The Coastal Research Group

The Coastal Research Group has sought to honor major intellectual leaders in the Family and Community Medicine movements.  Typically, each of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access has one of three named lectures associated with the conference.  One honors G. Gayle Stephens, MD, one honors the late Charles E. Odegaard, Ph.D. and the third honors J. Jerry Rodos, DO.  The lecturers in each series include many eminent figures in these movements.

The National Conferences have established named lecture series to honor three colleagues who have achieved prominence in their professional careers, and have additionally made significant contributions to the National Conferences.

The G. Gayle Stephens Lectures (established in 1991) center on reforms in the practice of medicine and health care. The previous Stephens Lecturers have been Doctors Alfred O. Berg of the University of Washington; F. Marian Bishop of the University of Utah; Lynn Carmichael of the University of Miami; Patrick T. Dowling of the University of California, Los Angeles; John Geyman of the University of Washington; Ronald Goldschmidt of the University of California, San Francisco; Larry Green of the American Academy of Family Physicians; Cornelius Hopper, Vice President Emeritus for Health Affairs for the University of California Systemwide; Norman B. Kahn, Jr., Vice President, American Academy of Family Physicians; Samuel C. Matheny of the University of Kentucky; John E. Midtling of the University of Tennessee Memphis; Charles E. Odegaard of the University of Washington; Perry A. Pugno, MD, of the American Academy of Family Physicians; David Satcher, United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General; Joseph E. Scherger of University of California San Diego; G. Gayle Stephens of the University of Alabama, Birmingham; and Paul R. Young of the American Board of Family Medicine.

The Charles E. Odegaard Lectures (established in 1994) center on reforms in academic medical centers. The previous Odegaard Lecturers have been Doctors Gerald Clancy, President, Oklahoma University, Tulsa campus; Mark E. Clasen of Wright State University; Richard Clover of the University of Louisville; Hector Flores of the White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles; John Geyman, of the University of Washington; Cornelius Hopper, Vice President for Health Affairs, University of California Systemwide; Norman B. Kahn of the American Academy of Family Physicians; Peter V. Lee of the University of Southern California; David Marsland of the Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia; Patricia Matthews-Juarez of Meharry Medical School; Daniel Ostegaard of the American Association of Family Physicians; Perry A. Pugno of the American Academy of Family Physicians; J. Jerry Rodos of Midwestern University; and Emery Wilson of the University of Kentucky.

The J. Jerry Rodos Lectures (established in 1995) center on the subjects of community-based medical education and practice and the amelioration of health care disparities. The previous Rodos Lecturers have been Doctors Thomas W. Allen of the Oklahoma State University-College of Osteopathic Medicine and Marc E. Babitz of the University of Utah; Bruce Behringer of East Tennessee State University; and Doctors Richard Clover of the University of Louisville; Gayle Dine’Chacon, University of New Mexico Center for Native American Health, Albuquerque; Roxanne Fahrenwald of Montana Family Medicine; Hector Flores of White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles; Count D. Gibson, Jr. of Stanford University; Gary LeRoy of the West Dayton Community Health Center and Wright State University, Dayton; Sandral Hullett of Cooper Green Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama; Kenneth Moritsugu, Deputy Surgeon General, Bethesda, Maryland; and David Sundwall, Director of the Utah Department of Public Health.