Medical students elected as student officers in the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

Six UAB School of Medicine students were elected to student leadership positions for the 2016-2017 Alabama Academy of Family Medicine (AAFP). The election took place during the AAFP annual meeting at San Destin, Fla., June 16-19.

The 2016-17 elected medical student leaders for the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians, left to right: Paul Strickland, Megan Gibson, Andrea Pittman, Daniel Weeks, Victoria Clay, C.C. Linder, Jessica Powell and Will Griffin.Officers elected from UAB are: 

• President, Daniel Weeks, MS4, UAB School of Medicine, Rural Medicine Program member, Huntsville campus
• Vice President, Andrea Pittman, MS2, UAB School of Medicine, Rural Medicine Program member, Huntsville campus
• Communications Chair, D. Paul Strickland, MS3, UAB School of Medicine, Rural Medical Scholars Program member, Tuscaloosa campus
• Communications Liaison Birmingham, Megan Gibson, MS2, Rural Medicine Program member, Birmingham campus
• Communications Liaison Tuscaloosa, Jessica Powell, MS4, UAB School of Medicine, Rural Medical Scholars Program member, Tuscaloosa campus
• Communications Liaison Huntsville, Will Griffin, MS3, UAB School of Medicine, Rural Medicine Program member, Huntsville campus

Also, C.C. Linder, a second-year medical student at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, was elected communication liaison for Mobile.

Victoria Clay, the immediate past president, presided over the elections. Clay is an MS3 in the Rural Medicine Program at the School of Medicine Huntsville campus.

Founded in 1949, the AAFP includes more than 900 active family physicians and more than 430 family medicine residents and medical students. The chapter provides educational programming for its members as well as representing family physicians and their patients in the legislative, regulatory and public arenas.