Anti-Slavery Resources & Organizations
MAFP advocacy coordinator Khin Oo shares a list of resources and organizations working on anti-slavery.
MAFP advocacy coordinator Khin Oo shares a list of resources and organizations working on anti-slavery.
Vaccines are an important public health tool, and family physicians play an important role in getting patients vaccinated against preventable illnesses.
The Minnesota Department of Health provides a summary of vaccines recommended to reduce respiratory illnesses in the fall 2023/winter 2024 season.
The Minnesota Medical Association and University of Minnesota are seeking physician participation in a research study on safe firearm storage counseling.
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.
The 2023 Minnesota Legislative Session has ended. In addition to passing a balanced budget for the next two-year period, the Minnesota Legislature passed many bills that the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) strongly supported, including the All-Payer Claims Database update, audio-only telehealth coverage, rural health care workforce funding, firearm safety measures and more.
While this is being referred to as a historic session for the number of bills passed, it was clearly a good (policy) year for family physicians and their patients.