Leadership
Dr. Beebe is Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She has served as Chair of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine, as National Institute for Program Director Development (NIPDD) faculty, board member and Chair of the ABFM. She served on the ACGME Milestones Committee and as representative to the ABMS, as well as contributing extensively to national and state medical publications. She and her husband live in Ocean Springs, MS, and enjoy boating, fishing, gardening and travel. Dr. Beebe also enjoys biking, making jewelry, and painting.
Dr. Brooks is a general pediatrician in Lynchburg, Virginia. She completed residency at Duke University Medical Center, staying on faculty for three years before moving to private practice in 2000. She has served as a medical editor for the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), has served on the General Pediatrics Exam Committee, Maintenance of Certification (MOC) committee, Credentials Committee, and was ABP Board Chair in 2014. She served on the ABFM Board of Directors from 2011-2016, and is physician consultant to the ABP for the development of the new MOC assessment. She and her husband of 26 years have one son, Benjamin.
Dr. Conry is a Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Senior Vice-Chair for Quality and Clinical Affairs. She has served as residency director for three residency programs, as Director of Graduate Medical Education, consultant for the AAFP Family Medicine Residency Assistance Program, member of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine, and faculty for the National Institute for Program Director Development. She believes in work-life balance for everyone, and cherishes time with her husband and two recently married children. She hikes every weekend in the Colorado mountains and loves spending time at her cabin.
Chair-elect of the ABFM Board of Directors, Carlos is currently the Associate Dean, Indigenous Affairs University of Arizona College of Health Sciences and Assistant Vice President, Indigenous Affairs for the University of Arizona/University of Western Australia Global MD program, and an Associate Professor of FCM U of A College of Medicine-Tucson, and advises the University of Arizona College of Medicine on Traditional Indian-Western Medicine Collaboration. He recently received the “Arizona Champion” award for excellence in teaching from the University of Arizona’s Provost Office. A sixth generation Tucsonan of Yaqui and Mexican descent, Carlos leads Yaqui-Inipi Way Sweat Lodge Ceremonies.
Dr. Jaen was elected member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2013 and served as co-director of the American Academy of Family Physicians Center for Research in Family Medicine and Primary Care. He served on the the U.S. Public Health Service smoking cessation guidelines panels in 1996 & 2000, and co-chaired the May 2008 update panel. In 2005, he was appointed to the National Advisory Council to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a Cancer Control Career Development Award for Primary Care Physicians from the American Cancer Society.
Dr. Kruse completed medical school and his residency at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Kruse joined the faculty in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at SIU School of Medicine in 1984 and currently serves as the CEO of SIU HealthCare and is Dean and Provost of the SIU School of Medicine. He has held leadership positions with STFM, ADFM, ABMS, COGME and CAFM. Dr. Kruse was instrumental in the Family Medicine for Americas Health Initiative and is a former board member of the American Board of Family Medicine, serving as Chair of the Board in 2018-2019.
Dr. Jones is a Family Medicine physician. He graduated from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and completed Family Medicine residency at the Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington. He currently sees patients at Fairfax Family Practice, Fairfax, Virginia.
Dr. Newton serves as President and Chief Executive Officer for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). As President and CEO of the ABFM, he also oversees the ABFM Foundation and Pisacano Leadership Foundation. Dr. Newton previously served as Executive Director of the North Carolina Area Health Education Center (NC AHEC), a national leader in practice redesign, continuing professional development, health careers programming, and innovation in graduate medical education, and Vice Dean of Education at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. From 1999–2016 he served as the William B. Aycock Professor and Chair of Family Medicine at UNC.