EHC's Medical Home conference will be held May 15, 2009.
It will be located in the Golden Ventures building at 1000 Beverly Way, Fort Smith, AR.
For directions, follow this link and enter your starting location.
Hotel Accomodations and Speaker Bios
For Employers' Health Coalition's 1-day conference:
The Medical Home
Several attendees, from locations throughout the state, have asked about hotel accommodations. To this end, EHC has negotiated discounted rates at the following local hotels.
The Guest House Inn (http://www.guesthouseintl.com) is offering rooms for $65 - (Standard rate = $95)
Holiday Inn Express (http://hiexpress.com)is offering rooms for $89.95 - (Standard rate = $109.95)
Hampton Inn (http://www.hamptoninn.com) is offering rooms for $89 - (Standard rate = $119)
These offers are available only if you ask for "the EHC rate". Otherwise, the standard fees will apply, so make certain to mention the EHC negotiated rate when reserving your room! Rooms at Guest House Inn and Holiday Inn Express must be reserved by April 30th, and Hampton Inn rooms by May 5th to receive the discounted rates
Directions to the hotels can be found at these links:
Guest House Inn - Holiday Inn Express - Hampton Inn
Please call us at 479-201-8510 or email Brandy Edwards at bedwards@ehcark.org if you have any questions.
We are proud to present the following speakers for EHC's May 15th, 2009 conference on The Medical Home.
(To download a printable PDF copy of these bios, please click here)
James King, M.D., FAAFP
Board Chair - American Academy of Family Physicians
James King, M.D., FAAFP, a family physician in Selmer, Tenn., is board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He previously served one-year terms as president and president-elect and three years as a member of the AAFP Board of Directors. King was elected to these positions by the Congress of Delegates, the AAFP’s governing body. The AAFP represents more than 93,000 physicians and medical students nationwide.
King is in private practice in the rural community of Selmer and serves as volunteer faculty at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. He is also on the medical staff of the McNairy Regional Hospital in Selmer and serves as medical director of Chester County Healthcare Services. As AAFP board chair, King advocates on behalf of family physicians and patients nationwide to inspire positive change in the U.S. health care system with an emphasis on payment reform.
King has been active with the AAFP for many years, advocating for patients outside the exam room through his service on the board of directors and as a liaison to various commissions and committees. He has served the AAFP by participating in its Commission on Quality, Commission on Health of the Public, Commission on Science and the Commission on Chapter Affairs. King works to promote the legislative goals of family medicine to members of Congress through his service on the board of directors of FamMedPAC, the AAFP’s political action committee.
Prior to his service with the AAFP, he was an active member of the Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians. King has served on various TAFP committees. He served on the Committee on Public Relations, Committee on Finance, and the Committee on Legislation and Governmental Affairs. He also served on the Long-Range Planning Committee, Nominating Committee and Membership Committee. As a member of the TAFP Board of Directors, King served as vice president, president-elect, president and board chair.
King received the Outstanding Model Office Teaching Award from the University of Tennessee Family Medicine Residency, Jackson, in 1990 and the TAFP’s Family Physician of the Year award in 1997.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee, Martin, and doing postgraduate study in science education at Memphis State University, King earned his medical degree at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, in 1982. He completed his residency at the University of Tennessee Family Medicine Residency, Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in 1985. King is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and has the AAFP Degree of Fellow, an earned degree awarded to family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education.
Active in his community, King has presented the AAFP’s Tar Wars tobacco-free education program to area fourth- and fifth-graders on behalf of the TAFP since 2000. He has been appointed to many state and regional roles, including chair of the McNairy County Board of Health, member of the TennCare Steering Committee of the Tennessee Department of Health, and member and then chair of the Primary Health Care Liaison Committee, State of Tennessee
William E. Golden MD MACP
William E. Golden, M.D. is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where he served as director of the division of general internal medicine for nearly 20 years. He is currently the Medical Director for Health Policy at the Arkansas Department of Human Services and Medicaid . Previously, he served as Vice President for Clinical Quality Improvement of the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care for which he has designed numerous statewide quality improvement projects for Medicare and Medicaid for 16 years. He currently leads a funded project to develop health information exchange in Arkansas.
Presently Immediate Past Chair the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Golden served on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum from 2001-2004 and was President of the American Health Quality Association from 1997-2000. He has been a methodologist member of the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Measurement for the last decade and currently sits on its executive committee. In 2001, he received the national James Q. Cannon award for excellence in physician leadership in clinical quality improvement. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences honored him in April, 2005 for innovations in medical education for his work in quality improvement in the state.
A former President of the American Society of Internal Medicine, Dr. Golden has served on numerous national committees including Chairmanships of the AMA Council on Medical Education, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the QNET office quality initiative and the Board of Directors of the Center for Clinical Quality and Evaluation. He has served on three committees of the Institute of Medicine as well as two study sections for the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research. Dr. Golden has served as a co-investigator on two grants from NIH and AHRQ to improve asthma care in the community setting. For the last ten years, he has written a monthly column on clinical practice guidelines for Internal Medicine News.
Dr. Golden graduated from Brown University with an undergraduate degree in Health Care Delivery, an independent concentration. He received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine and his internal medicine training at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago where he was also chief resident. He is a former Morris Fishbein Fellow in medical journalism and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania