
CAP Speakers Bureau
Medical Practice Management, Risk Management, and Patient Safety
CAP Speakers Bureau is a compilation of CAP experts and thought leaders in medical risk management, practice management, legal, and public affairs. Our speakers are the preeminent resource that medical societies, medical practices, and other organizations turn to for in-depth presentations, conference appearances, and special events.
If you need a speaker for any of these topics, please contact us. Interested in a topic not on this list? Let us know and we will connect you with an appropriate speaker.
What Lessons Can I Learn from Real Litigated Cases?
CAP's General Counsel Gordon Ownby provides unique and meaningful insights into the experience of physicians who have been involved in legal disputes with patients over their care. Based on his popular book "Medicine on Trial – Risk Management Lessons from Litigated Cases, Second Edition," topics include:
- Communicating with your patients
- Communications among physicians
- Problem patients
- Self-inflicted wounds
- Hospital-based risks
- And more!
How Can I Reduce Liability and Increase Patient Safety in My Practice?
Our risk management experts can speak about the following topics:
- Fundamentals of risk management
- Latest news in risk management
- Documentation
- Informed consent
- Medication management
- Recall and tracking
- Risks associated with EHRs
- Patient portals
- Terminating the physician/patient relationship
- Adverse outcomes
What Does My Office Need to Do to Remain HIPAA Compliant? What are the Benefits and Risks of Changing Technology?
Our risk management experts can speak about the following topics:
- Fundamentals of HIPAA compliance
- Documents to ensure compliance
- Meaningful Use
- Privacy and the HIPAA Security Rule
- Risk management strategies for EHRs
- Communicating with patients via telephone and email
- Electronic prescribing and other medication issues
- Negative online reviews and online reputation management
- Social media in the modern medical practice
- Data breach: causes, trends, and tips to mitigate risk
What Can My Specialty Do to Reduce Risk?
CAP Speakers Bureau currently offers presentations for the following specialties:
- Anesthesiology
- Elder Care
- Hospital Medicine
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Ophthalmology
- Pain Management
- Pediatrics
- Primary Care
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
How Can I Avoid a Lawsuit? And What Happens If I Get Sued?
Our panel of in-house attorneys can speak about the following topics:
- Confidentiality and the physician/patient privilege
- Informed consent vs. informed refusal
- Electronic medical records and lawsuits
- Medical charting: what to say and what not to say
- Communicating with patients and other physicians
- Anatomy of a lawsuit
- Depositions and effective testimony
- How to be a medical expert witness
What is Enterprise Risk Management?
Our risk management experts can speak about the following topics:
- Creating the extraordinary patient experience
- High reliability organization (HRO)
- How physician leadership impacts quality and safety
- Transition of care
- Future of patient-centered care
What Do I Need to Learn About Professional Development?
Our panel of experts can speak about the following topics:
- Professionalism as risk management strategy
- Dealing with difficult people
- Meeting the challenge of the disruptive clinician
- Apology and disclosure
- Understanding contract elements
- Your money and your life
- Resilience: a new take on wellness
How Do I Turn My Practice Into a Successful Business?
Our practice management experts can speak about numerous topics including:
- Successful practice administration
- The extraordinary patient experience
- Billing, coding, and reimbursement
- Starting your own medical practice
- Human resources principles to protect your practice
- Hiring the right people
- Business insurance options for your medical practice
- Financial advice for physicians
CAP’s highly qualified speakers have a wealth of knowledge and experience to share with members, medical societies, and practices to help reduce risk and increase the quality of patient care. Our risk management program is facilitated by specialists whose backgrounds encompass a cross-section of the healthcare and legal professions. CAP also has a range of ancillary practice management programs to help you optimize the business side of practicing medicine. This comprehensive approach enables you keep up with the ever-changing practice management rules and regulations.
Since its inception in 1984, Schmid &Voiles has been dedicated to the defense of CAP members. The firm’s attorneys in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Jose, and San Diego have a single-minded goal of obtaining the best result for their physician clients. The profiles of the Schmid & Voiles attorneys shown below illustrate the depth and diversity of experience of attorneys who are dedicated to dedicated to the defense of medical professionals in California.