Reimagining Primary Care 2024 Agenda

Registration, Breakfast and Networking

Chair’s Opening Remarks and Setting the Scene

Nzinga Lowe, Chief Executive Officer, Pygmalion Health

Charting the Path Forward in Primary Care

Keynote Panel with Open Q&A: Primary Care Perspectives: What Are Our Current Realities and Future Vision?

Kicking things off, this Keynote Panel Discussion features five of our expert panelists as they expand upon the most crucial topics in primary care, covering evolving physician roles, policy changes, healthcare costs, and what we can be doing to enhance healthcare delivery for our patients. Stick around for an extended Q&A session, ensuring that your burning questions find the answers they deserve!

• What is your perspective on the primary care sector’s current state and its future direction?
• How has the role of a primary care physician evolved to meet the changing healthcare demands and patient expectations?
• What impact is the evolving mergers and acquisition landscape having on primary care and the patients at the center? 
• How have recent policy changes within CMS impacted primary care?
• In what ways could we better collaborate across the system, to lower healthcare costs, improve delivery and widen access to quality care?
• How should we reimagine primary care to better support our patients?

Moderated by: Megan Mahoney, MD, MBA, Professor and Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine
Kameron Matthews, MD, JD, FAAFP. Chief Health Officer, Cityblock Health
Erin McNeely, MD, FACP. Division Chief for QSE, Primary Care, Corewell Health West Michigan
Katherine Gergen Barnett, MD. Vice Chair of Primary Care Innovation and Transformation, Family Medicine, Boston Medical Centre
Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA, MSc. Director of the Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Experience and Practice Excellence, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Lissy Hu, President of Connected Networks, WellSky

Morning Refreshments and Networking

Insights from the Frontlines: Here’s How We Advance Primary Care

Lightning Talk 1: From De Facto to Deliberate: Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care

In today’s healthcare landscape, the growing behavioral health demands have increasingly become a burden on primary care, demonstrating the value of behavioral health integration. Translating this vision into reality, however, demands more than traditional methods. Join Mirah as they unpack the future of behavioral health integration, exploring the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) and how it bridges the gap between data and action.

This session is relevant for all primary care stakeholders, from physicians and administrators to care managers and patient advocates. It will offer practical takeaways to spark dialogue and ignite your organization’s journey to advance effective, integrated behavioral healthcare.

Mark Potter, Chief Executive Officer, Mirah
Jessica Lyons, MS LMFT, Clinical Advisor, Mirah

Lightning Talk 2: Primary Care Workforce Opportunities and Challenges

Lightning Talk 2: Strategies, Policies, and Investments for a Healthier Primary Care Future

Steve Holloway, MPH. Branch Director, Health Access Branch, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Panel with Open Q&A: Unpacking the Road to Value-Based Care: What are the Future Goals?

This Panel covers the current status and future vision of value-based care and reimbursement. It addresses requirements for transitioning to value-based care, challenges in full-risk care models, sources of hope, and envisions a universal shift to value-based care…

• Where are we now and what is the future vision for value-based care and reimbursement?
• What are the key requirements for successfully transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based care model?
• What are the key challenges associated with adopting a full-risk care model, and what are some strategies for mitigating these?
• What gives you hope for the future within value-based care? Each panelist shares their perspective.
• How can AI be harnessed to enhance clinical care and facilitate the shift towards value-based care?

Moderated by: Dana McCalley, MBA. Vice President of Value-Based Care, Navina
Lara Terry, MD, MPH. Chief of Value-Based Care, Boston Medical Center
Erica Savage-Jeter, MD, MBA, CRC, FAAFP. Division Chief Medical Officer of Expansion, Centerwell Senior Primary Care
Ashley Chou, MD. Senior Medical Director and Vice President of Medical Management, Oak Street Health
Laura Fox, MPH. Director of Payment Innovation, Blue Sheild of California

Lunch & Networking

Collaboration Over Competition to Overcome Primary Care’s Greatest Hurdles

The Forum will now split into four roundtables! Attendees have the opportunity to attend two of their choosing!

Time to Switch!

Afternoon Refreshments and Networking

A Conversation with the Chair: What Did You Learn and What Will You Be Bringing Back to Your Organization?

Engage in this dynamic discussion with our chairperson! In this session, the chair will select one representative from each of the 4 roundtables to join them on stage for a conversation about the key insights, and next steps!

Nzinga Lowe, Chief Executive Officer, Pygmalion Health

Saria Saccocio, MD, FAAFP, MHA., East Regional Chief Medical Officer, Carelon Health

Kristen Gradney, MHA, RDN, LDN. Corporate Chief Wellness Officer LCMC Health

Eyal Kedar, MD. Medical Director, Department of Clinical and Rural Health Research, St Lawrence Health

Closing Panel with Open Q&A: How Do We Build for the Future of Primary Care?

This Closing Panel explores the visionary transformation of primary care as each panelist identifies and discusses the changes they would make to improve the current industry. Additionally, the panel delves into the potential role of retail health, strategies for managing sector growth, the integration of technology, and concludes with an actionable next step to advance primary care for the audience’s benefit.

• If you could wave a magic wand and transform one aspect of primary care, what would you choose to change and why? Each panelist shares a perspective.
• Does the emergence of retail health have the power to strengthen primary care and bridge gaps to care?
• How can we effectively manage the growth of the primary care sector while ensuring we have the primary care providers to support its expansion?
• How can we support interoperability and better integrate technology into our care models? 
• What is one actionable next step that the panel can offer to the audience, to advance primary care?

Moderated by: Joel V. Brill, MD FACP. Executive Medical Advisor, Hello Heart
Aaron Hoffman, DO, MPH. Chief Clinical Innovation Engineer, Atrius Health
Erika Pabo, MD, MBA. Chief Transformation Officer & Central Operations, Humana
Gary Price, MD. President, The Physician’s Foundation
David Duong, MD, MPH. Director, Primary Care Equity, Access and Advocacy, Harvard Medical School
Priscilla Wang, MD, MPH. Associate Medical Director for Primary Care Health Equity, Mass General Brigham

Chair’s Closing Remarks

Nzinga Lowe, Chief Executive Officer, Pygmalion Health