BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//BRI - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:BRI X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for BRI REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T150000 DTSTAMP:20260525T221400 CREATED:20260114T204904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T211911Z UID:16862-1770300000-1770303600@www.benjaminrushinstitute.org SUMMARY:BRI Virtual Speaker Series - Leadership for the Medical Student with Dr. Sonny Morton DESCRIPTION:BRI Virtual Event Series - Leadership for the Medical Student with Dr. Sonny Morton\n Step into your future as a physician-leader and join us for the first installment in our Virtual Event Series for 2026 featuring Dr. Sonny Morton. Explore how influence\, communication\, and self-awareness shape effective leadership; why informal leadership matters long before residency; and how soft skills can make you a stronger clinician. If you're planning to lead medical teams\, you owe it to your teammates to be good at it! \n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Questions / CommentsHave a question for Dr. Morton? Ask away!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n \n\nStep into your future as a physician-leader and join us for the first installment in our Virtual Speaker Series for 2026 featuring Dr. Sonny Morton. Explore how influence\, communication\, and self-awareness shape effective leadership; why informal leadership matters long before residency; and how soft skills can make you a stronger clinician. If you’re planning to lead medical teams\, you owe it to your teammates to be good at it! \nDr. Morton has over thirty-five years of experience in emergency medicine\, urgent care\, travel medicine and medical leadership. Most recently he retired from the position of Senior Medical Director for CVS MinuteClinic\, a pioneer of the retail health care model. Dr. Morton’s undergraduate and medical degrees are from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, his residency in emergency medicine was done at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis\, MN\, and he earned an MBA/MHA from Pfeiffer University at Charlotte. He has a deep conviction that we will be led out of the morass that is our current health care system through leadership that empowers patients\, not politicians and bureaucrats. URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/events/virtual-speaker-series-feb-2026/ CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/BRI-Speaker-Series-Feb-2026.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T144500 DTSTAMP:20260525T221400 CREATED:20260219T161609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260219T180015Z UID:16906-1773324000-1773326700@www.benjaminrushinstitute.org SUMMARY:BRI Virtual Speaker Series - Ridding Health Care of Identity Politics with Stanley Goldfarb\, MD DESCRIPTION:Partisanship and health care make poor bedfellows. Yet identity politics increasingly finds its way into the exam room. New federal rules now give doctors financial incentives to ask patients questions tied to so-called “social determinants of health”—questions that have little to do with medicine and everything to do with politics. Join us for a frank conversation with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb about how this shift threatens patient trust\, medical integrity\, and the proper role of physicians. \n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Questions / CommentsDo you have a question for Dr. Goldfarb? Please submit it below and we will answer it during Q&A!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n \n\nAbout the Benjamin Rush Institute (BRI):\nBRI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that unites unites medical students\, students in affiliated healthcare specialties\, faculty\, doctors\, healthcare professionals\, and others who believe that free enterprise and a direct patient-doctor relationship are the best means for ensuring optimal patient outcomes at affordable prices. Through leadership conferences\, chapter events\, scholarships to national health care conferences and consistent written content\, BRI strives to cultivate the careers of med students and to fully unleash the power of medicine to maximize human health.\nAbout Stanley Goldfarb\, MD:\nDr. Goldfarb helped found Do No Harm after publication of his book\, Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns: a call to action to eliminate discriminatory practices in healthcare\, including elevating diversity above meritocracy in the admission of students to medical school and the hiring of faculty members. His new book\, Doing Great Harm\, explores these topics further\, describes Do No Harm‘s fight against so-called gender-affirming care in children\, and explores how Do No Harm has affected change in healthcare. As chairman of Do No Harm\, Dr. Goldfarb has been published widely in various periodicals including the Wall Street Journal\, City Journal\, the New York Post\, and the Free Press on the threats to medical education and medical care in the United States posed by introduction of critical race theory into these enterprises. URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/events/bri-virtual-speaker-series-ridding-health-care-of-identity-politics-with-stanley-goldfarb-md/ CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BRI-Speaker-Series-March-2026.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T154500 DTSTAMP:20260525T221400 CREATED:20260324T142549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T142212Z UID:16926-1776870000-1776872700@www.benjaminrushinstitute.org SUMMARY:BRI Virtual Speaker Series - Fixing Health Care in Four Key Steps with Matt Ohrt DESCRIPTION:BRI Virtual Speaker Series – Fixing Health Care in Four Key Steps with Matt Ohrt\n Health care today functions as a monopoly—concentrating power in the hands of sellers while leaving patients with rising costs\, fewer choices\, and little say in their own care. