Birnbaum, Thorson elected to Health District board

Voters have elected Fort Collins physicians Bernard J. Birnbaum and Steven J. Thorson to the Health District board of directors. Both positions have four-year terms.

A total of 811 people voted in the election, with 1,468 votes cast. Preliminary results are:

	Number of votes	Percentage of vote
Steven J. Thorson	469	32
Bernard J. Birnbaum	345	23
John J. Hanck	295	20
Elizabeth A. Kelly	127	9
Steven Main	117	8
Steven Fisher	115	8

Thorson, 61, is a family physician with the Family Clinic in Fort Collins. He has been a practicing physician in Fort Collins since 1974. Thorson has been a director and/or officer on the boards of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians, Colorado Medical Society, Larimer Medical Society and COPIC Insurance Company. He served as founding Chief of Family Medicine at Poudre Valley Hospital and has been a member of the hospital’s Executive Committee of the Medical Staff. He is married and has two grown children. He lives in Fort Collins.

Birnbaum, 35, is a family physician and faculty member at the Family Medicine Center in Fort Collins, which provides general medical care as well as training for family practice resident physicians. He previously worked for the Indian Health Service in Arizona and has an interest in adolescent and mental health. He is married with two children and lives in Fort Collins.

The new board members will be sworn in later this month.

The Health District is governed by a five-member board. Members serve staggered, four-year terms and are elected at-large from the community. Elections are held every two years in even-numbered years.

The Health District provides dental, prescription assistance, mental health and preventive health services to residents of northern Larimer County.

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