West Virginia Academy of Family Physicians

11/09/2025

11/07/2025

West Virginia’s rural health leaders are creating change that lasts. We’re proud to recognize Matthew A. Davis, DO, MBA, CPE, FACHE, FAAFP, FACOFP, as part of this year’s Rural Health Leaders Month celebration with the WV Office of Rural Health and the West Virginia Rural Health Association.

Dr. Davis has demonstrated exceptional leadership in strengthening the systems that sustain rural health care across West Virginia. As President and CEO of the West Virginia Academy of Family Physicians and the West Virginia Chapter of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, while also serving full-time in WVU Medicine Emergency Departments statewide, he has modernized governance, safeguarded financial resources, and advanced advocacy to ensure rural physicians and patients continue to have access to vital care and support. He is deeply committed to developing the next generation of rural health leaders by mentoring medical students and residents to serve Appalachian communities. Through his tireless advocacy, mentorship, and service, Dr. Davis exemplifies what it means to lead with purpose, advancing both patient care and the overall vitality of rural West Virginia communities.

His work demonstrates how strong leadership can transform not only health systems but also the communities they serve.

11/03/2025

November is National Rural Health Leaders Month, and we’re proud to join the WV Office of Rural Health and the West Virginia Rural Health Association in recognizing the individuals who are improving access to care across West Virginia.

Today, we’re celebrating Joanna Bailey, MD, FAAFP. Dr. Bailey is a board-certified family physician with Tug River Health Association, where she serves the rural communities of Wyoming and McDowell counties. A respected healthcare provider and leader in rural medicine, she works to improve access to care and address the unique challenges faced by rural communities. In addition to practicing as a family medicine physician, she contributes through the West Virginia Alliance for Creative Health Solutions on research exploring how transportation barriers and water quality impact beverage choices and metabolic health. She also collaborates with the West Virginia Primary Care Association to develop programs that support uninsured and underinsured patients. Dr. Bailey serves on the advisory committee for the Logan Healthcare Foundation, reviewing grants and directing investments to the areas of rural healthcare that need them most. Her dedication and leadership continue to strengthen the health and well-being of the communities she serves.

Her leadership reflects what rural health is all about — meeting communities where they are and working together to create a healthier future for all West Virginians.

11/01/2025

Upcoming Conference
Family Medicine Foundation of WV
https://www.fmfwv.org/events/annual-conference

11/01/2025

APPLY HERE: https://form.jotform.com/252990889369178

Deadline November 5, 2025

04/26/2025

WVAFP leaders Drs Hendershot, Nichols, Chua, Galapon, Silverberg, Becker with CEO-President Matthew Davis attending AAFP Leadership Conference.

04/23/2025

Family physicians helped Gerry Stover through one of the most difficult times of his life. The retiring West Virginia and Kentucky chapter executive, who will be recognized during the AAFP’s Annual Leadership Conference, has spent decades serving the specialty.

12/19/2024

Our own Kimberly Becher, MD has an article in the Commonwealth Fund's -- click below to read it -

To recruit and retain clinicians in a competitive market, some communities make the case that rural practice can restore what’s been lost in modern medicine.

12/12/2024

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10/03/2024

Was to help ... Hurricane Helene relief efforts!

05/29/2024

For the last 25+ years I have been blessed to work as an advocate for Family Physicians. I took up this 'cross' shortly after my wife Lynn Coiner Stover and I were blessed with having an angle for a short time as a daughter. During this short 6 month of our daughter life which was spent in the hospital we were surrounded by very passionate family physician residents that cared not only for our daughter but for us. Along, this 25+ years Lynn and i have been blessed to have them not as my bosses but as my friends/mentors. Yesterday, I learned that one of those mentors/friends E.C. Seeley, MD from KY son died. For those of you like Lynn and I that know the pain of losing a child - please join me in sending Dr. Seeley a note of condolence. Here is his son's obituary --

View Robert Gordon Seeley's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.