Transforming the Health Ecosystem: Physician Leadership & Change Management

Description

Today's complex healthcare landscape requires physician leaders to guide teams, bridge divides, maintain quality care, and drive improvements. Additionally, strong leadership is vital for advancing population health and equity. This online, self-paced course focuses on leadership, engagement, and change management to transform health systems.

This course aims to equip preventive medicine and primary care physicians with strategies to develop leadership capacities and achieve buy-in from team members, leaders, and stakeholders/community members by understanding how to manage change to positively impact population health outcomes. The goal is to advance system-based approaches to improve population, community, and individual health - increasing healthcare efficiency and effectiveness while addressing social determinants of health.

ACPM defines health systems transformation as: “systems-based approaches to improving population, community, and individual health by incorporating and addressing the behavioral and social determinants of health and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare”.

Learning Objectives

Define effective physician leadership;
Reflect on one’s leadership skills and identify opportunities for growth;
Outline the responsibility of leaders to bring awareness to implicit biases while advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a health equity focus;
Describe key skills that maximize team performance;
Outline approaches to engage internal partners across an organization;
Understand an apply appropriate leadership skills to cultivate effective partnerships with the community and external partners;
Describe approaches to successfully navigate change in a health ecosystem.

Faculty Bios

Mitchell A. Kaminski, MD, MBA

Dr. Kaminski is a family physician who has combined clinical practice and teaching with a career in healthcare leadership that has included private groups, hospital systems, and academic institutions. Most recently he served as Chief Clinical Officer at the Delaware Valley ACO, helping to develop the clinical strategy and teams in one of the largest ACOs in the country. He has continued to teach and care for patients part-time, most recently at the Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine. He embraces the complex challenges of our transforming national and regional healthcare systems, and continues to bring front-line perspectives to his leadership positions.

Since joining the Jefferson College of Population Health in August, 2018, Dr. Kaminski has led enhancement in the College curriculum to include greater emphasis on value-based care, population health management, and an increasing focus on the social determinants of health. He speaks to diverse groups on population health topics, value-based care, and physician leadership.

Dr. Kaminski also enjoys collaborating with NAVVIS in a joint mission to promote successful transformation of health care to meet today’s and tomorrow’s patient and population health needs.

Prasad Acharya, MD, MPH, MBA, FACPM

Dr. Prasad Acharya, MD, MPH, MBA, FACPM, is a physician executive and dynamic leader in Preventive Medicine and Population Health. With experience spanning clinical practice, digital innovation, government public health, and strategic consulting, Dr. Acharya excels at driving innovation, improving strategic outcomes, and forging strong partnerships in complex and evolving environments. As Chief of Staff at Prometheus Federal Services, he contributes to strategic direction, spearheads the innovation lab and AI implementation, and provides subject matter expertise in healthcare, public/population health, and informatics. Dr. Acharya has advised numerous digital health startups with a particular focus on effectively engaging underserved populations.

In addition to his professional role, Dr. Acharya serves on ACPM's leadership. As part of the Population Health Faculty, he concentrates on health innovation, information technology, health equity, leadership development, and change management. In his role as President-Elect of the California Academy of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Acharya contributes to shaping health policy at the state level. He is also a recipient of ACPM's Rising Star Award.

Target Audience

The course is designed for an audience of preventive medicine physicians and physicians committed to practicing population health, transforming health systems, and creating healthier communities. The content will also be useful for primary care providers and health system professionals engaged in quality improvement, population health improvement, program administration, finance, and contracting.

Summary

Availability:

On-Demand

Expires on Jul 31, 2027

Cost:

Non-Member: $67.50
Student/Resident Member: $52.50
ACPM Subscriber: $53.50
Member: $52.50

Credit Offered:

1.5 CME Credits

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