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Join us for a conversation with Matt Ohrt\, Executive Director of the Free Market Medical Association\, as he outlines the steps to restoring competition in health care with the ultimate goal of empowering both patients and physicians to pursue better care at lower costs. \n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Questions / CommentsDo you have a question for our speaker? Please submit it below and we will answer it during Q&A!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n \n\nAbout the Benjamin Rush Institute (BRI):\nBRI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that unites unites medical students\, students in affiliated healthcare specialties\, faculty\, doctors\, healthcare professionals\, and others who believe that free enterprise and a direct patient-doctor relationship are the best means for ensuring optimal patient outcomes at affordable prices. Through leadership conferences\, chapter events\, scholarships to national health care conferences and consistent written content\, BRI strives to cultivate the careers of med students and to fully unleash the power of medicine to maximize human health.\nAbout Matt Ohrt:\nAcross a career of more than 25 years of experience in human resources and employer-sponsored health care\, Matt Ohrt has led innovative efforts to challenge the status quo and restore choice for patients. As Executive Director of the Free Market Medical Association\, he is a leading voice for medical freedom and market-based reform. Matt has authored several books\, including Save Your Company\, Don’t Feed the Beast – The Employer Healthcare Success Formula.” He founded the Healthcare Best Practice Group\, co-founded Self Fund Health\, and helped launch the Rise Up Health plan in Texas—work that has saved employers millions. URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/events/bri-virtual-speaker-series-april-2026/ CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Updated-April-Speaker-Series-Graphic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T124500 DTSTAMP:20260525T221400 CREATED:20260501T175750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T200207Z UID:16936-1778241600-1778244300@www.benjaminrushinstitute.org SUMMARY:BRI in the Buckeye State: A Conversation with Rea Hederman DESCRIPTION:BRI in the Buckeye State: A Conversation with Rea Hederman\n Ohio’s health care system has undergone rapid consolidation over the past decade\, with large\, vertically-integrated conglomerates absorbing independent practices at a rapid rate. Rural hospitals have been hit especially hard\, facing mounting financial and operational strain as local access to care continues to erode. What policymakers do next will shape the future of the Buckeye State's health landscape and directly impact physicians for years to come.\n\nJoin us for a conversation with Rea Hederman\, Executive Director of the Economic Research Center and Vice President of Policy at the Buckeye Institute. We'll be putting health policy through a fine-toothed comb and exploring both the challenges and opportunities for medical students and future practitioners in Ohio. \n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Questions / CommentsDo you have a question for our speaker? Please submit it below and we will answer it during Q&A!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n \n\nABOUT THE BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE:\nBRI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that unites unites medical students\, students in affiliated healthcare specialties\, faculty\, doctors\, healthcare professionals\, and others who believe that free enterprise and a direct patient-doctor relationship are the best means for ensuring optimal patient outcomes at affordable prices. Through leadership conferences\, chapter events\, scholarships to national health care conferences and consistent written content\, BRI strives to cultivate the careers of med students and to fully unleash the power of medicine to maximize human health. \n  \nABOUT REA HEDERMAN:\nRea S. Hederman Jr. is executive director of the Economic Research Center and vice president of policy at The Buckeye Institute. In this role\, Hederman oversees Buckeye’s research and policy output. A nationally recognized expert in healthcare policy and tax policy\, Hederman has published numerous reports and papers looking at returning healthcare power to the states\, the impact of policy changes on a state’s economy\, labor markets\, and how to reform tax systems to spur economic growth. Prior to joining Buckeye\, Hederman was director\, and a founding member of the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) at the Heritage Foundation\, where he served as the organization’s top “number cruncher.” Under Hederman’s leadership\, the CDA provided state-of-the-art economic modeling\, database products\, and original studies. URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/events/bri-in-the-buckeye-state-rea-hederman/ CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BRI-in-the-Buckeye-State-with-Rea-Hederman.