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Primary Issues is dedicated and qualified to help you become a better primary care clinician.

Our mission is to improve patient outcomes and the practice of primary care through our patient-focused content and exceptional resources, such as Primary Care Education and Primary Care Network.

We want to be your online source for all that matters in primary care: your peer-to-peer, full open access, media-rich, interactive learning corner. We are not just a publication, we are a community.

Editorial Staff

Editors
Kathleen Farmer, PsyD  Click here to contact by e-mail

Creative Director
Scott Farmer

CMS Implementation Manager
Brad Hedrick

CME Accreditation Director
Sandy Bihlmeyer, M.Ed, CCMEP

Accreditation Manager
Jill Hays Click here to contact by e-mail for CME certificates

Associate Editor/Copywriter
Candace Shade

 

Contributors

Medical Editors

Roger Cady, MD

Dr. Cady is the founder of Headache Care Center, Clinvest, and Primary Care Network. He is a graduate of the Mayo Medical School, and is Board Certified by the American Board of Family Practice. His board certification in Headache Medicine was awarded by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties, and he holds a Certificate of Added Qualification through the National Board of Certification in Headache Management. He is a member of multiple medical associations, including the American Medical Association, the National Headache Foundation, the American Headache Society, the American Academy of Pain Management, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Cady is best known in the medical community for his pivotal contributions in the field of headache and migraine management. He was the co-recipient of the prestigious Wolff Award in 2000 from the American Headache Society for his research entitled “The Spectrum of Headache.” He is well-published and has presented countless lectures and seminars around the world on headache, migraine, and other chronic disorders, and continues to be the principal investigator in numerous multi-center research studies. Dr. Cady currently serves on 12 Advisory Boards and is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Headache Foundation.

Brian Koffman, MD

Dr. Koffman earned his medical degree from McGill in Montreal, Canada, and completed his Family Practice residency from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, and his Psychiatry Fellowship at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Koffman has taught at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario and is a Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine where he also completed his Masters Degree in Science in Medical Education. He is Board Certified in Family Practice in the United States and Canada.

After residency, Dr. Koffman worked in Norway House, 400 miles north of Winnipeg.

Dr. Koffman co-founded and directed an award-winning national program for Chronic Pain patients. He also founded and directed a Forensic Child Sexual Abuse Program. He founded and co-chaired an ecumenical group on physician spirituality and established an herbal formulary and complementary alternative medicine program for his medical group. He helped pioneer the shared medical appointment in Los Angeles County. He is on staff at St. Jude Medical Center and has been in family practice serving the same community of Diamond Bar for 28 years.

His current research interests include depression, migraine, herbal medicine, leukemia, and new technologies for the non-invasive measurement of plasma glucose.

He is married to singer/songwriter, Randi McMatthew. With their four children, they enjoy art, music, exotic travel, and the surf. That was all put on hold when Dr. Koffman had a hematopoietic stem cell transplant for chronic lymphocytic leukemia on July 1, 2008 (see http://bkoffman.blogspot.com/). He is writing a doctor turned patient insider’s guide to surviving an incurable cancer.


Kathleen Farmer, PsyD

Dr. Farmer is a psychologist specializing in Health Psychology at Headache Care Center, as well as the CME Director of Primary Care Network, an organization of over 72,000 clinicians linked via the Internet. A Diplomat of the American Academy of Pain Management, she is the co-author of the patient education book Headache Free. She has conducted research in the nonpharmacological treatment of disabling headaches, with special interest in pediatric migraine and cognitive efficiency associated with migraine. Dr. Farmer speaks extensively about the therapeutic value of biofeedback for the treatment of chronic disorders and pain. Dr. Farmer was the chair of the Psychology Department of the Shealy Institute for the Comprehensive Management of Pain from 1988 to 1995.


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