Past Physician Forums

Past Physician Forums

We will post recordings of Physician Forums here as they become available. CME credit is not offered for archived recordings.

April 23, 2025: Weight Loss Medications: Current Challenges and Emerging Therapies in Primary Care

Moderator: Andrew Olson, MD
Key Speaker: Tasma Harindhanavudhi, MD, MS

Slides used in presentation

March 19, 2025: Changing the Culture and Systems of Health Care to Improve Serious Illness Care Planning

Moderator: Dennis O'Hare, MD
Key Speakers: Erik Fromme, MD, MCR, FAAHPM, Vic Sandler, MD
Panelists: Julie Benson, MD, John Degelau, MD, Terrence Maag, MD, Glen Varns, MD

Slides used in presentation

February 5, 2025: Effective Advocacy: How to Talk to your Legislator and Make Your Voice Heard

• Speakers: Dave Renner, CAE, and Chad Fahning, MPP
• Moderator: Hunter Cantrell (medical student representative for the MMA Board of Trustees)

December 5, 2024: A Virtual Meeting with Congresswoman-elect Kelly Morrison, MD

• Speakers: Kelly Morrison, MD and Todd Askew

November 15, 2024: Social Media & Teens: Handling a Wasp Nest​

• Moderator: Katie Smentek, MD
• Speaker: Josh Stein, MD

October 1, 2024: Challenging Cases and Updated Guidance for Syphilis, including Congenital Syphilis 

• Moderator: Ruth Lynfield, MD, State Epidemiologist, Minnesota Department of Health  

• Speakers/Panelists:  

  • James (Jamie) Conniff, MD, MPH, Family Physician, Min No Aya Win Clinic, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 
  • Alice Lehman, MD, CTropMed, Adult and Pediatrics Infectious Diseases Fellow, University of Minnesota, LEAP Fellow 2023-2024  
  • Elizabeth Dufort, MD, Medical Epidemiologist, Minnesota Department of Health  
  • Elizabeth Lees, DO, MPH, Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic Division of Public Health, Infectious Diseases, and Occupational Medicine, Medical Consultant Olmsted County Public Health 
  • Robert Tanouye, MD, MBA, 

    Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School Medical Director, M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center - West Bank Emergency Department, Staff Physician, University of Minnesota Physicians

July 17, 2024: Patient Care in an Era of Low Trust

• Speaker: William J. Doherty, Ph.D., Co-Founder, Braver Angels
• Moderator: Will Nicholson, MD, Past President, Minnesota Medical Association
• Presentation

May 22, 2024: Private Equity

• Speakers: 
  • Laurel Ries, MD, MMA President (Moderator)
  • Brent D. Fulton, Ph.D., MBA, associate research professor of health economics and policy, UC Berkeley
  • Jon Woodruff, JD, assistant attorney general - antitrust division, Office of the Minnesota Attorney General
  • Jill S. Melicher, MD, managing partner, Minnesota Eye Consultants
  • Susan Truman, MD, president and CEO, Midwest Radiology, PA 

April 11, 2024: Rumbling with Grief and Forgiveness

• Speaker: Corey Martin, MD

February 2, 2024: Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis

• In Partnership: Minnesota Department of Health
  • Speaker: Ruth Lynfield, MD
• Presentation

December 5, 2023: Opioid Prescribing: Replacing the Contract with Conversation for Better Outcomes 

• In Partnership: Stratis Health, the Shared Decision Making Collaborative, and the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
  • Speakers: Kurt DeVine, MD, FASAM; Joe Bianco, MD; Bill Adams, Patient Advocate
  • Moderator: Jennifer Lundblad, PhD, MBA, President and CEO of Stratis Health
• Presentation