Speaker | Lecture

ALL are welcome to attend this talk with Patrick Ishmael, director of government accountability at the Show-Me Institute. Mr. Ishmael is the director of government accountability at the Show-Me Institute. He is a native of Kansas City and graduate of Saint Louis University, where he earned honors degrees in finance and political science and a law degree with a business concentration. His writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Weekly Standard, and dozens of publications across the state and country. Ishmael is a regular contributor to Forbes and HotAir.com. His policy work predominantly focuses on tax, health care, and constitutional law issues. He is a member of the Missouri Bar.

Mr. Ishmael will be at St Louis University to discuss the future of health care policies under a new administration and possible alternatives to the ACA.

ll are welcome to listen to one of the most frequently requested lecturers on healthcare policy. The BRI-Icahn chapter is pleased to present Dr. Robert Graboyes, who will be speaking about his fortress and frontiers framework for understanding barriers to innovation in American healthcare.

There are few who can illuminate the challenges of innovation in healthcare with such wit and intelligence as Dr. Graboyes. Refreshments will be served. Kindly RSVP to ensure enough food for all.

All are welcome to attend this presentation by two family practice doctors on Direct Primary Care, Drs. Marguerite Duane and Matt Haden.

Medical-Legal World

If you have not yet had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Jeffrey Segal speak, you are in for a real treat. Combining humorous anecdotes with real-world jurisprudence, Dr. Segal will give you lasting information about how to protect yourself and your practice as a future physician.

Sally Pipes on healthcare reform

All are welcome to attend a lecture on healthcare reform featuring Sally Pipes, President and CEO of Pacific Research Center, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979. Ms. Pipes is also Benjamin Rush Institute founder and Chair of the BRI Executive Board.

Sixty-five students enjoyed a lunch presentation by Wisconsin State Representative Dale Kooyenga (Dist. 14). Mr. Kooyenga lectured about how principles of federalism can help to solve problems with health care administration and coverage in America. He gave a very well structured overall plan for how he would go about replacing the ACA in the first half of the presentation, and the second half was reserved for question and answer.

Dr. Madrigal-Dersch will be speaking during TTUHSC SOM P3 week about her cash based practice and challenges of practicing medicine. All are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to ensure enough food for all.

Dr. Madrigal-Dersch has a private Med-Peds practice in Texas. She is also a BRI board member. Her story about how she designed her practice and life to support maximum patient care, personal satisfaction and joy is truly inspiring. We hope you'll join us.

Video: Dr. Jules Madrigal-Dersch, why BRI supports a free market approach to medicine, at BRI leadership conference, 2016 American Enterprise Institute.

Dr. Beth Haynes (r), BRI executive director

Dr. Beth Haynes, BRI executive director will giving a lecture to George Washington University students and faculty on health insurance.

What is health insurance?

What is not?

How is understanding distinctions in health insurance critical to controlling healthcare costs?

The Benjamin Rush Institute hosted a lunch talk for 42 students with Dr. Mark Niedfeldt. An alumnus and previous MCW faculty member, Dr. Niedfeldt now owns a solo direct medical care (often called Direct Primary Care) clinic which offers patients unprecedented access to the physician and a higher level of personal attention. We heard him speak about his practice and how he offers high quality doctor-patient relationships in a cost-effective way.

Jordan Halevy, MS1 and BRI-Sackler chapter Founder and President will deliver an overview of the history of healthcare in the US, from the founding of the AMA and mutual societies all the way up to the ACA and beyond. The presentation will highlight the numerous government interventions into the healthcare market and how those distortions still affect us to this day.

All are invited to attend a lecture by Robert Nelson, MD, cofounder and spokesman for the Free Market Medical Association-Georgia Chapter. Dr. Nelson is also a DPC physician in the Atlanta area. Lunch will be provided.

This lunchtime presentation is part of a study being conducted by Will Craghead on DPC's ability to influence medical students to enter the primary care specialty.Will Craghead is a PA student and BRI chapter member.