Mark Robinson, MD Named to Board

CONCORD, N.C., July 8, 2004 - Mark Robinson, MD, a family physician in Concord, NC, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD). The AFMRD represents more than 470 program directors nationwide and serves to represent family medicine program directors on the national level. AFMRD is an organization dedicated to developing the art and science of residency education in order to improve the education of family physicians across the United States. Robinson was elected to a two-year term in June 2004 by the AFMRD’s membership.

As an AFMRD board member, Robinson will attend quarterly board meetings and participate in projects related to family medicine residency training. He will serve as the AFMRD liaison to the American Academy of Family Physicians Council on Education, focusing on medical school, residency, and continuing medical education of family physicians.

Robinson is in private practice with Cabarrus Family Medicine, P.A. in Concord, N.C. He also serves as the program director for the Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency Program, sponsored by NorthEast Medical Center. Robinson helped begin the family practice residency program at Cabarrus in 1995, and he has served as program director since 2001.

“We are honored to have Dr. Robinson named to the board of directors for this prestigious organization representing family medicine residency programs nationwide,” says L. Allen Dobson, MD, director of graduate medical education at NEMC. “As an AFMRD board member, Dr. Robinson will be involved in discussions and decisions that will have a significant impact on family medicine training programs. His experience will bring much value to the dynamic residency program we have here at NorthEast Medical Center.”

After receiving his bachelor’s degree in classics from Brown University, Robinson earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania on an Army Health Professions scholarship. Robinson completed his residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA, where he served as chief resident, and won the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) teaching award.

Robinson began his career in medicine at Fort Gordon, GA where he was a member of the faculty of the family practice residency program at Eisenhower Army Medical Center. After completing the Faculty Development Fellowship in 1989 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Robinson joined the family practice faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC.

In 2001 Robinson completed the National Institute for Program Directors’ Development (NIPDD), a fellowship designed for family physician educators who want to enhance and develop leadership skills in order to become better prepared as effective directors of residency programs.

Growing up in northeastern Connecticut with a family physician as a father taught Robinson many of the lessons he would need to learn before becoming a family physician himself. Robinson holds the specialty in high regard and looks forward to serving an organization that works to enhance the specialty to which he has dedicated his life.