Anna Doubeni, an associate professor of clinical family medicine in family medicine and community health at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was named Family Physician of the Year by the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP). Doubeni shares the honor with Mary Fabian, of St. Luke’s University Health Network, as PAFP’s 2017 co-Family Physicians of the Year.

Dr. Doubeni, who also serves as the director of population health management for the department of family medicine and community health, was chosen for her demonstrated commitment to high quality patient care and community engagement, her service as a role model to patients and colleagues and her devotion to making the world a better place as a family physician.

Dr. Doubeni is board certified in both family medicine and general preventive medicine, and her work focuses on addressing the needs of medically and socially disadvantaged patients, as well as tackling access to care and global health issues. Before coming to Penn, she was the associate program director of the preventive medicine residency program at the University of Massachusetts and the coordinator of global health in the UMass department of family medicine and community health.

She is the lead physician for the Penn Family Care home visit program and led the Penn Family Care superutilizer working group’s development of the Priority Access Program, a concierge care service for patients who make frequent visits to the emergency room and are readmitted.