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The 28th Forum for Behavioral
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Friday, September 28
7:45 - 9:15 am
How to Live a long Sweet Life – Cracking Your Longevity Code for Yourself and Your Patients
Zorba Paster, MD
Zorba Paster, MD, has been a practicing family physician for more than 20 years. He is a clinical professor of family medicine at the University of
Wisconsin Medical School. Many may recognize Dr Paster as the host of
public radio's On Your Health, carried by over 100 stations nationwide. He is
also seen regularly on WISC-TV3, Madison and is editor of TopHealth, a
monthly wellness letter with over one million readers. Always committed to
helping others live life well, he has extensively researched "the long, sweet life" described in
his successful book, The Longevity Code.
Saturday, September 29
12:15 - 2:00 pm
Strengthen Core & Stimulate Progress: Assembling Patient-centered
Medical Homes
John Rogers, MD, MPH, MEd
John Rogers, MD, MPH, MEd, is professor of family and community
medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he has been a faculty member
since 1987. Previously director of predoctoral education and now vice chair
for education, Dr Rogers has focused on teaching and evaluating core clinical
skills, particularly using performance assessment with standardized patients.
Besides his early work on family genograms, he has written about medical
decision making, family rituals, collaborative practice, mentoring, self-assessment, humanism,
psychosocial attitudes, and cultural compression. Dr Rogers is president of STFM
and the chair of the STFM Special Task Force on the Future of Family Medicine.
Saturday, September 29
4:30 - 5:30 pm
Forum at the Forum - Collaboration: "It Don't Come Easy" (Reflections on 20 plus years of working together in primary care)
John Rogers, MD, MPH, MEd, James Bray, PhD, and respondents
James Bray, PhD, is associate professor of family and community
medicine and psychiatry and director of the Family Counseling Clinic at
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston,Texas. Dr Bray has published and
presented numerous works in the areas of divorce, remarriage, adolescent
substance use, intergenerational family relationships, and collaboration
between physicians and psychologists. He is the coeditor of Primary Care
Psychology. As a clinical psychologist he conducts research and teaches resident
physicians, medical students, and psychology students. In addition to his research, he also
maintains an active clinical practice focusing on children and families.
Sunday, September 30
10:00 - 11:30 am
Show Up, Show How, Show Heart: Keeping Behavioral Science Central to
Family Medicine
David Waters, PhD
David Waters, PhD, received his bachelor's degree from Harvard, his PhD
from Emory University, and began his career at the University of Virginia in
child psychiatry. Dr.Waters moved to family medicine in 1975, where he
developed the Family Stress Clinic as a central teaching mechanism, utilizing a
one-way mirror, in 1978. His teaching methods have been adopted in
numerous programs and he is a nationally recognized family therapy teacher.
He is the lead author of Competence, Courage and Change: An Approach to Family Therapy (Norton 1993) with Edith Lawrence. Dr Waters is the Ruth E. Murdaugh Professor of Family
Medicine at the University of Virginia.