Puffer Fellowship

Celebrating 15 years

The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) recognized that primary care voices remain vastly under-represented in national policy and systems leadership. As ABFM notes, our specialty is confronting “greater complexity or more rapid transformation of the health care delivery system than at any time in its history.” Thus, through partnership with the ABFM Foundation and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the Puffer/ABFM Fellowship at the NAM was established in 2010 to advance the next generation of family medicine leaders in health policy, bridging the worlds of clinical practice, research, and national decision-making.
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In conjunction with annual National Academies of Medicine meetings, we welcomed Puffer Fellow Alumni and current fellows to the CPV to celebrate the 15th anniversary of this important 2 year fellowship at the NAM. In addition to participating in the NAM annual symposium on the future of AI in Medicine, this remarkable group of scholars and leaders spent time together in professional development and cohort building activities over a weekend together. The events were based out of the CPV, where Fellows past and present learned more about our work and each other through a series of networking and mentoring sessions plus a fun and engaging competitive scavenger hunt at the International Spy Museum.