DPC Summit course overview
AAFP DPC Summit On Demand 2025 reviews direct primary care practice development, business operations and selected clinical topics for family physicians.
Target Audience: family physicians
Information:
The curriculum addresses starting a practice, staffing, marketing, financial planning and working with employers. The session list below can help learners identify topics relevant to their practice stage.
The official 2025 DPC Summit agenda supports the session topics. This store listing does not include live workshop participation, publisher-account access, CME credits or certification. The delivered file inventory has not been independently checked.
Session topics and speakers
Sessions With Speaker
- Case-Based Approach to Healing Common Wounds
Eric M. Rudnick, MD, FACEP, FAEMS - Crafting Connections: Marketing and Networking Strategies for DPC Success
Byron Jasper, MD, MPH; Michelle Cooke, MD - DPC Family Panel: How DPC affects Everyone!
Jeffrey Davenport, MD (moderator); Maria Mehta; Jeff Kenney; Molly Davenport; and Paula Tomczyk - DPC Hiring and Firing
Creighton Shute, DO (moderator); Vance Lassey, MD; Byron Jasper, MD, MPH; and Amber Beckenhauer, DO - Employed vs Owning: Comparing Options for Direct Primary Care
Michael Sparks, MD - Equity in Action: Addressing Disparities Through DPC and Innovation
Byron Jasper, MD, MPH; Wendy Molaska, MD, FAAFP - Financial Fitness for Direct Primary Care Physicians: Strengthening your Practice with Smart Budgeting, Cash Flow, and Retirement Planning
Ryan Gordon, AAMS - From Stethoscopes to Soapboxes: Empowering DPC Physicians to be Catalysts for Change in Healthcare Advocacy
Wendy Molaska. MD, FAAFP; Eric Kropp, MD - Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into DPC: A Case Study
Natalie Gentile, MD - Intro to In-Office Dispensing: Logistics and Practical Points
Michael Sparks, MD - Introduction to Tick-Borne Diseases
Tiffany Leonard, MD, FAAFP - Iron Management: IV Iron Replacement and Therapeutic Phlebotomy
Lara Kenney, MD - Is DPC Really for Me?
Delicia M Haynes, MD - Launching a Successful Direct Primary Care Practice: 5 Essential Marketing Strategies for Growth and Longevity
Holly Sobrack; Nick Krawczyk, MD - Legal 101: Opt Out of the System and Into Your DPC Practice – Ask the Right Legal and Accounting Questions
Philip Eskew, DO, JD, MBA - Let’s GROW! Adding Medical Staff in DPC
Vance Lassey, MD
- Male HRT: All the Rage
Philip Hellman, MD; Amber Beckenhauer, DO - Mastering Financial Statements and Cashflow Forecasting for DPC Success
Nate Goodman, CPA, MBA - Menopause and Metabolic Health: A Perfect Storm
Lisa Lucas, DO - Mindset Mastery for DPC Success: Embracing the Business Mindset, Overcoming Impostor Syndrome, and Thriving as an Entrepreneur
Adriana Raus, MD - Mission-Driven Medicine: Building a Sustainable Nonprofit DPC Model
Mark Blocher, MA, MABS - Navigating DPC for Employers
Ben Aiken, MD, MSPH, DipABLM - Podiatry for the Primary Care Physician
Amy Capoocia, DO, FACOFP - Practicing to the Top of Your License, DPC Model
Amy Capoocia, DO, FACOFP - So Your Patient Has Depression, Now What?
Chelsey Wilks, MD - Speaker Town Hall 101
Creig Shute, DO (moderator); Delicia Haynes, MD; Michael Sparks, MD; and Amy Capoocia, DO - Speaker Town Hall 201
Byron Jasper, MD, MPH (Moderator); Vance Lassey, MD; Michelle Cooke, MD; and Wendy Molaska, MD - Start Up Basics
Amy Capoocia, DO, FACOFP - Traction in DPC: Keeping Your Partnership Focused and Your Business Strong Eleanor Glass, MD
- Unbound Freedom: Leveraging Healthy Boundaries to Thrive in Your Direct Primary Care Practice
Michelle Cooke, MD - Understanding Management Services Organization Model for Growth and Expansion
Ericka L. Adler, JD - Utilization of Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Scores to Predict Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk
Travis Allen, MD - When “Normal TSH” Isn’t Normal
Dana Gibbs Clark, MD



