Jan. 30 Webinar – “Advocating for Your Patients in 2021: How to Lead in a Time of Rapid Change”
Jim Braibish • January 25, 2021
Ensuring the health of our patients more and more depends on factors outside the exam room or treatment suite. Find out how to be a leader and to advocate for your patients and medicine at the KCMS webinar, “Advocating for Your Patients in 2021: How to Lead in a Time of Rapid Change.” Set for Saturday, January 30, the webinar runs from 8 to 11 a.m. and is free to KCMS members, residents and students.
Our outstanding panel of speakers will include:
- Mark Brady, MD, FASA, KCMS past president who also has spent many years as an advocate at the state and national levels, and who led a highly successful national fundraising campaign for a specialty society political action committee.
- Rachelle Colombo, executive director of the Kansas Medical Society, who previously served nine years as KMS director of government affairs.
- Bridget McCandless, MD, MBA, FACP, KCMS past president and past CEO of the Health Forward Foundation, who has spent over 20 years as an advocate for the poor and underserved.
- (Just added!) Rex Archer, MD, MPH, director of the Kansas City, Mo., Department of Health, who is highly regarded nationally as a transformational leader in public health for his work in addressing the root causes of health inequities and promoting community health.
- Moderator will be Jim Wetzel, MD, who recently retired as senior vice president and chief medical officer at Olathe Health System, and who is a KCMS board member and chair of the Strategic Initiatives Committee.
Prepare to be a leader in shaping the future of medicine!
I consider it a sincere honor to serve as president of the Kansas City Medical Society this year. As we look forward to this new year, we celebrate our previous accomplishments and look for new ways to meet the challenges of our ever-changing healthcare environment. As we recognize our recent successes, I want to take the opportunity to thank Dr. Greg Unruh, our immediate past president, for his excellent leadership, and I look forward to his continued partnership, providing much-needed wisdom and experience to our board of directors as well as a leadership council. I am also deeply appreciative of Micah Flint, our executive director, now in his third year with the Society. As a board, we are prioritizing key areas where we believe the Society can make a difference for physicians and the communities we serve. With this in mind, we will continue our focus on wellness, advocacy, and expand our opportunities for in person social and educational gatherings. Our journal connects us in a variety of valuable ways, and we will continue its publication and expand its distribution. Under the directorship of Karole Bradford, the Society’s Foundation continues to do invaluable work. We celebrate those accomplishments and the charitable care they provide to our community’s vulnerable population. We are grateful for our individual members and corporate sponsors and welcome your suggestions of how the Society can best serve physicians and our community. Please mark your calendar for the Society’s upcoming events and consider inviting physician colleagues to join you as we gather to learn and support one another.
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