MAFP Past Presidents
In June 1948, Michigan Academy of General Practice was chartered as the 19th Constituent Chapter of American Academy of General Practice. To more accurately reflect the changing nature of primary healthcare, the national academy changed its name to American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in 1971. Constituent Chapters followed suit, and our organization become known as Michigan Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP). In September 1990, MAFP was granted 501(c)(6) status by the Internal Revenue Service and was incorporated as a Michigan nonprofit corporation.
Since 1948, MAFP has been led by an outstanding roster of Family Physicians who have dedicated their time and talent to advance Family Medicine in Michigan. We thank these individuals for their service to the MAFP.
Past Presidents
| 2017-2018 | Loretta Leja, MD |
| 2016-2017 | Robert J. Jackson, MD, MMM |
| 2015-2016 | Kim K. Yu, MD, FAAFP |
| 2014-2015 | Tina L. Tanner, MD |
| 2013-2014 | Fred J. Van Alstine, MD, MBA |
| 2012-2013 | E. Christopher Bush, MD, FAAFP |
| 2011-2012 | Peter Graham, MD |
| 2010-2011 | Jennifer R. Aloff, MD, FAAFP |
| 2009-2010 | David T. Walsworth, MD, FAAFP |
| 2008-2009 | Angelo N. Patsalis, MD, FAAFP |
| 2007-2008 | Robert E. Reneker, Jr., MD, FAAFP |
| 2006-2007 | Lynn S. Gray, MD, MPH, FAAFP |
| 2005-2006 | Peter Scuccimarri, MD |
| 2004-2005 | Douglas L. Colberg, MD, FAAFP |
| 2003-2004 | Danny D. Greig, MD, FAAFP |
| 2002-2003 | James A. Applegate, MD, FAAFP |
| 2001-2002 | Douglas Jackson, MD** |
| 2000-2001 | Edward A. Jackson, MD, FAAFP |
| 1999-2000 | Karen B. Mitchell, MD, FAAFP |
| 1998-1999 | Larry Carr, DO |
| 1997-1998 | Mary Elizabeth Roth, MD, FACPE |
| 1996-1997 | Archie Bedell, MD, PhD** |
| 1995-1996 | William P. Gifford, MD |
| 1994-1995 | Timothy J. Tobolic, MD |
| 1993-1994 | Michael L. Szymanski, MD |
| 1992-1993 | Bruce R. Deschere, MD |
| 1991-1992 | John M. Battle, MD** |
| 1990-1991 | Louis E. Sanford, MD** |
| 1989-1990 | Larry S. Kelly, MD, FAAFP |
| 1988-1989 | James F. Shetlar, MD, FAAFP |
| 1987-1988 | Gary R. Gazella, MD, FAAFP |
| 1986-1987 | L. Edmond Eary, Jr., MD, FAAFP |
| 1985-1986 | B.J. Woodley, MD** |
| 1984-1985 | C. Edward Cotton, MD |
| 1983-1984 | William W. Allen, MD, FAAFP |
| 1982-1983 | Harold F. Kendrick, MD** |
| 1981-1982 | John W. MacKenzie, Jr., MD, FAAFP |
| 1980-1981 | Gary E. Ruoff, MD, FAAFP |
| 1979-1980 | Donald E. DeWitt, MD** |
| 1978-1979 | Gordon W. Willoughby, MD** |
| 1977-1978 | Charles R. Zimont, MD, FAAFP |
| 1976-1977 | George A. Dean, MD, FAAFP |
| 1975-1976 | Robert W. Oakes, MD, FAAFP |
| 1974-1975 | Cecelia F. Hissong, MD, FAAFP |
| 1973-1974 | Louis R. Zako, MD |
| 1972-1973 | Robert L. Vitu, MD** |
| 1971-1972 | Joseph Fisher, MD** |
| 1970-1971 | James F. Dooley, MD** |
| 1969-1970 | Douglass A. Haddock, MD** |
| 1968-1969 | Lee E. Feldkamp, MD** |
| 1967-1968 | J. Leonides Leach, MD |
| 1966-1967 | Edgar Cochrane, MD** |
| 1964-1966 | Fred Brace, MD** |
| 1963-1964 | Lyle Korum, MD** |
| 1962-1963 | Leighton Shantz, MD** |
| 1961-1962 | Howard Robinson, MD** |
| 1960-1961 | C. Howard Ross, MD** |
| 1959-1960 | Howard C. Rees, MD** |
| 1958-1959 | Clark W. Rover, MD** |
| 1957-1958 | Francis P. Rhoades, MD** |
| 1956-1957 | John W. Rice, MD** |
| 1955-1956 | Russell F. Fenton, MD** |
| 1954-1955 | Kenneth Toothaker, MD** |
| 1953-1954 | Karl Swift, MD** |
| 1952-1953 | Frederick E. Luger, MD** |
| 1951-1952 | E. Clarkston Long, MD** |
| 1950-1951 | John R. Failing, MD** |
| 1949-1950 | Leslie T. Henderson, MD** |
| 1948-1949 | Milner S. Ballard, MD** |
| 1948 | Arch Walls, MD** |
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**Deceased |