FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Contact:
Celia Searles
AAFP Public Relations
Csearles@aafp.org
LEAWOOD, KS—The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Foundation has awarded. Armand Ntchana, M.D., Brandy Truong, M.D., and Sofya Kats, D.O., as the 2024 recipients of the Family Medicine Cares Resident Service Award. This award recognizes first-year and second-year family medicine residents who are working to address health disparities in under resourced communities.
“I am excited to celebrate the 2024 Resident Service Award recipients who are trailblazing new paths to improved community health through family medicine,” said Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, M.D., FAAFP, President of the AAFP Foundation Board of Trustees. “Acknowledging the work of our residents and funding these projects is one of the AAFP Foundation's ways to support the next generation of family physicians and the communities they serve."
Projects aim to close equity gaps and fuel positive change in under resourced communities. Ntchana, a resident at the LSU Family Medicine Residency Program in Alexandria, Louisiana, led a project that focused on improving health outcomes of uninsured patients with chronic health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension in the Rapides Parish of Central Louisiana.
Truong and Kats, residents at Kaweah Health Family Medicine in Visalia, California, partnered with a local LGBT+ center to provide formalized training and workshops to their residency program on using inclusive language and gathering comprehensive sexual health history as well as a comprehensive STI testing methods.
Recipients are invited to accept the award and present their work at FUTURE, formerly National Conference, the National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students, taking place July 31–August 2, 2025 in Kansas City, MO.
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The Foundation serves as the philanthropic arm of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Its mission is to advance family medicine through philanthropy using humanitarian, educational, and scientific programming to improve health. For more information visit aafpfoundation.org.