PNHP's 2012 Leadership Training Institute will take place Friday, October 26, 2012 in San Francisco. Registration for Friday's Leadership Training is now closed. Please contact Matt Petty, matt@pnhp.org, to reserve a spot on the wait list.

2012 PNHP Leadership Training

Parc 55 Wyndham
55 Cyril Magnin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Tentative Agenda: Friday, October 26, 2012

(Timing will stay the same, but workshops may change slightly)

Please have lunch before you arrive.  Leadership Training participants also attend the PNHP Annual Meeting on Saturday to complete the program.

1:00 p.m.
Welcome and introductions (Room: Market Street)
- Garrett Adams, MD, PNHP President
- Claudia Chaufan, MD, California PNHP Vice-President

1:15 p.m.
An evidence-based grand rounds on PPACA and single payer national health insurance (Room: Market Street)
- David Himmelstein, MD, PNHP co-founder
- Steffie Woolhandler, MD, PNHP co-founder

2:15 p.m.
Q and A

2:45 p.m. - Break

3:00 p.m. - Workshops (all on level 3)

1. Talking with Colleagues about Single Payer: How to give a successful Grand Rounds and answer tough questions? (Room: Market Street)
- Oliver Fein, MD

2. What do single payer advocates have to say about quality and malpractice? (Room: Mason)
- Gordon Schiff, MD

3. Health care systems in other industrialized countries (Room: Powell I)
- Claudia Chaufan, MD

4. The truth about the drug companies and big Pharma (Room: Powell II)
- Donald Light, PhD

5. Media outreach for beginners:  letters, op-eds, building relationships, and editorial board meetings (Room: Market Street)
- Ed Weisbart, MD, Garrett Adams MD, and Linda Lieb

4:00 p.m. - Break

4:15 p.m. - Workshops repeated

6:00 p.m.
Dinner: Becoming an activist for single payer in your community (Room: Embarcadero)
- Pippa Abston, MD, pediatrics, Hunstsville, AL
- Andy Coates, MD, hospitalist, Albany, and PNHP President-elect

Roundtable discussion: What will you do when you get home?

8:00 p.m.
Mock debates (optional)
Pippa Abston, MD, will kickoff the debate by asking the audience a tough question.  Whoever answers it will then be asked to come to the podium to ask the audience the next challenging question.  And so on!

Bring your toughest questions, the ones you wouldn’t want to be asked, to this fun speaking exercise.

The PNHP Leadership Training Institute is an intensive "crash course" in health policy and the case for national health insurance for physicians. The program is designed to give physician activists the expertise they need to become effective advocates for single-payer and leaders in the movement for national health insurance.

The faculty of nationally known researchers, teachers and leaders present data making the case for national health insurance and answer the "tough questions" of opponents. Small group and plenary sessions provide the opportunity for in-depth discussion of the material and extensive personal attention.

Most participants are physicians; a select few non-physician allied health professionals and students also participate. Program topics include "Debating Conservatives on Health Policy," "Health Care Quality and Malpractice," and "Myths and Realities about the Canadian Health System."

Objectives:
At the end of this course participants will be able to

1. Use the PNHP slide show in a Grand Rounds or other medical conference with confidence.

2. Answer the "tough questions" on reform -- what about rationing, government bureaucracy, and technology? - using the latest medical and health services research.

3. Describe how other countries provide universal coverage and why single-payer is the best option for reform based on decades of international experience and the unique features of the US health system.

4. Write an effective op-ed or other mass media article for publication.

5. Identify strategies to advance the health care debate in your community using available resources.

6. Overcome inertia and find your "niche" in the health care debate -- the place to use your interests and talents most effectively.

7. Identify experts on various aspects of reform (quality, pharmaceuticals, costs, etc) who are resources to the movement.

8. Describe the powerful groups leading opposition to reform and the relationship between congress, the insurance and drug companies, and the "government-industry revolving door."

9. Place the current push for reform -- and opposition to it - in historical context since 1904.

10. Respond to the "myths" about reform with the "facts."

11. Start (or re-vitalize) a chapter of PNHP.

12. Work effectively with grassroots advocates for reform.

And much, much more!

Note: All participants are requested to submit a CV or bio and photograph (head shot only) for us to keep on file for our speakers' bureau. Please send these separately to PNHP, 29 E. Madison, Suite 602, Chicago, IL 60602. matt@pnhp.org.