Our Texas chapter meeting will be May 19th in San Antonio. We look forward to seeing you there!
Details:
When: Saturday, May 19, 2018 from 2pm to 8pm
Where: Hilton Homewood Suites, 125 North Loop 1604 W, San Antonio, TX 78232
(We have a limited number of guest rooms available. Let us know if you need a hotel room for Saturday night by replying to this email or calling AAPS Business Manager Jeremy Snavely – 520-270-0761.)
Cost: $50 AAPS members, $75 non-members, $25 additional guest, med student and residents FREE.
Includes dinner and up to 4 hours of Category I CME.
Register TODAY: https://aaps.wufoo.com/forms/m1er2f061w4lqtk/
Questions? Call/Text or email AAPS Business Manager Jeremy Snavely
520-270-0761 or jeremy@aapsonline.org
MEETING AGENDA
2pm to 2:30pm
Registration / Meet & Greet
Panel I: Restoring Freedom to American Medicine
2:30pm to 2:40pm
Welcome/Intro to Panel I
Sheila Page, DO
Chapter President
2:40pm to 3:00pm
Update on TX Legislation Impacting Doctors & Patients
Rep. Greg Bonnen, MD
Texas House of Representatives, District 44
3:00pm to 3:30pm
The Big Myth of Health Care.
Kevin Wacasey, MD
http://healthcareonomics.com/
3:30pm to 4:00 pm
The Dangers of the Administrative State, and how the “Opiate Crisis” Exemplifies those Problems.
John Dale Dunn, MD, JD
4:00pm to 4:45pm
Keynote: AAPS has the Cure for Sick Healthcare.
Deane Waldman, MD, MBA
Texas Public Policy Foundation
4:45pm to 5:00pm Q & A with Panel I
5:00pm to 5:15pm BREAK
5:15pm to 5:30pm Business Meeting and Election of Officers*
5:30pm DINNER & special video message
6:00pm to 6:30pm
Protecting Physician Rights of Conscience.
Darren Meyer, MD
Psychiatry, McKinney, TX
Panel II: Reducing Rx Costs
6:30pm to 6:40pm
Intro to Panel II
Sheila Page, DO
Chapter President
6:40pm to 7:10pm
PBMs: Profit Before Patients.
Ray Page DO, PhD
Oncology/Hematology, Weatherford, TX
7:10pm to 7:40pm
Why We Need In-Office Dispense
and What We Must Do to Make it Legal in Texas.
Kris Held, MD, Ophthalmology, San Antonio, TX
7:40pm to 8pm Q&A with Panel II
8pm Adjourn
*Note about business meeting: We will have a brief business meeting to elect officers and board members. Please notify us at president@texasaaps.org if you have an interest in being a part of leadership in this organization. Our nominating committee will be searching for strong leaders to represent Texas physicians.
The positions up for election are President, President-elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and 2 positions on the Board of Directors, ( 2 two-year terms).
More about our featured speaker:
Deane Waldman MD MBA is a retired pediatric cardiologist and system theorist analyst for American healthcare. He brings 37 years of clinical experience plus the business and administrative experience as Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at University of Chicago to the position of Director of the Center for Health Care Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He is also the Consumer Advocate member on the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange. His background and academic training include Yale, Chicago Medical School, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern, Harvard and Anderson Management Schools. He has authored over 150 academic medical publications and more than 250 lay articles on both management and strategy in healthcare.
“Dr. Deane,” as he is commonly known, is the author of award-winning print books including The Cancer in the American Healthcare System and the eBook series titled, Restoring Care to American Healthcare. We will have copies available at the event but you can use the links above to get your copies in advance. For those who prefer brick and mortar, they are also available at the BookPeople in Austin.