In 2009, the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians (AZAFP) faced a tough decision. According to (then) President-elect Jeffrey Wolfrey, M.D., of Phoenix, the chapter's annual meeting, with its focus on CME for family physicians, was in a fiscal crisis. "We'd had this (member) meeting for decades; the expenses had gotten higher, and we were losing pharmaceutical support," says Wolfrey. "I remember the board meeting where the directors voted to cancel the annual meeting. Everybody hated to see it, but we just felt like it was the fiscally responsible thing to do." After the meeting, Wolfrey, chair of the department of family medicine at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix and a clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, had second thoughts about the vote.
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