Northwest Osteopathic Medical Foundation’s Confluence of Northwest States Apr 4 - 5
April 04 2008
Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront
Register: http://www.nwosteo.org. Information: Ned Rosch 503-222-7161; .
Friday, April 4, 2008:
7:45 – 8:30 am:
Registration and Breakfast
8:30 – 11:30 am:
The Intersection of Health Care and Underserved Communities
Donna Beegle, Ph.D., Impacts of poverty
Joe Finkbonner, Health in Native communities
Stan Flemming, DO, Rural health
John Pham, DO, Healing in the Asian-American community
Leda Garside, RN, The migrant experience
Scott Ekblad, Rural community health
Kathleen Saadat, African-American reflections
Craig Hostetler, Challenges of disenfranchised communities
James Hicks, MD, Project Access
11:45 am – 1:15 pm:
Lunch Presentation: Alabama Medical Education Consortium Physician Pipeline
Will Baker, DO. A remarkable Alabama model that is successfully building a primary care physician pipeline for rural and underserved communities in one of the nation’s poorest states.
1:30 – 4:00 pm:
Building and Strengthening Educational Networks
Anne Musser, DO. Her successful efforts to get a one-time $2 million state appropriation this year for Graduate Medical Education in Alaska have relevance for other communities considering starting residencies, because of the funding issues as well as the benefits their residency has brought not only to their hospital but to the state as well.
Gary Wappes, Oregon Health Careers Center. Supporting underserved students to become health professionals.
Margaret Hardy, JD. AOA initiative to create residency programs and demonstrate that a well structured, well run Graduate Medical Education program has the potential to significantly benefit the hospital, medical staff, patients and community.
4:00 – 5:00 pm:
Reception
Dinner on your own with opportunities to connect with people who share a common interest
Saturday, April 5, 2008:
7:45 – 8:30 am:
Registration and Breakfast
8:30 – 11:30 am:
Health & Health Care: What’s the Relationship?
Do we want health care or do we want health? Even if everyone were insured, we still wouldn’t have health. What produces health? Why are we so unhealthy?
What are we going to do about it? What should medical education look like to better meet the challenges and needs of underserved communities?
Presenters:
Stephen Bezruchka, MD
Barbara Ross-Lee, DO
Respondents:
Tom Levitan, American Assoc of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
Clint Adams, DO, Western University of Health Sciences
Bill Betz, DO, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
11:45 am – 1:15 pm:
Lunch: Viewing and discussion of PBS documentary “Unnatural Causes”
Stephen Bezruchka, MD. Preview of a powerful upcoming segment of the PBS series Unnatural Causes. This ground-breaking documentary sheds light on mounting evidence that demonstrates how work, wealth, neighborhood conditions and lack of access to power and resources can actually get under the skin and disrupt human biology as surely as germs and viruses. But it’s not just the poor who are sick—so are the middle classes. At each descending rung of the socio-economic ladder, people tend to be sicker and die sooner. What’s more, at every level, many communities of color are worse off than their white counterparts. Compelling personal stories—spanning the country—demonstrate how social conditions are as vital to our health as diet, smoking and exercise.
This particular segment contrasts what happened when the same company closed plants in Michigan, where the closure undermined the lives and health of a white, working class community, and Sweden, where the closure barely made a dent. Why?
1:30 – 4:00 pm:
Pre-Med Workshop: The Prospective Osteopathic Medical Student
John Pham, DO
TJ Gray, DO
Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
Pre-Med Advisors
Students
Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment demonstration
Al Turner, DO
Northwest Track medical students
6:00 pm:
Founders’ Evening Reception
7:00 – 9:30 pm:
Founders’ Evening Dinner and Awards Ceremony: 10th Anniversary Gala Banquet
Keynote speakers:
Barbara Ross-Lee, DO
Stephen Bezruchka, MD
J. Scott Heatherington Awardees:
Jeff Heatherington, OPSO
Kathie Itter, WOMA
Founders’ Awardees:
Cynthia Fitch, Ph.D., Seattle Pacific University
Chere Pereira, Oregon State University
Governor Barbara Roberts Award:
Children’s Relief Nursery
Rising Star Award:
To be announced!
