| 30th Anniversary Gala Celebration |
Held Friday, April 4th, 2008
6:30pm
The Westin Copley Hotel, Boston
Master of Ceremonies: Paul Levy, President and CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Urban Medical: Leadership and Innovation in Primary Care
First shown at our Gala celebration, this video describes the Urban Medical model of care through the words of our patients, clinicians and colleagues.
Click here for a photo slide show from the 30th anniversary gala event
Honorary Chair
Mitchell T. Rabkin, MD, CEO Emeritus, Beth Israel Hospital and CareGroup
Event Co-Chairs
Peter & Wendy Gordon
Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez & Brenda Sanchez
Betsy Tarlin & Marcos Rosenbaum
Urban Medical Honors our Founders for their enduring vision
Sarah Bachrach, PA
Jeanne Dahlberg, NP
Marie Feltin, MD
Deborah Grimes
John Jainchill, MD
Roger Mark, MD, PhD
Robert J. Master, MD
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Symposium Event, Shock to the System: Preparing Primary Care for the Baby Boomers |
A thought-provoking symposium exploring innovative approaches to primary care for the aging population.
Held Friday, April 4, 2008
8:00am
The Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
Click here for a photo slide show from the symposium event
Full symposium video transcript and speaker presentations available at the Kaiser Family Foundation website (video featuring speaker highlights can also be found further below):
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/
Moderator
Richard Knox
National Public Radio
Keynote Speaker
Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD "High-Quality Health Care for an Aging Population"
President, Institute of Medicine
“I believe if we are going to respond to the crisis that is the back drop for [the crisis in primary care] we have to return and continue to think about patient centered care.”
Click here to watch the full quote
Speakers
JudyAnn Bigby, MD "Primary Care's Role in Health Reform in Massachusetts"
Secretary, Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of MA
Thomas Bodenheimer, MD "Preparing Primary Care for Increasing Demands of the Aging Population"
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco
"The conclusion is primary care as currently practiced, as currently organized, with the panel sizes that we have, is not a job that is possible to do. It can’t be done.”
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Panel Discussion: Effective Models of Primary Care
Robert J. Master, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Care Alliance; Founder, Urban Medical
“You have to move [primary care] to where people are; home, nursing home, daycare, shelter, work site.”
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Billie Rosoff
Wife of Patient
Jeffrey Kang, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, CIGNA Health Care
“At the end of the day, it is the clinician to patient interaction and engagement which is the future of primary care and how to really create a reimbursement system that rewards that is our challenge.”
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Proceeds to benefit the Urban Medical Fund for the Future of Primary Care
