Foundations for Effective
Leadership (formerly known as Level I)
Mike
Guthrie, MD, MBA
Executive-in-Residence, University of Colorado, Denver
Dr. Mike Guthrie is Executive-in-Residence at the University of
Colorado- Denver campus in the School of Business, Program in Health
Administration. For the past twenty-five years he has worked with
physicians, hospitals and health systems to improve performance. Mike
has been a practicing physician, a medical director, a chief operating
officer, a health system CEO, and a senior executive for a large
national healthcare alliance. He is nationally known as a facilitator
and consultant on physician engagement and physician leadership, having
worked with numerous healthcare and physician organizations. He is also
an executive coach, focusing on supporting physician executive
performance. Dr. Guthrie was most recently a Senior Vice President for
Premier, Inc. Previously, he was the CEO of the Good Samaritan Health
System in San Jose, CA. Mike has special experience in the areas of
physician leadership development, and change management, especially
helping hospitals and health systems work effectively with their
physicians to improve quality, safety, and cost. He has also been a
strategic advisor to healthcare companies of many types.
Dr. Guthrie graduated from Amherst College and received his
medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He took his
internship in medicine at Denver General Hospital and his residency in
psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He
received his Masters in Business Administration from the School of
Business at the University of Colorado. He is board certified by the
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and was in private practice
prior to becoming a physician executive in 1979. He has served as the
chairman of the American Academy of Medical Directors and the American
College of Physician Executives.
Dr. Guthrie is a frequent speaker for health systems and national
organizations on topics including collaboration, team management,
physician leadership, physician organizations, and healthcare marketing.
He is the executive coach for a number of Chief Medical Officers. He
serves on the editorial advisory board for several national healthcare
journals and has published over 40 articles on health management, and
physician leadership topics.
Russell L.
Holman, MD, MHM
Chief Clinical Officer Cogent HMG
Dr. Holman's long-standing commitment to leadership development and
improving safety and quality in hospital medicine is a tremendous
resource in his role as a Chief Operating Officer for Cogent. Holman is
immediate past president of the Board of Directors for the Society of
Hospital Medicine. He is SHM's key liaison to the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), serves as course
director for the SHM Leadership Academies, is founder of the Leadership
Development Committee, and a member of the Performance and Standards
Task Force. Previously he served as Course Chair of the 2004 SHM Annual
Meeting, and on numerous other committees in the areas of public policy,
education and communications. In 2002, the Society honored him with the
SHM Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine. Prior to Cogent,
Dr. Holman was the Medical Director of Hospital Services for
HealthPartners Medical Group & Clinics (HPMG&C), part of
HealthPartners, Inc. in Minnesota, and also was an assistant professor
of medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Holman founded the
HPMG&C hospitalist program in 1997, expanding it to 30 physicians
across four hospital sites. He also was the founder and director of the
HealthPartners Fellowship Program in Hospital Medicine.
Dr. Holman received undergraduate degrees in psychology and
religious studies, followed by his MD, from Washington University in St.
Louis. He trained as a resident and chief resident in internal
medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He currently
serves on two national editorial boards for medical publications and
recently completed a textbook called Comprehensive Hospital Medicine,
serving as co-author and editor for the book.
Eric
E. Howell, MD, SFHM
Director of the Division of Hospital Medicine, John Hopkins Medical
Center
Eric E. Howell, MD, SFHM currently holds the positions of Section
Chief of Hospital Medicine, as well as Deputy Director of Hospital
Operations, for the Department of Medicine, at Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He holds the title of Associate
Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine. Dr. Howell was recently appointed Chief, Division of
Hospital Medicine and Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Operations at
John Hopkins Bayview. Dr. Howell graduated from the University of
Maryland, School of Medicine, and after finishing residency training in
Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, completed
one year as Chief Resident. Dr. Howell joined the Johns Hopkins Bayview
hospitalist program in 2000, where he has overseen the development of
the 30 physician group. His work in the areas of conflict management,
and hospital systems, including care transitions and patient flow
initiatives, has earned him national recognition.
