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Governor’s Message By William A. Shiffermiller, MD, FACP
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Governor’s Message
2013 Leadership Day
2013 Annual Meeting Brochure and Registration
NEBRASKA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AUGUST 2013
Nebraska
Dear Colleagues:
2013 is looking again to be a produc9ve year for the ACP. Locally Dr. Tom Tape has transi9oned from Chair of the Board of Governors to a Regent of the College. Dr. Micah Beachy has been appointed to the Council of Early Career Physicians. Dr. Beachy and Dr. Jason Shiffermiller collaborated on a state health policy mee9ng in March to discuss issues as well as how the local chapter can advocate with state officials on legisla9on of interest.
Kris Rahm, with help from Laurie Braun, con9nues to provide exemplary services as the Execu9ve Director of our Chapter. Our chapter mee9ng will be held at the downtown Hilton in Omaha on October 17 and 18th and I an9cipate will be as always a produc9ve educa9onal opportunity. Na9onally the spring mee9ng in San Francisco met expecta9ons and con9nues to be, in my mind, the best internal medical medicine educa9onal value available. The Nebraska chapter again took part in the Leadership day, which was held in Washington, DC under the direc9on of Dr. Jason Shiffermiller, Chair of the HPPC. Please read his report which is included in this newsleTer.
Also at the spring mee9ng in San Francisco, several resolu9ons of interest were presented. One explored financial collabora9on between long-‐term care facili9es and hospitals to reduce cost and improve quality by aligning incen9ves. Another expressed the desire to limit the Medicare annual visit to only primary care. A further explored whether the hospital medicine cer9fica9on track was a produc9ve addi9on to recer9fica9on or not. Inves9ga9ng and promo9ng methods of effec9ve communica9on within electronic medical record systems was the subject of another and how to enhance the value of membership in the ACP for large prac9ce groups and associa9ons was another project. Finally was a proposal encouraging the American College of Graduate Medical Educa9on to develop and maintain evidence-‐based requirements for residency programs. I con9nue to be encouraged by the ACP’s support of lifelong educa9on in internal medicine and its con9nued advocacy of parsimonious and effec9ve medical care for the popula9on we serve. I hope to see you at the annual mee9ng (please see brochure below).
NEBRASKA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AUGUST 2013
2013 Leadership Day By Jason Shiffermiller, MD, FACP
Each year, ACP Services, Inc. organizes an advocacy event in Washington DC that helps ACP members connect with their Congressional Representa9ves on issues important to internal medicine. For those of you not familiar with ACP Services, this is a separate professional membership associa9on created in 1998 to provide advocacy and other services to internist-‐members. This year, the event was held on May 21st and 22nd. ATendance con9nues to increase, overall and Nebraska’s con9ngency grew to eight and consisted of two tradi9onal prac9ce internists, three academic internists of whom two are hospitalists, one resident from each medical school, and one very dedicated medical student. The group included our Governor, Dr. William Shiffermiller, and the president of ACP services, Dr. Thomas Tape.
Once again this year, we asked the Nebraska Members of Congress to eliminate the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula as a method for controlling health care costs. We offered them a reasoned approach to transi9oning to one or more new payment models. ACP has been advoca9ng that same approach to the House Ways and Means CommiTee and the House Energy and Commerce CommiTee throughout this spring. Those commiTees have joint responsibility for managing Medicare and have created a broad proposal for repealing the SGR that is largely consistent with ACP’s recommenda9ons. A bipar9san bill has also been introduced in the House (H.R. 574) that seeks to achieve many of the same changes. ACP was also recently asked to provide recommenda9ons for SGR repeal to the Senate Finance CommiTee which has sole jurisdic9on over Medicare on the Senate side. The response to that request has been posted online at hTp://www.acponline.org/acp_policy/leTers/acp_response_to_sfc_2013.pdf . In total, this represents more interest in SGR reform on Capitol Hill than I have seen in the last five years combined.
In addi9on to SGR reform, we brought several other maTers to the aTen9on of our Senators and Representa9ves. They did not seem to be aware that UNMC Chancellor, Dr. Harold Maurer, has been appointed to the Na9onal Health Care Workforce Commission. This commission was created by the ACA but has not yet been allowed to meet because congress has not approved its funding. The commission is charged with making recommending that would align federal policy with real-‐world physician workforce needs. As of now, that charge goes unanswered. In a similar vein, we spoke at length with our Congressional offices about reforming the Graduate Medical Educa9on (GME) funding system. Finally, we presented them with what I think are innova9ve ideas for reform of the medical liability court system. Although that issue certainly didn’t resonate with all of our Congressmen, it tends to be more popular among Republicans and did get a few posi9ve responses from Nebraska’s 100% Republican delega9on.
