The King County Academy of Family Physicians (KCAFP) is a professional medical society dedicated to maintaining high standards of family medicine. Family medicine is the medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, all sexes, each organ system, and every disease entity.
KCAFP Annual Meeting
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Wednesday May 22nd!
6:00pm Student Awards Reception 7:00pm Annual Meeting Begins Held at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture, we are planning a great program for our members. Besides electing a 2019-2020 Board of Directors, we will also be voting on a Bylaws update and hearing from the WAFP Primary Care Investment Task Force about plans for constituency engagement with legislators! Please check out the RSVP form for more details & fill it out if you can come!
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Student Award Recipient
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Annually the KCAFP recognizes Medical Students through our Theodore J. Phillips (TJP) Award and Student Community Service (SCS) Award. This years the Board of Directors have selected Jennifer Wooley (Left) for the TJP Award and Julie Do (Right) for the SCS Award. Please come celebrate with us!
Physician Award Recipient
2019 Rosenblatt Award
The King County Academy of Family Physicians (KCAFP) is proud to announce that Bruce Amundson, MD is the 2019 Roger A. Rosenblatt Community Service Award recipient for exemplary leadership in the field of Family Medicine.
Dr. Bruce Amundson is a Family Physician who received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota. Following internship, accompanied by his family, he was a Peace Corps physician in Liberia, West Africa. Returning to the U.S., he served as medical director of the OEO Job Corps program in Washington D.C. He then did his family medicine residency at the University of Oklahoma. He practiced in rural Colorado for decade.
He came to Washington to accept a faculty position at Spokane Family Medicine from which he was recruited by Dr. Rosenblatt to manage Roger’s rural hospital research project. This rural engagement evolved into a community-wide assessment and development resource to assist rural WAMI communities to sustain local health services. Bruce established the WAMI Office of Rural Health as a vehicle for this community-based work. Following his academic period, he established a rural health development firm, Community Health Innovations, which worked with hundreds of rural communities across the U.S.
He has been a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility for over 40 years and a member of WPSR for 30 years. He was a founding member of the Spokane PSR chapter which was a party to the F.O.I.A. request that forced the Department of Energy to release the documents that first revealed the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s massive off-site contamination. He worked with Russian physicians in the 1990’s to form the Hanford-Chelyabinsk movement to support their heroic efforts to force the government of the U.S.S.R. to disclose the massive contamination from the Mayak nuclear complex in Siberia. He was also one of four principal investigators on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Hanford Thyroid Disease Study.
Following retirement he assumed the presidency of the board of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility where he led the work to revitalize this physician-led organization which confronts the most significant threats to the health of the human community – a warming planet and nuclear war. As chair of the WPSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Task Force, he has worked to establish the largest state-wide anti-nuclear coalition in the U.S., Washington Against Nuclear Weapons, currently comprising 45 organizations.
Dr. Bruce Amundson is a Family Physician who received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota. Following internship, accompanied by his family, he was a Peace Corps physician in Liberia, West Africa. Returning to the U.S., he served as medical director of the OEO Job Corps program in Washington D.C. He then did his family medicine residency at the University of Oklahoma. He practiced in rural Colorado for decade.
He came to Washington to accept a faculty position at Spokane Family Medicine from which he was recruited by Dr. Rosenblatt to manage Roger’s rural hospital research project. This rural engagement evolved into a community-wide assessment and development resource to assist rural WAMI communities to sustain local health services. Bruce established the WAMI Office of Rural Health as a vehicle for this community-based work. Following his academic period, he established a rural health development firm, Community Health Innovations, which worked with hundreds of rural communities across the U.S.
He has been a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility for over 40 years and a member of WPSR for 30 years. He was a founding member of the Spokane PSR chapter which was a party to the F.O.I.A. request that forced the Department of Energy to release the documents that first revealed the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s massive off-site contamination. He worked with Russian physicians in the 1990’s to form the Hanford-Chelyabinsk movement to support their heroic efforts to force the government of the U.S.S.R. to disclose the massive contamination from the Mayak nuclear complex in Siberia. He was also one of four principal investigators on the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Hanford Thyroid Disease Study.