Timothy
J. Keogh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Citadel School of Business Administration and
Adjunct Associate Professor
Tim Keogh is an Assistant Professor at The Citadel School of Business
Administration and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of
Health Systems Management at Tulane University's School of Public Health
and Tropical Medicine where he directed the Master of Health
Administration Program. Dr. Keogh received his Ph.D. in English with
concentrations in Linguistics and Technical Communication from Louisiana
State University. He teaches Managerial Communication in the Master of
Medical Management Program at Tulane, and Communications for Leadership
in the Master of Business Administration Program at The Citadel.
Formerly, Dr. Keogh taught Management Communication at Tulane's
A.B. Freeman School of Business and was Director of the Freeman School's
Language Orientation Program for International MBA students. He has been
a linguist in Army Intelligence, receiving a degree in Modern Standard
Arabic from the Defense Language Institute, he was a Writer/Editor for
the National Institute of Education in Washington, D.C and received a
Fulbright Grant for graduate study in the humanities at the University
of Strasbourg, France.
For six years he held the position of Manager of Corporate
Training and Development at a Fortune 500 energy services and
engineering company, where he designed and taught a number of management
development courses both in the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Keogh has
won the Freeman School MBA teaching award and several teaching awards in
both the traditional and the executive programs in Health Systems
Management. He has trained physician educators at the Moscow Medical
Academy and lectures for the American College of Physician Executives on
communication and physician performance topics. He has published a
number of articles on these topics. He is a certified instructor in
Total Quality Management and in Front-Line Leadership, and a member of
Delta Omega, the National Public Health Honor Society.
Jack Silversin, DMD, DrPH
Founding Partner, Amicus
Dr. Jack Silversin is a founding partner of Amicus, a highly regarded
consulting firm working with many of the nation's leading physician
organizations and hospitals to improve their ability to implement needed
change. For more than twenty years he has been working to help physician
organizations, hospitals and health systems to develop shared
organizational vision, strengthen leadership and governance, improve
administration-physician relations, and accelerate the implementation of
change.
He is the thought leader in the healthcare arena regarding
physician compacts - informal expectations that have the power to
support or derail change efforts. He introduced the construct and has
made numerous presentations about its applicability to group
practices and hospital-medical staff relationships. He is a highly
regarded speaker and regular presenter at national conferences. Among
his clients are a number of large prestigious medical groups and
hospitals across the US.
He has worked in the UK on issues related to doctor leadership,
compact and engagement for National Health Service. In Canada he has
consulted to academic medical centers. His publications include articles
on physician culture, change implementation, physician morale, and
governance in physician organizations. Jack co-authored the book,
Leading Physicians through Change: How to Achieve and Sustain
Results.
A graduate of the Harvard University School of Dental Medicine,
Jack holds a doctorate in public health from Harvard where he serves as
a member of the Faculty of Medicine.
Larry
Wellikson, MD, SFHM
Chief Executive Officer, Society of Hospital Medicine
Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM, is the Chief Executive Officer of the
Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the fastest growing medical
professional association now with more than 10,000 members. Dr Wellikson
has held this position since January 2000. Dr. Wellikson is Board
certified in Internal Medicine. Prior to assuming his current position
with the SHM, Dr. Wellikson was the Founder and Senior Manager of an
integrated medical group, independent practice association, and
management services organization in Southern California that managed the
health care of 130,000 captivated lives, a total of 300,000 patients,
and contracted with 570 physicians and 20 health maintenance
organizations. Dr. Wellikson was also a founder and senior partner in
MedQuest Partners, LLC, a national consulting practice specializing in
physician group, hospital, and/or insurance company relationships.
