CONFERENCE SCHEDULE – TENTATIVE

FRIDAY EVENING – OCTOBER 24^TH, 2003

Milan Art Gallery – 408 Houston St. – Downtown Fort Worth

7:00 –  8:00             Registration, wine, hors d’oeuvres

8:00 –  9:00             Welcome, opening remarks, overview of conference

                                                Staci Schulz, MSIV – Texas Tech HSC (Region III Chair) <confirmed>

Steve Brotherton, MD (President, Tarrant County Medical Society) <invited>

Robert W. Haley, MD (President, Dallas County Medical Society) <confirmed>

Roy Martin, D.Min. (UNTHSC Ethicist <get official title>) <invited>

Downtown Fort Worth

9:00 –11:00             Social Event

SATURDAY – OCTOBER 25^TH, 2003

UNTHSC Campus – 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd. – Fort Worth Cultural District

8:00 – 8:30              Registration and breakfast

8:30 – 8:50              Welcome (including a few words about the importance of organized medicine)

Ronald Blanck, DO (President, University of North Texas Health Science Center) <confirmed>

8:50 – 9:10              Welcome (including a few words about medicine as an art and a science)

Robert Alpern, MD (Dean of Students, UT Southwestern Medical Center) <confirmed>

9:10 – 9:30              Welcome (including the importance of being involved in the AMA-MSS)

Joe McDonald, MS III – Kansas University Medical Center (AMA-MSS Chair) <confirmed>

9:30   – 10:15          The Art of Patient Care

Charles W. Bailey, MD (President, Texas Medical Association) <confirmed>

10:15 – 10:30          Break

10:30 – 11:15          The Art of Communication

Carolyn A. Evans, MD (AMA Delegate, Texas Delegation & TMA Trustee) <confirmed>

11:15 – 12:00          The Art of Leadership

J. James Rohack, MD (Chair-Elect, AMA Board of Trustees) <confirmed>

12:00 –   1:00          The Art of Observation – Sharpening Medical Observation Skills by Looking at Art (boxed lunch)

Laura Matzer (Public Programs Coordinator, Amon Carter Museum) <confirmed>

1:00   –   1:45          The Art of the U.S. Health Care System

Marc B. Hahn, DO (Dean, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine) <confirmed>

1:45   –   2:15          Break and time with conference sponsors

2:15   –   4:30          AMA Region III Business Meeting (Bylaws changes, Chair-elect election, Resolutions, etc.)

Staci Schulz, MSIV – Texas Tech HSC (Region III Chair)

                Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth – 3200 Darnell Street – Fort Worth Cultural District

6:30   –   7:15          Reception

7:15   –   8:45          The Art of Politics in Medicine – Dinner and Keynote Address

The Honorable Michael Burgess, MD (U.S. House of Representatives) <confirmed>

                Downtown Fort Worth

                9:00   –   Social Event