Dr. Bashar Yalldo Installed as 2025-2026 MAFP President

During the 2025 Annual Meeting on July 19, Bashar Yalldo, MD, FAAFP was installed as MAFP’s 77th President by American Academy of Family Physicians President Jen Brull, MD, FAAFP.

Dr. Bashar Yalldo has been active with Michigan Academy of Family Physicians since he was in residency at Ascension Providence (now Henry Ford Health) Hospital in Southfield. He first joined the Advocacy Committee and then was elected to the Board of Directors. Throughout medical school at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, where he graduated in 2012, and family medicine residency, Dr. Yalldo actively engaged in community service and volunteer leadership. He was active in the Providence Wellness Committee, Graduate Medical Education Committee, and Family Medicine Resident Recruitment Committee, and was elected president of the Providence House Staff Committee by his peers — no small feat in a multi-specialty teaching hospital.

In recognition of his outstanding clinical skills, patient care, advocacy, community service, and leadership, Dr. Yalldo was named MAFP’s Family Medicine Resident of the Year in 2016. That same year, the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors honored him with the Family Medicine Resident Award for Advocacy.

Today, Dr. Yalldo is affiliated with Henry Ford Health and practices at Henry Ford Health's Byron Family Medicine-Howell. His clinical interests include preventive medicine and chronic disease management, and he is consistently engaged with medical student outreach. Dr. Yalldo currently serves as a member of the Henry Ford Health Medical Group Finance Committee and as an elected member of the Physician Operations Council.