4th Annual Primary Care Summit Agenda
“Leading primary care through turbulent times”
Marriott-Rocky Hill, Rocky Hill, Connecticut
November 3, 2011

Keynote Speakers

Richard Baron, M.D., M.A.C.P.,

Dr. Baron is Group Director, Seamless Care Models, at the Innovations Center at CMS. Before joining CMS, Dr. Baron practiced general internal medicine at Greenhouse Internists, P.C. Dr. Baron served as Chief Medical Officer of Health Partners from 1988 to 1996. Dr. Baron is board certified in geriatric medicine and internal medicine. He is past Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Board of Directors and currently a Trustee of the ABIM Foundation.  Additionally, he has been a member of the National Committee for Quality Assurance Standards Committee since 2005. Dr. Baron was awarded the Pennsylvania Laureate Award and was named a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2010. He was named “Practitioner of the Year” by the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 2010. Dr. Baron received an English degree from Harvard and his medical degree from Yale.

A. John Blair, III, MD, F.A.C.S.,

Dr. Blair, CEO of MedAllies, is a health care and technology executive with broad experience across the health care industry. MedAllies facilitates physician adoption of health information technology and integrates the health care community to facilitate care coordination, patient-provider communication, public health and quality reporting; it was one of only seven sites selected by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to launch a Direct Project pilot. He serves on the Privacy and Security Workgroup and the NHIN Workgroup of the Policy Committee of the ONC. He co-chairs the HIE workgroup for the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, is a member of the NCQA Committee on Performance Measurement, and serves on the Health IT Advisory Committee for the National Quality Forum. Blair is also president of the Taconic Independent Practice Association.

Eric B. Larson, M.D., M.P.H., M.A.C.P.,

Dr. Larson is Vice President for Research, Group Health and Executive Director of the Group Health Research Institute. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he trained in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, in Boston, completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars and MPH program at the University of Washington, and then served as Chief Resident of University Hospital in Seattle. He served as Medical Director of University of Washington Medical Center and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs from l989-2002. His research spans a range of general medicine topics and has focused on aging and dementia, including a long running study of aging and cognitive change set in Group Health Cooperative - The UW/Group Health Alzheimer's Disease Patient Registry/Adult Changes in Thought Study. He has served as President of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Chair of the OTA/DHHS Advisory Panel on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders and was Chair of the Board of Regents (2004-05), American College of Physicians. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.