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OSMAP General Session – Chicago, IL

June 10, 2016

“The Physicians Foundation – Report to OSMAP”
Gary Price, MD, Board Member

“An Update on the Impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – What’s Happening in the States?”

“An Analysis of Insurer Performance Selling Exchange Plans and the Future of the ACA”
– Brian Blase, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
“Covered California” – California’s Exchange

Leonard Nelson, JD, AMA, and Patrick Padgett, EVP, Kentucky Medical Association, provide an update on Litigation Center activities

Rose Ramirez, MD, Immediate Pat President, Michigan State Medical Society, addresses OSMAP on advanced care planning

Brian Blase, Phd, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, addresses OSMAP regarding state exchanges and the ACA

Charles Cutler, MD, President-elect, Pennsylvania Medical Society, addresses OSMAP re: MOC

“BIG DATA: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?”

November 15, 2015

2015 Program of The Forum for Medical Affairs

Program Announcement

What is Big Data? Exactly what is the Precision Medicine Initiative? What are potential barriers to its promise?
D J Patil, PhD
US Chief Data Scientist
White House Office of Science and Technology

Evolution of Big Data Technology: Where are We Today in Terms of Security, Privacy, Analytics & Usability?
Data security, ease of use and analytics – helpful or obstacle to patient care?
Ching-Yung Lin, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Columbia University

Big Data: Leveraging its
Power to Achieve Best Practice
Can it help me take better care of my patients?
Raymond J. Fabius, MD
Ab3Health, LLC
Co-founder, Health NEXT read more

OSMAP General Session – Atlanta, GA

November 13, 2015

General Session Agenda

“The Physicians Foundation – An Update for States”
Walker Ray, MD, President, Physicians Foundation

“Health Information Exchange: How the Kansas Medical Society is Building a Provider-led Platform to Support Interoperability and Enable Practices to Thrive in the Coming System Transformation”
– Jerry Slaughter, Executive Director, Kansas Medical Society
Laura McCrary, MD, Director, Kansas Health Information Exchange

“Quality Reporting: Difficult to Live With It; Even More Difficult to Survive Without It! The Wisconsin Experience”
– George M. Lange, MD, FACP, OSMAP Steering Committee
Rick Abrams, CEO, Wisconsin Medical Society
Chris Kleine, Product Director, Physician Compass read more

OSMAP General Session – Chicago, IL

June 5, 2015

General Session Agenda

“The Physicians Foundation – Innovative Models for Physician Leadership”
Alan L. Plummer, MD
Vice-President, Physicians Foundation

“United Healthcare Settlement – CSMS/TMA/NCMS/MSSNY”
– Matthew Katz, EVP, Connecticut State Medical Society (CSMS)

“The West Virginia Immunization Law – Holding the Line”
– Hoyt Burdick, MD, Past President, West Virginia State Medical Association

“Smart Rx,” Safe Medicine and Responsible Treatment
– Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA)

Pat Patchett, Chair, AMA Litigation Center (and CEO, Kentucky Medical Association) addresses OSMAP read more

“The Human Microbiome: Germ Warfare or Collaboration?”

November 9, 2014

Program Announcement

The Human Microbiome in Health and Disease
David A. Relman, MD
Chief of Infectious Diseases
Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
Thomas C. & Joan M. Merigan Professor
Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA

The NIH Human Microbiome Project
Lita Proctor, PhD
Project Coordinator
NIH Human Microbiome Project
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

Therapeutic Microbial Ecosystem Repair: Case Study
of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection
Alexander Khoruts, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Minnesota
Division of Gastroenterology
Center for Immunology
Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology Graduate Program
Minneapolis, MN read more