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2008 APM Winter Meeting

February 27-March 1, 2008
Four Seasons Miami
Miami, FL

All available presentation material for the 2008 APM Winter Meeting has been posted on this site. The site will be updated with additional presentations as they are provided. Unless otherwise noted, all files are in PDF format.

Please do not use material from these presentations without consulting the speaker or APM.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Welcome and Introductions

William J. Bremner, MD, PhD
APM President

Edward J. Wing, MD
Chair, APM Program Planning Committee

Plenary Session I
Does the Physician-Scientist Have a Future? The APM Physician-Scientist Initiative

Andrew I. Schafer, MD, Moderator
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

William F. Crowley, Jr., MD
Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital

Donna E. Hansel, MD, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
of Case Western Reserve University

Challenges and Opportunities in Peer Review: A Vision for Ensuring Its Strategic National Value

David H. Eidelman, MD, Moderator
McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Antonio Scarpa, MD, PhD
National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review

APM Special Interest Groups

Community-Based Schools
Research-Intensive Schools
Urban/Public Hospital Schools
VA Medical Center Affiliated Schools

APM Business Meeting and Lunch

David E. Steward, MD, Moderator
APM President-Elect

APM Financial Update
Mark L. Zeidel, MD
APM Treasurer

Report on The American Journal of Medicine (AJM)
Joseph S. Alpert, MD
AJM Editor-in-Chief

Report from the APM Nominating Committee
Robert C. Aber, MD
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Report from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Christine K. Cassel, MD
ABIM President and Chief Executive Officer

Update on the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM)
D. Craig Brater, MD
AAIM President

Presidential Address
William J. Bremner, MD, PhD
APM President

Friday, February 29, 2008

Plenary Session II
Teaching Hospitals and Practice Plans for Sale: The Washington, DC, Experience

John A. Kastor, MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Panel:
Robert W. Finberg, MD, Moderator
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Joseph G. Verbalis, MD
S. Ray Mitchell, MD
Georgetown University School of Medicine

Leonard Wartofsky, MD
Washington Hospital Center

Alan G. Wasserman, MD
George Washington University School of Medicine

Plenary Session III
Problem Division Chiefs or Am I the Problem?

Victor L. Schuster, MD, Moderator
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Randall Capps, PhD
Leadership Strategies Group

John S. Lloyd
MEDI

APM Annual Awards Lunch for Participants and Guests

William J. Bremner, MD, PhD, Moderator
APM President

Presentation of the 2008 APM Diversity Award
Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD, Presenter
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

Myron L. Weisfeldt, MD, Recipient
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Presentation of the 2008 APM Robert H. Williams, MD, Distinguished Chair of Medicine Award
Edward Abraham, MD, Presenter
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

William J. Koopman, MD, Recipient
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

Keynote Address
Health Care Reform and the 2008 Elections

Donna E. Shalala, PhD
University of Miami

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Plenary Session IV: APM Annual Scientific Session
Nanotechnology: The Medicine of the Future…Today

Mary D. Nettleman, MD, Moderator
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

James R. Baker, Jr., MD
University of Michigan Medical School

Plenary Session V
Quality Improvement: Authority, Resources, and Implementation

Edward J. Wing, MD, Moderator
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

David B. Duggan, MD
State University of New York Upstate Medical University

Mark L. Zeidel, MD
Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital

Mary R. Cooper, MD, JD
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University


Meeting Agendas

2008 APM Winter Meeting (PDF)

2008 APM New Chairs Program (PDF)