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