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April 22, 2013
ACCAHC Biennial Meeting:
Empowering Leadership in the Values of Integrative Health
University of Western States
Portland, Oregon
June 26-28, 2013
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Providing leadership in representing and teaching the values, practices and disciplines of integrative health is an ACCAHC priority. From our single profession orientations, we each have an opportunity to evolve into ambassadors for the values that drew us to our professions in the first place, values that can unite our disciplines with others in powerful collaborations. We build skills that will help ourselves and our students become change agents in our communities.
But what is our message? What exactly are our shared values? How do we communicate them in our conversations? How do we recognize allies and opportunities? Are we fully practicing these values in the education of our students and in our clinical practices? How do we work amidst economic disincentives to embrace such values? How can we best assist the nation to embrace this value set?
Participants in the ACCAHC Biennial Meeting, June 26-28, 2013 at University of Western States in Portland, Oregon, will engage aspects of these questions. We will do so via a pre-conference survey, keynotes, discussant panels, large group discussions and one-on-one exchanges. At our Biennial Meeting, the gathering will be anchored by meetings of the ACCAHC Board, Working Groups, Task Forces and Special Interest Groups. Participants will hear a state of ACCAHC update.
Participants will leave as better equipped ambassadors for integrative health. Each will have time with ACCAHC's unparalleled blend of educators and organization leaders committed to transforming our present system via optimal integration of integrative health values, practices and disciplines. Take advantage of this rare opportunity. This is our face-to-face gathering. We only meet every two years. Please make this a priority! |
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Venue: University of Western States, Portland, Oregon.
Air travel: Portland International Airport is just 10-15 minutes from the University.
Price: $245, includes all meals with breakfasts at the hotel. To register, click here. Pay via PayPal at www.accahc.org or make your check to ACCAHC and send to: ACCAHC, 3345 59th Avenue SW, Seattle, WA 98116. Questions? Contact Renee: rclugston@accahc.org.
Start Time for Executive Committee, Board and SPIG Members on June 26th: 9:00 AM for Executive Committee, 11:00 AM for the Board, 3:30 PM for Special Interest Groups (SPIGS).
Start Time for All Others on June 26th: 5:30 PM for registration then a 6:00 PM reception, dinner and program kick-off.
Note: Working Groups will meet 8:00-10:00 AM Thursday.
End Time: 1:00 PM Friday, followed by brown bag lunches.
Hotel: Country Inn & Suites for $79/night. Shared hotel rooms just $40/night. To book an ACCAHC room, call 503-255-2700 and tell them you are with ACCAHC.
Do not book through the website! Shuttle service for the 10 minute drive to the hotel is included.
Who: We have space for 100. Priority is for participants active in ACCAHC work, leaders of member organizations, and partners who invest in our work. Some spots will be reserved for students. Let us know of students who wish to attend.
* We have chosen the venue and hotel to keep prices down. As has been past ACCAHC practice, and while it is a stretch to do so, we seek to support attendance of all active participants in ACCAHC work. Please contact jweeks@accahc.org if finances are your obstacle.
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Program Highlights: Keynotes
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The meeting is bookended by presentations from an international expert in leadership in health professions education and a leader in hands-on implementation of integrative health education and practice. Our keynoters will each spend the entire meeting with us.
Leadership in Integrative Health for the 21st Century: Qualities, Intention, Outcomes
Thursday, 10:15 AM
Sarita Verma, MD co-chairs an international project on identifying emerging healthcare leadership traits for the Institute of Medicine Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education. She will explore the intersection of leadership recommendations in the Lancet Report (2010) and integrative health. Sarita has a strong personal and professional interest in integrative health practices.
What Will They Hear? Working with Key Messages about Integrative Health
Thursday, 2:15 PM
Talking about what we are as an organization and what we want as a movement gets more complicated when we step out of our individual disciplines. In this session led by communications and government relations expert Andrea Burton, a former speech writer for a Canadian premier and co-facilitator Barb Reece, RN, BSN, we will work with key messages and how to weave them into context-specific issues.
Sourcing Our Own Leadership
Friday, 11:45 AM
Lori Knutson, RN, BCHN led development of the nation's most significant inpatient-outpatient, multidisciplinary, values-based program in integrative health and medicine as the director of the Penny George Institute. Lori is on the ACCAHC Council of Advisers and serves on our Task Force on Leadership Development. She is co-facilitating the meeting.
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Program Highlights: Discussant Sessions
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Mixed in with these keynotes and the following program elements, we will insert moderated discussion elements utilizing Verma's, Burton's and Knutson's outside perspectives.
Wednesday, June 26
7:45 PM
From Core Values to Key Messages - Getting Grounded in Our Shared Wisdom
Lead program developers and facilitators Barb Reece, Lori Knutson and John Weeks, will kick off the program Wednesday evening with a look at the 3 overlapping levels of focus in ACCAHC's leadership work: Ambassadors for ACCAHC, ambassadors for integrative health, and leadership in healthcare.
