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From its inception, it was decided that the Center's activity would be a blend of research to support the Academy's policy development and advocacy efforts and Center-initiated studies. The proposal stated that the Center would have a "degree of intellectual autonomy and independence" comparable to that of the Editor and Editorial Advisory Committee of the American Family Physician. The Center was to be purposefully located in Washington, DC, in close proximity to the Academy's Washington Office to facilitate interaction of staff. In the summer of 1999, Larry Green, MD was hired as the founding Director, who with Lisa Klein, the Center's administrative assistant, and Ed Fryer, PhD, its first analyst, comprised its initial staff. They were joined later that year by a second analyst, Susan Dovey, PhD, MPH from Dunedin, New Zealand. The Center was organized around 3 initial themes the functional domain (scope of practice), primary care infrastructures, and universal health coverage. Within just 2 months of its inception, it began its commitment to training a new generation of physician-researchers by launching an internship program. Drs. Green and Fryer published a declarative description of the Center, "The Development and Goals of the AAFP Center for Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care", in the Journal of Family Practice in 1999, and the first research products were published in HealthCare Paper in December of that same year...

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