ACP Workforce Summit: Internal Medicine for the Future of Health Care

8:00-8:45

Breakfast

9:00-9:15

Welcome

Rachel L. Ramirez, MD, FACP
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Clinical Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine

Darilyn V. Moyer, MD, MACP, FRCP-L, FIDSA, FAMWA, FEFIM
CEO and EVP, American College of Physicians

9:15-9:45

Keynote Speaker:

• Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, FACP 
  Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a health systems innovation center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

9:45-10:15

Recap of Workforce Data 

• Michael Dill, Director of Workforce Studies at Association of American Medical Colleges

• Susan Read PhD, VP, Research, American College of Physicians

10:15-10:30

Break

10:30-12:10  (5x20 mins)

Quick Hits Presentations – Examples of Successful Workforce Innovations

1. Primary Care in an integrated health system – Anna Flattau, MD, MSc, MS, FAAFP,Alumni Professor in Family Medicine & Chair, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College System Chief of Primary Care, Jefferson Health 

2. Primary Care ACOs and technology – Catherine Smitas, MD, FACP, Sr. Medical Director, Aledade

3. Payer perspectives on primary care – Kate Goodrich, MD, MHS, Executive in Residence, Optum

4. Team-based subspecialty care to extend capacity and collaborate with Primary Care – Brian Brady, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford Health

5. Project Echo model for subspecialty care – Susan Kirsh, MD, MPH, CMQ, Deputy Assistant USH, Veterans Administration

12:15-1:15

Lunch and 30-min “fireside chat” on the impact of payment model reform

Panelists:

• Joshua Liao, MD, MSc, FACP, Professor of Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center and Director of Program on Policy Evaluation and Learning

• Rhea Powell, MD, FACP, Jefferson Health

Moderator:

• Laura Sessums, JD, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer, American Board of Internal Medicine

1:15-1:30

Break and re-convene

1:30-2:50 (4x20 mins)

Quick Hits presentations, continued

6. Post-acute care coordination and ACOs – Walter Lin, MD, MBA, CEO of Generation Clinical Partners

7. Residency training in high-functioning Primary Care settings – Anne Cioletti, MD, FACP, Professor, Internal Medicine – Clinical Track, Associate Chief of Ambulatory Operations, GIM, University of Utah Health Science Center

8. Community Health Center IM residency programs – Luis Padilla, MD, Chief Health Officer, National Association of Community Health Centers

9. Technology to reduce admin burdens – Ankita Sagar, MD, MPH, FACP, FAMWA, System Vice President, Clinical Transformation and Well-Being, CommonSpirit Health and Priya Radhakrishnan, MD, FACP, Chief Academic Officer, VP, HonorHealth

2:50-3:00

Break

3:00-3:45

Discussion groups:  Think about the innovations in practice organization, realignment of the roles of generalists and subspecialists, and technology enablement: 

• What are the barriers to wide-scale adoption? 

• What can medical societies do to help break down these barriers? Who do they need to influence and collaborate with?

3:45-4:30

Recap, reactions and next steps