DFM Welcomes Carlos Jaén as Farley Professor, Announces Frey Writing Awards

The Department of Family Medicine (DFM) was honored to host Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD, PhD, as its 2011 Eugene Farley Visiting Professor on September 12-15, 2011.

Dr Jaén is a distinguished professor and the chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and co-director of its Center for Research in Family Medicine and Primary Care.

Farley/Frey Reception Slideshow

The National PCMH Demonstration Project

Dr. Jaén is a national leader on primary care redesign and the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). The Center he co-directs has studied almost 500 mostly independent, community-based primary care practices.

At Statewide Grand Rounds, and the following evening at the Farley/Frey reception, Dr. Jaén spoke about the Center’s experiences evaluating the American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) first national demonstration project of the PCMH.

The project asked 36 family practicesacross the nation to see how they could move toward the PCMH ideal during two years—within the current US health care payment and organizationalsystem.

The Farley/Frey reception was held at the Fluno Center in conjunction with the 2011 Wisconsin Health Improvement and Research Partnerships Forum.

While in Madison, Dr. Jaén also met with the DFM’s research committee, held a question and answer session with medical students in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health’s family medicine interest group, and met with other department and system leaders involved in primary care redesign.

Frey Writing Award Winners

During the Farley/Frey reception, the DFM also presented the winners of the second John Frey Writing Awards. This year’s winners were:

Prose:

•  "Humor, Hope and Helium" by Carla Schult
•  "Reflections Over 12 Months as an Intern" by Ani Saryan, MD
• "John3" by Nancy Pandhi, MD
•  "Walk" by Jennifer Edgoose, MD, MPH

Poetry:

• "In Anatomy Class" by C. Elizabeth Perry, MD
• "Henry" by Tim Caramore, MD
• "an angel in green camouflage" by Jonathan Temte, MD, PhD

View all of this year’s submissions.

The Frey Writing Awards were established in 2010 to honor John Frey, III, MD, past chair of the DFM, and to recognize and encourage individual creative writing.

More About Dr. Jaén

In addition to his work on the PCMH, Dr. Jaén has served on panels that published smoking cessation guidelines, and on the National Advisory Council to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

He has received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a Cancer Control Career Development Award for Primary Care Physicians from the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Jaén earned his MD and PhD in epidemiology and community health from the State University of New York in Buffalo, and completed a family medicine residency and primary care research fellowship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.