Summer Retreat

Thursday, August 15—Friday, August 16, 2024
Hilton Alexandria Old Town in Alexandria, VA

PDF Version of this AGENDA

Learn about Alexandria        Restaurants within walking distance

Organizational Updates 

• American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
• American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (AAFP Foundation)
• American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)
• American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP)
• Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM)
• Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD)
• Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM)
• NAPCRG
• Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)

Future Meeting Dates (DOWNLOAD PDF)

List of Attendees (DOWNLOAD PDF)

Attendee Photos and Biosketches (VIEW)
Presenter Photos and Biosketches (VIEW)
Invited Guests Photos and Biosketches (VIEW)

Pre-Reading 

• FMLC Retreat Introduction (PDF)
• Role of the Family Physician 2014 (PDF)
• Primary Care Moonshot—A Joyful Practice 2024 (PDF)
• The Future of Family Medicine: A Collaborative Project of the Family Medicine Community (PDF)

Pre-Meeting Schedule (all times are Eastern)\

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

• 1–4 pm: ABFM Executive/Finance Committee—Madison Room (2nd floor)
• 4–5:30 pm: AAFP Leadership Meeting—Washington Room (2nd floor)
• 3–6 pm: AFMRD Leadership Meeting—Jefferson Room (2nd floor)

Thursday, August 15th, 2024

• 8:30 am–12 pm ABFM/AAFP Leadership Meeting—Potamac A Room (1st floor)
• 8:30 am–12:30 pm CAFM Meeting—Madison Room  (2nd floor

Key Drivers of Narrowing Scope of Practice  
Facilitator: Andrea Anderson, MD, MEd, FAAFP (ABFM)

• • Consolidation, Private Equity, and Family Medicine: What Do We Know? —Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH, Senior Fellow, Mathmatica, and Professor of Family Medicine and Health, University of California, San Francisco
    
  • Health Insurance 101: Policy, Trends, Consolidation & Market Outlook—Ipsita Smolinski, PhD, Managing Director, Capitol Street
    
  • Fee for Service Impact on the Organization and Psychology of Care—Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Ariadne Labs; Harvard Medical School and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Brigham and Women's Hospital

Panel—15 minutes each + 5 minutes questions from audience; 15 minutes discussion in large group

4:15-4:30 pm—Break

4:30-6:30 pm—Washington/Jefferson Room

Family Medicine Through Others’ Eyes: What Role Should Family Medicine Play in the Health Care System
Facilitator: Stephanie Quinn (AAFP)

• • Alex Ding, MD, MBA, Associate Vice President, Physician Strategy & Medical Affairs, Humana

  • Looking Around The Bend Back to the future—Chinni Pulluru, MD, Co-Founder, My Precious Genes, formerly Chief Clinical Executive & VP Clinical Operations at Walmart

  • CMS Innovation Center Strategy and Primary Care Portfolio Overview—Purva Rawal, PhD, Chief Strategy Officer, CMS Innovation Center at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  • Powering the Value-Based Future of Primary Care—Michael Kopko, MBA, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pearl Health

15 minutes for each presenter, 5 minutes questions for each presenter, with 30 minutes large group discussion

6:30-7 pm—Washington/Jefferson Foyer

Reception, Heavy Hors Oeuvres, & Networking

7-8:30 pm—Washington/Jefferson Room

Dinner and Discussion
Facilitator: Gerardo Moreno, MD, MSHS (ABFM)

• • OurCare: Co-designing the Future of Primary Care With Patients and the Public—Tara Kiran, MD, MSc, CCFP, FCFP, Family physician and Scientist, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto; Fidani Chair in Improvement and Innovation, University of Toronto

  • Systematic Approaches to Dealing With Burnout in a Primary Care Service Line—Grant Greenberg, MD, MA, MHSA, FAAP, Leonard Parker Pool Endowed Chair, Department of Family Medicine. Chief Medical Executive, Primary Care, Lehigh Valley Health Network Professor of Medical Education and Family Medicine, University of South Florisa Morsani College of Medicine

Each talk will be for 15 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of questions and comments from the floor.

