Here are seven key notes:
1. For the past year, Dr. Meigs served as the AAFP’s president-elect, and for the past four years he served as speaker of AAFP’s governing body, the Congress of Delegates.
2. Joining AAFP in 1979, Dr. Meigs has served on the society’s Scientific Assembly Resolutions Committee and the Committee on Rural Health, among others.
3. In his role as president, Dr. Meigs will represent family physicians and patients, striving to achieve positive change in the healthcare system.
4. Dr. Meigs serves patients as part of Bibb Medical Associates in Centreville, Ala., acting as chief of staff at Bibb Medical Center.
5. He is also a clinical associate professor of family and community medicine at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, as well as a clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.
6. Dr. Meigs completed his family medicine residency at University of Alabama Birmingham Selma Family Practice.
7. The AAFP encompasses 124,900 physicians and medical students across the country.
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