The following is the final schedule for the 2008 Convocation of Practices.
Plenaries include:
Friday: James Mold, MD - Can Family Medicine Become a Learning Community?
Saturday: George Rapier, MD - The WellMed Model for Providing Primary Care
Sunday: Chester Fox, MD - Sustainable Interventions
Printable, full color program (21-page PDF; About PDFs)
Schedule of Events
| Tentative Schedule of Events | |
|---|---|
| Thursday, March 6 | |
| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Registration Open – Grand Rivers Foyer/Lower Lobby |
| Friday, March 7 | |
| 8:00 am - 6:00 pm | Registration – Grand Rivers Foyer/Lower Lobby |
| 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Light Continental Breakfast – Break Stations / Full Breakfast – Mountain View Dinning Room |
| 8:00 am - 1:00 pm | Open for personal recreation |
| 8:00 am - Noon | NRN Advisory Group Spring Meeting - Arkansas |
| Noon - 1:00 pm | Lunch - Mountain View Dinning Room |
| 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm | General Session – Gunnison/Rio Grande/Platte |
| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Review of Agenda: Wilson D. Pace, MD, FAAFP |
| Welcome from AAFP Leadership: Herbert Young, MD, MA, FAAFP, Director, AAFP Scientific Activities Division | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Opening Presentation – “Can Family Medicine Become a Learning Community?” presented by James Mold, MD, MPH |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Research Results – “From Q to S: What Motivates Family Physicians to do Practice-based Research?” presented by Lyle J. Fagnan, MD & Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Research Results – “Focus on Reducing Cardiovascular Events in Diabetes through Optimal Management: The FREEDOM Study” presented by Bennett Parnes, MD |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Refreshment Break |
| 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Breakout Sessions A. |
| A1): Translating Evidence Into Practice in Chronic Kidney Disease. What are the next steps? Chester Fox, MD | |
| A2) Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAN) Referral and Effectiveness Outcomes for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Kentucky Ambulatory Network (KAN) Study Proposal – Margaret Love, PhD & William Elder, Jr., PhD | |
| A3) National Research Network All Member Meeting | |
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Dinner - Mountain View Dinning Room |
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Welcome Reception and Poster Presentations |
| Saturday, March 8 | |
| 7:00 am - 3:00 pm | Registration open – Grand Rivers Foyer/Lower Lobby |
| 7:00 am - 8:15 am | Light Continental Breakfast - Break Stations/ Full Breakfast - Mountain View Dinning Room |
| 8:15 am - 10:30 am | General Session - Gunnison/Rio Grande/Platte |
| 8:15 am - 8:30 am | Review of Agenda: James M. Galliher, PhD, Research Director, AAFP National Research Network |
| Welcome from the Federation of Practice-based Research Networks: Walter Calmbach, MD, FPBRN Steering Committee Chair | |
| 8:30 am - 9:30 am | Plenary – George Rapier, MD, “The WellMed Model for Providing Primary Care” |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Research Results – "Mental Workloads in Primary Care" presented by Jonathan L. Temte, MD, PhD |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Refreshment Break and Poster Presentations |
| 10:30 am - 2:30 pm | Fibromyalgia Roundtable Discussion (by invitation only) – Cheyenne I |
| 10:30 am - 2:30 pm | Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures Breakout – Cheyenne II |
| 10:30 pm - 11:45 pm | Breakout Sessions B. |
| B4): Study Coordinators and their valuable role in practice-based research – Jessica Silvia, MS; Brian Manning, MPH; Elias Brandt, BS, BA; Angela Meers-Lanigan, MPA | |
| B5): Are we asking the right questions in the existing review of systems (AWARE ROS) – Daniel Triezenberg, MD; Eric Weaver, MD & Robert Bales, MD, MPH | |
| B6): Extended Workshop: Engaging Clinic Staff in Practice Improvement and Research - Paul McGinnis, MPA | |
| 11:45 am - 1:15 pm | Lunch - Mountain View Dinning Room |
| 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Breakout Sessions C. |
| C7): Integrating Research and QI for Asthma: The Asthma APGAR – Barbara Yawn, MD, MSc | |
| C8): Validation of a New Tool for the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder in Primary Care – Deborah Graham, MSPH & James Galliher, PhD | |
| C9): Practices-based Research Network Clinicians’ Stories project – Lyle J. Fagnan, MD | |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Refreshment Break and Poster Presentations |
| 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm | Breakout Sessions D. |
| D10): Incorporating Research into a Longitudinal Family Medicine Clerkship: Reflections on an M3 Practice-based Research Network – Robert Bales, MD, MPH | |
| D11) A. In Search of the Golden Compass? – Developing Best Practice Guides for Academic Partners to Navigate Practice Based Research Partnerships – Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH | |
| D11) B. Answering the call to action: Development of a collaboration translational research curriculum – Cheryl Brewster, EdD | |
| D12): P3 (Physicians, Pharmacists & Patients) participation to improve medication adherence – Wilson Pace, MD | |
| D13): CareConcepts – John Lynch, MPH | |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Federation of Practice-Based Research Networks General Membership Meeting - (Centennial II) |
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Dinner - Mountain View Dinning Room |
| Sunday, March 9 | |
| 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Light Continental Breakfast - Break Stations / Full Breakfast - Mountain View Dinning Room |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Federation of Practice-Based Research Networks Steering Committee Meeting - (White River II) |
| 8:30 am - 12:00 pm | General Session - Gunnison/Rio Grande/Platte |
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am | Review of Agenda: Deborah Graham, MSPH, Associate Research Director, AAFP National Research Network |
| 8:45 am - 9:15 am | Research Results: “Chronic Opioid Therapy and Receipt of Preventive Services in Rural Primary Care” presented by David Buckley, MD |
| 9:15 am - 10:30 am | Breakout Sessions E. |
| E14): Evaluating the findings of the National Clinical Questions Panel: Identifying suitable research topics for PBRNs – Sandy Smith, PhD & Bernard Ewingman, MD | |
| E15): A Family Centered Approach to the Prevention and Management of Pediatric Obesity – Lyndee Knox, PhD; Michelle May, MD & Wilson Pace, MD | |
| E16): Preparing Primary Care Practices for an Influenza Pandemic: An Ongoing Practice-based, Multi-Network Project – Zolt Nagykaldi, PhD & Walter Calmbach, MD | |
| E17): EHR: A Hazard-Oriented Research Agenda – John Beasley, MD | |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Refreshment Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | Plenary – “Sustainable Interventions”, Chester Fox, MD – Gunnison/Platte |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Thank you and Good-bye from the NRN Leadership |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch - Mountain View Dinning Room |
2008 Convocation
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