of Family Medicine, entering its 5th edition, and a textbook entitled Fundamentals of Clinical Practice: A Textbook on the Patient, Doctor, and Society. He is a Residency Program Solutions (RPS) consultant for the American Academy of Family Physicians since 1998. His research in the area of community and family medicine has been funded by NIH, the CDC and by private foundations and institutions.
Perry Pugno, MD, MPH, CPE
AAFP Division of Medical Education
Dr. Pugno grew up in the Inland Empire of southern California. A 1970 graduate of the University of CA at Riverside (UCR) and a 1974 graduate of the University of CA at Davis (UCD) School of Medicine, Dr. Pugno completed his UCLA-affiliated Family Medicine Residency at Ventura General Hospital. Following a tour of duty with the National Health Service Corps in Barstow, CA, he entered the sphere of graduate medical education as a residency director, and has accumulated more than 20 years of experience in that role. He has worked in programs from California to Connecticut, including public, private and university-sponsored settings.
He is Board-certified in both Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine, and has added experience as the director of a trauma center, hospital chief medical officer, public health officer, and medical director of a health plan. His MPH from Loma Linda University is in multidisciplinary educational administration.
He has served as President of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, President of the University of CA Medical Alumni Association, Chair of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine, and is the founding chair of the National Institute for Program Director Development. His recent experience in corporate physician leadership and managed care was as the Vice-President for Graduate Medical Education and Medical Affairs with Mercy Healthcare Sacramento, a division of Catholic Healthcare West.
Currently, Dr. Pugno is the Director of the Division of Medical Education for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). He is responsible for AAFP initiatives related to medical school and residency education, including supervision of the Residency Program Solutions consulting panel and providing staff support for Academy workforce policy and legislative advocacy. He has been married to Terry for 37 years, and their three sons live in northern California.
Eric Skye, MD
University of Michigan
Graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1990 and completed his Family Medicine residency at Travis Air Force Base, David Grant Medical Center in 1993. Dr. Skye is a consultant with the American Academy of Family Physician’s Residency Performance Solutions group and is the Associate Chair of Education in Family Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Skye also maintains a clinical practice in Chelsea, Michigan.
Information provided by: American Academy of Family Physicians