This is just a quick post to let everyone know that our 2009 Medical Fusion Conference is now available online at www.cmedownload.com .
All 2009 Medical Fusion Conference lectures are available in both streaming video or MP3 format.
The final schedule and faculty list for our Medical Fusion Conference in June has arrived. The June Medical Fusion faculty is a very eclectic group of physician leaders from a variety of backgrounds. Please check out their information on the web to learn more about them and check out the schedule for our June event below:
Gregory H. Bledsoe, MD, MPH
CEO, ExpedMed and Chief Editor of Expedition & Wilderness Medicine
Philippa Kennealy, MD, MPH
Business Coach and President of The Entrepreneurial MD
Mike Woo-Ming, MD, MPH
Entrepreneur and Internet Marketing Consultant
Elliot Justin, MD
Founder, SwiftMD and CEO, Pegasus Emergency Group
Joseph Kim, MD, MPH
Director of Medical Affairs and Technology at Medical Communications Media, Inc. and blogger at Nonclinicaljobs.com
Steven D. Knope, MD
Author, Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare
Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA
Professor of Otolarynogology, Dentistry, & Engineering at the University of Colorado, Denver and Founder of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs
Gary Taff, MD
Entrepreneur and Real Estate Investor
John La Puma, MD
New York Times best-selling author and Founder of ChefMD
Perry Mykleby
Vice President of Marketing, ENT Division, at Gyrus ACMI
Ashley Wendel, MA, CMC, PDC
Executive Coach and Founder, High Agility Healthcare
MEDICAL FUSION SCHEDULE
Friday, June 11th
PreConference Workshops
8:00am – Noon: PreConference Workshop with Dr. Mike Woo-Ming, Developing A Successful Online Business
8:00 – 11:00am: PreConference Workshop with Dr. Philippa Kennealy, Sell Yourself
General Session
1:00-2:00pm: Medical Device Development, Dr. Arlen Meyers
2:00-3:00pm: Non-Clinical Jobs for Physicians, Dr. Joseph Kim
BREAK, 30 minutes
3:30-4:30pm: Living and Working Abroad, Dr. Gregory H. Bledsoe
4:30-5:30pm: You are Your Own Best Brand, Dr. John La Puma
5:30-7:00pm: Meet the Faculty
Saturday, June 12th
8:00-9:00am: Career Transition for Physicians, Ms. Ashley Wendel
9:00-10:00am: Real Estate Investing for Physicians, Dr. Gary Taff
BREAK, 30 minutes
10:30-11:30am: The Physician Entrepreneur, Dr. Mike Woo-Ming
11:30-12:30pm: Internet Marketing for Physicians, Dr. Mike Woo-Ming
LUNCH
2:00-3:00pm: Consulting for Industry, Dr. Arlen Meyers and Mr. Perry Mykleby
3:00-4:00pm: Concierge Medicine, Dr. Steven Knope
4:00-5:00pm: Medical Tourism, Dr. Arlen Meyers
5:00-6:30pm: Meet the Faculty
Sunday, June 13th
8:00-9:00am: Blogging 101, Dr. Joseph Kim
9:00-10:00am: Telemedicine, Dr. Elliot Justin
BREAK, 30 minutes
10:30-11:30am: Introduction to Coaching, Dr. Philippa Kennealy
11:30-12:30pm: Health Technology and Medical Informatics, Dr. Joseph Kim
Atlas Shrugged was written in 1957 by Ayn Rand. Considering all that has happened in the past 18 months the work seems prophetic. Here’s a quote by a character in Atlas Shrugged named Dr. Hendricks who retired from Neurosurgery when the healthcare system became nationalized:
“I quit when medicine was placed under State control, some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I would not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything – except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, only ‘to serve.’ That a man who’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards – never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness with which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind – yet what is it that they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in their operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man whose life they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of a man who resents it – and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”
I am very excited to announce that Dr. John La Puma, New York Times best-selling author and founder of ChefMD , is coming on faculty for our 2010 Medical Fusion Conference in San Diego. Dr. La Puma has lead a very productive and interesting life and will be speaking on the topic You are Your Own Best Brand: How to Publish, Use TV and Engage Social Media for Message Delivery and Brand Building.
Check out Dr. LaPuma’s bio:
Dr. La Puma is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine, a professionally trained chef, and an expert in medical ethics, nutrition and weight management. He is co-founder of ChefMD(R), tweets from @johnlapuma, hosts the weekly TV segment “What’s Cooking With ChefMD?” and co-hosts the national series “Health Corner”, airing on Lifetime every Sunday. Lifetime reaches over 90m households and Dr. La Pumais seen by at least 250,000 viewers, 25-54, each week.
