IFM Community Medicine’s Campbell Receives Missouri Physicians’ Distinguished Service Award

The Missouri Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) presented David Campbell, M.D., FAAFP, and president and CEO of IFM Community Medicine in St. Louis, with the 2024 Distinguished Service Award during the Academy’s 76th Annual Meeting Nov. 8, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. A committee of family physicians selected Campbell from nominations made by patients, community members, and fellow physicians.  

The Distinguished Service Award recognizes members, nonmembers, and entities for long-time dedication to advancing, contributing, and supporting the MAFP and the specialty of family medicine.  

Campbell has been a family physician for the past 45 years and has served the profession in a variety of settings, including academics, the military, and as a resident director, a medical director, and a practicing physician.  

He graduated medical school from Saint Louis University, and did his residency at the Naval Aerospace and Regional Medical Center in Pensacola, Fla. Campbell has been a member of the Missouri Academy of Family Physicians for 45 years. He also has served as board chair, president, district director, and delegate/alternate delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates.  

Campbell founded IFM in 1999 to strengthen underserved communities, one patient at a time, and to promote community health, and still practices medicine at IFM. The nonprofit currently serves more than 5,000 patients in partnership with 25 other nonprofit organizations in greater St. Louis.

He resides in St. Louis with his wife, Veronica. They have three children and six grandchildren.