2022-2023
NCAFP Board of Directors
Unicorns — that Actually exist”
ress of NCAFP President Dr. Shauna Guthrie
Executive Officers President
Shauna Guthrie, MD, MPH
President-Elect
Garett R. Franklin, MD
Secretary/Treasurer
Mark McNeill, MD
Immediate Past President
Dimitrios P. Hondros, MD
Executive Vice President
Gregory K. Griggs, MPA, CAE
At-Large Directors Joshua Carpenter, MD Lisa Cassidy-Vu, MD Deanna Didiano, DO Nicole Johnson, MD, MPH Kelley Lawrence, MD, IBCLC, FABM Benjamin F. Simmons, MD Patrick Williams, MD Courtland Winborne, MD
Academic Position Margaret Helton, MD (UNC)
Resident Director Matthew Drake, MD (ECU) Resident Director-Elect Morgan Parker, DO () Student Director Morgan Beamon (ECU) Student Director-Elect Akhila Boyina (Wake Forest)
Although we shared a love of medicine, I was not blessed with an amazing memory or the confidence to ski down double Black Diamonds with wild abandon like my grandfather, but I did inherit two other things from him. First, his loud, boisterous, old-man-style, often painful, sneezes. Every single sneeze seems to become a spectacle and there’s little I can do about it. Maybe don’t put away those Kleenexes just yet…on the upside, since COVID I have a little more control because who wants to be sneezing in their mask??
AAFP Delegates & Alternates AAFP Delegate
Richard W. Lord, Jr., MD, MA
AAFP Delegate
Robert L. Rich, Jr., MD
AAFP Alternate
Tamieka Howell, MD
AAFP Alternate
Thomas R. White, MD
What I also inherited is his propensity to see the bright side of things, and learn from our trials and tribulations while turning them into entertaining stories to share with others. You would think one of the best things to ever happen to him was getting stranded without power on a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean on his way home from a trip to Antarctica. I grew up on a farm, a scrawny tomboy, and my absolute least favorite 2501 Blue Ridge Road, Suite 120, Raleigh, North Carolina 27607
Winter 2023
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