Overall, it was an interes9ng and exci9ng Leadership Day. Congress seems to be slowly moving on some of our priority issues. Nebraska’s congressional offices made us feel welcome and were willing to par9cipate in meaningful discussion about the prac9ce of internal medicine. Despite the fiscal environment, we are looking forward to the developments that the coming year brings. If you are interested in aTending Leadership Day in 2014, please contact me at [email protected]
NEBRASKA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AUGUST 2013
2013NE ACP Delegation:
Rich Seitz,
Tom Tape,
Micah Beachy,
Keenan Taylor,
Sen. Mike Johanns
Jason Shiffermiller,
Jason Lambrecht,
Caitlin Muir and
Bill Shiffermiller
LEADERSHIP
DAY
NEBRASKA
ACP SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Hilton Omaha
This educational activity has been designated for 11 CME credits.
October 17-18Omaha, NE
2013
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Thursday, 11:30 am Governor’s Advisory Council Mee9ng
October 17 12:30 pm Registra9on Begins
1:25 pm Welcome -‐ William Shiffermiller, Governor
1:30 pm AGernoon Session Begins
Pallavi Bellamkonda, Moderator
1:30 pm SEP Module -‐ Hospital Based Medicine -‐ Part I
Katherine Hoppes
2:30 pm BREAK
2:45 pm SEP Module -‐ Hospital Based Medicine -‐ Part II
Sarah Richards
3:45 pm BREAK
4:00 pm SEP Module -‐ Hospital Based Medicine -‐ Part III
Abby Shiffermiller
5:00 pm Resident and Student Poster Compe99on
6:35 pm Doctors’ Dilemma
Devin Fox
7:45 pm Poster Winners Announced
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Friday, 7:00 am Fellowship Breakfast**
October 18 Registra9on Con9nues
8:00 am Morning Session Begins
Regan Taylor, Moderator
8:00 am Male Hormone Replacement
Amy Neumeister
9:00 am Obesity 360 Degrees
Birgit Khandalawala
10:00 am BREAK
10:30 am Washington Update -‐ Bob Doherty
11:15 am Fostering Excellence & Professionalism in
Internal Medicine -‐ Thomas Tape
**Any member contemplaNng applying for advancement to Fellowship should aQend, as well as current Fellows who can assist those seeking Fellowship by acNng as seconders to their applicaNon.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Friday, 12:00 pm Awards Luncheon & Town Hall MeeNng
October 18 William Shiffermiller
1:00 pm AGernoon Session Begins
1:00 pm Trans Catheter Value Replacement Surgery
Ruby Satpathy
2:00 pm An Update in Hospital Medicine 2013
Thomas Frederickson
3:00 pm BREAK
3:30 pm Familial Colon Cancers -‐ Stephen Lanspa
4:30 pm Thieves’ Market -‐ J. Scob Neumeister
PLANNING COMMITTEE:
William A. Shiffermiller, MD, FACP Regan Taylor, MD, FACP Pallavi Bellamkonda, MD
FACULTY:Bob Doherty is Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy for the American College of Physicians (ACP), the largest physician specialty society and second largest medical organiza9on in the U.S. ACP represents 130,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students. Mr. Doherty has over 32 years of health policy experience and is an accomplished presenter at health conferences. From 1979 to 1998, he worked in the governmental affairs department of the American Society of Internal Medicine, and with the merger of ASIM and ACP in June, 1998, joined the ACP as Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs and Public Policy.
Thomas W. Frederickson, MD, FACP, has been a prac9ce hospitalist for 15 years, previously in Kansas City Missouri, and currently with Alegent Creighton Health. He is currently the Medical Director for Hospital Medicine at Alegent Creighton Health. His clinical interests are hospital medicine program leadership, pa9ent safety, evidence based care and care redesign.
Devin J. Fox, MD. FACP, grew up in Omaha, NE, and aTended the University of Nebraska Medical Center for medical school aler doing his undergraduate work at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He did his residency training and chief residency at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha. He is a partner in a community-‐based prac9ce in Omaha and has stayed on as faculty at Creighton, where he is involved in student and resident educa9on at various levels in their training, and is the course director for the fourth year sub-‐internship in Internal Medicine. His clinical interests include Preventa9ve Medicine and Wellness, HIV medicine, and Geriatrics.
Katherine Hoppes, MD, is originally from Omaha, aTended college at UNL and medical school at UNMC. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency in 2008 and was Ambulatory Chief Resident. She has worked as a Hospitalist at Methodist Hospital in Omaha since 2009.
Birgit Khandalavala, MD, is an obesity medicine specialist. She has been the director of the medical division for the Bariatrics Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center since June 2012. Dr. Khandalavala completed her residency in Family Medicine at Creighton University and had remained on faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at Creighton since 1997. Her clinical work consists of obesity management and her research interests include obesity bias, post-‐bariatric surgery outcomes and the use of obesity medica9on. Her desire is to see obesity recognized as a chronic disease, incorporated into mainstream clinical management by every provider.
