JUNE 8, 2024 Marmalade Café, Farmer’s Market, Los Angeles The meeting was called to order by Dr. Emma Hiscocks, President. She introduced our special guests: Alex McDonald, MD; CAFP 2024-2025 President and Lisa Folberg, MMP, CEO of the CAFP. They were present in order to have the opportunity to address the members after the meeting […] Read more
The Nominating Committee met by Zoom on Monday May 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM. Members present were: Chair, Emma Hiscocks, MD; Kelvin Alvarez, Cynthia Chen-Joea, DO; Kevin Rossi, MD; Po-Yin Samuel Huang, MD; Soomin Jung, MD; Kelvin Alexis Alvarez. Executive Director, Roxanne Kuns, was also present. The Nominating Committee presents the following report: (Asterisks indicate […] Read more
Spring has sprung, and we’ve been busy as a bee at LAAFP! I hope you’ve been feeling positive energy in this new season. As always, LAAFP is here to support its members and is always open to input and ideas. Please reach out to us with any thoughts. We also have our Instagram account @the_laafp–please […] Read more
To Solve Homelessness, Hope Less After moving to LA it seemed that the homeless situation was an insurmountable hopeless issue, one that people simply had to accept and move on. Walking past person after person on sidewalks or street intersections continued to gnaw at me, but I felt uncertain of what I could do to […] Read more
On April 11, AAFP President Steven Furr, MD, presented a report on primary care and health care costs to the US Senate Committee on Finance. According to the AAFP, US spending on primary care dropped from 6.2% to 4.7% of health care costs between 2013 and 2021 (compared to 12-17% in other industrialized countries). Medicare […] Read more