Dr. Wellikson has served as a Trustee of the American Society of
Internal Medicine and a Regent of the American College of Physicians. He
is on the faculty at the University of California at Irvine Medical
School. Dr. Wellikson has been a featured speaker on the topics of
hospitalists and the emerging specialty of Hospital Medicine, the
hospital of the future, and the role of teams of health professionals.
He has helped hospitals, physicians, medical groups, and national
organizations understand the current medical environment and fashion
strategies unique to their industries to succeed in the future.
Advanced Leadership: Strategies
and Tools for Personal Leadership Excellence (formerly known as Level
II)
Mike Guthrie, MD, MBA
Executive-in-Residence, University of Colorado, Denver
Dr. Mike Guthrie is Executive-in-Residence at the University of
Colorado- Denver campus in the School of Business, Program in Health
Administration. For the past twenty-five years he has worked with
physicians, hospitals and health systems to improve performance. Mike
has been a practicing physician, a medical director, a chief operating
officer, a health system CEO, and a senior executive for a large
national healthcare alliance. He is nationally known as a facilitator
and consultant on physician engagement and physician leadership, having
worked with numerous healthcare and physician organizations. He is also
an executive coach, focusing on supporting physician executive
performance. Dr. Guthrie was most recently a Senior Vice President for
Premier, Inc. Previously, he was the CEO of the Good Samaritan Health
System in San Jose, CA. Mike has special experience in the areas of
physician leadership development, and change management, especially
helping hospitals and health systems work effectively with their
physicians to improve quality, safety, and cost. He has also been a
strategic advisor to healthcare companies of many types.
Dr. Guthrie graduated from Amherst College and received his
medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He took his
internship in medicine at Denver General Hospital and his residency in
psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He
received his Masters in Business Administration from the School of
Business at the University of Colorado. He is board certified by the
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and was in private practice
prior to becoming a physician executive in 1979. He has served as the
chairman of the American Academy of Medical Directors and the American
College of Physician Executives.
Dr. Guthrie is a frequent speaker for health systems and national
organizations on topics including collaboration, team management,
physician leadership, physician organizations, and healthcare marketing.
He is the executive coach for a number of Chief Medical Officers. He
serves on the editorial advisory board for several national healthcare
journals and has published over 40 articles on health management, and
physician leadership topics.
Russell L. Holman, MD, MHM
Chief Operating Officer Cogent HMG
Dr. Holman's long-standing commitment to leadership development and
improving safety and quality in hospital medicine is a tremendous
resource in his role as a Chief Operating Officer for Cogent. Holman is
immediate past president of the Board of Directors for the Society of
Hospital Medicine. He is SHM's key liaison to the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), serves as course
director for the SHM Leadership Academies, is founder of the Leadership
Development Committee, and a member of the Performance and Standards
Task Force. Previously he served as course chair of the 2004 SHM Annual
Meeting, and on numerous other committees in the areas of public policy,
education and communications. In 2002, the Society honored him with the
SHM Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine. Prior to Cogent,
Dr. Holman was the Medical Director of Hospital Services for
HealthPartners Medical Group & Clinics (HPMG&C), part of
HealthPartners, Inc. in Minnesota, and also was an assistant professor
of medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Holman founded the
HPMG&C hospitalist program in 1997, expanding it to 30 physicians
across four hospital sites. He also was the founder and director of the
HealthPartners Fellowship Program in Hospital Medicine.
Dr. Holman received undergraduate degrees in psychology and
religious studies, followed by his MD, from Washington University in St.
Louis. He trained as a resident and chief resident in internal
medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He currently
serves on two national editorial boards for medical publications and
recently completed a textbook called Comprehensive Hospital Medicine,
serving as co-author and editor for the book.
Timothy J. Keogh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Citadel School of Business Administration and
Adjunct Associate Professor
Tim Keogh is an Assistant Professor at The Citadel School of Business
Administration and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of
Health Systems Management at Tulane University's School of Public Health
and Tropical Medicine where he directed the Master of Health
Administration Program. Dr. Keogh received his Ph.D. in English with
concentrations in Linguistics and Technical Communication from Louisiana
State University. He teaches Managerial Communication in the Master of
Medical Management Program at Tulane, and Communications for Leadership
in the Master of Business Administration Program at The Citadel.
