BRMC congratulates Lonnie Robinson, M.D., on his appointment by the Arkansas Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors to the AAFP Commission on Continuing Professional Development for a term ending December 14, 2015.

According to the AAFP, the Commission on Continuing Professional Development works directly to support their strategic objective on education by encouraging lifelong learning of family physicians and other health care professionals. The goals of the commission are to guide the AAFPandrsquo;s accreditation and provision of continuing medical education that helps learners demonstrate continuous improvement in knowledge, competence, practice transformation and patient outcomes as well as fulfill the educational requirement for licensure and certification.

Immediate Past President of the AAFP Board of Directors, Dr. Robinson has served on the board since 2002. He has been in private practice in Mountain Home at Regional Family Medicine for 14 years.