LOCAL Physician Wellness CME Retreat Opportunities

Upcoming 2023 Honoring Diastole Retreats: Sunday, September 24th and Saturday, October 28th

Upcoming Connect in Nature Mindful Healers Retreat: July 14-16th, 2023

Mindful Coaching, Yoga and Culinary Medicine CME

Wellness Retreats for Women Physicians: 4-5 night intimate physician wellness retreat opportunity for women physicians in Santa Margarita CA. September 10-15th, 2023, November 5-10th, 2023, March 17-22nd, April14-18th, May 5-9th, 2024.

Find out more and sign up here: https://www.jessiemahoneymd.com/retreats

SAVE THE DATE: Special IN PERSON Mindful Yoga for Healers in Old Mill Park sponsored by SFMMS

Join SFMMS on Sunday, October 15th 10am - 12pm for IN-PERSON yoga and community building at the Old Mill Park Amphitheatre in Mill Valley. 60 minutes of ALL levels yoga will be led by SFMMS Physician Wellness Committee Chair, Dr. Jessie Mahoney. Yoga will be followed by socializing and community building with your SFMMS physician colleagues. All skill levels welcome! Please bring your own yoga mat or beach towel. This class will be held outdoors, so please be prepared for the weather with appropriate layers. Attendance is limited to the first 50 SFMMS Members and their guests that RSVP.

To register, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sfmms-in-person-mindful-yoga-for-healers-community-building-registration-494197085787 or scan the QR code with your smartphone.

Practicing Mindful Yoga for Healers with Jessie before this event

Join Dr. Mahoney on Zoom most Saturdays at 9am or anytime on YouTube. For more information visit: https://mindfulyoga.jessiemahoneymd.com/ or https://youtube.com/c/JessieMahoney.

Read our Monthly SFMMS Wellness Blog

Each month, as part of the Physician Wellness leaders' work, they curate wellness resources around a common theme for our monthly wellness blog. Read, listen, and attend the monthly resources the committee has curated for SFMMS members by visiting: https://www.sfmms.org/news-events/sfmms-blog. aspx?Category=physician-wellness or by scanning the QR with your smartphone.

Have you missed a recent Wellness Event?

You can learn more about upcoming wellness events or view recordings of past events on the SFMMS Wellness Page at www.sfmms.org/get-help/physician-wellness.

"During CMA's Legislative Advocacy Day this year, SFMMS physician leaders advocated for expanded access to care for the most underserved members of our communties by expanding Medi-Cal and reducing the burden of prior authorization. Thank you to Assemblymembers Matt Haney, Damon Connolly and Phil Ting, and Senators Mike McGuire and Scott Wiener, for partnering with the profession of medicine to advance health equity."

Hundreds of physicians, residents and medical students gathered in Sacramento on April 19, 2023, for the 49th annual California Medical Association (CMA) Legislative Advocacy Day.

This year’s event was by all accounts a wildly successful endeavor. CMA welcomed nearly 400 attendees, representing 45+ specialties and 24 component medical societies. Attendees participated in a total of 120 legislator meetings as champions for patients and the practice of medicine.

“I think it is so important to advocate for our patients,” said Quinn Lippman, M.D., an ob-gyn who attended advocacy day with her peers from the San Diego County Medical Society. “There’s the one-on-one care we give in our offices every day, but [it's important that we] take a step back and look at the broader picture of who has access to health care, how that care is being delivered, what medications patients have access to.”

Attendees received updates from CMA President Donaldo Hernandez, M.D., and CMA’s chief lobbyist Stuart Thompson about key health care issues before the legislature this year. Attendees then lobbied their legislators in support of CMA's priority issues, including:

+ SB 598: Prior Authorization Reform, which would significantly reduce the administrative burden physicians must bear because of prior authorization.

+ AB 765: Truth in Advertising, which protects patients AND physicians against allied health professionals who use terminology to misrepresent themselves as physicians.

+ Medi-Cal: While we have made sure that all Californians have health care coverage, it is meaningless if they can’t see a provider or get regular, timely care outside of the emergency room. Access to care is the last leg of the stool that holds this safety- net program up and is the key to unlocking quality health care for all and reducing disparities.

Legislative Advocacy Day attendees also enjoyed an engaging panel discussion from our keynote luncheon speakers, physician Assemblymembers Joaquin Arambula, M.D.; Jasmeet Bains, M.D.; and Akilah Weber, M.D.