Quality Expert, Cancer Panel Top Physician Conference Agenda

Sept. 21, 2015

  • WHAT: Top physician leaders and news media experts will gather in Bastrop for one of the most diverse Texas Medical Association (TMA) Fall Conference programs in years. Physicians will review medicine's and patients' wins and losses in the 2015 Texas Legislature (and learn insiders' takes on what makes health care news at the state Capitol); hear from a pioneer in health quality measurement about this huge trend in medicine and how to apply it to medical education; and learn about a cancer that threatens the health of a huge swath of Texans, hepatocellular carcinoma.  
    • Health care quality measurement is all the buzz in medicine. TMA Fall Conference speaker Frank Opelka, MD, is a pioneer in the concept of gathering and applying data to measure the best practices to produce the best patient care. 
    • Texas leads the nation in the number of cases and of people who die from a little-known cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma. This cancer is especially prevalent among Hispanic Texans, and obesity and diabetes are common risk factors (both of which are common here). A panel of Texas physician experts will provide more insight about this deadly disease.   
    • How did medicine do in protecting patient care this past legislative session? And what makes news at the Capitol? Hear from three men “in the trenches” covering the Texas Legislature. 

     
  • WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, 8:45 am-noon (See schedule below.) 

  • WHERE: Hyatt Lost Pines, Ballroom 5, 575 Hyatt Lost Pines Rd., Lost Pines

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AND SPEAKERS

8:45-9 am Opening Remarks 

Tom Garcia, MD, TMA President

9-10 am  Reporters' Roundtable: What Makes Health Care News at the Capitol 

Scott Braddock, The Quorum Report editor

Robert T. Garrett, The Dallas Morning News Austin bureau reporter

Josh Hinkle, KXAN-TV political reporter/executive producer of in-depth content

Moderator: Steve Levine, TMA vice president of communication

10-10:45 am  Health Care and Medical Education Redesign 

Frank Opelka, MD, American Medical Association's Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement chair; National Quality Forum's Consensus Standards Advisory Committee chair; American College of Surgeons medical director of quality and health policy

11 am-Noon  Texans and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Panel Discussion 

Declan Fleming, MD, FACS, TMA Committee on Cancer immediate past chair; Howard Monsour, MD; and Amit Singal, MD


 TMA is the largest state medical society in the nation, representing more than 48,000 physician and medical student members. It is located in Austin and has 110 component county medical societies around the state. TMA’s key objective since 1853 is to improve the health of all Texans.  

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Last Updated On

February 01, 2017

Originally Published On

September 22, 2015