ADFM Board of Directors

John Franko, MD

President 2022-2023
  • Tower Health
  • West Reading, PA

F. David Schneider, MD, MSPH

President Elect 2022-2023
  • University of TX Southwestern Med Center at Dallas
  • Dallas, TX

Chelley Alexander, MD

Board Chair & Immediate Past President 2022-2023
  • Eastern Carolina University
  • Greenville, NC

Amanda Weidner, MPH

Executive Director

Dana Nguyen, MD, FAAFP

Communication Chair (2021-2023)
  • Uniformed Services University
  • Bethesda, Maryland

Harry Strothers III, MD, MMM

Treasurer (2022-2024)
  • Mercer University School of Medicine
  • Macon, GA

Mack Ruffin, MD, MPH

Member-At-Large (2022-2024)
  • Penn State Health
  • Middletown, PA

Dean Seehusen, MD

Member-At-Large (2022-2024)
  • Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
  • Augusta, GA

Deborah Clements, MD, FAAFP

Member-At-Large (2021-2023)
  • Northwestern Medicine
  • Grayslake, IL

Kelvin Wynn

Annual Conference Program Committee Chair 2023
  • University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria
  • Peoria, IL

Grant M. Greenberg, MD, MHSA, MA

Membership Committee Chair (2022-2024)
  • Lehigh Valley Health Network
  • Easton, PA

Annamalai Ramanthan, MD

Administrators' Representative (2022-2024)
  • Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
  • Augusta, GA

Peter Catinella, MD, MPH

Leader Development Committee Chair (2021-2023)
  • Texas Tech University-Transmountain
  • El Paso, TX

Michelle Roett, MD, MPH, FAAFP, CPE

Education Transformation Committee Chair (2018-2023) & CFAS Representative (2021-2023)
  • Georgetown University School of Medicine
  • Washington, DC

Richard Lord Jr, MD, MA

Health Care Delivery Transformation Committee Chair (2021-2023)
  • Wake Forest Baptist Health
  • Greensboro, NC

Irfan Asif, MD

Research Development Committee Chair (2019-2024)
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Birmingham, AL

Shalina Nair, MD, MBA

Diversity, Inclusion, & Health Equity Committee Chair (2022-2024)
  • The Ohio State University
  • Columbus, OH

Cynthia Haq, MD

Advocacy Committee Chair (2021-2023)
  • University of California, Irvine
  • Irvine, CA

Bryant Campbell

Public Member (2021-2024)

Appointed and Liaison Positions

For more information on elected and appointed positions, please see ADFM Leadership Structure and Pathways to Leadership


ADFM Fellowship 
Myra Muramoto, MD, MPH – Director

AAFP Commission Liaisons
Commission on Education – Michelle Roett, MD, MPH, FAAFP, CPE

Family Medicine Leadership Consortium
Current President, President-elect, Past President/Board Chair, Executive Director (see above)

Council of Academic Family Medicine
Current President, President-elect, Past President/Board Chair, Executive Director (see above)

Annals of Family Medicine 
Belinda Vail, MD

Center for History of Family Medicine 
Rick Kellerman, MD

CAFM Education Research Alliance Representative
Mack Ruffin, MD, MPH

WONCA Representative
Elissa Palmer, MD

ADFM Representative to the Program Directors Workshop Planning Committee
Curtis Galke, DO, FAAFP

AAMC ORR Representatives
Austin Witt, MD, Duke University, Dept. of Family Medicine (2020-2022)
Alyssa Brogden, DO, The Christ Hospital-University of Cincinnati FMR (2021-2023)

Academic Family Medicine Advocacy Committee Representatives (2020-2021)
Hope Wittenberg, MA, Director, Government Relations
Elissa Palmer, MD
John Franko, MD
Wayne Altman, MD

AAFP Liaison to ADFM
Karen Mitchell, MD
kmitchell@aafp.org

ABFM Liaison to ADFM
Warren Newton, MD
wnewton@theabfm.org