2012 Program

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42nd Annual Conference

Embassy Suites Hotel, Denver, Colorado

February 25 - 27, 2012

"Fairness and Solidarity in Health Care"

The Silvertree Hotel, Snowmass, Colorado

February 27 - March 4, 2012

"A Celebration of the Best of SHIM"

Program Director:  Fredrik Broekhuizen, MD

Meeting Objectives

After participating in this program, physicians should be able to:

1.  Recognize the history of and the tension between the population and individual rationales for family planning.

2.  Appreciate the link between conservation and population health.

3.  Understand the physician’s role in spirituality and healing and the example set by Hildegard of Bingen a millennium ago.

4.  Gain insight into the major wellsprings of negativity and even despair in modern western culture.

5.  Emerge into the field of eco psychology and be part of a dialogue on nature, music and culture.

 Meeting Program  

Celebrating the University of Colorado's Fulginiti Pavilion for Ethics and Humanities

 and the Society for Humanism in Medicine  

 Fairness and Solidarity in Health Care:  Global Issues   

An Inaugural Symposium of the Society for Humanism in Medicine

and

The Center for Bioethics and Humanities of the University of Colorado

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Location:  Anschutz campus, Building ___, Auditorium TBD

9:05 AM    Welcome         Richard Krugman, MD, Dean, University of Colorado School of Medicine

                                          Fredrik Broekhuizen, MD, President, Society for Humanism in Medicine

Dedication of the Plaque marking the gift of SHIM to the Center for  Ethics and Humanities of the University of Colorado School of Medicine

9:15 AM    Fairness and Solidarity in Health Care:  Global Issues 

Moderator:  M. Roy Schwarz, MD, Former President, China Medical Board of New York  

9:20 AM    Personal versus Population perspectives on Family Planning Programs: A backwards look forward

Speaker:  Paul Blumenthal, MD  

10:00 AM  Discussion and audience comments  

10:10 AM  Buying Health - Is Health Care Really the Answer?

Speaker:  Mark Earnest, MD  

10:50 AM  Discussion and audience comments  

11:00 AM  Refreshment Break  

11:15 AM  The Population Health Imperative - Ethics meets Health Reform

Speaker:  Darrell G. Kirch, MD 

11:55 AM  Discussion and audience comments  

12: 05 PM Panel and Audience Discussion: Fairness and Solidarity in Health Care

Drs. Schwarz, Blumenthal, Earnest & Kirch; Symposium participants  

1:00 PM    Symposium Adjourns  

1:15 PM    Catered luncheon  

2:30 PM    Introducing the New University of Colorado Anschutz Campus:  A brief history and overview from the Office of the Dean                   

Guided Tours of the Anschutz Campus of the University  

4:00 PM    Buses return SHIM attendees to the Embassy Suites Hotel 

6:30 PM    Festive Dinner, memories, presentations, pictures  

Monday AM              February 27           8:00 – 11:00 am  

Moderator:  Frits Broekhuizen, MD

Speaker:  Sarah Berga, MD

Title:  Personalized Medicine, does sex matter?

Discussant:  Rusty Herbert, MD

Moderator:  Frits Broekhuizen, MD

Speaker:  Rudi Ansbacher,MD, MS  and Jim Merrill, MD (by video), introduced by Mel Crosby, MD

Title:  ISFAHSIG,ISFAHSIM and SHIM, the impact of 42 years

Discussants:  The Membership, especially past presidents, expressing what SHIM has meant to them

Monday PM              February 27           1:00-  

Bus trip to Snowmass, sandwich lunch on board

Tuesday AM            February 28           8:00 – 11:00 am       

Moderator:  Frits Broekhuizen, MD

Speaker:  Lynne Gaffikin, DrPH

Title:  Health for all: People, Animals and the Environment

Discussant:  Linda Wahby, MD

Tuesday PM             February 28           4:00 -- 6:00 pm  

Moderator:  Peter Thompson, MD  

Speaker:  J. Pittmann McGehee, DD

Title: Confession of a pedestrian mystic: the meaning of Mystery in healing 

Discussant: 

President's Dinner

Wednesday AM     February 29          8:00 – 11:00 am  

Moderator:  John Sanders, MD

Speaker:  Jim Kenney

Title:  Ten reasons for global hope

Discussant:  Sarah Berga, MD  

Wednesday PM     February 29           4:00 – 6:00 pm  

Moderator:  Duncan Neilson, MD

Speaker:  Duncan Neilson, III

Title:  Greening Power, Viriditas, and the life of Hildegard of Bingen

Discussant:  Jeff Rothenberg, MD  

Thursday AM          March 1                  8:00 – 11:00 am  

Moderator:  Jeff Rothenberg, MD

Speaker:  David Abram, PhD

Title:  Becoming Animal: Reflections on the Ecology of Consciousness

Discussant:  Michael Plante,MD

To follow: Business Meeting

Slopeside picnic

Slopeside activities, races, etc.

No afternoon session, decorating for Fasching Party

FASCHING Party             

Friday AM               March 2                 8:00 – 11:00 am  

Moderator:  James Dolan, MD

Speaker:  Jim Kenney

Title:  The second axial Age of Religion and Spirituality

Discussant:  Peggy Shepard, MD

Friday PM               March 2                 4:00 – 6:00 pm  

Moderator:  Dennis Wentz, MD

Speakers:  David Abram, PhD and Duncan Neilson, III

Title:  The Discourse of the Birds:  A dialogue on Nature, Music, and the Transformation of Culture

Discussant: Judy Hardardt, RN, EdM

Saturday AM          March 3              8:00 – 11:00 am

Moderator:  Frits Broekhuizen, MD

Speaker: Einar J. Berle, MD, PhD

Title:  Divine Conceptions and Miraculous Deliveries

Discussant:  Rudi Ansbacher, MD, MS

Saturday PM          March 3                 4:00 – 6:00 pm   

Moderator:  Frits Broekhuizen, MD

Speaker:  J. Pittmann McGehee, DD

Title:  I Love the Tell the Story: The Place of Story in Healing                                

Discussant:  Frits Broekhuizen MD  

Final Bash  Huge final send-off party  

Sunday                   March 4  

Depart after breakfast