AGENDA
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Board of Directors meeting
7:00 to 9:00 p.m. President's Reception
Thursday, September 14, 2006
8:00 AM Welcome and Opening Ceremonies; introduction of candidates. Kenneth Christman, M.D., AAPS President.
I. Economics and Medicine
8:30 AM Confessions of a Corporate Insider: Why American Business Opposes Market-Based Medical Care. Craig Cantoni, Capstone Consulting, Scottsdale, AZ.
9:15 AM Criminals, Victims, and Innocent Bystanders: the Prisoner's Dilemma of Health Insurance. Gerry Smedinghoff Actuary.
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Pay for Performance or Pay for Compliance? Richard Dolinar, M.D. Heartland Institute.
11:00 AM Physicians: If I Am Not for Myself, Who Will Be for Me? Eric Novack, M.D. talkshow host.
11:45 AM Questions and Answers. Panel
12:01 PM Lunch. Debate: How Should Medical Care Be Financed? Government v. Free Markets. Jonathan Cohn. The New Republic v. Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute.
2:00 PM Optional Roundtables Legal issues, Andrew Schlafly
advocating for fair hospital prices, Dr. Robert Berry
meeting the media, Kathryn Serkes
sham peer review, Dr. Larry Huntoon
cash-based practice, Todd Coulter and others
Friday, September 15, 2006
II. Keynote Medical Lecture
8:00 AM Preventing (or Accelerating) Aging and Degenerative Disease. Bruce Ames, M.D. U. C. Berkeley
III. Preserving the Right to Private Medicine: The Role of AAPS
9:00 AM The Future of American Medicine: Will Doctors Be Obsolete? Jane M. Orient, M.D., AAPS Executive Director.
9:20 AM The American Health Information Community and Other Threats to Private Medicine. Andrew Schlafly, AAPS General Counsel.
9:40 AM Patient-Doctor Direct. Kathryn Serkes., AAPS Public Affairs Counsel.
10:00 AM Break
10:20 AM Defending Freedom and Privacy in Medical Practice. Michael Ostrolenk, AAPS Government Affairs Director.
10:40 AM Scientific Integrity: the Role of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief.
11:00 AM Health Care, Lies, and Videotape: The Canadian Experience. Stuart Browning, co-producer of Dead Meat, On the Fence Films.
12:01 PM Lunch. Thinking Through Obstacles to Restoring the Free Market to Medicine: Changing What We Can and Pursuing Relentless Persuasion. Marianne Jennings, Department of Management, Ariz State Univ.
IV. Peer Review and Professional Liability
2:00 PM Malicious Peer Review. Lawrence R. Poliner, M.D.,
2:40 PM The Ideal System of Tort Law. John Hasnas, Ph.D., J.D. Georgetown University.
3:10 PM Liability Reform. Hon. John Buttrick, Judge, Maricopa County Superior Court.
3:40 PM Tort Reform in Nevada. Warren Evins, M.D., Nevada State Medical Association.
4:10 PM Combating Frivolous Malpractice Suits. Jeffrey Segal, M.D., CEO, Medical Justice Services, Inc.
4:40 PM Questions and Answers. Panel
6:30 PM Reception
7:00 PM Banquet. Historic Forensic Cases Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D., forensic pathologist.
Saturday, September 16, 2005
7:30 AM Business Meeting: Resolutions and Elections
V. Practical Legal and Economic Issues
9:00 AM Defending Medicine: Civil, Regulatory, and Criminal Fronts. Andrew Schlafly, Esq., AAPS General Counsel.
10:00 AM Cash-Based Practice. Steven Hotze, M.D., Katy, TX; Jordan Shlain, M.D. and Mark Schiller, M.D., San Francisco, CA; Paul Gorman, M.D., Johnson City, TN; and Larry Bans, M.D., Phoenix, AZ.
11:30 AM For the Good of the Order.
NOON Adjourn
1:00 PM Board of Directors meeting
Program Committee: Robert P. Gervais, M.D., Chairman; Kenneth Christman, M.D., W. Daniel Jordan, M.D., and Jane M. Orient, M.D.
*Learning Objectives: At the program's conclusion, participants should be able to: (1) Identify ways to protect the patient-physician relationship; (2) improve the viability of private medicine; (3) minimize legal vulnerabilities.
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