Primary Care Forums

About the Forums

Robert Graham Center Primary Care Forums are open discussions led by brief panel presentations that focus on timely issues in primary care. The forums are intended to inform the audience about important issues affecting primary care and family medicine, and to generate discussion among attendees. Recent examples include graduate medical education outcomes and accountability, telehealth in primary care, and disruptive innovations in primary care.

Upcoming Forums

Check back for updates on upcoming forums from the Robert Graham Center.

Past Forums

Moving from Burnout to Wellness in Primary Care
03/14/2018 — May 7, 2018 - Physician burnout is increasingly recognized as a threat to the nation’s health workforce and to delivering population health, higher quality of care and reduced cost.
What Do Patients Want from Telehealth?
10/13/2017 — With Tammy Toscos, MS, PhD; Wally Adamson, MD; Michael Rodriguez, MD, FAAFP; and Regina Holliday
Primary Care Research: Critical to the Triple Aim and in Desperate Need of a Home
05/25/2017 — With Andrew Bindman, MD; Bernard Ewigman, MD, MSPH; Jennifer Carroll, MD, MPH; and Alex Fiks, MD, MSCE
Beyond the Tipping Point: What Can Accountable Care Organizations Teach Us About the Future of Value-Based Payment?
12/01/2016 — With Farzad Mostashari, MD, MPH; Clay Ackerly, MD; Michael Coffey, MD; and Theodore Long, MD, MHS
Achieving the Triple Aim: Linking Clinical Health Services and Public Health to Improve Outcomes & Costs
07/28/2015 — With Chris Allen, FACHE; Nick Macchione, FACHE; and Katherine Neuhausen, MD, MPH
Achieving Effective Team-Based Primary Care in an Age of MACRA & Measurement
04/11/2016 — 04/26/2016 — With Kurt Stange, MD, PhD; Amanda Howe, MA, MD, MEd, FRCGP; and Erin Sullivan, PhD
Disruptive Innovations in Primary Care
06/19/2014 — With Andrew Schutzbank, MD, MPH; Brian Forrest, MD; Erika Bliss, MD; Nicholas Gettas, MD; and Tom Lee, MD.
Innovations in Population Health for PC Practices
06/18/2015 — With Arthur Kaufman, MD; L. Allen Dobson, Jr., MD; and Murray Tilyard, FRNZCGP, BSc, MB ChB, MD
From Fragmentation to Integration: A Triple Aim Imperative
10/16/2014 — With Benajamin Miller, PsyD; Parinda Khatri, PhD; Susan McDaniel, PhD, ABPP; and Patrick Gordon, MPA
Thinking Differently About Payment
03/25/2014 — With Robert Berensen, MD; David Katerndahl, MD, MA; and Jay Crossen, PhD.
Telehealth in Primary Care
01/24/2014 — With Adam Darkins, MD, MPHM, FRCS; Curtis Lowery, MD; and Kenneth M. McConnochie, MD, MPH.
Building a Workforce in Rural America
01/14/2014 — With Ted Epperly, MD, FAAFP; Amy Elizondo, MPH; and Randy Longnecker, MD.
GME Outcomes and Accountability
07/16/2013 — With Fitzhugh Mullan, MD; Candice Chen, MD, MPH; and Robert L. Phillips, Jr., MD, MSPH.
Helping Small Primary Care Practices Become Part of Accountable Care Organizations
02/07/2012 — With Patrick Conway, MD and James Puffer MD
Accountability in Graduate Medical Education
10/06/2011 — With George Thibault, MD; Russ Robertson, MD and Candice Chen, MD, MPH
Improving Rural Health Care Teams
07/14/2011 — With Warren Newton, MD; Tom Cogbill, MD; Ted Epperly, MD; and Timothy Putnam, DHA, MBA
Innovations in Primary Care Residency Education
05/17/2011 — With Samuel Jones, MD; Warren Newton, MD; and Larry Green, MD
Tackling Primary Care Workforce Demands in Light Of Health Care Reform
01/11/2011 — With James Puffer, MD; Eric Holmboe, MD; and James Stockman, MD, FACP, FRCP