VCU School of Medicine celebrates National Primary Care Week

By Anne Dreyfuss
C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research

The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine will host National Primary Care Week events every day this week through Oct. 11. The annual event is designed to highlight practice opportunities, as well as the roles and significance of primary care for patients and communities.

This year’s event features several distinguished guest speakers who will discuss timely topics, including important policy issues pertaining to primary care, health disadvantages in the United States, health care access in the U.S., and the important role that nonmedical doctor clinicians serve in primary care delivery. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Events remaining this week include:

Oct. 8 – RAM (“Remote Area Medical”) Clinic Movie Screening and Discussion
5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Hermes A. Kontos Medical Sciences Building Rooms 104/105, 1217 E. Marshall St.

Speaker: Michelle Whitehurst-Cook, M.D., associate dean of admissions at the VCU School of Medicine.

Oct. 9 – The U.S. Health Disadvantage: What Physicians Can Do About It
12 p.m. to 1 p.m., Molecular Medicine Research Building Rooms 1009/1011, 1220 E. Broad St.

Speaker: Steven Woolf, M.D., director of the VCU Center on Society and Health and professor at in the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at the VCU School of Medicine.

Oct. 10 – The Voices of Primary Care Collaborators
12 p.m. to 1 p.m., Hermes A. Kontos Medical Sciences Building Rooms 104/105, 1217 E. Marshall St.

Moderator: Steve Crossman, M.D., director of predoctoral programs for the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at the VCU School of Medicine.

Panelists: Dave Dixon, Pharm. D., assistant professor at the VCU School of Pharmacy and Pam Parsons, Ph.D., assistant professor in the VCU School of Medicine and School of Nursing.

Oct. 11 – VCU School of Medicine Pediatric Interest Group 6th Annual Pediatric Conference
8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Medical Education Center, 1201 E. Marshall St.

Speaker: Sean McKenna, M.D., assistant professor at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU.

For more information and a complete schedule of events, contact Judy S. Gary in the VCU Department of Family Medicine at jsgary@vcu.edu.

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