2008 Plenary Speakers
Thursday Evening Plenary Session: "Collaborating at Every Level: Why Now is the Right Time to Work Together"
Larry A. Green, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, where he holds the Epperson-Zorn Chair for Innovation in Family Medicine. He was chair of the Department of Family Medicine for fourteen years, after which he became the founder and inaugural director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care in Washington, D.C. He is the Director of the National Program Office for the Prescription for Health Program, a six-year, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored practice-based research initiative launched in 2002 that deals with health behavior change. For much of his career he focused on developing practice-based primary care research networks, including the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network (ASPN). Dr. Green practices as a certified Diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice. He is the Chair-elect of the American Board of Family Medicine, a co-director of the P4 Family Medicine Residency Innovation Program, and has published widely in the field of Family Medicine and Primary Care. Dr. Green is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Friday morning Plenary Session: "Engaging Our Patients as Our Collaborators: Three Takes on Partnerships from the Community;" "Advocating for Better Care: What our Patients Want Us to Know."
Friday Luncheon Plenary: "Emotional Voting: It's Not What the Candidates Say, But How they Make You Feel" Saturday Morning Plenary: "Extreme Collaboration: Total Integration of Behavioral Clinicians into the Fabric of Primary Care"
Susan R. Bergeson is Vice-President of Consumer Affairs for Optumhealth Behavioral Solutions (formerly United) and President of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), the nation's largest consumer-led mental health organization. Over five million people seek hope, help and support from DBSA each year. In this capacity, she oversees all staff, programs, publications, fund-raising, and operations, and represents DBSA to the media and legislators. She also works on behalf of the consumer community in various other capacities: Psychiatric Leadership Project Advisory Committee, NCCBHP; Non RX Treatment of Depression Technical Expert Group, AHRQ; Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce, Board of Directors; The Institute of Medicine Closing the Quality Chasm Mental Health Workforce Training Workgroup; The National Institute of Mental Health Advocacy Coalition.
Ms. Bergeson oversaw the development of a model Peer Specialist Certification curriculum and training by the Peer-to-Peer Resource Center, a National Consumer Self-Help Technical Assistance Center funded under a cooperative agreement with CMHS. She has presented on such topic as Patients as Partners: from Compliance to Alliance; Consumer Perspective: DSM, ICD, WHO, and Beyond; The Seven Dirty Words; Consumer use of Electronic Records; and has authored many articles and contributed to many books including The Physicians Definitive Guide to Mood Disorders, and Bipolar for Dummies. She has been featured in Newsweek, ABC's The View, NBC's Today Show, WGN radio, the LA Times, and others. She publishes a weekly blog through Health Central, a most highly trafficked health portals on the web. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, as both a consumer and family member herself, Sue brings a strong and deeply personal commitment to the national mental health arena.
William J. Doherty, PhD, is an educator, researcher, therapist, speaker, author, consultant, and community organizer. He is Professor and Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program in the Department of Family Social Science, College of Education and Human Development, at the University of Minnesota, where he is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Dr. Doherty is one of the cofounders of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, an Associate Editor of Families, Systems, and Health, and an associate editor for Medical Family Therapy. He is a past president of the National Council on Family Relations, the nation's oldest interdisciplinary family studies organization. In addition, Dr. Doherty has authored or edited eight other books for professionals, five books for lay audiences, and scores of papers in the professional literature.
Since 1999, Dr. Doherty has been developing and leading the Families and Democracy Project and the Citizen Health Care Project, a community organizing approach to working with families and promoting cultural change.
Arlene M. Katz, EdD is an Instructor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a Senior Consultant on Qualitative Research at the Center for Multicultural Research at the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). As the Director of the CHA's Community Councils Project, she collaborated with community elders and professionals to develop a unique program to address ageism by creating a 'Council of Elders' to teach residents and nurse practitioners about the lived experience of aging, and to create among healthcare professionals a greater sense of answerability to the needs of the community.
She has been involved in collaborative care delivery with family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and geriatrics. She has published a series of papers and reports on a "social poetics" approach to the understanding and elaboration of diagnostic practices in primary care, as well as papers on relationship-centered, participatory, dialogic and collaborative methods of care, research and training. Most recently, Dr. Katz has led a project on racial disparities in maternal and child health that focuses on women's voices in reproductive health and infant mortality.
Ann McDaniel has been a senior vice president of The Washington Post Company since September, 2001, with responsibility for three of the Company's divisions: Newsweek, The Gazette Community Newspapers and The Daily Herald. She also oversees all aspects of the Company's human resource and public relations efforts, including those at the Company's affiliates. Before joining the corporate staff of The Washington Post Company, McDaniel spent 17 years at Newsweek magazine where most recently she was managing editor and Washington bureau chief, supervising the magazine's reporters and researchers in 23 editorial bureaus worldwide as well as in New York and Washington. She oversaw Newsweek's coverage of the Monica Lewinsky story, which received a National Magazine Award for reporting in 1999.
Previously, Ms. McDaniel covered the Bush administration as White House correspondent from 1988 to 1992. She was a key member of the 1992 election reporting team that earned Newsweek a Best in the Business award from the American Journalism Review and two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence and Single-Topic Issue.
Tillman Farley, MD, is currently the Medical Services Director of Salud Family Health Centers, a migrant/community health center network with clinics across north and northeast Colorado, which is notable for its innovative, deeply integrated primary care programs. He moved to Colorado from far west Texas where he spent three years directing a federally qualified rural health clinic. Prior to that he was in private practice in upstate New York. Dr. Farley did his residency in family medicine in Rochester, New York after graduating from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Farley is interested in integrated primary care and health disparities research, particularly as it applies to immigrant populations. Dr. Farley has piloted and implemented a variety of integrated care models in New York, Texas, and Colorado. He has served as a public member of the Commission for Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education, and as chairman of the annual Families and Health Conference sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. He is an Associate Director or SnoCap, the Department of Family Medicine's practice-based research network.