American Association for Primary Care Endoscopy

Founder -

William H. Coleman, MD, PhD, is one of the pioneers in primary care endoscopy. He has 25 years of gastrointestinal endoscopy experience, and, for 15 years, he served as the director of the endoscopy laboratory at Highlands Medical Center, Scottsboro Alabama. He taught the first endoscopy course offered by the AAFP 20 years ago. He lectures nationally on gastrointestinal topics and has taught family medicine residents endoscopy for the past 20 years. He is currently the Director of the Office for Family Health Education and Research at the Huntsville Regional Medical Campus of the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UASOMH). He has served as board chair and president of the 94,000 member American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and president of the academy's foundation (AAFPF).

Past President - Alexander Fishberg, MD received his medical degree at the University of South Florida and did his residency at the Hinsdale Hospital in Chicago.  For the past 15 years, he was the Associate Program Director at Florida Hospital Family Medicine Residency were he delivered babies, cared for children and adolescents, their parents and grandparents.  He has clinical appointments with Florida State University and the University of Central Florida. At the University of Central Florida, he serves as a reviewer for their online publication, the Flagship. He is a sought after speaker regionally and nationally. He has taught colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy to almost two generations of family physicians. He lives in Orlando with his wife and two children.

President - Justin Bailey, MD

President-Elect - Andy Swartz, MD

Secretary/Treasurer - Nikole Shepherdson, DO

Board of Directors - 

Maurice Duggins, MD
Andrea Esplin, MD
Mark Koch, MD
Sarah Stokes, DO
Ethan Zimmerman, MD


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