PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE to Members By Dr. Dimitrios 'Takie' Hondros 2021–2022 NCAFP President
2021 INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Learning, Growing and Adapting as a Family Physician Thank you to all. As I look out in the crowd, I am humbled to be standing here. There are so many people to thank. First to my family. To my wife and kids. I am so blessed to have an awesome, caring, and loving wife. Her support of my love for the NCAFP over the last 20 plus years has been fully appreciated. My three children have kept me grounded and have helped me become a more compassionate and comprehensive family physician. To my parents, sisters, and their husbands, they have taught me the importance of hard work, dedication, and love for family. To my wife, kids, parents, and siblings, I love you with all my heart and appreciate you being here tonight. To my amazing medical office partners, colleagues, and staff: how blessed are we to work together? I am surrounded by the most hardworking, talented team in medicine. Their support of me and care of our patients goes above and beyond what most clinics will do. They truly are “our secret sauce.” To my new independent physician colleagues under Avance’s umbrella in Charlotte, Drs. Rhett Brown, Carson Rounds, Gen. Brauning, and Faison Knox, I am excited to call you my new ‘re-found’ friends on this new great journey for us. To Greg Griggs, a mentor, friend, and so thankful that we here at
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The North Carolina Family Physician
