8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Board of Directors meeting

7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
President's Reception

8:00 AM
Welcome and Opening Ceremonies. Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., President.

8:10 AM
Keynote Address: Are We on the Eve of Destruction? Jane Orient, M.D., AAPS Executive Director

8:30 AM
State of the Organization. Reports; nominations, resolutions.

10:00 AM
Break

I. Doctors Take Back the Profession

10:15 AM
A Medicare/Managed Care-Free Out-Patient Surgery Center. G. Keith Smith, M.D. (anesthesiologist, Oklahoma City)

11:15 AM
Financing Free-Market Medicine. Ralph Weber, CLU (Route Three Life Health Disability, Paso Robles, CA)

12:01 PM
Lunch. Confronting State-by-State Reformers. Linda Gorman, Ph.D. (invited; Independence Institute) 2:30-4 PM
Reference Committee; Optional Working Groups

6:00 PM
Optional Barbecue. (Stonecreek Golf Club, $50 extra)

II. The Current Medical System

8:00 AM
The Hospital and Managed Care Squeeze. Case Study: CareSource Ohio. Kenneth Christman, M.D. (plastic surgeon, Dayton, OH).

8:30 AM
Federation of State Medical Boards: What, When, Where, and How? Curtis Harris, M.S., M.D., J.D. (endocrinologist, Ada, OK).

9:15 AM
Arizona Medical Board: an Inside View. Jay Crutchfield, M.D. (general surgery, Prescott, AZ).

10:00 AM
Break

10:15 AM
Health Insurance, Medical Inflation, & the Patient-Physician Relationship. Richard Warner, M.D. (Past President, Kansas Medical Society).

11:15 AM
Texas Medical Board: Due Process of the Law. Andrew Schlafly, Esq. (AAPS General Counsel)

12:01 PM
Lunch. Strategic Out-Sourcing: a Threat to Physicians. Jerry Behar (Amherst, NY).

III. Medical Innovation and Controversies

2:00 PM
Adaptive Innovations in Medicine: Vitamin D, Iodine, Selenium. Donald Miller, M.D (professor, cardiothoracic surgery division, Univ. Wash.).

3:00 PM
Vaccines and Childhood Illnesses: Beyond Thimerosal. David Ayoub, M.D. , (radiologist, Springfield, IL).

4:00 PM
Concierge Practice. Marcy Zwelling-Aamot, M.D., (internal medicine, emergency medicine, Los Alamitos, CA); Thomas LaGrelius, M.D., (family practice, Torrance, CA); Steven Knope, M.D. (internist, Tucson, AZ). 6:30 PM Reception.

7:30 pm
Welfare Paradigms Are Not Forever: Reform and Revolution in European Medicine and Beyond. Alphonse Crespo, M.D. (orthopedic surgeon, Switzerland; Liberty Fund).

8:00 AM
Business Session: Election, Resolutions, Working Group reports.

9:30 AM
Third-Party-Free Practice. Michael J.A. Robb, M.D. , (otoneurologist, Phoenix, AZ); Suzanne Sisley, M.D. (psychiatrist, Scottsdale, AZ); Douglas J. Campbell, M.D. (family practice, Prescott, AZ).

10:45 AM
On the Right to Self Defense. Alan Korwin (author, Gun Laws of America).

11:30 AM
For the Good of the Order

12:00
Adjourn

1:00 PM
Board of Directors meeting