Autumn 2003 Southern Rural Access Program Grantee Conference

Presenter's Notes & Related Materials

Listed below are links to information disseminated at the October 29-31, 2003 Southern Rural Access Program Autumn Grantee Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Austin, Texas.

• Conference Agenda, Participant List, Presenter and Staff Biographical Sketches, Planning Committee, and Conference Highlights (PDF)

Presentations

• RWJF Update, Anne Weiss, Senior Program Officer - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Improving Diversity in the Health Care Workforce, Charles Terrell, EdD, VP - Division of Community and Minority Programs, Association of American Medical Colleges
• Assessing Medical School Admission Policies: Implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's Affirmative-Action Decisions, www.aamc.org/morediversity
• Rural Health Policy for Dummies, Kristy Nichols, Director - Louisiana Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
• The Role of Medical Schools on Producing Rural Physicians, Jack Colwill, Professor - University of Missouri-Columbia and Director - RWJF's Generalist Physician Initiative
• Recruitment and Retention Through Scholarship, Loan Repayment and Related Programs, Donald Pathman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor - Cecil G. Sheps Center for Research at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Principles of Retaining Rural Physicians: Lessons Learned from UNC's Studies of the Past 10 Years, Donald Pathman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor - Cecil G. Sheps Center for Research at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Rural Residency Training: A passing romance or a path for the future?, Randell Longenecker, MD, Rural Program Associate Director - Mad River Family Practice, The Ohio State University Rural Program
• Rural GME Bibliography, Randell Longenecker, MD, Rural Program Associate Director - Mad River Family Practice, The Ohio State University Rural Program
• Innovative Approaches to Rural Graduate Medical Education, Robert S. Walker, MD, MS, Professor and Chair - Family and Community Health and Clinical Director - Robert C. Byrd Center for Rural Health
• College Health Connection, Benjamin Rackley, Executive Director - Tuskegee AHEC
• Addressing Alabama's Need for More Minority Doctors, John R. Wheat, MD, MPH, Professor - University of Alabama Tusculoosa; Robert Garner, PhD, Professor Emeritus - University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; and Benjamin Rackley, Executive Director, Tuskegee AHEC.
• Is Rural Provider Retention Really Possible?, Nelson Tilden, consultant
• Recruiting for Retention: A process built on the 3RNet model, Fred Moskol, National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network and Wisconsin Office of Rural Health
• Building and Maintaining Policy Support in a Fiscally Tight Environment, Hilda R. Heady, MSW, Executive Director - West Virginia University Rural Health Education Partnership
• Dually Accredited Residency Programs, Michael Adelman, DO, VP for Academic Affairs, West Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Osteopathic and Allopathic Partnerships for GME, Marc B. Hahn, DO, Dean - Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth
• Texas's Approach to Maintaining & Increasing the Diversity of the Physician workforce Since the Hopwood Decision, W. Budge Mabry, Director - Texas Medical and Dental Application Service and Joint Admission Medical Program; Steve Shelton, MBA, PA-C, CEO - East Texas AHEC; and Mary Wainwright, deputy director - East Texas AHEC.
• Trends in Medicare Bonus Payments to Health Professional Shortage Areas and Possible Implications for Access to Care, Lisa R. Shugarman, PhD, Associate Health Policy Researcher -RAND Institute
• Medicare Bonus Payment for Rural Providers, Barbara Wren, Practice Management Specialist - Southwest Georgia AHEC
• Medicare Bonus Payments in Rural Underserved Areas: East Texas Rural Access Program Physician Survey, Janis Ritter, MEd, Practice Management Specialist, Piney Woods AHEC.