Advisory Committee on Group Practice, Governing Council Meeting
Nov. 10 & 11, 2007
Honolulu, Hawaii
Mark Kelley, MD, executive vice president of Henry Ford Health System, chaired meetings of the Advisory Committee on Group Practice Physicians on Friday and Saturday.
The committee welcomed three new members: Ron Kirkland, MD, president and board chair of the Jackson Clinic in Tennessee; Mary Anna Sullivan, MD, chief quality and safety officer at Lahey Clinic in Massachusetts; and Dave Weber, MD, CEO of Wenatchee Valley Medical Center in Washington.
Special presentations by committee members included: "How payment policies effect physician specialty and location," by Michael Kitchell, MD, president and board chair of McFarland Clinic in Iowa, and "Advanced medical homes and accountable care organizations," by Jay Crosson, MD; executive director of Permanente Federation in California.
Two members of the Council on Medical Education, Richard Pan, MD, and David Swee, MD, joined the committee for the discussion on medical homes.
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