Agenda & Speaker Bios for AAPS Thrive Not Just Survive XXIII

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Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, A voice for private physicians since 1943

AAPS WINTER REGIONAL MEETING JANUARY 29, 2016 ORLANDO AGENDA & SPEAKER BIOS

Part I:

Thrive, Not Just Survive XXIII, Building a Healthy

Independent Practice Workshop

Salons V, VI, VII & VIII

12:55pm 1:00pm Welcome & Introductions

1:00pm 1:30pm

Cash and Out-of-Network: Good for Medicine as FreeAgency is for Sports

Andrew Schlafly, J.D.,General Counsel, AAPS

Andy Schlafly has been the General Counsel of AAPS for

nearly two decades, leading the legal effort to preserve

private medicine. He has argued many cases in trial andappellate courts, and his recent victories include

compelling a hospital to produce witnesses at its internal

sham peer review, for the benefit of an AAPS member.

Andy has helped defeat bad legislation at the state level,

including a bill that would ban outofnetwork billing and

another bill in some states that would impose MOC

through the back door of the Interstate Medical

Licensure Compact. Andy has won jury trials for an AAPS

member against Aetna, and recently filed a petition for

cert. with the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn

ObamaCare. His college degree was in engineering, and

his law degree is from Harvard, where he was an editor

of the Harvard Law Review.

1:30pm 2:00pm

Opting Out of Medicare

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.

Dr. Huntoon is editorinchief of the Journal of American

Physicians and Surgeons. He is also a past president of

the AAPS, serves on the AAPS board of directors, and is

chairman of the AAPS Committee to Combat Sham Peer

Review. He is an unrepentant lampoonist, whose

subjects have included Medicare bureaucrats, otherwise

known as the Blue Bunglers, managed care moguls, and

others who are intent on demeaning, devaluing,attacking, and oppressing those who practice medicine.

In addition to his collection of managed care cartoons,

known as Huntoon Lampoons, his creations have

included the WEDONT CARE HMO Card, and his

collection of correspondence with HCFA and Medicare

bureaucrats, known as Little Frank, which now stands

over ten feet tall and weighs well over 200 pounds.

Trained as a medical research scientist with a Ph.D. in

neurophysiology, Dr. Huntoon is a practicing solo

neurologist who is opted out of Medicare and runs a

thirdpartyfree practice in the Buffalo, NY area.

2:00pm 2:30pm

Free Market Medicine:

Navigating the Regulatory Maze

Phil Eskew, D.O., J.D., M.B.A. www.DPCFrontier.com

Dr. Eskew founded DPC Frontier in February 2015 and is

in the process of launching Frontier Direct Primary Care

in Wyoming. He completed his family medicine

residency at the Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical

Center in Lititz, Pennsylvania in June 2015 and was

honored with the American Osteopathic Foundation's

Outstanding Resident of the Year Award in FamilyMedicine. He opted out of Medicare in the fall of 2015

and has been practicing in the correctional medicine

setting while planning his own DPC practice. He has

been researching direct primary care (DPC) models for

many years, including an intensive experience as a

Visiting Scholar at the Robert Graham Center and this

work was recently published in the Journal of the

American Board of Family Medicine. Some of his earlier

research comparing West Virginia and Washington DPC

laws was published in the March/April 2014 edition of

the West Virginia Medical Journal and he has multiple

DPC manuscripts in progress at this time. Dr. Eskew has

advised state and federal legislators about DPC

legislation, and is a member of the steering committee

of the Direct Primary Care Coalition. He graduated from

the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in

2012, the West Virginia University College of Law in

2008, the University of Kentucky Gatton MBA Program in

2006, and West Virginia Wesleyan College with

accounting and chemistry majors in 2005. He has been a

member of the Kentucky Bar since 2011, and intends to

use his diverse training to not only run his own DPC

practice, but to support other DPC practices in the

medical, legal, and policy arenas. He has been attending

AAPS Annual Meetings since 2011 after meeting Dr.Orient at an American College of Legal Medicine meeting

earlier that same year.

