Program Topics and Speakers
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Last update: September 27, 2013 (please check back regularly)
Dress code for moderators and presenters: Business casual
Enjoy a wide variety of content and styles: Offered are Poster Sessions, Exam Prep Courses, Practice Management Workshops, Health Policy Forum, Debates, Panels, Discussions, Interactive Sessions, our DVD Surgi-Session, Expert Lectures, Tricks of the Trade, Commercial Exhibits, Industry Symposium, Recreational Activities, the Round Table Program, the inaugural Resident’s Bowl, and lots of time for networking with friends, speakers and industry innovators.
Program approved for a maximum of 36.25 CME credits
State of the Art Lectures, Debates & Discussions
Post-graduate Review and Exam Preparation Courses (PREP-C)
Director: Chris Porter, M.D., Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA
A Western Section AUA Program Especially for Residents and Physicians wanting:
• Preparation for the In-Service Exam
• Maintenance of Certification
• An Overall Didactic Urology Review
All Courses are included in your registration fee.
Monday: November 4, 2013
Course #1 – BPH
J. Kelly Parsons, MD, UCSD & Alan So, MD, Univ. of British Columbia
- Epidemiology, natural history, and diagnosis
- Evidence-based principles of medical management
- Evidence-based principles of minimally-invasive and surgical management
- Case discussions: practical approaches to common problems
Course #2 – Urologic Trauma and Reconstruction
Allen Morey, MD, UT Southwestern, Daniel Dugi, MD, Oregon Health Sci. Univ. & Jeremy B. Myers, MD, Univ. of Utah
- Upper Tract Trauma
- Lower Tract Trauma/Genital Trauma
- GU Trauma Case Discussions
Course #3 – Testis Cancer
Sia Daneshmand, MD, USC, Craig Nichols, MD, Virginia Mason Med. Ctr. & Chris Porter, MD, Virginia Mason Med. Ctr.
- Management of Stage 1 Germ Cell Tumors
- Management of Disseminated Germ Cell Tumor
Course #4 – Advanced Ureteroscopy
Michael Conlin, MD, OHSU, Duane Baldwin, MD, Loma Linda Univ. Med. Ctr. & Brian Duty, MD, Oregon Health Sci. Univ.
- Ureteroscopic Instrumentation and Challenging Access
- The Complex Stone Patient
- Ureteroscopy for Transitional Cell Carcinoma
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Robert V. Day (Keynote) Lecture
Andrew Vickers, PhD
Research Methodologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
PSA: how a great marker turned into a public health fiasco (and how to turn it back)
PSA is often described in terms of a “controversy” as to whether or not to screen. But PSA screening isn’t a single intervention, like 250mg of Aspirin, it can be implemented in different ways. The question of whether screening does more good than harm therefore depends on the way in which we screen. There is little doubt that the unsystematic way in which PSA was introduced in the US has led to a set of suboptimal screening practices that have led to definite harm and questionable benefit. We can screen better based on a set of very simple principles: don’t screen men who won’t benefit; don’t biopsy unless without very good reason; don’t treat low-risk disease; if you have to treat, do so at a high-volume center.
Plan to hear this presentation on Wednesday, November 6 at approx. 11am.
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Health Policy Forum and Practice Management Courses
Sunday, November 3, 2013
(Included in your registration fee)
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Program Directors:
Jeffrey E. Kaufman, M.D., Chairman, WSAUA Health Policy Committee, Past-President AACU & CUA
Eugene Y. Rhee, M.D., MBA, President, California Urological Association
2013 AUA Gallagher Health Policy Scholar, Past President, San Diego Urologic Society
OVERVIEW: TRANSITIONS IN PRACTICE—
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE DELIVERY
At this years’ WSAUA Health Policy Forum, we will provide many of the answers to your questions about where medical care is going and how you can best adapt to coming changes.
