Dr. Reid Blackwelder, Kingsport, Tenn., was installed as president of the American Academy of Family Physicians on Wednesday during the group's Congress of Delegates meeting in San Diego. Dr. Robert Wergin, Milford, Neb., was chosen as president-elect. Completing the leadership rotation, the immediate past president, Jeffrey Cain of Denver, is now chairman of the board.
Blackwelder is the director of the family medicine department's medical student education division at East Tennessee State University's James H. Quillen College of Medicine in Johnson City. He is also affiliated with the Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport. He was the AAFP's Exemplary Teacher of the Year in 2008, according to a news release.
