Physician Leadership: What’s Different, What’s New With AAPL

Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, MCCM, FAAPL(Hon)


Jan 9, 2026


Physician Leadership Journal


Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 4-9


https://doi.org/10.55834/plj.4561183418


Abstract

AAPL remains highly focused on the evolving purpose and usefulness of professional associations in the current healthcare environment. This includes how associations must adapt to rapidly changing landscapes, which now include technology advancements, shifts in government policy, and the ever-evolving professional needs of members and clients. The current environment challenges all associations to remain relevant while addressing this new and varied set of contemporary changes. AAPL is already meeting this challenge in a host of new, different, and innovative ways, but always with the predominant focus on member value and evaluating the variety of benefits provided for our AAPL constituency.




Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, MCCM, FAAPL(Hon)

Peter Angood, MD, is the chief executive officer and president of the American Association for Physician Leadership. Formerly, Dr. Angood was the inaugural chief patient safety officer for The Joint Commission and senior team leader for the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Patient Safety Solutions. He was also senior adviser for patient safety to the National Quality Forum and National Priorities Partnership and the former chief medical officer with the Patient Safety Organization of GE Healthcare.

With his academic trauma surgery practice experience ranging from the McGill University hospital system in Canada to the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Angood completed his formal academic career as a full professor of surgery, anesthesia and emergency medicine. A fellow in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Angood is an author in more than 200 publications and a past president for the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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