Speakers Express Topics - Governance

Ken Ackerman

  • The "Corporation" of Health Care
  • Medical Group Practice Integration and Development
  • Integrated Systems Strategic Development
  • Governance for the New Millennium
  • Strategic Alliance/Partnership Formation
  • Physician Recruitment and Retention
  • Acute Care Facilities Management
  • Trustee/Physician/Administrator Relations

Javon R. Bea, F.A.C.H.E

  • Developing Visionary Strategies for Boards
  • Ethical Challenges of Boards
  • Developing Physician Partnership Models
  • Revitalizing Your Culture
  • Exceptional Customer Service
  • Leadership Models
  • Turnaround Strategies
  • Employee Satisfaction
  • Patient Satisfaction

David L. Bernd, F.A.C.H.E

  • Strategic Development of Integrated Systems
  • Quest for Quality in Healthcare
  • Cultural Changes Necessary for Patient Safety
  • Health System Leadership in the 21st Century
  • Board and Leadership Roles in Improving Quality and Patient Safety
  • Strategic Execution, Competition and Driving Results
  • Integrating Physicians into the System
  • Information Systems as a Strategic Driver
  • Cost Benefit of Information Systems

Errol L. Biggs

  • Role of Hospital Board
  • Role of Individual Board Members
  • Selecting Physician Board Members
  • Term Limits for Board Members
  • Evaluating the CEO
  • Board Self-Assessment Program

Joseph J. Bujak, MD

  • Health Futures
  • Restoring Joy to the Workplace
  • Physician Healthcare Org. Relationships
  • Establishing and Building Trust
  • Physician Culture
  • Organizational Adaptability and Sustainability
  • Physician-Physician Relationships
  • Patient Safety
  • Enhancing Mutual Understanding Among Board Administration and Physician
  • Clinical Performance Improvement
  • Leading and Managing Change
  • Executive Renewal

John R. Combes, MD

  • Future of Healthcare
  • Governance
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Quality Improvement
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations

Connie Curran, EdD, RN, FAAN

  • Patient Safety
  • Managing Across the Continuum
  • Medical Errors
  • Winning the Talent War
  • Labor Shortages
  • Intergenerational Management
  • Nursing Shortage
  • The Balanced Scorecard
  • Nursing Recruitment & Retention
  • Managing Generation Xers & Yers
  • Regarding the Public Trust
  • Today's Health Care Climate

J. Christopher Cutler, FACHE

  • Governance Performance Evaluation
  • Governance Structures and Practices
  • Trustee Education
  • Healthcare Delivery System Design
  • Merger Feasibility
  • Restructuring
  • Organizational and Program/Service Strategic Planning
  • Facilitated Retreats for Trustees, Medical Staff/Senior Management
  • Creative Thinking Workshops
  • The New Consumers
  • Trends and Issues in Health Care
  • Future of Health Care
  • Transparency and Public Reporting
  • Quality and Excellence
  • Baldrige Award
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Leadership on the Front Lines
  • Strategic Planning
  • New Questions to Strengthen Strategic Plans and Position
  • Board’s Role in Quality: Courageous Questions to Ask
  • Governance and Community Accountability
  • Board Retreats

Otha R. Dillihay, Sr.

  • The Importance of Having a Diversified Board
  • Identifying the Right Candidates for Your Board
  • Elements of Board Orientation: What Should New Board Members Know?
  • Building a Diversified Management Team: A How-to Example for CEOs

Barry C. Dorn, M.D.

  • Governance
  • Governance Management Issues
  • Meta-Leadership
  • Medical Staff Organization Issues

William M. Dwyer

  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Patient Safety
  • Quality Improvement
  • Information & Web Technology
  • Health Politics & Policy

Fredric J. Entin

  • Governance
  • Legal Issues

Sam Friede

  • Board Compentencies
  • Board Development
  • Board Orientation
  • Board Self-Assessment
  • Continuing Governance Education
  • Governance Audit
  • Governance Improvement Planning
  • Governance Redesign
  • Retreat Facilitation
  • Physician – Hospital Relations
  • System- Hospital Relations

Emily Friedman

  • Ethics
  • Future of Health Care Leadership & Strategy
  • Governance
  • System Issues
  • Quality Improvement
  • Workforce Issues
  • Community and health care
  • Current Issues in health care ethics
  • Demographic (population) change and its impact on health care
  • End-of-conference summary and perspective (written on site)
  • Ethics of health care leadership and organizations
  • Health care costs: causes, impact and prospects
  • Health care history (various topics)
  • Health insurance, the uninsured and the future
  • Health policy: How and why it is (and is not) made
  • Power shifts in health care and society
  • Rationing and resource allocation in health care
  • Trends that are reshaping the health care system

Alice G. Gosfield

  • Governance
  • Legal Issues
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement

Jim Harris, PhD

  • Leadership
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Organizational Excellence
  • Corporate Culture

Ron M. Hollander

  • Catalyzing Health Reform: Key Success Factors
  • Health Reform at the State Level: Common Themes and Lessons Learned
  • Making Health Reform A Reality: Is Massachusetts a Model?
  • Quality Improvement
  • Patient Safety
  • Governance
  • Future of Health Care
  • Future of Healthcare
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Physician Relations
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • System Issues
  • Joint Ventures
  • Hospital Performance

John W. Kenagy, MD, MPA

  • Healthcare Strategies
  • Healthcare Operations Mgmt
  • Patient-Centered Care
  • RN Retention & Recruitment
  • Physician Leadership
  • Innovation in Healthcare
  • Building Financial Secure Healthcare Organizations
  • Financial Turn Arounds that do not cut Staff
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Staff Satifsfaction

Wendy Leebov, Ed.D.

