<p> ALEJANDRO APARICIO, M.D., F.A.C.P.</p><p>Dr. Aparicio has been the Director of the Division of Continuing Physician Professional Development at the American Medical Association since 2004. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is past President of the Illinois Geriatrics Society, the Illinois Medical Directors Association and the Illinois Alliance for CME (IACME). For approximately 20 years he practiced medicine on the north side of Chicago and was affiliated with Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center and Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (AIMMC), where he was the Director of Medical Education, Designated Institutional Official, and Associate Medical Director. He has received the CME Accreditation Service Award from the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS), the Distinguished Member Award, the President’s Award (twice), and the designation of Fellow from the Alliance for CME, the Distinguished Service Award from IACME and was appointed to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging Policy Committee and co-chaired its Health Care Subcommittee. His involvement in CME has included, among others, chairing the AIMMC CME committee and the Advocate Health Care system wide CME committee, serving on the Chicago Medical Society and the American Medical Directors Association CME Committees, and serving as chair of the ISMS Committee on CME Accreditation. He continues to serve as a CME surveyor for the state of Illinois. </p><p>He is a current member of the Conjoint Committee on CME, a member of the Rome Group, the EU-North America Committee on CME, and chairs the National Task Force on CME Providers/Industry Collaboration. In addition, he serves on the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine’s (UIC COM) Chicago campus Committee on CME, the College wide Committee on CME and co-chairs the M3/M4 curriculum subcommittee. He has appointments as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medical Education at UIC COM. He also works as a volunteer physician at CommunityHealth, a clinic which provides free health care to uninsured patients in the Chicago area. </p>