Friday, August 16, 2024 (all times are eastern)

6:45–8 am—Washington/Jefferson Foyer

Breakfast

7–8 am—Washington/Jefferson Room

Breakfast Meetings: Affinity Groups—Family medicine organizations, student + residents, early career, patient and public members, editors, researchers, plus other groups.) 

• • Each table should identify 2 responses or suggestions with regard to the future clinical models of family medicine. These will be reported out to large group at 8 am.

8–8:30 am—Washington/Jefferson Room

Affinity Groups Brief Report Outs
Facilitator: Warren Newton, MD, MPH (ABFM); Note taking: Janice Thomas (ABFM)

• • Each affinity group will report out one or two observations or reactions to the presentations so far.

8:30–8:45 am—Break and Networking 

8:45–9:45 am—Washington/Jefferson Room

Bright Spots
There will be 3 concurrent sessions. Each presenter will have 10 minutes per presentation, 5 minutes for questions, and then 15 minutes for discussion for the room.

Reinventing Individual Practices
Facilitator: Steve Furr, MD, FAAFP (AAFP); Notetaking: Heather Palmer, MA, MBA (AAFP Foundation)

• • Generative AI and the Primary Care Practice of the Future: A Case Study—Steven Lin, MD, President-Elect of STFM, Clinical Professor, Medicine Section Chief, General Primary Care Director, Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team, Stanford University School of Medicine
    
    
  • Direct Primary Care: The Brightest Spot in Family Medicine—Sara Pastoor, MD, MHA, FAAFP, Head of Primary Care Advancement at Elation Health
    
    
  • Family Medicine Thrives with Real Team Support - A Story of an Aledade ACO Practice—Samuel “Le” Church, MD, MPH, CPC-I, CRC, FAAFP
    
    

8:45-9:45 am—Breakouts

Potomac A, Breakout Rm #1

Meeting the Needs of Patients at Risk
Facilitator: Joe Gravel, MD (STFM); Notetaking: Tom Vansaghi, PhD (NAPCRG)

• • • Street Medicine-House Calls Without Walls—Jehni Robinson, MD, FAAFP, President, Association of Departments of Family Medicine Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine; Associate Dean for Primary Care, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
      
      
    • Owning and Integrating Telehealth Care to Enhance Continuity and Access—Richelle Koopman, MD, MS, President of NAPCRG, Professor and Chair, Jack M. and Winifred S. Colwill Endowed Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri
      
      
    • Are Your Dreams Big Enough—Brian Toomey, MSW, Advisor to CEO, Piedmont Health Services

Potomac B, Breakout Rm #2

Primary Care at Scale
Facilitator: Grant Greenberg, MD, MA, MHSA, FAAFP, Notetaking: Roger Bean, CPA (ABFM)

• • • Organizing for Teams at Scale—David Rushlow, MD, MD, MBOE, Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Mayo Clinic

• • • Inpatient Medical Care for a Whole Community: UNC Family Medicine Inpatient Service—Karen Halpert, MD, Vice Chair of Clinical Excellence, Medical Director UNC Family Medicine Center Durham

• • • Care of Pregnant Women Across an Entire City—Charles Williams, MD, Assistant Professor, Vice Chair for Primary Care Development and Innovation at Boston University

9:45–10 am—Break

10-11 am—Washington/Jefferson Room

Bold Visions: Setting Regional and National Strategy
Facilitator: David Park, DO, FAAFP, FACOFP dist. (ACOFP); Notetaking: Amanda Weidner, MPH (ADFM)

• • • Surviving & Thriving in Rural Family Medicine—Bennett Graham, MBA, President and Co-Founder of Main Street Health

    • Building a Statewide Coalition for Action: The Virginia Task Force on Primary Care—Beth Bortz, MPP, President and CEO at Virginia Center for Health Innovation (VCHI)
      

10-11 am—Breakouts

Potomac A, Breakout Rm #1

Catalysts of Change
Facilitator: Jehni Robinson, MD, FAAFP (ADFM); Note Taking: Lisa Ochs (AFMRD)

• • • The Family Medicine AIRE: Training for what the future will need at Mercy Health System—Sarah Cole, DO, FAAFP, President of AFMRDProgram Director at Mercy Family Medicine
      