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T124500 DTSTAMP:20260525T221401 CREATED:20260506T192122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260506T192629Z UID:16941-1778846400-1778849100@www.benjaminrushinstitute.org SUMMARY:BRI in the Buckeye State: A Conversation with Sen. Stephen Huffman DESCRIPTION:BRI in the Buckeye State: A Conversation with Sen. Stephen Huffman\n From a legislative battle over medical aid in dying to the growing shortage of health care workers in rural communities\, and a federal investigation into Ohio State University College of Medicine' admissions practices\, it's fair to say that Ohio faces a moment of mounting challenges. Nevertheless\, Sen. Stephen Huffman—a practicing emergency physician\, lifelong Ohio resident\, and Chair of the Ohio Senate Health Committee—remains optimistic. \n\nJoin us for a conversation with Sen. Huffman as he discusses why it's critically important for physicians of all practices and associations to get engaged with the policies that shape the work they do. \n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Questions / CommentsDo you have a question for our speaker? Please submit it below and we will answer it during Q&A!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n \n\nABOUT THE BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE:\nBRI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that unites unites medical students\, students in affiliated healthcare specialties\, faculty\, doctors\, healthcare professionals\, and others who believe that free enterprise and a direct patient-doctor relationship are the best means for ensuring optimal patient outcomes at affordable prices. Through leadership conferences\, chapter events\, scholarships to national health care conferences and consistent written content\, BRI strives to cultivate the careers of med students and to fully unleash the power of medicine to maximize human health. \n  \nABOUT SEN. STEPHEN HUFFMAN:\nSenator Huffman chairs the Ohio Senate Health Committee and sits on several others\, including the Senate Medicaid Committee. He’s currently serving his second term\, representing the people of the 5th Senate District. Previously he served two terms in the Ohio House\, and was elected Miami County Coroner from 2012-2015. A lifelong Ohio resident\, he attended the University of Toledo\, where he earned his MD from the Medical College of Ohio. Senator Huffman has been a practicing physician for 32 years and he is currently employed by multiple emergency rooms throughout Western Ohio. He also served overseas in underserved regions for 18 months. URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/events/bri-in-the-buckeye-state-a-conversation-with-steve-huffman/ CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BRI-in-the-Buckeye-State-Steve-Huffman.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T124500 DTSTAMP:20260525T221401 CREATED:20260515T175306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260515T184401Z UID:16945-1779451200-1779453900@www.benjaminrushinstitute.org SUMMARY:BRI in the Buckeye State: A Conversation with Sen. Mark Romanchuk DESCRIPTION:BRI in the Buckeye State: A Conversation with Sen. Mark Romanchuk\n Ohio won $202 million as part of the Rural Health Transformation Program\, but now it's up to lawmakers to reduce the regulatory hurdles still standing in the way of ensuring easier and less costly health care access to patients throughout the state. Senator Mark Romanchuk\, who chairs the Ohio Senate Medicaid Committee\, is the main architect of "test and treat\," which would allow pharmacists to test for and treat common respiratory illnesses\, is one such reform.\n\nJoin us as we sit down with Sen. Romanchuk to discuss everything from Medicaid waste\, fraud\, and abuse—and what can be done at the state level to combat it—to the future of free-market health care models in Ohio. Register today! \n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Questions / CommentsDo you have a question for our speaker? Please submit it below and we will answer it during Q&A!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ \n \n\nABOUT THE BENJAMIN RUSH INSTITUTE:\nBRI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that unites unites medical students\, students in affiliated healthcare specialties\, faculty\, doctors\, healthcare professionals\, and others who believe that free enterprise and a direct patient-doctor relationship are the best means for ensuring optimal patient outcomes at affordable prices. Through leadership conferences\, chapter events\, scholarships to national health care conferences and consistent written content\, BRI strives to cultivate the careers of med students and to fully unleash the power of medicine to maximize human health. \n  \nABOUT SEN. MARK ROMANCHUK:\nSenator Mark Romanchuk is serving in his second term in the Ohio Senate representing the people of the 22nd Senate District. He previously served four terms in the Ohio House of Representatives. Senator Romanchuk has over 35 years of experience in small business\, systems engineering\, management\, and community development. He is the owner and CEO of PR Machine Works\, Inc.\, a contract manufacturer. Previously\, he worked at Hughes Aircraft Company in a diplomatic capacity to the former Soviet Union in support of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Formerly\, he was based in Japan as a team leader and technical advisor to the U.S. Navy. Romanchuk is also the co-founder and past president of the Regional Manufacturing Coalition and is the past chairman of the Richland Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Presently\, he serves on the Ashbrook Center Board and is an active member of the Mansfield Sertoma Club\, the National Tooling and Machining Association\, the National Federation of Independent Business\, and the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association. \nCommittee Assignments: \nMedicaid\, Chair\nSmall Business and Economic Opportunity\, Vice Chair\nFinance\nHealth\nPublic Utilities URL:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/events/bri-in-the-buckeye-state-a-conversation-with-sen-mark-romanchuk/ CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BRI-in-the-Buckeye-State-Sen-Mark-Romanchuk.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR