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Wednesday, October 10, 8:30 am Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., was appointed Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on February 5, 2003. Dr. Clancy, who is a general internist and health services researcher, is a graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Following clinical training in internal medicine, Dr. Clancy was a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond before joining AHRQ in 1990. Her major research interests include various dimensions of health care quality and patient, including women's health, primary care, access to care services and the impact of financial incentives on physicians' decisions. . Thursday, October 11, 8:30 am
Telling the Medical Experience Richard Selzer, MD, received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Union College and his M.D. from Albany Medical College in1953. He taught and practiced General Surgery in New Haven, Conn. from 1960-1986 retiring from medicine 1986. Selzer began writing in mid-1960's with early stories published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Other pieces were published in Esquire, Harper's, Life, New York Times Magazine and numerous others. He has written many books: such as "Letters to a Young Doctor" (essays) and "Rituals of Surgery" (fiction). He has also penned plays such as, "The Black Swan," and "The Doctor Stories". Selzer has numerous honorary degrees and visiting lectureships which include Washington University in St. Louis; Texas Christian University; Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons; Cooper Union School of Architecture and Dalhousie University. . Friday, October 12, 8:30 am
Quality and Communication in Healthcare: a view from two worlds". Theo Schofield OBE, FRCP, FRCGP has been a Family Physician in Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, UK, for 35 years. He has also been Deputy Director of Postgraduate Education, Lecturer in Primary Care and Director of Communication in the Ethox Centre, in the University of Oxford. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. He has developed communication skills teaching for trainees and teachers in general practice in the UK, and for medical students in the Oxford University Medical School. He was one of the authors of "The Consultation: an approach to learning and teaching" published by OUP in 1984. His research has been in health promotion and evidence based patient choice in general practitioner consultations. He was the organizer of the early International Conferences on Communication in Healthcare in Oxford, and of the first EACH Conference in Warwick. He is also a Member of the Council and Chairman of the Quality Network of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and led the development of Quality Team Development, a programme for peer review and quality improvement in primary care teams in the UK.
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