CMA’s Organized Medical Staff Section will hold its Annual Assembly and Education Conference Friday, October 27, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Sacramento Convention Center. The conference immediately precedes the 2006 CMA House of Delegates, also at the Sacramento Convention Center.

Among the speakers is John E. Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Wennberg is a renowned health services researcher and former director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Known as the “father of variation analysis,” Dr. Wennberg will discuss unwarranted variations in the cost and quality of medical care—unwarranted because they can’t be explained by illness, patient preferences, or the dictates of evidence-based medicine—and what health care providers can do to deliver more efficient, more effective care.

All physicians, medical staff professionals, and interested parties are invited to attend, but seating is limited. Cost is $100 for physicians and staff of CMA-OMSS members, $250 for CMA members who are not also OMSS members, and $300 for all others.

Click here to download the registration form and tentative agenda.

Contact: Kathleen DeFabrique, 415/882-5107 or kdefabrique@cmanet.org.