F. David Schneider, M.D., associate professor in the department of family and community medicine, was recently appointed as chair of the Commission on Public Health of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
The Commission works to facilitate family physicians’ leadership role in improving the health of the American people by focusing its efforts on major health problems such as obesity, tobacco abuse, domestic violence, fitness and nutrition, and bioterrorism. The Commission is responsible for administering programs such as Tar Wars and the AAFP’s new Americans in Motion (AIM) to help fight against the obesity epidemic.
Dr. Schneider, immediate past president of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, graduated from Boston University’s School of Medicine and the Duke/Fayetteville Family Medicine Residency Program in North Carolina. He completed a fellowship in academic family medicine and a master of science in public health at the University of Missouri. He serves as chairman of the education committee on the American Medical Association’s Advisory Council on Violence and Abuse. Dr. Schneider also recently became the founding president of a newly created national academic medical society the Academy on Violence and Abuse.
