2024 Pediatric DPC Mastermind Records

Grow your pediatric DPC knowledge & skills with the recordings of the 2024 conference.

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The conference is over but the learnings continue!

Developing a Mindset for Success

Erin Donley, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Define “success” and “failure” as they relate to the individual DPC practice and how you deliver care to patients.

  • Identify 1-2 unintentional beliefs that you hold that are not aligned with your intentional definition of success and that will impact patient care.

  • Identify at least 1 opportunity for intentional change and 1 anticipated obstacle to that change present in your current medical practice.

My Startup Journey Panel

Rachel Coleman, MD
Hana Zibdeh-Lough, DO
Shirley Chan-Ramirez, MD
Elissa Gonzalez, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the driving forces behind why a doctor would want to start a pediatric DPC practice including the opportunities DPC provides for enhanced patient care.

  • Understand the challenges in providing patient care in the DPC model.

  • Identify opportunities to set-up your DPC practice from the start with processes to support enhanced patient relationships and care.


Pricing for Long-Term Success
Noemi Gamel MD & Drew Hertz, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify a process for setting your prices that will allow you to support quality patient care within a pediatric DPC framework.

  • Understand that various patient pricing models can support your patient care.

Networking for Growth

Drew Hertz, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the theories on how to build professional networks.

  • Identify potential patient support clinical networking opportunities in their local geography

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Unlocking Your Full Potential

Sogol Palhavan, M.D.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the barriers that prevent them from creating profit in their practices and thereby to maintain quality patient care.


  • Identify the behaviors that cause stress and burnout and impact your ability to provide quality patient care while building a direct primary care business


  • Physicians receive effective tools to help them change their behaviors, build their business and high-touch effective patient care and doctor/patient relationships.


It Takes More Than Yoga: Creating a Workforce Wellness Ecosystem in your DPC Practice
Noemi Adame, M.D.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the rationale for embedding workforce wellness in the DPC practice and how it will impact patient care


  • Identify the benefits of workforce wellness initiatives for both physcians and patients


  • Prioritize the components of workforce wellness that apply to your DPC practice


  • Construct a workforce wellness ecosystem for your DPC practice and patients using the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine

Cultivating Joy in Life & Work

Meena Julapalli, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Define joy and obstacles to our experience of joy

  • Understand the science of joy and how it can impact our physical, social,

    emotional, mental, and spiritual health and our approach to patient care and interation with families.

  • Demonstrate practical applications to cultivating joy in their lives and in the

    workplace and inspiring joy in parenting for your patients.

Marketing & Automation Phil Boucher, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify ways to automate your patient interactions to enhance the patient experience and care.

  • Understand how to market your differentiating care model and clinical benefits to patients.

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Simple Hypnotic Techniques for Managing Fear & Anxiety

Marina Capella, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the power of language in programming conscious and subconscious thinking patterns.

  • Recognize the potential of language and imagery in rewiring thinking patterns.

  • Utilize 5 simple techniques to help children manage fears and anxiety

Helping Families Optimize Nutritional Wellness

Yolanda River-Caudill, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn key factors in which a child diet differs from that of an adult

  • Learn some key aspects on how to counsel a family that wants to raise their children with a plant-based diet

  • Learn some tools on how to help picky eaters


Troubleshooting Common Problems with Breastfeeding

Andrea Wadley, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to identify 5 common breastfeeding problems.


  • At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to describe 3 ways to manage each problem in a pediatric visit setting.

  • At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be assess when a higher level of care for the breastfeeding mother/baby dyad may be necessary.

Tapping Your Resources -- From Startup to Established DPC Practice Kelly Parker-Mello, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify gaps in their knowledge or skill set that may require help from outside resources to start, continue to grow or maintain a DPC practice that provides optimal patient care.

  • Identify resources that are available to them as an individual or as a practice model that assists in the delivery of patient care.

  • Apply the knowledge and resources learned in an effective way to utilize said resources to start, grow or maintain a pediatric DPC practice, thus empowering the physician to provide high quality, patient-center medical care.


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Legal Considerations for the Pediatric DPC Startup - Luanne Leeds, JD

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the basic characteristics of the direct pay care model; and how the model differs from the traditional insurance model and the impact on patient care;


  • Summarize the legal and practical steps (and considerations) for patients and physicians necessary to transition into
    a direct pay practice

Lessons from Peds DPC Veterans

Andrea Wadley,MD

Nitin Gupta, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify and avoid at least 2 pitfalls of providing care to children in a pediatric DPC practice.

  • Describe 3 ways to successfully recruit and maintain a pediatric dpc patient panel by providing a differential level of patient care.

  • Implement enhancements to their current patient care services within a pediatirc DPC practice.


Integrative Approaches To Common Pediatric Problems

Valerie Miles, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Recall the definition of integrative medicine

  • Describe the difference between integrative medicine and standard medical

  • Review the integrative approach to 3 common medical conditions seen in primary care pediatric practice

Vaccines in Pediatric DPC Margarita Diaz-Ochu, MD

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the various responses to, and management of, patients who do not want to vaccinate their children in a DPC practice.


  • Understand the options available for vaccine stocking and administration within the pediatirc DPC model.


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