Join the Department of Family and Community Medicine as we welcome President and CEO of the American Board of Family Medicine Warren Newton, MD, MPH. Drawing on his decades of experience in practice transformation and educational innovation, Dr. Newton will discuss the future of academic health centers and how Family Medicine can support their mission.

Lunch will be provided.

Meet Warren Newton, MD, MPH

Warren Newton, MD MPH, serves as President and CEO of ABFM. Prior to coming to ABFM, he practiced as a personal physician for 32 years in an FQHC, Health Department and an academic practice; he also started the first hospitalist service at UNC in 1997 and has led large scale practice and educational transformation at the local, regional and statewide levels. ABFM is redesigning every aspect of its certification portfolio, including the Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA), a new National Journal Club, Knowledge Self Assessments, Performance Improvement activities and a major revision of its Professionalism Guidelines. The ABFM launched the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health in July 2019 in Washington, DC, runs the PRIME registry, and conducts research in the ecology of family medicine, Measures that Matter in Primary Care and other policy areas critical to the future of family medicine and primary care. Family Medicine Residency Redesign is also a major focus now, with implementation of CBME across 772+ residencies as of July 2023 as is supporting a specialty wide initiative to build research capacity. A recovering Residency Director, Chair, Chief Academic Officer and NC AHEC Director, he clearly gets bored very easily and relishes working with colleagues and friends in family medicine.