Thursday, June 27
Working Groups
8:00 AM
Leadership in Integrative Health for the 21st Century: Qualities, Intention, Outcomes (Verma Keynote)
10:15 AM
What We Believe About Our Leadership: Reflections from the Pre-Meeting Survey
11:15 AM
Co-facilitators Knutson and Reece will engage the group in self-reflection about their own leadership qualities and skills and connections with others as we observe leadership characteristics of the larger group.
Exploring Our Shared Values: Toward Transforming the Therapeutic Order of the Nation
11:45 AM
Pamela Snider, ND, ACCAHC's co-founder, executive editor of the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project and a leading national agent for interprofessional action by our disciplines, will kick off this focused look at the radical meaning of our shared value set. Discussants from 2-3 other disciplines (TBD) will precede large-group discussion.
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Special Luncheon Topic: Discussion on the Community of Learning with the Director of the HRSA/ACPM National Coordinating Center for Integrative Medicine (IMPriME) Thursday, 12:45 PM
Optional: ACCAHC is a partner organization in the Integrative Medicine in Preventive Medicine (IMPriME) project funded by the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) via the American College of Preventive Medicine. ACCAHC's Pamela Snider, ND, John Weeks and Council of Advisers member Len Wisneski, MD are on the Steering Committee. Roughly two dozen ACCAHC leaders have already signed up to participate in the Community of Learning (CoL) that will work with these MD residencies. Additional participation is available. IMPriME director Jennifer Trask, PharmD, ND (invited) will join Snider, Weeks and Wisneski (invited) in presentation and discussion on this project and how you can optimally advance integrative health values, practices and disciplines via the CoL. |
The Art of Connecting: Seeing Integrative Health Values in Other Trends 1:45 PM
A discussant team (YTD) that includes acupuncture and Oriental medicine educator Stacy Gomes, EdD and Lori Knutson will lead this skill-building exercise that focuses on understanding the value of 'trending' and application of mindful inquiry about the world around us as skills in shaping support and connectivity for integrative health values.
What Will They Hear? Working with Key Messages about Integrative Health (Burton Keynote)
2:45 PM
Leadership in Forging Unity: Navigating "Horizontal" Respect When our Practices Overlap 4:30 PM
An outsider might anticipate that the movement for integrative health and medicine would unite the integrative MD field and all of the licensed integrative health disciplines. Yet a 2012 ACCAHC survey found a surprisingly low sense of perceived alignment. Meantime, we all know our own disciplines are frequently fighting each other over scope issues. A pre-meeting survey will include questions on how to heal these rifts to learn to educate and practice to the "horizontal" respect in the core definition of interprofessional education. Via open discussion with Oregon Health Sciences University/Duke Integrative Medicine leader Ann Nedrow, MD, MBA, Georgetown integrative medicine leader Adi Haramati, PhD and TBD from the ACCAHC fields, we will explore the type of leadership steps that can forge unity for integrative health.
Being an ACCAHC Ambassador: The Nitty-Gritty in Making Advances and Facing Challenges
7:30 PM
For this post-dinner open forum, John Weeks will facilitate a conversation with these ACCAHC Ambassadors (not all confirmed): Martha Menard, PhD, CMT (Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy), Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH (National Quality Forum), Elizabeth Goldblatt, PhD, MPA/HA (IOM Global Forum), Pamela Snider, ND (HRSA-American College of Preventive Medicine National Coordinating Center for Integrative Medicine), Marcia Prenguber, ND (International Clinical Congress for Complementary and Integrative Medicine), Greg Snow, DC/Carla Wilson, LAc, DAOM (IM4US) and Molly Punzo, MD (Accountable Care Organization(ACO)/Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) movement) to share the details of what it is to leave their own discipline skin and represent our values, practices and disciplines in these processes.
Friday, June 28
Tending to Our Own Gardens: Are We Teaching, and Are Our Graduates Practicing, What We Preach about Health Creation? 9:00 AM
The ACCAHC Board has staked a position that the most important innovation in health professional education is to create a workforce that is focused on health creation in the populations and communities we serve, rather than the reactivity and disease management that dominates. Yet how are we doing at practicing what we preach? A multidisciplinary group led by Cheryl Hawk, DC, PhD, and including Kory Ward-Cook, PhD, Jan Schwartz, MA, and Beth Pimentel, ND (invited) will report out our current education and practices to engage this discussion.
Medical Economics and Optimal Care: Educating Our Emerging Workforce to Take Advantage of the System's Shifting Incentives toward Health
10:45 AM
The Lancet Report (2010) and ACCAHC's Competency 6 in the Competencies for Optimal Practice in Integrated Environments each charge health professions educators to prepare their students for the real world. What graduates will mostly find are the perverse incentives of a $2.8-trillion industry that feeds on disease. New Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) seek to incent systems toward health creation. What is the opportunity for integrative health? The principals in ACCAHC's ACO/PCMH project John Weeks, Berwick/Institute for Health Improvement-trained Molly Punzo, MD, Karen Milgate, former deputy director for the Center for Strategic Planning at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Barb Reece (former vice president of the Samueli Institute's hospital initiative) will lead a look at this project as an evolving educational module.
Sourcing Our Own Leadership (Knutson keynote)
11:45 AM
Join us in Portland for the ACCAHC Biennial Meeting!
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