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Academic Internal Medicine Week 2008
Joint Plenary Session I Overview
Date/Time:
Friday, October 31, 2008, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Moderator: ??
Speakers:
Title/Topic:
Speaker Plan:
Backup:
Abraham Verghese, MD (Stanford University)
Patient care and humanism; why internal medicine is still a good career; and humanism in
teaching
Thirty minutes of this session will be dedicated to lunch service. Ten minutes should be
dedicated to introductory words about AIMW08. Twenty to 30 minutes should be
reserved for audience questions. One hour remains for presentation; no more than two
speakers should share this stage.
Possible Speakers
John Lantos, MD (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Atul Gawande, MD, PhD (Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s)
Deborah German, MD (University of Central Florida College of Medicine)
Michael Barr, MD (American College of Physicians)
Robert Wachter, MD (University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine)
Darrell Kirch, MD (Association of American Medical Colleges)
Jim Bagian, MD (VA National Center for Patient Safety)
Lucien Leap, MD
Gerald Hickson, MD (Vanderbilt Center for Patient Advocacy)
Jerome Groopman, MD (Harvard Medical School Beth Israel/Deaconess)
Joseph Zarconi, MD (Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine)
Possible Topics
Patient-centered medical home
Hospital medicine
Culture of medicine
Safety and lessons from aerospace industry
Patient advocacy
Humanism and professionalism
Concerns:
Next Steps:
How to keep the session relevant to the varied audience, interesting during lunch, and
balance inspiration with the “take home.”
Confirm speaker(s).