The Fourteenth National Conference

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Coastal Research Group -The Fourteenth National Conference The Fourteenth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access Hyatt Regency Kaua’i Shipwreck Beach, Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii April 11-14, 2003 About the Fourteenth National Conference The Fourteenth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be held on Friday, April 11 through Monday, April 14, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency Kaua’i in Koloa, Kaua’i Hawai’i.

The conferences are invitational conferences, limited to around 50 persons, who are involved in community-based medical education and related public policy fields.

The conference is sponsored by four medical school family medicine departments — the University of Kentucky Department of Family Practice (Lexington), the Wright State University Department of Family Medicine (Dayton, Ohio), the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine Department of Family Medicine (Tulsa) and the University of Tennessee Department of Family Medicine (Memphis).

Concepts and Messages The conference theme is “Concepts and Messages”.

Among the concepts integral to all of the conference’s activities, are the propositions that (1) all Americans should have access to primary health care, (2) that health care resources should be geographically distributed to promote such access, with special attention to rural and inner city areas, (3) that the concepts of family practice, and of accessible comprehensive and continuous health care services, are critical elements for improving health care in the United States, (4) that family practice residency programs and community health centers enhance primary health care access.

A New Multi-Year Forum on the Financing of Health Care in the United States Doctor John Geyman, author of the critically acclaimed book Health Care in America: Can Our Ailing System Be Saved? and Emeritus Chair of the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine, and Don McCanne, MD, President of the Physicians for a National Health Program, will launch a new multi-year forum with a plenary session entitled “The Corporate Transformation of Medicine: Its Impact on Primary Health Care Access”.

John E.

Midtling, MD, MS, Chair of Family Medicine at the University of Tennnessee, will introduce the new forum.

A New Multi-Year Forum on the Impact of Geographic Information Systems on Community-Based Medical Education and Practice Family practice residency programs, community health centers, public health systems, and other institutions critical to primary health care access in the United States are based, to an important extent, on concepts of service to particular geographic areas and populations.

Advances in Geographic Information Systems have the potential for dramatically improving an institution’s capacity to utilize large data bases, such as U.S.

Census demographic and public health department morbidity and mortality data.

Creating the capacity to describe and better comprehend the communities and the populations being served will transform current processes for assessing need and evaluating results.

The first presentation in the Multi-year forum, described below, also continues a multi-year examination of the public health infrastructure.

Family Practice Resources and the Public Health Infrastructure Since the Twelfth Conference, there has been a renewed focus on the public health infrastructure, and a major part of the National Conference will concentrate on this key element of national policy.

One key element of national policy to receive attention this year is the President’s Initiative to increase the number of community health centers in the United States, and the number of persons served by them.

A special presentation by Doctor Paul Juarez of the White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles will demonstrate how new Geographic Information System [GIS] technologies can be used to identify sub-city areas that would qualify as federally recognized Medically Underserved Areas, a key requirement for applying for President’s Initiative funds.

The National Study on the Community Benefits of Family Practice Residency Training All registrants for the Fourteenth National Conference are invited to become participants in a multi-institutional project designed to describe the impact that family practice residency programs, the oldest of which are over three decades old, have had on the communities in which they are located.

Between the Twelfth and Fourteenth conferences, two National Workshops on the Community Benefits of Family Practice Residency Training were in Newport Beach, California (September 21, 2001) and Louisville, Kentucky (September 6 and 7, 2002).

An outcome of that national workshop was consensus on a working taxonomy of such benefits.

Research teams are being developed in each of the general categories of the taxonomy.

That work will be summarized in Kaua’i by Perry A.

Pugno, MD, MPH of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kansas, William H.

Burnett of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development in Sacramento, and English Gonzalez of the Medical Center East Family Practice Residency Program, Birmingham, Alabama. (During each of the morning breakfast breakout sessions, sessions will be held on the planned community benefits research program.

All registrants who wish to participate in the actual research projects will be enlisted in the National Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education, the entity that will facilitate the research program.) Heritage and Legacy of Family and Community Medicine A feature of the National Conferences are retrospective looks at strategic initiatives of past decades, and the impact they have had on the communities in which they are located.

Two major educational initiatives, supported by federal policy, will be examined, Area Health Educational Centers and Rural Training Tracts, respectively by Virginia Fowkes of Stanford University, and Robert Maudlin of Spokane Family Practice.

The Named Lectures Each conference day ends with one of the National Conference’s named lectures.

The Thirteenth G.

Gayle Stephens Lecturer will be Doctor Cornelius Hopper, the University of California Vice President Emeritus of for the Health Sciences.

Doctor Hopper will reflect on his own service to the health care needs of Rural Alabama.

The Tenth Charles E.

Odegaard Lecture will be presented by Richard Clover, MD, MPH, Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Louisville.

The Ninth J.

Jerry Rodos Lecture will be presented by Gary LeRoy, MD, Medical Director of the East Dayton Health Center, a community health center in Dayton, Ohio.

About the Conference The Fourteenth National Conference, like its predecessor conferences, is an intense, three and a half day experience that begins in assigned breakout breakfast groups each day at 6:30 am and continues through mid-day.

However, no events are scheduled on either Friday, Saturday or Sunday afternoon or evening.

As with all of the National Conferences, spouses/partners and families are welcome and encouraged.

The dedicated free time permits conference registrants to assure their families that they will have time for them.

Alternatively, it permits registrants to enjoy the surroundings in one of the world’s most attractive destinations.

Registration INCLUDES hotel room.

The Fourteenth National Conference comprehensive rate of INCLUDES four nights of hotel accommodations (Thursday, April 10 through Sunday, March 13, checking out April 14, 2003) at the Hyatt Regency Kaua’i.

Plenary Faculty: Marc E.

Babitz, MD University of Utah, Salt Lake City John G.

Bradley, MD, MMM Southern Illinois University, Decatur John Bucholz, DO The Medical Center Columbus, Georgia William H.

Burnett, MA Sacramento, California Mark E.

Clasen, MD, Ph.D.

Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Richard Clover, MD University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Steven Crawford, MD University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City Virginia Fowkes Stanford University, Palo Alto William C.

Fowkes, MD Stanford University Emeritus, Palo Alto Hector Flores, MD White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles John Geyman, MD University of Washington Emeritus, Seattle Mark Giglio, MD University of California, Irvine English Gonzalez, MD Medical Center East, Birmingham, Alabama Tim Henderson, MSPH National Conference of State Legislatures, Washington, DC Charles E.

Henley, DO, MPH Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Tulsa Cornelius L.

Hopper, MD University of California Emeritus, Oakland Paul D.

Juarez, Ph.D.

White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles Gary LeRoy, MD East Dayton Health Center, Dayton Robert Maudlin, Pharm.

Spokane Family Practice, Spokane, Washington| Donald McCanne, MD San Juan Capistrano, California Peter Nalin, MD Indiana University, Indianapolis Kiki Nocella University of Southern California Los Angles, California Charles Q.

North, MD, MS Indian Health Service, Albuquerque Cynthia G.

Olsen, MD Wright State University, Dayton Michael D.

Prislin, MD University of California, Irvine Perry A.

Pugno, MD, MPH American Academy of Family Physicians, Kansas City J.

Jerry Rodos DO, D.Sc.

Western Springs, Illinois Charles Vega, MD University of California, Irvine Allan Wilke, MD Medical College of Ohio, Toledo Richard Usatine, MD Florida State University, Tallahassee John A.

Zweifler, MD UCSF/University Medical Center, Fresno, California For more information, write: William H.

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