FACULTY:
Stephen Lanspa, MD, FACP, received his Doctorate of Medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He was a Fellow in Internal Medicine and a Trainee in Gastroenterology at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. He received his Master Degree in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University in PiTsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the Specialty Care Medical Director for the Alegent-‐Creighton Clinic, and Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Creighton University School of Medicine. He is Board cer9fied in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. His special interest is hereditary colon cancer and Lynch syndrome with substan9al research, lectures, and publica9ons on these topics.
J. ScoQ Neumeister, MD, FACP, is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is a clinician educator in general internal medicine who also teaches courses in clinical reasoning to third and fourth year students. For many years, he has given the "Thieves' Market" presenta9ons at the Nebraska Chapter ACP mee9ngs.
Sarah Richards, MD, received her MD degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). She completed her Internal Medicine residency and was a Chief Resident at UNMC . She currently serves as Co-‐Director of the Academic Hospitalists and is a prac9cing Hospitalist at UNMC. She and her husband Blake have twin daughters.
Amy Neumeister, MD, FACP, grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Northwestern University before aTending the University of Nebraska Medical Center for medical school. She remained at UNMC for her Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship. She has been an assistant professor at UNMC in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism since 2005. She is a clinician educator at The Nebraska Medical Center’s Diabetes Center and co-‐directs the endocrine por9on of the second year medical student curriculum. Her principal interests are diabetes and hyperthyroidism.
FACULTY:
Ruby Satpathy, MD, is an Interven9onal Cardiologist, who went to William Beaumont Hospital, Michigan for Interven9onal Cardiology training aler finishing her residency and fellowship at Creighton University. She is one of the very few physicians in country, who are formally trained and specializes in Structural Heart Interven9ons. She joined Alegent Heart and Vascular Ins9tute in 2010 as Director of Structural Heart Program and Valve Clinic. She has been doing Transcatheter Valve Replacement since it was FDA approved last year. Currently she serves on mul9ple commiTees at na9onal level for ACC and SCAI.
Thomas G. Tape, MD. FACP is currently a Regent of ACP. He also Chairs the ACP Health and Public Policy CommiTee and serves on the High Value Care Task Force. During 2012-‐2013, he was Chair of the Board of Governors and previous Governor for the Nebraska Chapter. Dr. Tape is a professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, where he serves as chief of the division of general internal medicine and vice-‐chair of clinical affairs of the department of internal Medicine. Dr. Tape’s surveys of ACP physician members have been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and the American Journal of Respiratory and Cri9cal Care Medicine. He also co-‐edited an ACP book en9tled, “Diagnos9c Strategies for Common Medical Problems.” His research has focused on beTer understanding how physicians make diagnos9c and therapeu9c medical decisions with the aim of improving the quality of those decisions. For the past three years, Dr. Tape has served on a medical center task force to study health care reform and provide non-‐par9san informa9on to the Nebraska region.
Abby Shiffermiller, MD, is a hospitalist at Methodist Hospital in Omaha, in a busy and constantly expanding group. She is beginning her filh year of prac9ce with Physicians Clinic. She received her Internal Medicine training at The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and completed her medical school training there. She and her husband both prac9ce internal medicine in Omaha as hospitalists in different health systems and enjoy the medical community.
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--Jonas Salk, MD
CME ACCREDITATION:
The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accredita9on Council for Con9nuing Medical Educa9on (ACCME) to provide con9nuing medical educa9on for physicians.
The American College of Physicians designates this live ac9vity for a maximum of 11 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their par9cipa9on in the ac9vity.
HOTEL:Hilton Omaha, 1001 Cass St., Omaha, NE 68102
Hotel room rates: start at $119/night. All reservaNons must be received by 9/17/13. ATendees must iden9fy themselves as being part of American College of Physicians Conference to ensure the special rate.
ReservaNons: Please call 402-‐998-‐3400.
HOW TO REGISTER:• If you need more informa9on on the mee9ng, please contact Kris Rahm at 605-‐339-‐9804 or
• RegistraNons can be completed by one of the following:
-‐Scanning the completed form and emailing to [email protected]
-‐Faxing the completed form to 605-‐271-‐9227 (no cover sheet necessary)
-‐Mailing the completed form to: Nebraska ACP, 4904 S. Sweetbriar Dr., Sioux Falls, SD 57108
• For informa9on on College-‐related issues, contact the South Dakota Chapter Governor:
William A. Shiffermiller, MD, [email protected] (605) 333-‐6564
• Pre-‐registraNons must be received by October 10th. Acer that date, you must register on-‐site and there is an addiNonal $50 fee —save money by registering now. CANCELLATIONS WITHIN 72 HOURS OF OF THE MEETING WILL BE CHARGED FOR FOOD AND CREDIT CARD FEES.
• To access our online mee9ng informa9on or to print another registra9on form for a friend or colleague, go to hTp://www.acponline.org/about_acp/chapters/ne/news_meet.htm
Pre-‐registra;ons must be received by October 10, 2013. Cancella;ons within 72 hours of mee;ng will be charged for food and credit card processing fee.
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