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Levitt Distinguished Speaker Series

Innovations in Health and Healthcare

About Dr. Louis P. Levitt

Dr. Louis P. Levitt was born in Denver in 1896 and graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1927. He practiced medicine in Denver until 1967.  When he died in 1978 he bequeathed $75,000 to the Department of Family Medicine to establish an endowed lectureship>> The Levitt Distinguished Speaker Series.

Over the years, the Department has invited over 45 distinguished visiting professors, leaders and authorities to speak and consult with the University of Colorado community on various topics of high importance and relevance to primary care and healthcare as a whole.

2012 Speakers

June 8, 2012
 

Steven Woolf, MD, MPH
Director for the Center for Human Needs
Professor of Family Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University

10-11am
Disparities Research: What We Need to Know
AMC, AO1, #3101
 
12-1:30pm
Why Social Determinants Matter So Much
AMC, Ed 1, #1500
Lunch Provided 
RSVP by June 4 to linda.niebauer@ucdenver.edu; x49767
2-3pm
The Need for Community in Primary Care Training
AMC, A01, #3101

 
 
 

August 22, 2012

John Geyman, MD
Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine
 
Primary Care and Health Care Reform: Alternative Futures
NCNH M24-110 Shore Family Forum

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2009-2011 Levitt Distinguished Speakers
Lecturer Lecture Topic Archived Content
​Anne Warhover
 
President and CEO, The Colorado Health Foundation
 
 April 11, 2012
 

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​The Role of Foundations in Powering Health and Healthcare Innovations

 

​View Warhover lecture

e-Patient Dave
 
Society of Participatory Medicine Co-Chair, Patient Advocate and Activist 
 
October 31, 2011
 ​The Copernican Shift: The World Looks Different with the Patient at the Center

View e-Patient Dave lecture

 

 

Frederick Chen, MD, MPH
 
Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of
Washington
 
Senior Investigator, WWAMI Rural Health Research Center and Center for Health Workforce Studies
 
September 30, 2011
 ​Teaching Health Centers, Community-Based Training, and Other Options for Family Medicine Residency Education

​View Lecture

>>CLICK HERE

​G. Gayle Stephens, MD, PhD

Leader in the emergence and evolution of Family Medicine as a specialty 
 
September 28, 2011
 ​Reflections on the Generalist Role in Health Care

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Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD

President, Institute of Medicine

Professor of Health Policy and Management, Emeritus and Former Provost and Dean, Harvard School of Public Health

May 25, 2011

Practice Transformation & Statewide Planning
 

Warren Newton, MD, MPH

William B. Aycock Professor and Chair of Family Medicine & Executive Associate Dean for Education, The University of North Carolina School of Medicine

January 26, 2011

Practice Transformation & Statewide Planning

Lee Lipsenthal, MD

Founder, Finding Balance in a Medical Life

December 8, 2010

Living and Dying in Balance

 

Ned Calonge, MD, MPH

Chair, US Preventitive Services Task Force, President and CEO, The Colorado  Trust, Former Chief Medical Officer, Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment

October 27, 2010

Policy, Politics, and Science: Convergence and Collision at the Intersection

Robert Gibbons, PhD

Director, Center for Health Stratistics & Professor of Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago

October 7, 2010

Item Response Theory: The CAT-DI & The Efficient Diagnosis of Depression

Paul Grundy, MD, MPH

IBM Director of Healthcare Transformation

President, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative

June 23, 2010
Breakthrough Clinical Performance: The Place for the Patient Centered Medical Home

 

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Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD

Associate Professor, University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine

April 14, 2010
Recent Findings About How Our Brains Work: Implications for Needed Changes in Medical Education

 

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James Mold, MD, MPH

Professor and Research Director

Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine

February 24, 2010
Extension Services and Accountable Care Organizations: Can Lessons Learned in Agriculture Be Used to Improve Healthcare

 

 

 

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Arthur Kaufmann, MD

Vice President of Community Health & Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico

July 22, 2009
The Role of Academic Health Centers in the Health of our Communities

 

 

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Kurt Stange, MD, PhD

Professor of Family Medicine, Epidemiology, Sociology, and Oncology, Case Western Reserve University

Editor, Annals of Family Medicine

May 27, 2009
A Science of Connectedness

 

 

 

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Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH

Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH

Director and Assistant Director of The Robert Graham Center

April 29, 2009
Is Colorado Ready for a Primary Care-Based System?

 

 

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Allen Dobson Jr., MD

Vice President Carolinas Healthcare System

February 4, 2009
Health Care Reform 2009: The Case for Medical Homes and Community Systems

 

 

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Listing of Levitt Dinguished Speakers prior to 2009