I am Tina Tanner, MD, FAAFP. I ask you, my colleagues and family medicine family, for the honor of representing you on the AAFP Board.
I will bring my passion for our specialty, my leadership and career experiences to advocate for equitable access to care for all that encompasses mind, body and spirit, while celebrating the diversity present in our membership and communities. By listening to all members with an open mind and respectful curiosity, we can come together to guide our health care system.
We owe it to our specialty, patients and communities to passionately, persistently and positively advocate for the family medicine that we all need and want. United we can create change that protects the sacred physician-patient bond, reduces the administrative burden and returns the practice of medicine to the physician. A sustainable health care system requires the scope and breadth of family medicine as its foundation. It will require time, teamwork and tenacity to speak the truth, seek understanding and stand steadfast to create that change. Family medicine is the beacon of light to lead our country through the storm that is health care today.