East Carolina University Chancellor Steve Ballard and Brody School of Medicine Family Medicine Department Chair Dr. Ken Steinweg hosted a "Topping Out Ceremony" for the new ECU Family Medicine Center and Frances J. and Robert T. Monk, Sr., Geriatric Center. The new facility is expected to open later this year and is located on the ECU Health Sciences Campus at the intersection of Arlington and Heart Boulevards near Pitt County Memorial Hospital. NCAFP Vice President Brian Forrest, MD, and Executive Vice President Greg Griggs, MPA, CAE, represented the Academy at the event. Former NCAFP Presidents Dr. Jim Jones (1972, who was the first chair of the Department of Family Medicine at ECU) and Dr. Christopher Bremer (1990) also attended the event, along with State AHEC Director Tom Bacon, DrPH, Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs Phyllis Horns, DSN, MPH, members of the NC General Assembly (Rep. Marian McLawhorn, Rep. Edith Warren, and Sen. Don Davis), and members of the faculty and staff of the Department.

Pictures of the event are available on the Academy's website at www.ncafp.com