Election results

Friday, November 01, 2013 12:11 PM

The votes are in – CMS selects, installs new leaders

Kate Alfano, CMS contributing writer

John L. Bender, MD, FAAFP, was installed as the 2013-2014 Colorado Medical Society president at the masquerade-themed Presidential Gala on Saturday, Sept. 21. Bender is a board-certified family medicine physician, a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the senior partner and chief executive officer of Miramont Family Medicine based in Fort Collins, Colo. His practice, an NCQA Level III patient-centered medical home, has been honored many times over the past decade, most recently as a 2013 exemplar model for workforce innovation by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Bender also serves on the CMS Board of Directors, is a past president and past chair of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP), and is a past president of the Northern Colorado Individual Practice Association.

Bender recognized outgoing president Jan Kief, MD, for her service with a certificate of appreciation and commemorative CMS silver coin. She will serve as immediate past president in 2013-2014. He also recognized F. Brent Keeler, MD, who completed his year as immediate past president and will rotate out of the leadership.

On Sunday, the House of Delegates convened for other elections. Tamaan Osbourne-Roberts, MD, was elected president-elect. When he is sworn as president of the Colorado Medical Society at the 144th Annual Meeting, he will be the youngest president in CMS history at age 37. He will also be the organization’s first black president.

Osbourne-Roberts is a board-certified family medicine physician. He is currently a staff physician at Salud Family Health Centers where he practices full-spectrum outpatient care for primarily Spanish-speaking, low-income patients throughout the nine-clinic system. His main practice location is in Commerce City, Colo., and he also practices inpatient newborn care at Platte Valley Medical Center hospital in Brighton, Colo.

Osbourne-Roberts serves as a board member of CMS, the Denver Medical Society and CAFP. He is also chair of the CMS Membership, Unity and Relevance Task Force, a member of the Physician Advisory Committee on LGBT Health Disparities and an inaugural member of the CMS Health Disparities Committee/Diversified Physicians Section.

On the national level, Osbourne-Roberts is an alternate delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates. He served as alternate delegate and delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates, as co-convener and delegate to the AAFP’s National Conference of Special Constituencies (NCSC), and as member and chair of the AAFP-NCSC Reference Committee on Health of the Public and Science.

Delegates also approved component society and section directors to the CMS Board of Directors and approved members of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Three delegates to the AMA were elected: Lynn Parry, MD, Brigitta Robinson, MD, and Ray Painter, MD. Three alternate delegates to the AMA were elected: Dave Downs, MD, Jan Kief, MD, and Osbourne-Roberts. W. Gerald Rainer, MD, was re-elected to the office of CMS historian.

Congratulations to the new officers and leaders of the Colorado Medical Society.