2:30pm 3:00pm Q & A for Panel One

3:00pm 3:15pm BREAK


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3:15pm 3:30pmReaching Patients with the Message of Free Market

Medicine.Jeff Danby

Jeff Danbys latest work is a soontobe published

educational handbook for patients: Common Sense

Medicine: Restoring the Doctor/Patient Relationship.

Jeff was born in 1963 in Pontiac, Michigan. As the son of

a high school history teacher, Jeff grew up in a house full

of bookswhich he read voraciously. He went on to get

a B.A. Degree in History (with Honors) from DePaulUniversity with a concentration in 20th Century America.

He also attended DePauls School of Law for one year

before leaving in good standing. While at DePaul, Jeff

was an illustrator and cartoonist for the school

newspaper, The DePaulia. After college, Jeff honed his

investigative and analytical skills as a health and life

underwriter for eight years at various insurance

companies. After marrying and starting a family, Jeff

became a stayathome father and a freelance artist

creating commissioned portraits and greeting cards. His

portrait of Abraham Lincoln won Best in Show in a

1995 Springfield, Illinois areawide art show. His works

have also appeared on Upper Deck Hockey cards. In

August 2000, Jeff set out to uncover and preserve a few

details of the war service of his late grandfather, 1st Lt.

Edgar R. Danby which ultimately lead to the publishing

of a 350page book, Day of the Panzer, a story of

American heroism and sacrifice in Southern France. All

the veterans to whom he sent copies have

enthusiastically endorsed his work and it was a featured

selection in the History Book of the Month Club and

Military Book of the Month Club. He is working on a two

volume work on the history of B Company/756th Tank

Battalion in WWII. It is called Men of Armor.

3:30pm 6:00pmCase Studies: ThirdPartyFree Practice

3:30pm 3:50pm Michael Ciampi, M.D.

Ciampi Family Practice, Portland, ME

http://www.CiampiFamilyPractice.com

Dr. Michael Ciampi was born and raised in Portland,

Maine. He is a graduate of The College of the Holy

Cross and Tufts University School of Medicine. He

completed internship and residency at the Naval

Hospital in Pensacola, Florida. After having served in

the U.S. Navy for seven years, he was honorably

discharged and returned to Maine in 1999 to take overthe practice of his father, Louis Ciampi, M.D. upon his

retirement. Being frustrated with what he sees as a

dysfunctional health care finance system, he took what

many consider a very radical step when his practice

opted out of third party payments in April 2013. This

novel approach to health care garnered the attention

of local and regional television and radio shows. He has

been featured on Fox News Channel shows such as

Huckabee and Fox and Friends, Fox Business Channel's

Varney and Company, as well as CNN. He is happily

married and has four wonderful children.

3:50pm 4:10pm Jenny Powell, M.D., F.A.A.F.P.

Direct Primary Care Clinics, Osage Beach, MO

http://www.dpcareclinics.com/

Dr. Jenny Powell, a resident of rural Laclede County,

Missouri, is a family physician, who received her

bachelors degree in Microbiology from the University

of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, and her medical

degree from the University of Illinois College of

MedicinePeoria. She completed her residency training

in Decatur, Illinois, received the degree of fellow fromthe American Academy of Family Physicians, and is

currently practicing in Osage Beach, Missouri, with her

own Direct Primary Care Clinics LLC. She is a member of

the Missouri Chapter of the Association of American

Physicians and Surgeons, the Missouri Academy of

Family Physicians, and the Missouri State Medical

Society.

4:10pm 4:30pm John Gaston, M.D.

Simply Family Medicine, Fayetteville, AR

http://www.drjohngaston.com

Dr. Gaston was born and raised in Russellville, AR andserved in both the Air Force and the Army for a total of

18 years, of which 11 years was on active duty. While in

the Air Force, he completed Pararescue training, but

then suffered a broken neck and a fractured skull in a

bicycle accident in Okinawa. These events were the first

in a series of that led him, at age 29, to decide to

become a doctor. Subsequently, Dr. Gaston graduated

from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine in

Little Rock in 1993, and completed a family medicine

residency program in the Army in 1996. While in the

Army, he served in a peacekeeping operation in Bosnia

for 9 months. When he got out of the Army in 2000 hemoved back to Fayetteville, and practiced at Northwest

Family Care Fayetteville for 9 years prior to

establishing Simply Family Medicine. Dr. Gaston's

professional interests include sports medicine,

preventative medicine, and chronic disease

management. He praises God for repeatedly opening

doors to make a way for Simply Family Medicine to

exist, so that he can continue to provide high quality

health care to patients who otherwise might not be

able to afford it.

