Program

All sessions during this two-day conference will take place in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center for Health Education, Duke University.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

12:30pm     Registration

1:00pm       Welcome – Conference Overview
Ross McKinney, Director, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

1:15pm       Changing Practitioner-Patient Relationships: Evolution or Revolution?
Mark Siegler, Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago Medical Center

Respondents:
Cynthia Connolly, Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

Jeff Baker, Director, Program in the History of Medicine, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine,
Duke University School of Medicine

2:45pm     Break

3:15pm     Sustaining Care: Inside the Duke Experience
Kevin Sowers, President, Duke University Hospital

3:45pm     Systemic Challenges and Opportunities for Practitioner-Patient Relationships
Kevin Schulman, Gregory Mario and Jeremy Mario Professor of Business Administration, Duke University;
Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

Brian Forrest, Founder and CEO of Access Healthcare, Apex, NC

5:15pm     Break

5:45pm     2016 EMERSON LECTURE
A Singular Intimacy: Connecting the Bridge between Caregiver and Patient
Danielle Ofri, physician and author
Associate Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review

Reception and book signing to follow


Friday, April 8, 2016

7:30am     Continental breakfast

8:00am     Affordable Care Act: What’s Next for Patients and Practitioners?
Don Taylor, Associate Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

8:45am     Models of Care—What Works, What Doesn’t
Michael Cuffe, President and CEO of Physician Services, Hospital Corporation of America

Ross McKinney, Director, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

10:15am     Break

10:30am     Models of Care – continued
Kristene Diggins, Corporate Senior Educator, CVS Caremark – MinuteClinic

Maureen Darcey, Director of Midwifery Services, Women’s Birth & Wellness Center, Chapel Hill, NC

12:00pm     Lunch and Roundtable Discussions
What must change? What are the steps to that change?

Conference participants consider their own contexts and ask what choices are available to them
to move toward practices of care that are good for both patients and practitioners.

1:30pm     Reports from the Roundtables

2:15pm     Highlights & Final Thoughts
Midge Bowers, Associate Professor, Duke University School of Nursing
Nurse Practitioner, Cardiovascular Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

Ross McKinney, Director, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

2:30pm     Adjourn