Diane Beebe
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. Diane K. Beebe, professor and chair of family medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has been elected chair-elect of the American Board of Family Medicine.
The ABFM is the second largest of the 24 medical specialty boards in the United States.
Beebe, chair of the Department of Family Medicine since 2007, said it was an honor to be selected by her peers. As part of the board’s executive leadership, she will have an opportunity to work with leaders of other specialty boards, other family medicine organizations and with entities, such as the Institutes of Medicine, to further quality and education in medicine. “The next couple of years hold both challenges and exciting opportunities for family medicine and for the practice of medicine in general in our country, so it is an important time to be involved,” she said. “The board’s primary mission is to promote excellence in medical care through certification of diplomates; however, I have learned in my tenure that the board does so much more to promote excellence in clinical training and scientific initiatives worldwide.”
Beebe is past chair of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine, was a member of the Future of Family Medicine Task Force on Education and served on the Academic Council for the National Institute for Program Directors Fellowship.
She has served on the ABFM board of directors since 2009. She serves as chair of the Communications Committee, and member of the Credentials, Maintenance of Certification and Bylaws committees, representative to the American Board of Medical Specialties and as an ABFM board member to the Annals of Family Medicine.
Beebe serves on the boards of the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians and the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program and is a member of the Medical Assurance Company of Mississippi’s Risk Management Committee. She recently assumed the role of interim director of the Mississippi Office of Physician Workforce, on which she is a member of the advisory board.