Jan D. Zieren, DO, FACOFP dist.
President-elect

Designated Fellow: 1993

Certified: 1988

Residency:  Phoenix General Hospital

DO School: Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. 

Jan D. Zieren, DO, FACOFP dist. was elected as president-elect of the ACOFP for 2008-2009 and will assume the presidency in March 2009 during the ACOFP Annual Convention & Exhibition in Washington, DC.

Dr. Zieren, a board certified family practitioner who was named a Fellow of ACOFP in 1993, has extensive experience in medical leadership, regulation and policy development.

Her accomplishments can be summed up with the following two words – committed leadership.  A current board member of the Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association, Dr. Zieren is a former member of the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners, the state agency that regulates osteopathic physicians.  She also is serving as the Secretary-Treasurer for the Arizona Society of the American College of Family Physicians and as a state delegate to the American Osteopathic Association. 

Dr. Zieren teaches for both colleges of osteopathic medicine, which have educational programs in the Phoenix area.  She is an adjunct assistant professor for the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and an adjunct assistant professor for Midwestern College of Osteopathic Medicine.  She usually has at least one medical student shadowing her as part of his or her medical training.

Before Phoenix General Hospital became part of the John C. Lincoln Health Network, Dr. Zieren served as its chief of staff and as chair of a wide variety of medical staff committees.  She currently serves as chair of the Family Practice Committee of the medical staff at John C. Lincoln Hospital – North Mountain and has been an aviation medical examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration.  Dr. Zieren is physician advisor to Nightingale Nurses Home Health.