Pre-Conference Activities
The CFHA Conference will include 4 activities on Thursday, October 10, 2013, prior to the start of the CFHA Conference.
- Health Policy Summit: This is an invitation only program.
- Pre-Conference Workshops: These in-depth sessions are offered as an optional registration with additional fee.
Advance registration is required for all Pre-Conference Activities.
Health Policy Summit
Thursday, October 10, 2013 12PM to 5PM - By invitation only
Prior to the conference each year, CFHA invites local representatives to participate in a regional Health Policy Summit on collaborative family healthcare. In this forum, local representatives highlight gains in healthcare reform and best practice implementation and major stakeholders unite around a shared vision for future progress.
Participation in the Summit is by invitation for local stakeholders only.
Pre-Conference Workshops
Thursday, October 10, 2013
These in-depth sessions are offered as an optional registration with additional fee on Thursday prior to the Conference's opening plenary session. Workshops typically focus on specific or unique skills and best practices.
- Pre-Conference Workshops are NOT included within the Conference registration fee. Advance registration is required for these programs; additional fees applicable.
- Lunch is NOT provided for Pre-Conference Workshops.
PC1 - Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 8:30AM to 4:30PM (lunch not included)
Building Leadership Skills for Change Management
in Your Practice
Jeri Hepworth, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair,
Family Medicine University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Susan McDaniel, PhD, Dr. Laurie Sands
Distinguished Professor of Families and Health University of Rochester Medicine
and Dentistry
Abstract Leadership isn't
about title, but is about behavior, intention, and empowering others. With
enormous change in our collaborative practices, training programs, medical
centers, and departments comes opportunity for Behavioral Health providers, psychotherapists,
physicians, nurses, and other members of the healthcare team to increase their
participation and leadership. Whether you are interested in practice
transformation, educational innovations, or assuming a new formal leadership
position, change management skills are necessary. This interactive workshop
will elucidate the change management skills you already use, and those you want
to develop as we move through this period of rapid change in healthcare
delivery and professional training.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation, the
participant will be able to:
- Identify effective
leadership skills for change management and recognize how they are related to
existing skills of collaborative care professionals.
- Identify a range
of individual, program and departmental leadership opportunities that will
benefit from their involvement as collaborative care professionals.
- Create a Personal
Action Plan to increase change management activities in their home settings.
- Experience
leadership exercises that can be adapted for their own settings.
Workshop Fee: $199 per person (before 9/13/2013)
PC2 - Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 1PM to 4:30PM
Behavioral Health and Unexplained Symptoms: Thinking and
Practicing Differently
Kurt Kroenke, MD, Professor of Medicine, Indiana
University School of Medicine; Wendy Bradley, MA, Clinical
Supervisor/Improvement Advisor, Southcentral
Foundation; David Clarke, MD,
Gastroenterologist, President, Psychophysiologic
Disorders Association; Sean Hearn, MD, Family Physician, AllinaHealth; Norm Rasmussen, EdD, Psychologist Consultant, Department of
Psychiatry and Psychology and Department of Family Medicine, Mayo Clinic
This pre-conference workshop will focus on integrated
approaches to patients with unexplained symptoms. Our primary speaker, Kurt
Kroenke, has published extensively on the epidemiology of unexplained symptoms.
His overview will be followed by stories from four people who are working with
patients with unexplained symptoms in a variety of ways. Their stories will
introduce the skills building breakout sessions that each will lead. Breakout
sessions led by these four presenters as well as one by Dr. Kroenke will be
interactive and focused on building practical skills.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Explain the epidemiology
of medically unexplained symptoms in primary care;
- Describe one approach that
medical providers can take in the assessment or management of patients with
unexplained symptoms;
- Describe one approach that
behavioral health providers can take in the assessment or management of
patients with unexplained symptoms;
- List potential benefits of
an integrated approach to unexplained symptoms in terms of achieving the
Triple Aim of improving health, improving patient experience and managing
costs.
Workshop Fee: $129 per person (before 9/13/2013)
PC3 - Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 1PM to 4:30PM
Boot Camp for Students and New Professionals
Presenters to be determined
Description to come
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to :
- Objective #1
- Objective #2
- Objective #3
- Objective #4
Workshop Fee: $129 per person (before 9/13/2013)
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