4:30pm 4:50pm Raymond Kordonowy, M.D.

Internal Medicine, Lipid & Wellness, Ft. Myers, FL

http://imlwp.com

Board certified by the American Board of Internal

Medicine and the American Board of Clinical Lipidology

Dr. Kordonowy has been in practice 20 plus years, most

of it private practice. Recognized as an outstanding

physician by the American College of Physicians, Dr.

Kordonowy earned his degree from the University of

Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, and

completed his residency as Chief Resident at the

Orlando Regional Hospital System. With over two

decades of experience as a doctor in Fort Myers, Dr.


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Kordonowy understands how best to treat his patients,

ensuring that they get the highest quality care for

competitive, market based prices. His practice, Internal

Medicine Lipid & Wellness, provides a fullfledged

medical home model, with comprehensive labs,

diagnostic equipment, and primary care all within one

conveniently located office in Fort Myers, Florida. A

firm believer in preventative care and a holistic

approach to delivering healthcare, Dr. Kordonowy

promotes a healthy lifestyle of longevity for each of hisvalued patients.

4:50pm 5:10pm Gerard Gianoli, M.D.

Ear and Balance Institute, Covington, LA

http://www.earandbalance.net

Dr. Gianoli graduated from Tulane University with a

degree in Engineering and subsequently matriculated

from Tulane University's Medical School in 1986. He did

an internship in General Surgery and an internship in

Pediatrics. Following a residency in Otolaryngology

Head and Neck Surgery, he completed a fellowship in

Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery at theMichigan Ear Institute. He was a fulltime Associate

Professor at Tulane Medical School until July 2000

when he joined the now thirdpartyfree Ear and

Balance Institute. He still maintains a Clinical Associate

Professor appointment at Tulane in both the

Department of OtolaryngologyHead and Neck Surgery

and the Department of Pediatrics. He has published

and lectured extensively in the field of Neurotology and

serves on multiple Editorial Review Boards for the fields

of Neurotology and Otolaryngology.

5:10pm 6:00pm Q & A for Panel Two

Part II:

POLITICS and YOUR PRACTICE 2015

RECEPTION, DINNER, & BRIEFING

Salons I, II, III & IV

6:00pm 6:30pmReception (Atrium)

6:30pm 6:40pm(Salons I, II, III & IV)AAPS Initiatives to Protect Private Medicine

Jane Orient, M.D.,Executive Director, AAPS

Jane M. Orient obtained her undergraduate degrees in

chemistry and mathematics from the University of

Arizona in Tucson, and her M.D. from Columbia

University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974.

She completed an internal medicine residency at

Parkland Memorial Hospital and University of Arizona

Affiliated Hospitals and then became an Instructor at

the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She has

been in solo private practice since 1981 and has served

as Executive Director of the Association of American

Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) since 1989. She is the

author of YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism

about National Healthcare, Sutton's Law(a novel about

where the money is in medicine today), and the second

through fourth editions of Sapira's Art and Science of

Bedside Diagnosis. She is the editor ofAAPS Newsand

is the managing editor of theJournal of American

Physicians and Surgeons.

6:40pm 6:55pm

Legislation Impacting Independent Physicians and

Their Patients in the 114th Congress. Charles Sauer

Charles Sauer, founder of the Market Institute, is the

AAPS bootsontheground around Capitol Hill. Hes an

economist and policy specialist. On The Hill he is known

for developing free market solutions and effective

legislative coalitions. He has worked for a Governor, a

Senator, represented an academic think tank and co

founded the Free Market Medical Association. Charlie

has been published in many mainstream media outlets

in addition to writing congressional testimony andspeeches for politicians, business owners, and

academics. Last but certainly not least, you can

frequently catch Charlie on the OneAmerica TV

network talking with Graham Ledger on The Daily

Ledger or Liz Wheeler on Tipping Point as well as

debating Thom Hartmann on his show The Big Picture

on RT TV America.

