Category: 26th National Conference

The 26th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access begins Monday, April 13, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County. A key subject of the conference’s first morning will be community-oriented primary care and community-based training of primary care physicians. The April 13th session’s second plenary session will begin present Doctors Marc Babitz of the Utah…

The 26th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access first day plenary sessions will address three major initiatives expected to strongly influence the composition of the future American physician workforce. Leading off the opening panels will be Tim Henderson, MSPH of George Mason University. Mr Henderson is a Senior Fellow of the National Conferences, Henderson, with four decades of…

Doctor John Geyman, Emeritus Professor of the University of Washington and a Senior Fellow of the National Conferences, will be honored by the 26th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, an invitational conference held April 13-15, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County. Doctor Geyman’s lifetime accomplishments are extraordinary. After practicing rural family medicine in…

Marc Babitz, MD, who now is a division director at the Utah State Department of Health, leads off a section of the 26th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access that will address efforts over the past 50 years in changing the focus of physician education. Instead of an exclusive reliance on teaching hospital “wards”, movements to incorporate substantive…

During the 2014 Senate and House elections, one of the issues often asserted was that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act brought about significant change in the existing American health care system. Both its supporters and detractors apparently agreed that  “patient protection” could be excised from ithe Act’s title, and more often than not, both…