23rd National Conference on Primary Health Care Access: Program of Plenary Sessions (Wednesday, April 18, 2012)
Last Updated on April 16, 2022 by Lee Burnett, DO, FAAFP
Conference Theme: “Realities and Illusions”
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
6:30 AM – 8:00 AM Working breakfast in preassigned groups
Vivace Restaurant – Lobby Level (conference registrants only)
8:15 AM – 12:00 PM Third Plenary Session
8:15 AM: Opening Statement of Third Plenary Session by Session Moderator: Ana Bejinez-Eastman, MD, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Whittier, California
8:20 AM: Plenary Panel: “Providing Primary Care in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster: Examples from New Orleans and Haiti”
Mary T. Coleman, MD, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, New Orleans
N Benjamin Fredrick, MD, Pennsylvania State/Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
8:45 AM: Audience Questions and Comments:
Lead Question: Perry A. Pugno, MD, MPH, CPE, American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kansas
8:50 AM: The Primary Care Physician Pipeline, Part IV: “Evolution of the Teaching Health Center Concept (Special Presentation)”
Darryl Leong, MD, Care 1st Health Plan, Monterey Park, California
9:10 AM: Audience Questions and Comments:
Lead Question: Peter Broderick, MD, MEd, Valley Family Medicine, Modesto, California
9:15 AM: The Eighteenth J. Jerry Rodos Lecture
Robert G. Ross, MD, MScEd, Oregon Health Sciences University, Klamath Falls
9:45 AM: Audience Questions and Comments:
Lead Question: Asma Jafri, MD, San Joaquin General Hospital, Stockton, California
9:55 AM: Issues in Medicaid, Medical Education and Primary Health Care Access: “The Funding of Graduate Medical Education in a PPACA-Constrained Federal Budget”
Tim Henderson, MPH, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
10:15 AM: Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: Don McCanne, MD, Physicians for a National Health Program, San Juan Capistrano, California
10:20 AM The Primary Care Physician Pipeline, Part V: (Roundtable Discussion) “Locating Sites of Training to Influence the Geographic Distribution of Physicians: Does the Strategy Work?”
Daniel M. Webster, MD, Michigan State University, Traverse City
John Testerman, MD, PhD, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California
10:45 AM: Audience Questions and Comments:
Lead Question: Mitch Kasovac, DO, A. T. Still University, Mesa, Arizona
10:50 AM: “The Heritage of the General Hospital: The Changing Role of Family Medicine in a “Provider of Last Resort”
Asma Jafri, MD; San Joaquin General Hospital, Stockton, California
Ramiro Zuniga, MD, San Joaquin General Hospital, Stockton, California
Rick Flinders, MD, Santa Rosa Family Medicine, Santa Rosa, California
11:15 AM: Audience Questions and Comments:
Lead Question: Hector Flores, MD, White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles
11:25 AM: Primary Health Care Access in the Current Environment: A discussion of ideas raised at the conference
Marc E. Babitz, MD, Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City
David F. Squire, MPA, Utah Medical Education Council, Salt Lake City
Jay W. Lee, MD, Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, California
11:45 AM: Summary of Conference Themes
Kevin Haughton, MD, Providence Health Systems, Olympia, Washington
12:00 PM Adjournment of Conference