6:55pm 7:10pm

Saving American Medicine

Melinda Woofter, M.D.,AAPS President

Melinda J. Woofter, M.D., FAAD, FASMS, is adermatologist and Mohs surgeon maintaining a solo

practice in Granville, Ohio. For the past several years,

she has served as an AAPS board member and a

delegate to the Ohio State Medical Association, where

she was instrumental in the successful passage of

resolutions defending and protecting independent

physicians and their patients. Dr. Woofter was installed

as the 20152016 President of AAPS at the AAPS 72nd

Annual Meeting last fall in St. Louis. In 2014, she was

asked to serve on the Resolutions Committee for the

OSMA. She received her MD at Southern Illinois

University School of Medicine. She completed her

residency in internal medicine at SIU, followed byappointment to chief resident and junior faculty.

Following her internal medicine training, she completed

her residency in dermatology at the University of

Wisconsin.

7:10pm 7:40pm DINNER SERVED


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7:40pm 8:10pm

How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can

Rebuild a Better System

Elaina George, M.D. http://DrElainaGeorge.com/

Dr. George is a Board Certified Otolaryngologist and

author of the newly published book, Big Medicine: The

Cost of Corporate Control and How Doctors and

Patients Working Together Can Rebuild a Better

System. She graduated from Princeton with a degree in

Biology, received her Masters degree in Medical

Microbiology from Long Island University, and received

her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of

Medicine. Dr. George completed her residency at

Manhattan, Eye Ear & Throat Hospital. Her training

included general surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital,

pediatric ENT at The NYPresbyterian Hospital, and

head and neck oncology at Memorial SloanKettering

Cancer Center. As a solo practitioner in private practice

who is also a small business owner, she has a unique

perspective on the problems of health care delivery,

the true costs of healthcare and viable solutions. Dr.

Georges interest in the politics of healthcare and thereform effort have led her to become both a powerful

voice for the practicing physician and an advocate for

the patient. She is a contributor to a wide variety of

websites including Breitbart's BigGovernment.com and

Amy Ridenours National Center Blog.Dr George has

been a recurring guest on Your World with Neil Cavuto

and NewsmaxTV, and she has appeared on Frances &

Friendsto discuss the consequences of Obamacare with

a world wide audience of over 500 million people. Dr.

George hosts her own show, Medicine On Callon

Americas Web Radio and Liberty Express Radio, a

weekly talk show that explores health issues and the

politics of medicine.

8:10pm 8:30pm

Protecting Independent Physicians & Patientsin FL:

the AAPS Florida Chapter CAN Make the Difference.

David McKalip, M.D. http://StartToFinish.com/

David McKalip is a Private Practice neurological surgeon

in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is part of the coordination

team for the Florida Chapter of the Association of

American Physicians and Surgeons, Past President of

the Florida Neurosurgical Society, past officer of the

Florida Medical Association, and delegate to the

American Medical Association. He currently serves on

the Health Policy Committee of the Catholic Medical

Association. Dr. McKalip is the Founder and editor of

the SunBeamTimes.comblog and an expert on health

policy and constant advocate for liberty, free markets

and limited government in all venues.

8:30pm 8:50pmWrap-Up and More Updates on AAPS Legal ActionsProtecting Independent Physicians

Andrew Schlafly, J.D.,General Counsel, AAPS(see bio on first page)

SATURDAY, January 30 EVENTS:

7:30am: AAPS Board of Directors Continental BreakfastSalon II

8:00am: AAPS Board of Directors Winter MeetingSalon II

8:00am:FL Chapter Continental Breakfast Hosted by Liberty HealthShareSalon III/IV

(All Workshop Attendees Welcome to Attend)

9:00am to Noon:FL Chapter MeetingSalon III/IV

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING!

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Plan NOW to Attend the AAPS 73rd

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