Albany Doctor Elected as Speaker of the House of Delegates

April 20, 2011

(St. Louis Park)— Daron Gersch, M.D., has been elected as the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) Speaker of the House of Delegates.  Dr. Gersch, a family physician with Albany Medical Center, was elected to the position last week at the MAFP’s 65th Annual Meeting.

As speaker of the house, Dr. Gersch will organize and preside over meetings of the House of Delegates, the policy-making body of the MAFP.  He will also serve as a member of the board of directors and the executive committee.

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians is a professional association of approximately 3,000 family physicians, family medicine residents and medical students established to assist family physicians in providing quality medical care in Minnesota.  The MAFP is the largest specialty organization in Minnesota and is a state chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians, one of the largest national medical organizations in the United States, with more than 97,000 members.

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