Category: Lecture Announcements and Previews

Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH, will present the 22nd Charles E. Odegaard Lecture at the 26th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access. The National Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Orange County in Garden Grove, California, April 13-15, 2015. Doctor Scherger  is Vice President for Primary Care and the Marie E. Pinizzotto,…

The passing of Doctor G. Gayle Stephens in March 2014 will be observed at the 25th National Conference on Primary Health Care, to be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. Leading the memorial plenary session will be Doctor Donald Frey of Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska and Doctor John Geyman, Emeritus Professor of the University…

On Tuesday, April 15, the second day of the 25th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, Stanford University’s Virginia Fowkes and Doctor Marianne McKennett of the Sharp Chula Vista Department of Family Medicine will comprise a plenary panel discussing “Issues in the Training of Primary Care Physicians for Rural and Underserved Areas”. The presentation…

John Geyman, MD, Emeritus Professor of the University of Washington School of Medicine will present the 20th J. Jerry Rodos Lecture at the 25th National Conference on Primary Health Access, taking place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco April 14-16, 2014. A critic of the process of legislating and funding the Patient Protection and Accountable Care…

Dr Samuel Matheny, the University of Kentucky Assistant Provost for Global Health Initiatives, will present the 21st Charles E. Odegaard Lecture at the 25th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access. The title of Doctor Matheny’s Odegaard Lecture is “The Past is Prologue”. Dr Matheny, who holds the Nicholas J. Pisacano Chair in family medicine at…

The 24th G. Gayle Stephens Lecture will be presented by Doctor Richard E. (Rick) Flinders of Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa (California). The Lecture will take place at the 25th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, which will be held April 14-16, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. The 24th Stephen Lecture…

The following is the Group Discussion Topic, based on a quote from the Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, Williamsburg, Virginia, held in April 1996. The Second J. Jerry Rodos Lecture: Mark E. Clasen, MD, Ph.D. “[W]e as healthcare professionals know that most compliance occurs in the milieu of a…

Donald Frey, MD, Creighton University’s Vice President for Health Sciences, will present the 23rd G. Gayle Stephens Lecture at the 24th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, an invitational conference held April 8-11, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt Kaua’i, in Koloa, Kaua’i, Hawai’i. Doctor Frey has held Creighton University’s Dr Roland L Kleeburger Endowed…

Michael Prislin, MD, Associate Dean, Student Affairs at the University of California Irvine will present the 17th J. Jerry Rodos Lecture to the 22nd National Conference on Primary Health Care Access. His lecture will examine national and institutional policies that affect the composition of  classes admitted into American medical schools. Presentation Summary: While reimbursement reform…

As part of the “Consequences of Strategic Interventions” sub-theme of the Twenty-First National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, two named lectures will address specific strategic interventions that have been in place for four decades. Consequences of Strategic Intervention: Creating a Board for the Periodic Recertification of Family Physicians The Twentieth G. Gayle Stephens Lecture…