Ted D Epperly

Ted Epperly, M.D., FAAFP, a family physician in Boise, Idaho, is board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Previously, he served one-year terms as president and president-elect and three years as a member of the AAFP Board of Directors. Ted Epperly, M.D., FAAFP, a family physician in Boise, Idaho, is board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Previously, he served one-year terms as president and president-elect, and three years as a member of the AAFP Board of Directors. Epperly is program director and chief executive officer of the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho, Boise. He also is clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. As AAFP board chair, Epperly advocates on behalf of family physicians and patients nationwide to inspire positive change in the U.S. health care system. A member of the AAFP since 1980, Epperly has advocated in many ways on behalf of family medicine and the patients the specialty serves. He has utilized his academic experience in a variety of roles on the Commission on Education, including being the chairman. He chaired the Program Directors Workshop Planning Committee for the Family Medicine Residency Directors National Workshop for three years. He also has served as AAFP board liaison to the Commission of Practice Enhancement, Commission on Continuing Professional Development and the Commission on Health of the Public and Science. Epperly has held all the elected positions in the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians, including president. He joined the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians when he retired as a colonel from the U.S. Army in 2001 and returned to his home state of Idaho. Epperly earned his bachelor’s degree at Utah State University, Logan, graduating magna cum laude. He earned his medical degree at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and completed his residency at Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, Wash., where he served as chief resident. He completed a family medicine faculty development fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Epperly is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine with a certificate of added qualification in geriatrics. He also has the AAFP Degree of Fellow, an earned degree awarded to family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education. Epperly is a member of the editorial board of the Annals of Family Medicine and the advisory board of Men’s Health magazine. He also is a reviewer for the Annals of Family Medicine and American Family Physician. He was a residency assistance program consultant before becoming a member of the Accreditation Council for the Graduate Medical Education Residency Review Committee for family medicine, which is responsible for the accreditation of the nation’s family medicine residencies, sports medicine and geriatrics fellowships. Epperly serves as a commissioner of the Central District Board of Health for the four-county area surrounding Boise. In addition, he has published more than 45 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters, and given hundreds of lectures nationally and internationally. Epperly has granted more than 500 media interviews to major television, radio and print publications nationwide. He has met and spoken with President Obama on several occasions, including in the Oval Office, and testified before the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions about the centrality and importance of family medicine. Modern Healthcare ranked Epperly as one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2009.