Clare MD, MSC, FAAFP

Dr. Hawkins practices family medicine at a federally qualified health center in Houston, Texas and works in outpatient Palliative Care. He has been teaching for 29 years. He serves on the AAFP Commission on the Health of the Public and Science and the subcommittee on Clinical Practice Guidelines His topics of specialty include patient-physician relationships and patient-centered communication; physician work-life balance; pulmonary conditions; palliative care; health care reform; and sexually transmitted infections. Dr. Hawkins believes the greatest challenge facing family physicians is communicating the value of family medicine to the public, legislators, and colleagues in other specialties.