The St. Louis Academy of Family Physicians (SLAFP) has 500+ members that are board certified family physicians, family medicine residents, and medical students who practice, live, or study in the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County, or St. Charles County.
Board of Directors
SLAFP is led by a team of qualified family medicine professionals across several healthcare systems, including private and self practice.
Greater St. Louis Community Health Award
Since 1994, this award recognizes a family physician, family medicine resident, or medical student (planning to enter family medicine) for substantial contributions to the health of our St. Louis community through personal efforts in health education, public health, or providing services to those in need.
The mission of SLAFP is to promote excellence in health care in the St. Louis community as well as unity and cooperative efforts among the family physicians in the St. Louis community through:
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The promotion of Family Practice to medical students, other specialists, and the general public in the St. Louis Metropolitan area;
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The promotion of improved health in the St. Louis community;
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The promotion of professional development for its members;
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The encouragement of its members to participate int he education of medical students and residents in the field of family medicine, and
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The promotion of both awareness of issues affecting the medical practices of its members and the cooperative efforts addressing those issues.
Our Mission
Advocacy
Officers, board members, and regular members meet with their respective state legislators to talk health issues, share practice and financial concerns, or matters impacting the education, training, and practice of fmaily medicine as part of MAFP Advocacy Day in February. Physician, resident, and student members' meetings are arranged by MAFP staff. A Monday evening legislative review session is held the evening before.
Physician members have provided testimony and written letters to governmental bodies about local and state health issues such as the passage of smoking bans. Our group, collectively and individually, communicated its desire for a Family Medicine Department at St. Mary's Health Center and subsequently, the creation of a new residency program.
