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John L. Bender, M.D., FAAFP is a board-certified family medicine physician, a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the senior partner and Chief Executive Officer at Miramont Family Medicine based in Fort Collins Colorado. In 2009 and 2013, Miramont received NCQA level III recognition for its Patient-Centered Medical Home model and in 2010 won the national HiMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence for outstanding achievement in the implementation and value from health information technology. In 2011, The Colorado Academy of Family Physicians Foundation named Miramont the Patient-Centered Medical Home of the Year. The Colorado Academy of Family Physicians named Dr. Bender Family Physician of the Year in 2014. Dr. Bender serves on the Board of the American Academy of Family Physicians, as past President of the Colorado Medical Society, past President and past Chair of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians, and is a past President of the Northern Colorado Individual Practice Association (IPA). From 2006-2007 he served as the Alternate Delegate for the American Medical Association’s Young Physician Section representing family physicians at the national level. Several of his resolutions are now national policy for both the AMA and AAFP. He regularly serves as Doctor of the Day at the Colorado state capitol, testifies on bills every session, and has worked on various pieces of legislation that are now law in his home state dealing with telehealth, immunization registries and the corporate practice of medicine. Dr. Bender is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine with a preceptor appointment to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and a preceptor to Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine.