Date: May 7, 2019
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Maggiano’s Little Italy
4 Columbus Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Agenda
6:00 PM
Registration & Networking
6:45 PM
Dinner
7:00 PM
“Why Single Payer, Medicare-for-All?”
Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH
Instructor of Medicine, HMS
Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, Cambridge Health Alliance
Author, “To
Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History”
President, Physicians for a National Health Program
The idea of single payer, Medicare-for-all
has gained a lot of attention recently, but what would it look like and how
would it work? Dr. Gaffney will discuss
why he advocates for universal, comprehensive single-payer national health
insurance and how he thinks it could optimize patient access and patient care.
7:45 PM
Resident Fellow Section Business Meeting and
Resident Fellow Section 2019-2020 Elections
(Word Doc, 3 pages)
Want to be an RFS Leader?
Members of the Resident and Fellow
Section are eligible to serve on the RFS Governing Council. As a
Governing Council member, you will take an active role in directing the policy
and activities of the Section both in Massachusetts and on the national level
at the AMA. Return a nomination form by April 29, 2019.
Registration:
(Registration fee includes a four-course dinner and two drink tickets.)
Member - $10, Non-Member/Guests - $20
Questions or problems registering online? Please contact Colleen Hennessey at chennessey@mms.org or (781) 434-7315
Speaker Biography:
Dr. Adam Gaffney is a physician,
writer, healthcare researcher, and advocate. He is an instructor of medicine at
Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care physician at the
Cambridge Health Alliance. Gaffney has authored or co-authored articles in
numerous medical journals, including the Lancet, the British Medical Journal,
and the American Journal of Public Health, and his writing has appeared in The
Washington Post, The Guardian, the New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of
Books, USA Today, and elsewhere. He is the author of the recent book, To Heal
Humankind: The Right to Health in History (Routledge, 2017). Gaffney is
president of the single-payer advocacy organization Physicians for a
National Health Program.
@awgaffney
