[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 13]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 18365]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING DR. JAMES KING

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                         HON. MARSHA BLACKBURN

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 10, 2007

  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, it is a privilege to rise today to 
honor James King, M.D., a family physician in Selmer, Tennessee and 
president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). 
King was elected to the position by the Congress of Delegates; the 
AAFP's governing body, in October 2006, where he previously served 3 
years as a member of the AAFP board of directors.
  Dr. King received his bachelor's degree from the University of 
Tennessee, Martin, and earned his medical degree at the University of 
Tennessee Center of Health Sciences, Memphis, in 1982. He completed his 
residency at the University of Tennessee Family Medicine Residency, 
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, in 1985. King is board 
certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is an AAFP 
fellow.
  King is in private practice in the rural community of Selmer and 
serves as assistant clinical professor at the University of Tennessee 
Center for Health Sciences, Memphis. He is also on the medical staff of 
the McNairy Regional Hospital in Selmer and serves as medical director 
of Chester County Healthcare Services.
  Prior to his service with the AAFP, he was an active member of the 
Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians (TAFP). King has served on the 
committees on public relations, finance, and legislation and 
governmental affairs. He also has served on the Long-Range Planning 
Committee, Nominating Committee and Membership Committee. As a member 
of the TAFP board of directors, King has served as vice president, 
president-elect, president and board chair.
  King received the Outstanding Model Office Teaching Award from the 
University of Tennessee Family Medicine Residency, Jackson, in 1990 and 
the TAFP's Family Physician of the Year Award in 1997.
  Active in his local community, King has presented the AAFP's Tar Wars 
tobacco-free education program to area fourth- and fifth-graders on 
behalf of the TAFP since 2000. He has also had many State and regional 
appointments, including serving as the chair of the McNairy County 
Board of Health, a member of the TennCare Steering Committee of the 
Tennessee Department of Health, a member and then chair of the Primary 
Health Care Liaison Committee, State of Tennessee.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in thanking Dr. James 
King for his extraordinary contributions to medicine and for the 
profoundly positive impact he has on our community.

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