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John L. Pfenninger, M.D.
Dr. Pfenninger graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed a residency in Family Practice at the University of Utah affiliated hospitals. He is Board Certified in Family Practice and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Pfenninger's current positions, include: President and Director, The National Procedures Institute, which conducts over eighty national continuing medical education courses on office surgery and procedural skills each year. Director, The Medical Procedures Centers, PC, private practice limited to office surgery and procedures, Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw, Michigan. -Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Michigan State College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Pfenninger is a medical reviewer for four family practice journals and has published extensively on various office procedural skills. He has edited an 1100 page text (Procedures for Primary Care Physicians), which reviews 144 different procedures for primary care physicians. This text was published by Mosby Yearbook in September 1994 and has become a best seller. It has been ranked as one of the 37 all-time best medical texts ever. His comments and opinions have been solicited by numerous journals for editorial publication. Recently the British Medical Journal requested and published his work. Dr. Pfenninger also writes a weekly medical column in the Midland Daily News. Dr. Pfenninger received the 1992 "Walter J. Kemp Award" for best scientific paper published in the American Family Physician, the 1988 "Robert E. Bowsher Best Clinical Teacher Award" at the MidMichigan Regional Medical Center, and the 1982 "Best Family Physician Research Paper by Family Practice Faculty", Michigan State University. In 1993 he received the "Colposcopy Recognition Award" from the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, one of few physicians in the United States to qualify. He has appeared on national Lifetime TV, and has recorded numerous patient education videotapes. Although he maintains a busy private practice, he remains active in family practice education. He has presented in Singapore and to plastic surgeons in Taiwan. He has been invited to speak in Russia and at the annual family physician assembly in Spain. He has been invited to. speak at the WONCA meeting in South Africa in 2001 and he has been a regular speaker at the annual American Academy of Family Physicians Convention for the last 18 years. Dr. Pfenninger serves as consultant to numerous companies and readily shares his concerns with local, state, and federal elected representatives! Phone: 1-800-462-2492 For more information: 4909 Hedgewood Drive
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