Formerly, Dr. Keogh taught Management Communication at Tulane's
A.B. Freeman School of Business and was Director of the Freeman School's
Language Orientation Program for International MBA students. He has been
a linguist in Army Intelligence, receiving a degree in Modern Standard
Arabic from the Defense Language Institute, he was a Writer/Editor for
the National Institute of Education in Washington, D.C and received a
Fulbright Grant for graduate study in the humanities at the University
of Strasbourg, France.
For six years he held the position of Manager of Corporate
Training and Development at a Fortune 500 energy services and
engineering company, where he designed and taught a number of management
development courses both in the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Keogh has
won the Freeman School MBA teaching award and several teaching awards in
both the traditional and the executive programs in Health Systems
Management. He has trained physician educators at the Moscow Medical
Academy and lectures for the American College of Physician Executives on
communication and physician performance topics. He has published a
number of articles on these topics. He is a certified instructor in
Total Quality Management and in Front-Line Leadership, and a member of
Delta Omega, the National Public Health Honor Society.
Leonard J. Marcus, PhD
Leonard Marcus discusses self interest and conflict as they relate to
problem solving.
Dr. Marcus is founding Director of the Program for Health Care
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard School of Public
Health (HSPH). Dr. Marcus is also founding Co-Director of the National
Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a collaborative effort of HSPH and
the Kennedy School of Government, developed in collaboration with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House, and the
Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense. In
addition, he is Associate Director of the HSPH Center for Public Health
Preparedness, funded by the CDC. In recent years, Dr. Marcus has played
a leading national and international role in terrorism preparedness and
emergency response, developing the conceptual and pragmatic basis for
connectivity the coordination of people, organizations, resources, and
information to best catch, contain, and control a terrorist or other
public health threat, and meta-leadership- overarching leadership that
strategically links the work of different agencies and levels of
government.
Dr. Marcus is lead author of the primary text in the field,
Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration.
The book was selected as co-recipient of the Center for Public Resources
Institute for Dispute Resolution 1995 Book Prize Award for
Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 1994, he co-authored
Mediating Bioethical Disputes: A Practical Guide. He has written for
Newsweek, The Boston Globe, the AMNews as well as a number of scholarly
journals.
Dr. Marcus has directed numerous projects intended to advance
development of the negotiation, collaborative problem solving, and
conflict resolution field applied to health related issues. At the
School of Public Health, he has received funding support from, among
others, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Institute
for Dispute Resolution, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation to develop a curriculum, research agenda, and
conceptual and applied framework for the field. Other current and recent
projects include collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
on facilitating national efforts to improve the quality of health care,
the American Association of Retired Persons on health care alternative
dispute resolution, the New England Healthcare Institute on innovations
in health care research, and the Markle Foundation on development of the
electronic medical record. Dr. Marcus teaches HSPH courses on
negotiation and conflict resolution and leadership. His research
interests include: factors associated with the coordination of effort
for national and international terrorism response strategies;
implications of conflict in health care services; the uses of mediation
for resolving health disputes; the contributions of conflict resolution
to error prevention in health care; as well as on the role health can
play in resolving larger social conflict.
Dr. Marcus has developed a number of practical applications of
mediation and conflict resolution. He has consulted to, trained, or
provided executive coaching to leading health care organizations,
including Kaiser-Permanente Health Plan, the Beth Israel-Deaconness
Medical Center, Clarion Health Systems, the board and executive
leadership of the American Medical Association, the American Hospital
Association, the American Association of Blood Banks, and the National
Practitioners Data Bank among many others. In the 1990s, he collaborated
with the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine to develop the
Voluntary Mediation Program, the first initiative of its kind to mediate
medical practice disputes directly between patients and physicians under
the auspices of a state agency. In 1992, he co-founded Health Care
Negotiation Associates (HCNA), a national consulting, mediating, and
training organization. His international work includes assignments in
the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. His
work has been profiled on National Public Radio, in the Washington Post,
AMA News, Health Forum, Hippocrates, CNN, Modern Healthcare, CNBC,
Hospitals, and the Boston Globe.
