22nd National Conference on Primary Health Care Access: First Conference Day Agenda – Monday, April 18, 2011

Last Updated on April 16, 2022 by Lee Burnett, DO, FAAFP

Monday, April 18, 2011

6:30 AM – 8:00 AM Working Breakfasts in Preassigned Groups

8:10 AM – 12:00 PM First Plenary Session

8:10 AM Welcome

Rick Flinders, MD, Sutter Santa Rosa

8:15 AM Opening Statement of First Plenary Session by Session Moderator

Mark Clasen, MD, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

8:20 AM First Plenary Panel: How Will it Work?: The Path to Implementation (or Deconstruction) of PPACA

Rick Clover, MD, University of Louisville, Kentucky

David Sundwall, MD, MPH, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

9:00 AM: Audience Questions and Comments (Lead Question: Dr North)

9:10 AM: Thought Provocateur #1: “What Will Not Work: the Fundamental Errors in PPACA”

John Geyman, MD, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle

9:35 AM: Audience Questions and Comments (Lead Question: Dr Sundwall)

9:40 AM Thought Provocateur #2 “A Modest Proposal: Repeal PPACA AND Medicaid, but Expand Medicare”

Jonathan Weisbuch, MD, Maricopa County/Phoenix Health Officer Retired

10:05 AM: Audience Questions and Comments (Lead Question: Dr McCanne)

10:10 AM Break

10:20 AM Thought Provocateur #3: “Beyond Insurance-Delivery Models for the Underserved”

John Zweifler, MD, Fresno, California

10:35 AM Audience Questions and Responses to Mr Zweifler’s Presentation (Lead Question: Dr Babitz)

10:40 AM The Twenty-First G. Gayle Stephens Lecture

Joshua Freeman, MD, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas

11:10 AM Audience Questions and Comments (Lead Question: Dr Frey)

11:20 AM Plenary Presentations: Issues in Primary Health Care Access

11:20 (Part One): Community-Oriented Primary Care: Update on Mercer University’s Diabetes Project

John Boltri, MD, Mercer University, Macon Georgia

11:35 AM Audience Questions and Responses to Dr Boltri’s Presentation (Lead Question: Dr Zweifler)

11:40 (Part Two): The Funding of Primary Care Medical Education: The State Medicaid Share and GME Dollars

Tim Henderson, MPH, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

11:55 AM Audience Questions and Responses to Mr Henderson’s Presentation (Lead Question: Dr Pugno)

12:00 Adjournment of the First Day’s Plenary Session