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

This event was held on May 15, 2026. The presentations which can be shared are linked below.

Workforce Summit Agenda

Speaker Biographies

Meeting Moderator:  Sarah Candler, MD, MPH, FACP

8:00-8:45

Breakfast

9:00-9:15

Welcome

Rachel L. Ramirez, MD, FACP
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Abington - Jefferson Health and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Past Governor, SE PA chapter of ACP

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
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    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 systemAnna 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 technologyCatherine Smitas, MD, FACP, Sr. Medical Director, Aledade

  3. Payer perspectives on primary careKate Goodrich, MD, MHS, Executive in Residence, Optum

  4. Team-based subspecialty care to extend capacity and collaborate with Primary CareBrian Brady, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

  5. Project Echo model for subspecialty careSusan 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

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

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

  3. Community-based training programs –  Luis Padilla, MD, Chief Health Officer, National Association of Community Health Centers

  4. Technology to reduce admin burdensAnkita 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 - Ideas and Recommendations

3:45-4:30

Recap, reactions and next steps

Thank you to the Event Sponsors

  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc
  • Dexcom, Inc.
  • Exact Sciences   
  • Genentech
  • Sanofi