While the status of OKPRN isn't necessarily something theat the OCFMR Board must approve, I thought I should keep you posted on developments. I have had initial meetings with the Board of Directors of the Family Health Foundation, the 501c3 organization affiliated with the Oklahoma Academy of Family Physicians. They seem excited about the prospect of affiliating with OKPRN or incorporating it within the FHF. They are investigating potential problems with such an arrangement. For OKPRN, such an arrangement might make certain funding opportunities and transaction easier to accomplish and would make it easier for a practitioner to take over the Directorship at some point in the future, assuring that the organization is both practitioner and family medicaine dominant. My thought is that OKPRN would then contract with OCFMR for administrative and research support, and that OCFMR could affiliate with OKPRN through a subcontract for assistance on funded research projects. If you have any thoughts or advice for me as I pursue this further, please let me know. James W. Mold, MD, MPH Director, OK Center for Family Medicine Research 405-630-2564 (pager)