It was a busy weekend for us! We went out to Deadwood on Wednesday for our annual SD Family Physician conference. Sarah was sworn in on Friday night and will now be the president of the SD Academy of Family Physicians! Congratulations Sarah!
She was sworn in on Friday night by the National Academy of Family Physicians President Dr. Gary LeRoy! He came from Ohio to join our conference, and to officially swear her into office. What a great conference!
She and I spent Thursday afternoon teaching other Family Physicians on Diabetes.
It is a great conference where we all can learn new things, and learn from each other as well. That will be one of the job responsibilities of the president; helping with ideas for topics for continuing education for the 350 Family Physicians of the state. She will get to do some traveling as well to national conferences, including Kansas City, Chicago, and Washington DC. I plan on going with her on some of these! We also had fun spending time with friends, classmates from med school, and Carletta Hauck, our Executive Director for the SDAFP!
Carletta’s daughter Carissa also came. It was great getting to see her again! She was helping Carletta with the conference, along with Steve, and Noah. It was a family effort! Each afternoon we had between 1-2 hours out of the whole day to do something else. So, of course, we went running!
Here I go by the sign Moon Mountain! The route by the hotel is up in the mountains. We would go 4 miles, with the first mile up, the second mile down, and then back. Those hills are incredibly tough.
Here Sarah is leading the way on the first mile going up! We just had to keep telling ourselves that once we got done with the first mile, it would be downhill for the next. Then repeat! That 3rd mile, going back up again, was a killer. At least the 4th mile was back down again!
The hills did not seem too bad when you had a least a great view. All of the pine trees, the pine tree smell, and even saw a few deer! It was enough of a break to go back at it again for the evening sessions!
Sarah will do a great job of being President, and will lead by example. She had the audience laughing with her speech! We have been a big part of this academy since medical school! Family Medicine is what we do, and we always need to keep learning. As she said in her speech, it will be just like when I was president over 15 years ago. The academy just got a 2 for 1 deal. You vote in one, and you get the benefit of having both of us. Good job Sarah! Congratulations! You will do great! Keep moving everybody!
Dr. Dan
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