Dr. La Puma is a New York Times best-selling author: his ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover’s Roadmap to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease and Getting Really Healthy became a Times best-seller list shortly after its 2008 release. His first general audience book, with Dr. Michael Roizen, was also a Times best-seller: The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat; his first cookbook, also with Dr. Roizen, became anAmazon #1 Cookbook: Cooking the RealAge Way: Turn Back Your Biological Clock. Dr. La Puma also developed recipes for Dr. Oz and Roizen’s Times #1 best-seller You the Owner’s Manual.
We are very excited about having Dr. La Puma on board as a faculty member. Please check out his website at http://drjohnlapuma.com . Don’t forget to register early for our Medical Fusion Conference. Space is limited and we are already receiving registrations.
We are gearing up for a great year in 2010 for the Medical Fusion Conference.
In 2009, we had over 8o physicians from around the country attend our first Medical Fusion event in Las Vegas. Our stellar faculty received rave reviews and based on the feedback we received from the audience we have tweaked the topics for 2010.
In 2010, our first Medical Fusion event will be in San Diego June 11-13, 2010. We are actively recruiting faculty to teach on a variety of topics and have already confirmed many talented individuals for this San Diego event. Here’s an overview of a few faculty who will be attending the Medical Fusion Conference in San Diego:
Dr. Steve Knope, author of the book Concierge Medicine . Dr. Knope will be speaking on concierge medicine as a viable practice model
Dr. Mike Woo-Ming, internet marketer . ”Dr. Mike” will be giving two hours of lecture at our event and also a pre-conference workshop on internet marketing for physicians
Dr. Philippa Kennealy, author of The Entrepreneurial MD blog . Dr. Kennealy will be speaking on how to become a coach and also giving a pre-conference workshop entitled “Sell Yourself.”
Dr. Elliot Justin, CEO of SwiftMD . Dr. Justin will be speaking on telemedicine
Dr. Joe Kim, author of the Nonclinicaljobs.com blog. Dr. Kim will be speaking on nonclinical jobs, medical informatics, and blogging.
Dr. Gary Taff, physician entrepreneur and real estate investor . Dr. Taff will be speaking on real estate investing for physicians.
Dr. Arlen Myers, chairman of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs , will be speaking on medical device development and medical tourism
As you can see by this list of faculty who have already committed to our San Diego event, there will be lots of opportunity for physicians to learn multiple ways to develop side careers and entrepreneurial ventures. In the coming weeks we will release the entire faculty list and topic list for our San Diego event. Keep watching this website and also check our Medical Fusion Conference website for the latest agenda and to register early to reserve your seat at this exciting event.
I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Mike Woo-Ming. Dr. Mike is a Family Physician who retired from medicine and now is a highly sought out consultant on internet marketing.
In this interview we discuss how he transitioned from medicine to internet marketing. Also, Dr. Mike discusses his role in our upcoming Medical Fusion Conference and what he will be teaching at our event. Click the buttons below to hear the interview and go to our Medical Fusion Conference website for more information and to register– there’s still time! The Medical Fusion Conference will be at the Wynn Las Vegas this November 13-15, 2009.
Check out this video. It’s a video of a guy who danced all over the world. Sounds corney, I know, but in a strange way it’s inspiring. What a great idea. Three cheers to Matt for his creative video.
While the lectures at the Medical Fusion conference are not approved for CME (”too commercial” we were told), we have arranged things so that every participant at our Medical Fusion conference can receive CME if they want to.
All participants at the Medical Fusion conference will be given a code to access our recent Expedition Medicine National Conference online for free. All 20 hours of Category I CME will be absolutely free to Medical Fusion participants. In other words, those attending Medical Fusion will receive 20 hours of non-CME lectures at our live event in Vegas, and then receive another 20 hours of instruction for CME online.
We believe this offer gives out Medical Fusion participants an unprecedented value– 40 hours of lecture for the cost of 20.
Register today for this unique event at www.MedFusionConf.org .
Check out what participants in our latest ExpedMed event had to say about the conference. More information on ExpedMed can be found at www.ExpedMed.org . Medical Fusion information can be found at www.MedFusionConf.org .
Check out the video presentation on the Medical Fusion conference now on CMEDownload.com .
CMEDownload.com is an online resource for those interested in earning CME from the comfort of their homes. Check out the new presentation on Medical Fusion at the CMEDownload.com website by clicking this link: http://tr.im/xNaX .
Those who cannot attend the Medical Fusion conference in person can purchase the conference at CMEDownload.com approximately six weeks after the event.