    • Creating a Longitudinal Integrated Curricula That Puts Family Medicine in the Driver's Seat—Kirby Clark, MD, Director-Rural Physician Associate Program,  Metropolitan Physician Associate Program, University of Minnesota Medical School

• • • Clinical Leverage to Create New Departments in Target Medical Schools—Andrea Anderson, MD, Med, FAAFP, Board Chair of the American Board of Family Medicine, Associate Chief of the Division of Family Medicine at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GW), Chair of the DC Board of Medicine

Potomac B, Breakout Rm #2

Catalysts of Change II
Facilitator: Viv Ramsden, RN PhD, MCFFP (Hon.), FCAHS (NAPCRG); Note Taking: Bob Moore, MA, MS, FAFSA, CAE (ACOFP)

• • • Continuity’s Impact on Outcomes—Bob Phillips, MD, MSPH, Founding Executive Director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care and Executive Committee Member of the ABFM
      
      
    • Rethinking the Care Team in FQHCs—Renee Crichlow, MD, FAAFP, Past President, STFM; Chief Medical Officer, Codman Square Health Center, Vice-Chair of Health
      Equity, Boston University Medical School, Department of Family Medicine
      

11-11:15 am—Break

11:15 am–12 pm—Washington/Jefferson Room

Town Hall: Meaning and Direction
Facilitator: Warren Newton, MD, MPH (ABFM); Notetaking: Janice Thomas (ABFM)

• • • What Are the Major Learnings From the Last 24 Hours?
    • What Should Next Steps be for the Speciality?
    • What Should Next Steps be for Future Retreats?

The purpose of this session is to begin framing the lessons from this retreat and explore next steps. The format will be large group, interactive discussion.

12-1 pm LUNCH—Washington/Jefferson Room

Friday, August 16, 2024 (all times are eastern)

1-1:10 pm—Washington Jefferson Room

Welcome and Review of Agenda
Moderator: Andrea Anderson, MD, MEd, FAAFP (ABFM)

1:10–1:50 pm—Washington Jefferson Room

National Research Capacity Building in Family Medicine—Update and Next Steps

• • Irf Asif, MD, Chair, Family Medicine Research Strategic Plan
  • Amanda Weidner, MPH, Executive Director of ADFM
  • Tom Vansaghi, PhD, Executive Director of NAPCRG
    
    Report and Proposals for Next Steps
    • Updates
    • NIH CARE initiative
    • Round Robin Updates

(background readings)

• • • A Milestone for Promoting Research in Family Medicine
    • Shaping the Future of Family Medicine Research: The 2023 National Family Medicine Research Summit
    • Summary of CARE for Health initiative launch
    • Connecting lab, clinic, and community
    • Summary of the listening sessions held ahead of the CARE launch
    • Proposal for reforming the NIH 

1:50–2:30 pm—Washington Jefferson Room

What Are the Priorities for Family Medicine in Responding to and Using AI? Should We Develop a Coordinated Strategy?

• • Uniquely Family Medicine: Considerations for a Coordinated Strategy on AI—Steven Lin, MD, Clinical Professor, Medicine Section Chief, General Primary Care Director, Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team, Stanford University School of Medicine, President-Elect of STFM

• • AAFP

2:30–2:40 pm—BREAK

2:40–3:20 pm—Washington Jefferson Room

Implementing POCUS in Continuity Care

• • Should we develop a specialty-wide collaborative strategy to put POCUS into clinical practice?
  • If so, what should be our goals, and what are next steps? What should the family of family medicine do together? (see discussion paper from AAFP, ABFM, ADFM, NAPCRG, & STFM)

3:20—3:30 pm—Washington Jefferson Room

Wrap Up and Next Steps

About FMLC

Formed in 1977 and renamed in 2019, the Family Medicine Leadership Consortium is intended to facilitate information sharing, relationship building, and leadership for coordinated and/or collaborative strategic action on behalf of family medicine. The twice yearly meetings of the leadership of the key family medicine organizations are foundational to collective impact. At FMLC meetings, we develop personal relationships among leaders across organizations and explore common action with input from volunteer leaders and executive staff. 

FMLC History

FMLC Principles for Working Together