PALTC23 Conference Recordings FR15 State Based Advocacy: Organization (PP Committee) and Visibility (Medical Director Listing)

State Based Advocacy: Organization (PP Committee) and Visibility (Medical Director Listing)

This session will begin with a brief presentation of public policy efforts at the state level focusing on the issue of a public policy committee and establishing a public medical director listing. Following this initial presentation, there will be a pros and cons debate with audience participation in a panel format with questions to be elicited from the audience members. Through this interactive debate style presentation, we are hoping to engage with participants and better understand how to move the field of state based advocacy forward in a AMDA-member centric fashion.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Review the current status of state-based advocacy efforts with the AMDA organization and opportunities to get involved.
  • Discuss the pros and cons of establishing a public policy committee at the state level.
  • Explore the opportunities and barriers of establishing a public medical director listing.
  • Highlight the need for organization and visibility in organized advocacy efforts.

Daniel Haimowitz, MD, FACP, CMD

Daniel Haimowitz, MD, FACP, CMD, is a solo Internist/Geriatrician private practice outside Philadelphia specializing in LTC. Multi-facility medical director, has worked in office, hospital, nursing homes, AL, home visits, PACE program, home care, hospice, Utilization Management Previously president of PMDA; chair of PMDA and AMDA Program Committees and AMDA Membership and AL Committee, AMDA House of Delegates and CMD Board; AMDA secretary Local, state and national geriatric/LTC organization involvement; founded Bucks LTC Consortium; editorial board of Caring for the Ages; active in AL initiatives, national AL group facilitator and textbook chapter author; national speaker; recipient of multiple awards including AGS Clinician of the Year, AMDA Billy Dodd, PMDA Duncan McLean and EPGS Barbara Bell and Chuck Ewing awards

Christian Bergman, MD, CMD

Christian Bergman, MD, CMD, is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. He attended medical school at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA and completed his internal medicine residency and geriatric medicine fellowship at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA where he specialized in post-acute and long-term care medicine. His clinical practice focuses on post-acute and long-term care medicine with active medical directorship. He is assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA where he is focusing on improving transitions of care and is actively involved in teaching trainees at all levels. At AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine – he is chair of the State Based Policy and Advocacy Subcommittee and chair of the Transitions of Care Subcommittee. He lives in Richmond, VA with his wife and two kids and enjoys spending time on home improvement projects.

Jane Winston, MD, CMD, FAAFP

Jane Winston, MD, CMD, FAAFP, is retired from her geriatric medicine practice at Sanford Health in Fargo. Dr. Winston is Board Certified in Family Medicine and holds a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine. She is a Certified Medical Director and a Clinical Assistant Professor in Geriatrics and Family and Community Medicine at UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Winston retired from her geriatric medicine practice at Sanford Health in Fargo in 2020 just before the Covid-19 pandemic began. As an advocate for age-friendly care for older adults she volunteered and served on the North Dakota Medical Association Covid-19 Physician Advisory Group and the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) Covid-19 State Task Force. In 2021 she was appointed to the AMDA State Based Policy & Advocacy Subcommittee. She is also a member of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health Medical Reserve Corp and serves as a volunteer vaccinator. She and her husband reside in Fargo, ND and enjoy time away in the winter in Arizona. Dr. Winston also enjoys reading, cooking, walking, yoga, and travel.

  • 1.5 CME
  • 1.5 CMD Management
  • 1.5 MOC

Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.5 management hour(s) toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC): Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.5 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Association's staff.


The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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