PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Brian Park
AU  - Anastasia J. Coutinho
AU  - Noemi Doohan
AU  - Jonathan Jimenez
AU  - Sara Martin
AU  - Max Romano
AU  - Diana Wohler
AU  - Jennifer DeVoe
TI  - Revisiting Primary Care's Critical Role in Achieving Health Equity: Pisacano Scholars' Reflections from Starfield Summit II
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2018.02.170256
DP  - 2018 Mar 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 292--302
VI  - 31
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/31/2/292.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/31/2/292.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2018 Mar 01; 31
AB  - The second Starfield Summit was held in Portland, Oregon, in April 2017. The Summit addressed the role of primary care in advancing health equity by focusing on 4 key domains: social determinants of health in primary care, vulnerable populations, economics and policy, and social accountability. Invited participants represented an interdisciplinary group of primary care clinicians, researchers, educators, policymakers, community leaders, and trainees. The Pisacano Leadership Foundation was one of the Summit sponsors and held its annual leadership symposium in conjunction with the Summit, enabling several Pisacano Scholars to attend the Summit. After the Summit, a small group of current and former Pisacano Scholars formed a writing group to highlight key themes and implications for action discussed at the Summit. The Summit resonated as a call to action for primary care to move beyond identifying existing health inequities and toward the development of interventions that advance health equity, through education, research, and enhanced community partnerships. In doing so, the Summit aimed to build on the foundational work of Dr. Starfield, challenging us to explore the significant role of primary care in truly achieving health equity.