Category: Lecture Texts and Proceedings

  We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of the Oregon Health Sciences University Department of Family Medicine (John Saultz, Chair) for funding the transcription and editing of this section of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference:   Dr Clasen: Our next presenter is Tim Henderson, who will talk about the funding primary care medical education through…

We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Family Medicine Residency Program for the transcription and editing of this section of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference:   Mark Clasen, MD, Ph.D., Wright State University (Moderator): This is the 21st G Gayle Stephens Lecture. Many of us who are family physicians…

On Monday, April 18, 2011, the 22nd convening of the invitational National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. Throughout the next three mornings, plenary sessions will be held to examine the impact of 2010’s health insurance reform legislation on the United States primary health care system.…

As the process of implementing 2010’s federal health care legislation proceeds (see The Implementation Plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care and Education Reconciliation Act), debate on the wisdom of the legislation itself continues. One of the most articulate of the dissenters, whose analytical work has been widely quoted in the press, on television,…

The Twenty-First of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access will be held on the April 12 through 15, 2010 (concluding at noon on the 15th) at the Grand Hyatt Kaua’i, in Koloa, Kaua’i, Hawai’i. The theme of the conference is “Consequences”. [Take a tour of each of the four days of the National…

The third conference day and links to presentation descriptions: For a discussion on the presentation on Michigan, see: The 21st National Conference’s “Consequences” Theme: Strategic Interventions in the State of Michigan. For a discussion of the Rodos Lecture and other Named Lectures, see: Doctors James Puffer, Macaran Baird, Neal Palafox to Present Named Lectures at 21st National…

Among the distinctive features of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access are the early morning assigned breakfast breakout groups. Each conference registrant participates in a group of five or six persons. Every group has a specific topic for discussion that relates to the subject matter of the day’s plenary sessions. The following is…

The Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be held at the Hyatt Regency Monterey from Monday, April 6 through Wednesday April 8, 2009. The Theme of the Twentieth National Conference will be “Primary Health Care Access, the American Medical System and Its Potential for Sudden Change”. (To go directly to the Twentieth…

  For the eighth straight year, noted author Doctor John Geyman, emeritus professor of the University of Washington School of Medicine, is scheduled to make a major presentation to the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access. Dr Geyman first joined the National Conferences permanent faculty in March, 2002, when he presented the Twelfth G.…

The Nineteenth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be held at the Grand Hyatt Kaua’i from Monday, April 7 through Thursday, April 10, 2008.  The theme of the Nineteenth National Conference will be “Public Policy and Primary Health Care Access”. The distinguished permanent faculty of the National Conferences includes noted author Doctor John…

[The following is the second part of Doctor Patrick Dowling’s presentation of the 15th G. Gayle Stephens Lecture, followed by a Question and Answer Session. The first part of Doctor Dowling’s remarks appears at: The Fifteenth G. Gayle Stephens Lecture – Patrick Dowling, MD, Part I.] These are very impressive studies that Congress is beginning to…

[The following is the introduction and first part of Doctor Patrick Dowling’s presentation of the 15th G. Gayle Stephens Lecture. The second part of Doctor Dowling’s remarks appears at The Fifteenth G. Gayle Stephens Lecture – Patrick Dowling, MD, Part II.] Joshua Freeman, MD, University of Kansas, Kansas City: It’s my honor to introduce Patrick T.…

The first fifteen G. Gayle Stephens Lectures were celebrated in a ceremony conducted Monday, April 11, 2005 at the Sixteenth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access in San Diego. Three Stephens Lecturers, Doctors Ronald Goldschmidt (1995), John Geyman (2002) and Patrick T. Dowling (2005) alternated reading excerpts from each of the fifteen lectures held…

The Sixteenth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access Hyatt Regency Islandia Hotel and Marina (Located on San Diego’s Mission Bay)San Diego, California April 10-12, 2005 About the Sixteenth National Conference: The Sixteenth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be held on Sunday, April 10 through Tuesday, April 12, 2005, adjacent to San…

PRESENTED AT THE 15TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE ACCESS CAPT Charles Q. North, MD, MS Chief Clinical Consultant for Family Practice Indian Health Service Dr North: I am greatly honored to present the Rodos Lecture this morning not only because it honors such a great leader, mentor and philosopher as J. Jerry Rodos,…

  Above: Acting Surgeon General Kenneth Moritsugu, the 2002 J. Jerry Rodos Lecturer at the Thirteenth National Conference in Bethesda, interacts with National Conference participants.  From left, clockwise: Ana Bejinez-Eastman, MD, Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital (PIH), Whittier, California; Muntu Davis, MD, then a family medicine resident at PIH; Cynthia Olsen, MD, Wright State University, Dayton; Peter…

David Satcher, MD, MPH, then Surgeon General of the United States, gave the G. Gayle Stephens Lecture at the 10th National Conference in Bethesda, Maryland, March 1999. John Midtling, MD, MS, Associate Dean, University of Illinois, Rockford: Good morning. I am John Midtling, from the University of Illinois. It is my pleasure to be able to lead…

  April 2, 1998 Dr Marian Bishop introduces Doctor Lynn P. Carmichael, the seventh G. Gayle Stephens Lecturer:   Marian Bishop, Ph.D, MSPH, University of Utah: When the family medicine residency programs were first being accredited at the end of the 1960s, Doctor Lynn Carmichael and Lee Blanchard split the country – Lee did the…

The National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be publishing each of the named lectures presented at the annual conferences. Below is Dr Clasen’s presentation of the Odegaard Lecture from 1996.   The Third Charles E. Odegaard Lecture, Presented at the Sixth National Conference on Primary Health Care Acces, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, March 1996 “The…

F. Marian Bishop, Ph.D., MPH Chair Emeritus, Dept of Family and Preventive Medicine University of Utah Presenting The Sixth G. Gayle Stephens Lecture at the Seventh National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, March, 1996. Introduction of the Stephens Lecturer: David Sundwall, MD  (President, American Clinical Laboratories Association): I feel especially honored…

J. Jerry Rodos, DO, DSc, RN Midwestern University and Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine   Presenting the Second Charles E. Odegaard Lecture: Sixth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access Hyatt Regency Beaver Creek Avon, Colorado April 8, 1995 William H. Burnett (Department of Family Medicine, University of California, Irvine):  I am pleased to introduce…

Alfred O. Berg, MD, MPH Professor and Associate Chair University of Washington Department of Family Medicine The Fourth G. Gayle Stephens Lecture Alfred O. Berg, MD, MPH, presented the Fourth Stephens Lecture, entitled Access to What? Fifth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access Hyatt Regency Maui Ka’anapali Beach, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii March 26, 1994…

The First Charles E. Odegaard Lecture was presented in March, 1994 at the Fifth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access at Ka’anapali, Maui, HI, by Emery A. Wilson, MD, then Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Emery A. Wilson, MD Dean and Executive Vice Chancellor University of Kentucky College of Medicine…