April 2007, Medical Marketing and Media Magazine

'AAFP Director Leaves for QI Spin-Off'

Nancy Davis, PHD, has left her position as CME Director of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to become founding Executive Director of the National Institute for Quality Improvement in Education (NIQIE), a spin-off of CE City.

NIQIE aims to close the CME-QI gap. Her replacememt, Mindi McKenna, PhD, MBA, had been an assistant professor at Ropckhurst University.

Davis, who was CME Director since 2002, cited the academy's leadership in seeing the "Value and need for integrating quality and education," an issue that has grown in importance sine ACCME released updated accreditation criteria. Leaving the academy, she said, was an acknowledgement that "It's really bigger than family medicine."

While McKenna, who Davis recruited, has never produced CME, Davis doesn't see that as an obstacle: "They've got plenty of good people who can do that."