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Winter 2016 Issue |
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You are Invited to Attend the PSV 2017 Spring Meeting
By Joe Mason, MD, MSW, DFAPA
President-elect, PSV
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Joe Mason, MD, MSW, DFAPA |
I want to invite and welcome you to the 2017 Spring Meeting of the Psychiatric Society of Virginia on March 17-18 in Richmond, Virginia. We have a distinguished group of faculty for the presentation on “The Economics of Health Care” and I’m excited to be able to give you a brief preview of what’s in store. We will lead off with my childhood friend, Bob Graboyes, who is the Senior Research Fellow and Health Care Economist at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. He has written extensively about health care in the digital era and will talk about how we may embrace rather than fear the technologic advances we’re already living with. He is a brilliant and entertaining speaker and will enliven our morning. We are honored to then have Senator Creigh Deeds discuss the legislative aspects of funding health and mental health care from both professional and personal perspectives. Virginia Brooks is the Vice President of physician services for VHCQ and will enlighten us on the many changes to Medicare’s newly implemented payment reforms, sorting out the many acronyms along the way.
After lunch and the business meeting, we are fortunate to have Anita Everett lead off the afternoon session. Anita was my chief resident at UVA and is now the president-elect of the APA, in addition to her many other jobs, and will talk about how we use our dues to fund the extensive work of the APA. Following Dr. Everett’s talk will be Norman Carroll, Professor of Pharmacoeconomics at the VCU School of Pharmacy. Norm will illuminate us on the costs and value of drugs and medicine development. Finally, we will have a panel discussion among the speakers on the future of mental health treatment and funding.
This promises to be an outstanding meeting and I hope you can join us for the Saturday meeting as well as the Friday night reception. Looking forward to seeing you in Richmond.
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PSV 2017
Spring Meeting
March 17-18, 2017
The Hilton Short Pump
Richmond, Virginia
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