pharmacy times is pleased to announce the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) 50th Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit (AMCCBS) to be held at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC from February 28 to March 1, 2024. I’m planning on interviewing you.
This year’s summit provides an opportunity for experts from across the medical community to come together to consider solutions to the challenges that exist in the changing cancer care landscape. The AMCCBS program includes lectures, forums, case discussions, and poster presentations. Specifically, AMCCBS aims to bring together industry, health policy experts, and influential members of cancer care delivery to explore the convergence of business, policy, and technology.
The AMCCBS program includes lectures, forums, case discussions, and poster presentations. Image credit: © Gennady Danilkin – Stock.adobe.com
Check out PharmacyTimes.com for coverage of these sessions and interviews:
- Content of the sessions entitled Chronic Care Management, Principal Care Management, and Operationalization of the Principal Disease Navigation Code. Speakers include Teri Bedard, BA, RT(R)(T), CPC, Executive Director of Client and Corporate Resources, Revenue Cycle Coding Strategy; ; Al B. Benson, III, MD, FACP, FACCC, FASCO, Professor of Medicine, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern Medical School; Sheetal Kircher, MD, associate professor of medicine at Northwestern Medical University’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center; In this session, hear about a program Northwestern University is piloting to bill for comprehensive cancer care services.
- “Payer, Manufacturer, and Supply Chain Challenges,” by Kiroros S. Hanna, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCOP, FACCC, Chief of Pharmacy, Minnesota Oncology, and Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine. Interview about the presentation. In this interview, Hannah discusses how pharmacists are currently being used to address payer, manufacturer, and supply chain challenges, and how pharmacists can be leveraged in these areas.
- Coverage of a session titled “Deep Dive 2: Research and Clinical Trials” facilitated by Douglas Flora, MD, LSSBB, Executive Medical Director of Oncology Services at St. Elizabeth Healthcare. Additional speakers include Hala Borno, MD, founder and CEO of Trial Library; Praduman Jain, CEO and Founder of Vibrent Health and Principal Investigator of the NIH All of Us Research Program; Aisha Montgomery, MD, MPH, director of scientific research at Vibrent Health. Sylvia Chan, Trial Library Research Partnerships Leader; Bridget Gonzales, Director of Educational Programs and Customer Success, CCRC, Association of Clinical Research Professionals;
- Interview with Barry Russo, CEO of The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, regarding his presentation entitled “One Voice, One Message: Moving the Needle on Alternative Payments Models.” In this interview, Mr. Russo discusses the role and value of pharmacists in addressing and supporting the goal of transforming alternative payment models.
- Coverage of the keynote address by Dr. Katherine A. Meese, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Management, University of Alabama at Birmingham. The keynote address, titled “Managing and Optimizing Workforce Headcount,” focused on employee burnout, disengagement, and disengagement from the medical field.
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