Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access: Program of Plenary Sessions
Last Updated on April 16, 2022 by Lee Burnett, DO, FAAFP
Conference theme: “American Health Care System: An Imminent Metamorphosis?”
Monday, April 6, 2009
6:30 AM – 8:00 AM Working breakfasts in preassigned groups (conference registrants only) Cypress Room – First Floor of Conference Building
8:10 A.M. – 12:00 PM Plenary session, Windjammer 1 and 2 (first floor)
(Mark E. Clasen, MD, PhD, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Moderator)
Welcome and Opening Statements:
Ana Bejinez-Eastman, MD, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Whittier, California
8: 20 AM Thought Provocateur #1 “What is to be Done: Designing American Health Care System to Promote the Common Good”
Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH, University of California, San Diego
8:45 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from J. Jerry Rodos, DO, DSc, Midwestern University, Matteson, Illinois
9:00 AM The Fifteenth J. Jerry Rodos Lecture: “The Obama Health Plan Debate: Its Historical and Mythological Context”
Introduction: J. Jerry Rodos, DO, DSc
Lecturer: Jonathan B. Weisbuch, MD, MPH, Phoenix, Arizona
9:25 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from Hector Flores, MD, White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles
9:35 AM “State of Public Health in the United States: Some Observations”
Richard Clover, MD, University of Louisvlle (Kentucky)
9:55 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from Charles Q. North, MD, Indian Health Service (Albuquerque), retired
10:05 A.M. Break
10:15 AM Access and Affordability in Cancer Care: Canary in the Coal Mine?
John P. Geyman, MD, University of Washington Seattle, Professor Emeritus
10:40 AM Questions and Responses from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from Marc E. Babitz, MD, Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City
Adventures in the History of Ideas, Part I
10:50 AM “Health Care: Right or Risk Pool?: Issues Raised When the Insurance Industry is Expected to Manage Health Care Reimbursement”
Mark E. Clasen, MD, PhD
11:15 AM Questions and Comments from Plenary Audience
Lead Question from John P. Geyman, MD
11:25 AM Revisiting Named Lecture Themes from the Early and Mid-1990s: Evidence-Based Medicine, Managed Care, Cultural Competence, Integration of Behavioral Sciences into Clinical Medicine
Alfred O. Berg, MD, MPH, University of Washington, Seattle; Mark E. Clasen, MD, PhD, J. Jerry Rodos, DO, DSc, and Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH
12:00 PM Adjournment of First Conference Day
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
6:30 A.M. – 8:00 AM Working breakfasts in preassigned groups (conference registrants only) Cypress Room – First Floor of Conference Building
8:10 AM – 12:00 PM Plenary session (Joshua Freeman, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Moderator)
Adventures in the History of Ideas, Part II
8:15 AM “The Majesty of History and Its Lessons for Health Care Reform: an overview of the Glass-Steagall Act, The Social Security Act (FICA) and the Role of Congress”
J. Jerry Rodos, DO, Sc
8:45 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from William H. Burnett, MA, Coastal Research Group, Granite Bay, California
8:55 AM The Eighteenth G. Gayle Stephens Lecture: “Old Wine in New Bottles – Family Medicine rediscovered in the 21st Century ”
Introduction: Jack Colwill, MD, University of Missouri, Columbia
Lecturer: David N. Sundwall, MD, Utah Department o f Health, Salt Lake City
9:20 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from Richard Clover, MD
9:30 AM Thought Provocateur #2: “Should American Health Care Become a Regulated Utility”
Marc E. Babitz, MD
9:50 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from Virginia Fowkes, FNP, MHS, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
10:00 AM Break
10:10 Innovative Community Initiatives: Translating Clinical Diabetes Trials into Church-Based Interventions
John Boltri, MD, Mercer University Macon, Georgia; Judith Fifield, PhD, RN, University of Connecticut, Farmington
10:35 AM Thought Provocateur #3 “The Family Medicine Residency Program as a Community Change Agent”
Rick Flinders, MD, Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency, Santa Rosa, California
10:55 AM Mission Oriented Residency Programs: A Discussion
Hector Flores, MD; Margaret McCahill, MD, UCSD St Vincent Psychiatry/FM Residency, San Diego
11:15 AM Family Medicine Education in the Stanford-South Bay Region: The Fight for Survival
Virginia Fowkes, FNP, MHS; Robert M. Norman, MD, O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency, San Jose
11:35 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from Cynthia Olsen, MD
11:45 AM Thought Provocateur #4 “The Family Medicine Residency as a Medical Home”
Terrell W. Zollinger, DrPH, MSPH, Bowen Research Center, Indian University, Indianapolis
12:00 PM Adjournment of Second Day
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
6:30 AM – 8:00 AM Working breakfasts in preassigned groups (conference registrants only) Cypress Room – First Floor of Conference Building
8:15 AM “Primary Care Shortages for Care of Adults: Are They Solvable?”
Jack Colwill, MD
8:35 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from David Sundwall, MD, MPH
8:45 AM The Sixteenth Charles E. Odegaard Lecture: “The Role of the Academic Medical Center in the Health of Rural Americans: A Conversation and Dialogue”
Introduction: Mark E. Clasen, MD, PhD
Lecturer: Sim S. Galazka, MD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
9:10 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from Allan Wilke, MD, MA, University of Alabama, Huntsville
9:20 AM Context and Commitment: Internet Strategies for Diffusing Information
Lee A. Burnett, DO, Student Doctor Network, Sunset Beach, California; Robert G. Ross, MD, MScEd, Cascades East Family Medicine, Klamath Falls, Oregon; and William H. Burnett , MA
9:45 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from Gary LeRoy, MD
9:55 A.M Thought Provocateur #5: “Should Educational Health Centers Legislatively Meld Health Center Service and Family Medicine Training for Mutual Survival?”
Kevin F. Murray, MD, University of Washington Family Medicine Residency, Olympia
10:15 A.M Residency Program Survival: A Discussion
Peter Broderick, MD, MEd, Stanislaus Medical Center, Modesto, California; Kevin M. Haughton, MD, University of Washington Family Medicine Residency, Olympia, and Kevin F. Murray, MD
10:40 AM Questions and Comments from the Plenary Audience
Lead Question from Mark E. Clasen, MD, Ph.D.
10:50 AM Thought Provocateur #6: “Nation Needs Clear Policy on Basic Right to Health Care”
Joshua Freeman, MD
11:10 AM Right to Health Care: Reactor Panel
Donald R. Frey, MD, Creighton University, Omaha, David McClellan, MD, Texas A&M Family Medicine, Bryan; Allan J. Wilke, MD, MA
11:35 AM Summary of Conference Themes and Final Audience Remarks
James E. Herman, MD, MSPH, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey
12:00 PM Conference Adjournment