  • Board Retreats
  • Executive & Board Team-Building
  • Strategic Planning
  • Board Self-evaluation
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Service Improvement/service quality
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Employee Satisfaction & Retention
  • Executive Coaching
  • Organizational culture
  • Time Management, balance & perspective
  • Change, change management
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement
  • System Issues
  • The Board’s Role in Quality and Safety
  • Physician Employment
  • The N.Q.F. “Call to Responsibility” for Healthcare Boards and its Ramifications

George F. Lynn

  • Customer Service
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Quality Improvement
  • Leadership & Strategy

Scott A. Mason, DPA, FACHE

  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • System Issues
  • Information & Web Technology
  • Technology

Mac McCrary

  • Physician-Hospital Relations
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement 
  • Roles and Responsibilities of the Board
  • Best Practices: A Practical Guide to Implementation
  • Board Self Assessment
  • Board Composition
  • The Board's Role in Quality

Peter McGinn, PhD

  • CEO/Board Relations
  • Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Performance
  • Customer Service
  • Executive Coaching: Bringing Out the Best in People
  • Facilitating Meetings and Retreats
  • Governance: Building Shared Vision and Commitment
  • Hospital/Physician Relations
  • Leadership & Strategy: Joining Vision and Action
  • Leading Others, Managing Yourself
  • Team Building & Team Leadership Skills
  • Workforce Issues 

Martin D. Merry, MD

  • 21st Century Leadership for Health Care
  • Physician Leadership - Characteristics and Development
  • Leading Change in Health Care Organizations
  • Creating cultures of trust for administrations and Medical Staff
  • "Physicians 101" for Administrators, Board Members
  • Understanding and addressing "root cause" issues surrounding medical errors, patient safety
  • Quality and performance improvement for board members
  • Medical staff (re)organization and leadership
  • Effectively managing peer review systems
  • Managing professional behavioral issues

David B. Nash, MD, MBA

  • Future of Helath Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement

James E. Orlikoff

  • Quality Improvement
  • Future of Healthcare
  • Marketplace Issues
  • Governance Issues
  • Board Orientation
  • Board Self Evaluation
  • Emerging Trends in Governance & Boards
  • Customer Service
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Marketing Yourself
  • Getting the Right Executive Position
  • Gender Bias in Healthcare Leadership Positions

Dennis D. Pointer

  • Governance Performance/Contribution Improvement
  • Governance Effectiveness .... Board Obligations, Responsibilities and Roles
  • Governance Design and Restructuring
  • Principle/Protocol-Based Governance
  • Board Chair/Member Development
  • New Board Member Orientation
  • Board and Board Member Assessment
  • Emerging Trends in Governance
  • Governance
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement 
  • Governance
  • Legal Issues
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Credentialing & Peer Review
  • Healthcare Liability
  • "Year in Review" of Legal Developments & Trends for Trustees

Donald W. Seymour

  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Physician Relations

Mary K. Totten

  • Board Orientation
  • Board Self Evaluation
  • Emerging Trends in Governance & Credentialing
  • Board's Role in Quality Oversight & Leadership
  • Board/Governance Restructuring
  • Principle-Based Governance

Bruce Tulgan

  • Management
  • Leadership
  • Managing the Age Bubble
  • Generational Differences
  • Human Resources

Steven Valentine

  • Future of Healthcare
  • Physician/Hospital Relations
  • Managed Care Environment & Strategies
  • Board Retreat Facilitation

Larry Walker

  • Boardroom Basics – Board Roles and Responsibilities
  • Governance Audit & Development
  • Health Care Trends & Implications
  • Ethics & Accountability
  • Quality & Patient Safety
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Mission, Values and Vision Development
  • Board Self-Assessment
  • Governance Succession Planning
  • CEO Compensation & Performance Evaluation
  • Public Trust/Community Relations
  • Workforce Development

Donald C. Wegmiller

  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Compensation Planning for Health Care Executives
  • Performance Appraisal Systems for CEOs and Senior Executives
  • Current Trends and Issues in Health Care
  • CEO Succession Planning
  • Board compensation in NFP health care organizations

Paula Woods

  • Best Practices for Health Care Boards
  • Board/Governance Restructuring
  • Building a Diversified Board
  • Continual Governance Improvement
  • Developing Boards and Their Trustees
  • Evolving Role of Governance Committees
  • Faith-Based Governance
  • Making Board and Committee Meetings More Effective
  • Maximizing System/Hospital Governance Effectiveness
  • Performance Management for Boards and Trustees
  • Transformational Governance for the 21st Century
  • Governance
  • Patient Safety
  • Quality Improvement