Charles E. Henley, DO, began his association with the Coastal Research Group as the Department Chair in Family Medicine at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa. After seven years he went to the crosstown University of Oklahoma (Tulsa campus) as Professor in an Endowed Chair for Research and as Vice Chair of the Department of Family [...]
Continue reading...18. April 2011
The National Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education provides the academic home for the collaborative research projects of the Coastal Research Group and plans the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access and associated activities. On April 18, 2011, at the 22nd National Conference on Primary Health Care Access in San Francisco, four new Senior Fellows [...]
Continue reading...23. December 2010
Michael Prislin, MD, Associate Dean, Student Affairs at the University of California Irvine will present the 17th J. Jerry Rodos Lecture to the 22nd National Conference on Primary Health Care Access. His lecture will examine national and institutional policies that affect the composition of classes admitted into American medical schools. Presentation Summary: While reimbursement reform [...]
Continue reading...12. December 2010
The Department of Family Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine have become nationally recognized for the community-based diabetes prevention program lead by the team of Drs. John Boltri, Judith Fifield, Monique Davis-Smith and Paul Seale. This $3.1 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded project is [...]
Continue reading...12. September 2010
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) is assigned the function of appointing the members of several key committees with responsibility for advising Congress on the federal health reform legislation passed in 2010. The GAO also appoints members to certain other advisory bodies that were in place before the 2010 legislation was enacted. Last year, the Children’s [...]
Continue reading...10. September 2010
Marc Babitz, MD, a senior fellow of the Coastal Research Group, has been appointed to a 24-member federal committee that will review and update the criteria used to define health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) and medically underserved areas (MUAs). The two types of federal designation, created respectively by the 1970 federal legislation that established the National [...]
Continue reading...29. July 2010
In this new feature, of the Coastal Research Group website, we will highlight some of the important activities, in which the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group and the National Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education are engaged. Last month, Bruce A. Behringer, a Coastal Research Group fellow, testified before the United States [...]
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5. December 2011
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