Following retirement he assumed the presidency of the board of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility where he led the work to revitalize this physician-led organization which confronts the most significant threats to the health of the human community – a warming planet and nuclear war. As chair of the WPSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Task Force, he has worked to establish the largest state-wide anti-nuclear coalition in the U.S., Washington Against Nuclear Weapons, currently comprising 45 organizations.
2019 Bylaws Update
During the 2018-2019 program year, on Sept 6th 2018, the Board of Directors (BOD) acknowledged a need for bylaws review. At the second meeting on Oct 4th, 2018, BOD members Annie Gayman (member-at-large), Sonal Patel (Treasurer), Dini Pineda (Immediate Past President), and Jonathan Wells (President) volunteered to form a subcommittee to review and make recommendations to the BOD regarding the bylaws. At the next regular board meeting on Dec 6th, 2018, suggestions were made with the acknowledgement that ratifying the proposed changes required a vote from the KCAFP membership at the Annual Meeting held on May 22nd 2019. Below is a summary of the changes 30 days prior to the convening of the meeting:
The links below show a PDF of the Current and Proposed Bylaws. Please email kcafp@kcafp.net if you have any concerns you'd like to share prior to our meeting on May 22nd 2019.
- Chapter 1 Section 2: Removed "a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Illinois" as this does not exist in WAFP bylaws
- Chapter 1 Section 3: Renamed section by title and reformatted the content to ensure that the language about the KCAFP Mission, Values, and Priorities is embedded into our Bylaws, similar to the WAFP, so that it can be reviewed and voted upon by membership each time we review our Bylaws; additionally reworded the strategic priority around education to incorporate new physicians into scope as well as eliminate outdated language
- Chapter 2 Section 1: Renamed section and language updated to include residents, students, and new physicians in membership as well as reference membership in the larger WAFP and AAFP chapters
- Chapter 2 Section 2: Renamed section to reflect "Application for Membership"
- Chapter 2 Section 3: Renamed/consolidated prior sections to updated Eligible membership definitions to reflect WAFP/AAFP definitions, particularly around ability to hold office and vote if inactive, resident, or student member.
- Chapter 2 Section 4: New section discussing "Maintenance of Membership" paralleling language from WAFP
- Chapter 2 Section 5: New section created to help insert language around what would happen where local chapter to have concerns about membership and have path to evaluate consideration for membership termination in consultation with state chapter WAFP
- Chapter 3 Section 1: Updated language to reference how dues are set locally and updated within the context of larger WAFP and AAFP organizations
- Chapter 3 Section 2: Updated language to reflect at what meetings votes on special assessments could occur and who would be eligible to vote
- Chapter 3 Section 3: Updated language to reflect how unpaid dues are understand and defined within the AAFP and how that impacts holding office/voting
- Chapter 4 Section 1: Updated section to provide definition around what is expected to occur at Annual Meetings
- Chapter 4 Section 2: Updated section to provide definition on how special meetings are set up and what purposes they have recently served for KCAFP
- Chapter 4 Section 3: Added "or the Administrator" as a means for conveying notice of meetings, as this is who in reality communicates
- Chapter 6 Section 4: Added language to help clarify how the board will make decisions "in between meetings"
- Chapter 10: Updated outdated name for parliamentary procedure use (not Sturgis, but instead AIP Standard Code)
- Chapter 11: Grammar corrected to say submitting "them"
The links below show a PDF of the Current and Proposed Bylaws. Please email kcafp@kcafp.net if you have any concerns you'd like to share prior to our meeting on May 22nd 2019.
KCAFP Sponsored Fall & Spring Events 2018-2019Pictures from our Third Year Resident Professional Development Seminar and Career Fair from October & Fall Member Meeting in November.
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