Health care delivery in America is rapidly changing. In response to PPACA, many new programs are being piloted as we transition from a fee-for-volume system to one based on fee-for-value. Urologists in practice for many years are adapting to the use of electronic health records and electronic prescriptions and getting used to quality audits of their performance by responding to PQRS questions. They are making decisions about joining an ACO or subcontracting with a medical home, accepting bundled payments or assuming risk-sharing in return for shared savings reimbursement. Many have simply given up and taken an employment position with a large medical group or hospital chain. Others are planning for early retirement but are not yet sure of the optimal time to get out. Residents graduating from training programs are more often than not making the decision to stay in academic medical practices or going straight to an employed position. Few are electing to join a small group or solo practitioner in private practice. And yet the pressures impacting these choices are not well understood by most.
As we have in the past, we’ll start off with updates on medical payment policies and Medicare updates from Mark Painter, PRS expert on coding and reimbursement, and Arthur Lurvey MD, the Medicare medical director for California. A new view on how AUA guidelines may be incorporated into your EHR system to improve quality and enhance reporting to payers will be discussed by the 2013 Gallagher Health Policy Scholar and CUA president Eugene Rhee MD. Our 2013 Health Policy essay contest winners will present a resident’s view on current topics.
In the afternoon, we can look forward to presentations from a leading academic urologist and a private practitioner who has opted to move to an employed position who will both discuss aspects of practice unique to their experience, the challenges and benefits each has derived from choosing their particular style of practice. This should prompt an intense discussion among attendees about the benefits of various practice models and help you deciding which one fits your needs best. Our featured speaker, a highly entertaining academic economist from Vanderbilt Dr. Larry Van Horn is guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat as he reviews the changing landscape of health care economics and regulation currently underway. And finally, an update summarizing the dizzying array of new models of health care delivery currently being piloted by public and private payers who are making decisions on how we’ll practice urology for the next 10 years.
If you have any concerns about the changes urologic practices are about to face, if you have any intent on remaining in practice beyond 2014 and if you have any uncertainty at all about where new laws and regulations are taking us, this year’s forum is a must-attend event. Hope to see you all there. Jeffrey E. Kaufman, M.D.
Preliminary Program Agenda
Moderated by Jeffrey Kaufman, M.D., Chairman, Health Policy Committee
Morning Practice Management Courses
Top 10 Actions for Urology Practices in 2014
Mark Painter, Physician Reimbursement Systems
Managing Medicare in 2014 and Beyond
Arthur Lurvey, MD, FACP, FACE
Medicare Contractor Medical Director, Noridian Jurisdiction E
One Finger Typing in EHR: Reluctance to Full Adoption-
A look into how guidelines are successfully incorporated within a health care network
Eugene Rhee, MD,MBA, President, California Urologic Association
2013 AUA Gallagher Health Policy Scholar, Past President, San Diego Urologic Society
Health Policy Essay Contest Presentations
(co-sponsored by the AACU)
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Health Policy Forum & Luncheon
Moderated by Jeffrey Kaufman, M.D., Chairman, Health Policy Committee
The Changing Economics and Regulation of Health Care
Larry Van Horn, PhD, MPH, MBA
Associate Professor of Management (Economics), Director
Office of Sustainable Health Care Finance
Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Two Perspectives: The Future of the Employed Urologist
Chris Gonzalez, MD (Academic)
Mark Beaghler, MD (Private to Employed)
The Future of Private Practice
Jeff Frankel, MD
AACU Update
Richard Pelman, M.D., President AACU
Closing Remarks & Evaluations
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Inaugural Western Section Residents Bowl
For the first time, the WSAUA will start a new tradition of hosting a Residents Bowl at the annual meetings. Each training institution will be represented by one resident who can participate. There will be mixed teams of four residents and the final winning team will represent the Western Section at the AUA’s Annual Meeting Resident Bowl in Orlando next year. Plan to attend and cheer your favorite team at each of the games!