The author shares her journey to becoming CMO, tackling negotiation, gender bias, and career growth, emphasizing preparation, strategy, and collaboration.
Asha Padmanabhan, MD, shares her journey from reluctant leader to anesthesiologist, advocating for women, resilience, and physician-led growth in medical leadership.
Healthcare leadership faces structural pressure, with lives at stake and constrained resources. Burnout, trust erosion, and blame persist, highlighting the need for values-driven leadership under stress.
Bryan and Yolanda Becker's 33-year marriage thrives on shared values, resilience, and mutual support. From their chance meeting in an ER to navigating demanding medical careers and family life, their partnership is rooted in empathy, adaptability, an...
The author reflects on leading an Internal Medicine department, emphasizing trust, humility, and collaborative leadership to balance patient care and team well-being.
This article highlights how healthcare organizations can combat the risks of silence by fostering psychological safety and courageous cultures. It outlines strategies for empowering frontline workers to share insights, drive innovation, and enhance t...
Servant leadership empowers physician executives to navigate clinical complexity and limited authority by fostering moral authority, psychological safety, and workforce engagement. It emphasizes structured listening, leader development, and accountab...
Generative AI revolutionizes medical hiring by automating sourcing, screening, and communication, but demands ethical oversight to address risks and challenges.
This article explores toxic followership, its causes, and its negative impact on leaders and organizations, offering strategies to address manipulative behaviors and foster healthier workplace dynamics.
Private equity (PE) has grown in private practice medicine, impacting ophthalmology. Interviews revealed mixed views on PE’s influence on clinical autonomy, care quality, patient costs, and operational sustainability.
Dr. Louis M. Profeta shares his journey in emergency medicine, reflections on societal challenges, writing career, and insights on physician resilience and medical education.
Physician burnout is a healthcare crisis often tackled with costly programs. A study found leadership development, focusing on character and collaboration, unexpectedly reduced burnout, offering new intervention insights.
This analysis traces U.S. healthcare policy from the 1798 Marine Hospital Act to today's value-based care, highlighting key laws like Medicare and Medicaid. It explores spending growth and future sustainability challenges.
This article explores two phases of physician development: structured training and fragmented post-training growth. It advocates for continuous, structured programs to enhance skills, retention, and organizational alignment.