This event was held on May 15, 2026. The presentations which can be shared are linked below and a recording of the morning sessions is here. (Please excuse the lack of audio for the first 20 seconds.)

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 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 Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

  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

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

  2. 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

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

  4. 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 - 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