The King County Academy of Family Physicians (KCAFP) is a professional medical society dedicated to maintaining high standards of family medicine. Family medicine is the medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, all sexes, each organ system, and every disease entity.
2024 Annual Member Meeting
Date: Wednesday May 22nd
Start Time: 7:00 pm
Location: UW Center for Urban Horticulture
Description: This event includes medical student awards, honoring a physician from our community, electing our 2024-2025 Board of Directors, a speaker, and a catered dinner.
Speaker: Dr. Darcy Constans presenting "Psychedelic Medicine's Past, Present and Future: What Every Family Doc Should Know."
Start Time: 7:00 pm
Location: UW Center for Urban Horticulture
Description: This event includes medical student awards, honoring a physician from our community, electing our 2024-2025 Board of Directors, a speaker, and a catered dinner.
Speaker: Dr. Darcy Constans presenting "Psychedelic Medicine's Past, Present and Future: What Every Family Doc Should Know."
Dr. Darcy Constans has worked as a family physician in Seattle for fifteen years, since moving here for her residency program at Swedish Cherry Hill. She currently runs a holistic mental health private practice offering medication management, mindfulness therapy, and ketamine assisted therapy. She is the mother of two teenagers. Dr. Constans is certified in Mind Body Medicine. She trained in psychedelic assisted therapy through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Sciences (MAPS) and the Polaris Institute. She currently sits on the community advisory board for the University of Washington's Center for Novel Therapeutics in Addiction Medicine, a new center focused on psychedelic medicine and addiction. She has served as a medical lead and sitter for the Zendo Project - a volunteer-operated psychedelic harm reduction program that helps to transform difficult psychedelic experiences into opportunities for learning and growth. She is also a lecturer and consultant for health systems on issues of physician resiliency, physician mental health, and psychedelic assisted therapy.
Rosenblatt Award Nominations
Each year the Academy presents a community service award to a member of the King County Academy of Family Physicians that best exemplifies service to the community over and above their normal duties as a family physician. In 2015, the award was named after the late Roger A. Rosenblatt, Professor and Vice-Chair of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a truly outstanding family physician and community member. For a list of past award members see here.
2024 House of Delegates
The 2024 House of Delegates meeting will take place at the Wenatchee Convention Center on Friday, April 26, 2024. As of January 1, 2024, the King County Chapter of WAFP had 1,097 members. In accordance with Chapter X, Section 4 of the WAFP Bylaws, our chapter may elect/recruit 24 delegates. For each authorized delegate, an alternate may be elected or appointed.
Join the KCAFP Board
The KCAFP Board of Directors is seeking people for our 2024-2025 board who will serve in Member at Large positions. Board members are expected to attend monthly board meetings, get involved in discussions around member education, community projects, attend KCAFP member events, and help decide where to allocate Mission Grant funds. Specifically the Member at Large positions work with executive, resident, and medical student board members to help steer the association's programs, grants, and overall direction as they relate to our mission/strategic plan and also bring practice perspective. The commitment is June-June. Voting for board members will take place at our Annual Meeting.
COVID-19 in Washington StateThe CDC guidance is constantly changing around COVID-19 as we see new variants appear around the world. Below are links to resources available in our community:
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