12th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access

Twelfth National Conference on
Primary Health Care Access

The Twelfth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, to be held in San Diego April 8, 9, and 10, 2001, will center on two ongoing projects of the Coastal Research Group. First, two of its days will be devoted to the National Project on the Heritage and Legacy of Family Medicine, honoring the lifework of two of family medicine's founders, Doctors G. Gayle Stephens and F. Marian Bishop. Second, throughout the Conference a National Grand Rounds on the Community Benefits of Family Practice Residency Training will be held, with case histories of activities relevant to this theme in Dayton, Ohio and San Diego, California examined in plenary session.

Both Doctors Stephens and Bishop are scheduled to be present as many of the current leaders in family practice speak in their honor. Among the speakers on the Heritage and Legacy Days are Doctors Norman B. Kahn and Larry Green of the American Academy of Family Physicians; Joseph E. Scherger of the University of California, Irvine; Richard D. Clover of the University of Louisville, Hector Flores of White Memorial Medical Center, J. Jerry Rodos of Midwestern University, Samuel C. Matheny of the University of Kentucky, Patrick T. Dowling of UCLA, Mark E. Clasen and Cynthia G. Olsen of Wright State University and Paul D. Juarez of the Charles R. Drew University. Dr. Stephens will present his Reflections on the Third Keystone Conference, which occurred last Fall in Colorado.

Doctor David Sundwall, who under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush, served as staff member on United States Senate and as Director of the United States Health Resources and Services Administration, will join Dr. Olsen and John D. Midtling, MD, Associate Dean of the University of Illinois Rockford in a plenary panel entitled "Expanding the Scope of Family Practice: F. Marian Bishop's Core Contributions to the Discipline of Family Medicine."

A special plenary session will commemorate the tenth anniversary of the First G. Gayle Stephens Lecture, delivered by Dr. Stephens himself, who conjured the vision of "The Big Red Bull that eats and eats and never gets full" as a metaphor for runaway technology in medicine. Doctors Clover, assisted by Doctors Kahn and Scherger, will revisit the Stephens metaphor on its tenth anniversary with a new spin - "Little Red Bulls: the Beneficial Effects of Technology to a Comprehensive Family Practice."

Other conference highlights include a presentation by Virginia Fowkes of Stanford University Medical Center on a physician assistant and nurse practitioner workforce study, and the three named lectures - the Eleventh G. Gayle Stephens Lecture presented by Dr. Green the Eighth Charles E. Odegaard Lecture presented by Dr. Kahn, the Sixth J. Jerry Rodos Lecture presented by Marc E. Babitz, MD, MPH of the University of Utah.

For more information, write:

William H. Burnett
Conference Coordinator
Post Office Box 2355
Granite Bay, CA 95746