"Incorporating the Matrix in Your GME Program"
John Bingham, VP, Performance Improvement & Chief Quality Officer and
Doris Quinn, PhD, Director, Process Improvement and Quality Education - MD Anderson Cancer Center 

This workshop will demonstrate how residents have used the Healthcare Matrix to assess care for patients with pneumonia in terms of the Institute for Medicine Aims for improvement and the ACGME Competencies. The Healthcare Matrix is a tool that guides learners to ask if care is: safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient centered.  The tool also integrates the competencies (now required by the ACGME, maintenance of certification boards and the Joint Commission for credentialing) and external quality metrics into real-time assessment of care. Workshop participants will see how residents learn the most common QI tools and use these tools to improve processes of care based on a resident-based Healthcare Matrix curriculum.  Participants will practice using the Healthcare Matrix with a case presentation and will share lessons learned from the case presentation.

* Please note that a separate registration fee is required and that seating is limited

Bill Pinsky, MD, AIAMC Board President
Hal Jenson, MD, 2009 Annual Meeting Chairman

American Hospital Association
James Bentley, PhD, Sr. VP, Strategic Policy Planning

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
Murray Kopelow, MD, MS (Comm), FRCPC, Chief Executive

American Medical Association
Paul Rockey, MD, MPH, Director, Graduate Medical Education

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education: 2008 - 2010
Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, Chief Executive Officer

Afternoon Workshop*
“Affiliation Agreements and Alliance Strategies”
Ben Gomes-Casseres, Professor, Brandeis International Business School

Success in partnerships comes from getting both their strategy and their implementation right. In the Friday morning plenary session, we will have considered the big picture from the perspectives of medical schools and hospitals. In this workshop, we will continue our discussion of strategic factors, but also delve deeper into practical issues concerning the economics, the organization and the processes involved in successful partnerships. Come prepared to share your own experience, to explore the issues you face today and to roll up your sleeves and develop creative solutions. It will be a highly interactive session that should leave you with suggestions and tips to address your own situation.

*Please note that a separate registration fee is required and that seating is limited

Annual Awards Dinner & 20th Anniversary Celebration*
This annual event is a favorite of conference attendees and will be extra special this year as we celebrate 20 years of the AIAMC. Plan now to enjoy a most memorable evening with your Alliance colleagues and friends. Hurry: this event is always a sell-out.

*Please note that a separate fee is required and that seating is limited

 
Continuing Medical Education
"CME: Who Are Our Partners?"

AIAMC Case Study #1: Baystate Medical Center
Elisabeth Bennett, PhD, Director of Education and
Joanna Barnett, Director of Continuing Education and
Keith White, PhD, Assistant Director of Education

AIAMC Case Study #2: Guthrie Clinic/Robert Packer Hospital
Dwight Stapleton, MD, Chairman, Department of Medicine

Reactor Panel:
Murray Kopelow, MD, MS (Comm), FRCPC, Chief Executive, ACCME, and
Mike Saxton, Senior Director and Team Leader, Medical Education Group, Pfizer

Graduate Medical Education
"The DIO and Program Director: A Successful Partnership"

AIAMC Case Study #1:  Iowa Health – Des Moines
Douglas Dorner, MD, Sr. Vice President, Medical Education and Research and
W. John Yost, MD, Program Director, Internal Medicine

AIAMC Case Study #2:  Tri Health
Thomas Saladin, MD, Vice President, Academic Affairs and
Richard Welling, MD, Director of Surgery/Program Director, General Surgery

Reactor Panel: 
Patricia Surdyk, PhD, Executive Director, IRC and Ob-Gyn, ACGME

Executive Management
"Aligning GME and Operational Improvement Through 'Lean': The Virginia Mason Experience"
Alvin Calderon, MD, Internal Medicine Program Director and
Lynne Chafetz, Sr. VP and General Counsel and
Joyce Lammert, MD, Chief of Medicine  - Virginia Mason Medical Center

Research
"Relationships with PhRMA: Is There a Role for the Practitioner?"
Oren Cohen, MD, Sr. VP, Chief Medical & Scientific Officer, Quintiles International

Plenary Session
“The Accreditation Perspective”
Murray Kopelow, MD, MS (Comm), FRCPC, Chief Executive, ACCME and
Paul Rockey, MD, MPH, Director, Graduate Medical Education, AMA