The 24th National Conference's Second Day Program – April 9, 2013
Last Updated on April 16, 2022 by Lee Burnett, DO, FAAFP
For the previous day, see: The 24th National Conference’s First Day Program – April 8, 2013
The 24th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, to be held April 8-11, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt Kaua’i, begins on Monday April 8. The theme of the National Conference isWhat Has Changed.
Conference registration includes four night’s accommodation at the Grand Hyatt Kaua’i, beginning April 7, 2013, the night before the first National Conference session.
[For further information on the National Conference, see: The 24th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access at the Grand Hyatt Kaua’i April 7-11, 2013.]
Each morning will begin with assigned breakfast breakout groups at 6:30 a.m. in the beautiful surroundings of Dondero’s Restaurant, with its magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean.
Each breakout group will be led by a Fellow or Senior Fellow of the National Conferences, and each will have an assigned discussion topic on issues of health care access and health care reform.
Both the topics for discussion and the questions and the notes on each discussion developed by each breakout group’s designated scribe will be posted on this website.
The Second Day’s Plenary Sessions

The second day’s plenary sessions begin with a presentation by Doctors David Sundwall of the University of Utah and Michael Fine, who is the Director of Health for the State of Rhode Island.
Its subject matter, on policy proposals currently being considered for the Medicaid program is discussed at 24th National Conference, 2nd Day: “Medicaid in the Crosshairs?”: Doctors David Sundwall, Michael Fine to Discuss Current, Emerging Issues in the Structure, Financing of Medicaid.
Tuesday morning’s second plenary panel will consist of Doctors Hector Flores of White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, Doctor Perray A. Pugno of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and James Herman of the Penn State University College of Medicine and Penn State/Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
The Reform Theme Overview Panel
Doctors Flores, Pugno and Herman will present the thesis that PPACA, the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act, contains elements that will advance other long-term objectives of health care reformers.
Many such reforms have been advocated by those who have participated in the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access. [See 24th National Conference: the Potential for Primary Healthcare Improvements as a Result of Reform Legislation.]
The Reform Theme Special Presentations

At this point in the National Conference, a series of clustered thematic presentations on long-desired reforms, that will include case studies and the Naitonal Conferences’ signature Thought Provocateur Sessions.
The first of these thematic clusters relates to the long-desired goal of better integrating behavioral health and clinical medicine [24th National Conference Theme Presentations: A Reform Objective – Better Integration of Clinical Medicine and Behavioral Health.]
This will include a reports of an ongoing study of the observable differences between psychiatric patients with a primary care physician and those without, presented by faculty of the Wayne State and Wright State medical schools. It will also feature a Thought Provocateur session relating to the integration of behavioral science and clinical medicine in the community health center setting.
The plenary session also includes the Twenty-second Charles E. Odegaard Lecture [24th National Conference: Boston University’s Doctor Thomas Hines to Give 22nd Charles E. Odegaard Lecture.]
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013
6:30 AM – 8:00 AM
Assigned Breakfast Breakout Groups
8:15 AM – 8:20 AM
Introduction to the Day’s Themes
Moderator: Gary L. LeRoy, MD
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio
8:20 AM – 8:55 AM
Medicaid in the Crosshairs?
David N. Sundwall, MD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Michael Fine, MD
Rhode Island State Department of Health
Providence, Rhode Island
8:55 AM – 9:05 AM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: Richard D. Clover, MD
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
9:05 AM- 9:40 AM
What HAS Changed: Strategic Reforms Advanced by PPACA
Hector Flores, MD
White Memorial Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
James Herman, MD
Penn State University School of Medicine
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Perry Pugno, MD
American Academy of Family Physicians
Leawood, Kansas
9:40 AM – 9:50 AM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: David N. Sundwall, MD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
9:50 AM-10:05 AM
PPACA-Advantaged Strategic Reforms: “Mental Health and Medicine in a Community Health Center”
Eugenie Lewis, MHSA, LCSW
JWCH Institute
Los Angeles, California
10:05 AM – 10:10 AM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: Virginia Fowkes, FNP, MHS
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
10:10 AM -10:25 AM
Break
10:25 AM – 11:05 AM
PPACA-Advantaged Strategic Reforms: “Integration of Behavioral Science and Medicine for Psychiatric Patients”
John M. Boltri, MD
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan
Mark E. Clasen, MD, Ph.D.
Cynthia Olsen, MD
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio
11:05 AM -11:10 AM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: Ana Bejinez-Eastman, MD
Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
Whittier, California
11:10 AM – 11:50 AM
The 2oth Charles E. Odegaard Lecture
Thomas C. Hines, MD
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: John P. Geyman, MD
University of Washington Emeritus
Friday Harbor, Washington
12:00 PM
Adjournment of Second Day
For the program of the third conference day, see: The 24th National Conference’s Third Day Program – April 10, 2013 .