The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) Health Equity Committee has adapted an equity decision-making tool—a set of questions to use in intentionally evaluating policies, decisions and processes for equity—for use by MAFP staff, leadership, volunteers and members.
Four Minnesota family physicians share about the importance of family medicine obstetrics and the need for more support.
We asked Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians President Elect Roli Dwivedi, MD, to share about her work as a leader and advocate and why advocacy and leadership is so important to family physicians.
On July 1, 2023, Bob Jeske, MD, became the seventy-seventh president of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP).
Jeske has been a practicing family physician for more than 10 years. He currently serves as core faculty at the Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Residency – Mankato, where he holds an assistant professor appointment in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and serves as medical director for Whispering Creek skilled care and rehabilitation facility in Janesville, Minnesota. Prior to his teaching role, Jeske was a rural family physician in the communities of Wabasha and Waseca, Minnesota.
We asked President Jeske to share more of his background and about his plans for his term as MAFP President.
In the spring edition of Minnesota Family Physician magazine, outgoing Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians President Alex Vosooney, MD, encourages Minnesota’s family physicians to keep leading and advocating for our profession.
A conversation with MAFP Special Constituency Director Cybill Oragwu, MD, about the National Conference of Constituency Leaders (NCCL), advocacy and leadership.
An interview with Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians Student Director Tamee Livermont, MPH, on leadership, advocacy and working to strengthen care of native and indigenous communities in family medicine
Minnesota family physicians were well-represented at the 2022 American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Congress of Delegates, the AAFP’s policy-making body, in September in Washington, DC. Read a recap of resolution actions and Minnesota’s involvement.
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians President Alex Vosooney, MD, reflects on her journey from residency to today and shares how she still finds joy in the practice of medicine.
Family physician and former State Representative Alice Mann, MD, MPH, is running for a seat in the Minnesota Senate. We asked her about her time in the Minnesota House, why she’s now campaigning for the Minnesota Senate and why she believes it’s more important than ever for practicing physicians to get involved in politics and advocacy.
