The 24th National Conference's Third Day Program – April 10, 2013
Last Updated on April 16, 2022 by Lee Burnett, DO, FAAFP
For the previous days, see: The 24th National Conference’s First Day Program – April 8, 2013 and The 24th National Conference’s Second Day Program – April 9, 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 Third Day’s Plenary Sessions
Wednesday morning’s begin with a description of the United States Army’s incorporation of ideas of the primary care medical home into the Army’s health care delivery system. Lieutenant Command Lee Burnett, DO, a fellow of the National Conferences, who is a Brigade Surgeon for the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne paratroopers, will present the Soldier Centered Medical Home. [See 24th National Conference: Dr. Lee Burnett to Discuss the Soldier Centered Medical Home.]

Following Dr Burnett’s presentation, an update on the innovative initiative in of the A. T. Still University/School of Osteopathic Medicine of Arizona, will be made by the college’s associate dean, Frederic Schwartz, DO. That program decentralizes undergraduate and postgraduate medical education into participating community health centers [See 24th National Conference Theme Presentation: An Update on the ATSU-SOMA Distributed Teaching Health Center.]
The next presentation is a three person panel from Kalamazoo, Michigan, reporting on new efforts to simultaneously create a new medical school at Western Michigan University while creating a new family medicine residency pathway in the recently expanded Family Health Center, an FQHC. [See 24th National Conference: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Family Health Center Report on a Community-Based Medical Education Project.]
Participating in the panel will be Allan Wilke, MD of the Western Michigan University School of Medicine, a Senior Fellow of the National Conferences, and also Denise Crawford, the Chief Executive Officer of Family Health Center, and the FQHC’s medical director, Carol Wilson Safford, MD.

A report from California will follow, in which initiatives of California’s Statewide Area Health Education Center are described that encourage the development of physician training linkages between California community health centers and primary care residency and other health professions training program in various parts of the state.
The Statewide AHEC program will be described by Virginia Fowkes, FNP, MHS, of Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of the National Conferences. Joining her will be Doctors Colin Kopes-Kerr of Vallejo and Jennifer Wu, MD, MSEd of the University of California, San Diego.
The morning’s last presentation is the 19th J. Jerry Rodos Lecture, to be prsented by Robert Maudlin, a Fellow of the National Conferences. Dr Maudlin is with the Providence Health Systems in Spokane. [See 24th National Conference: Dr Robert Maudlin to be 19th J. Jerry Rodos Lecturer.]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013
6:30 AM – 8:00 AM
Assigned Breakfast Breakout Groups
8:15 AM – 8:20 AM
Introduction to the Day’s Themes
Moderator: Marc E. Babitz, MD
Utah Department of Health
Salt Lake City, Utah
8:20 AM – 8:45 AM
The Soldier Centered Medical Home
Lieutenant Colonel Lee Burnett, DO
82nd Airborne, Fourth Brigade
Fort Bragg, North Carolina
8:45 AM – 8:50 AM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: Charles Q. North, MD, MS
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
8:50 AM – 9:15 AM
Integrating DO Residents into Network of FQHCs
Frederic N. Schwartz, DO
A T Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine
Mesa, Arizona
9:15 AM – 9:20 AM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: Mark Clasen, MD, Ph.D.
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio
9:20 AM – 9: 55 AM
Strategic Reforms: Integration with Teaching Health Centers
Denise R. Crawford, EMBA, MSW
Carol Wilson Saffold, MD
Family Health Center
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Allan Wilke, MD, MA
Western Michigan University School of Medicine
Kalamazoo, Michigan
9:55 AM – 10:05 AM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: Gary L. LeRoy, MD
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio
10:05 AM-10:20 AM
Break
10:20 AM- 11:00 AM
Strategic Reforms: Integrating FMRs, CHCs through AHECs in California
Virginia Fowkes, FNP, MHS
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
Colin Kopes-Kerr, MD
Peach Tree Health Care
Marysville, California
Jennifer Wu, MD, MSEd
University of California
San Diego, California
11:00 AM – 11:05 AM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: James M. Herman, MD, MSPH
Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania
11:05 AM – 11:35 AM
The 19th J. Jerry Rodos Lecture
Robert Maudlin, Pharm. D.
Providence Health Systems
Spokane, Washington
11:35 AM – 11:45 AM
Audience Questions and Comments
Lead Question: Kevin M. Haughton, MD
Providence Health Systems
Olympia, Washington
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
24th National Conference as a Whole: Reactions and Discussion of Morning’s Presentations
Moderator: Marc E. Babitz, MD
Utah Department of Health
Salt Lake City, Utah
For the program of the fourth conference day, see: The 24th National Conference’s Fourth Day Program – April 11, 2013.