Dr. Marcus completed his doctoral studies at The Heller School of
Brandeis University. He was selected as a Fellow for the Kellogg
National Leadership Program from 1986-1989.
Advanced Leadership: Developing
a Winning Team and Strengthening your Organization
An award-winning executive coach since 1999 and former healthcare
executive, Kay Cannon has interviews in more than 50 publications,
including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes
Online, The London Financial Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, CIO
Magazine and Executive Travel.
Kay Cannon knows what drives, motivates and sabotages Type A
executives and the companies they run. A bona fide member of the
Type A tribe, it was Cannon's own shocking wake-up call and personal
transformation that motivated her to work with other smart and talented
Type A leaders to redefine how to achieve big results without creating
collateral damage. Combining her expertise in emotional
diagnostics with her proprietary Rapid Performance AnalysisTM
, she can reasonably predict when a top performer is on the path to a
train wreck long before any visible signs appear. Cannon is the
creator of the proprietary Diamond IngenuityTM
System which teaches executive leaders how to quickly perform
emotional diagnostics and strategically direct emotional energy to
accelerate both individual and enterprise performance in complex,
rapidly changing environments.
Cannon holds the International Coach Federation's highest credential,
Master Certified Coach. She served as the 2007 President of the
International Coach Federation and was one of 6 coaches on the 4-D
Systems team that created the award-winning ROI/ROE for NASA's Academy
of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership which earned an
International Prism Award for its achievements.
Randy Olson is a scientist-turned-filmmaker. He is the
writer-director of the feature films, "Flock of Dodos: The
Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus," (Tribeca '06, Showtime '07,
viewable on Netflix) and "Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy" (Outfest Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival, '08), as well as author of "Don't Be Such a
Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style," (Island Press, '09).
As a scientist he earned his Ph.D. in Biology (Harvard, '84) and was a
tenured professor of marine biology at the University of New Hampshire
before losing his mind and moving to Hollywood in 1994 where he obtained
his M.F.A. in Cinema from the University of Southern California ('97)
and founded the Shifting Baselines Ocean Media Project ('08 to the
present).
Mike Guthrie, MD, MBA
Executive-in-Residence, University of Colorado, Denver
Dr. Mike Guthrie is Executive-in-Residence at the University of
Colorado- Denver campus in the School of Business, Program in Health
Administration. For the past twenty-five years he has worked with
physicians, hospitals and health systems to improve performance. Mike
has been a practicing physician, a medical director, a chief operating
officer, a health system CEO, and a senior executive for a large
national healthcare alliance. He is nationally known as a facilitator
and consultant on physician engagement and physician leadership, having
worked with numerous healthcare and physician organizations. He is also
an executive coach, focusing on supporting physician executive
performance. Dr. Guthrie was most recently a Senior Vice President for
Premier, Inc. Previously, he was the CEO of the Good Samaritan Health
System in San Jose, CA. Mike has special experience in the areas of
physician leadership development, and change management, especially
helping hospitals and health systems work effectively with their
physicians to improve quality, safety, and cost. He has also been a
strategic advisor to healthcare companies of many types.
Dr. Guthrie graduated from Amherst College and received his
medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He took his
internship in medicine at Denver General Hospital and his residency in
psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He
received his Masters in Business Administration from the School of
Business at the University of Colorado. He is board certified by the
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and was in private practice
prior to becoming a physician executive in 1979. He has served as the
chairman of the American Academy of Medical Directors and the American
College of Physician Executives.
Dr. Guthrie is a frequent speaker for health systems and national
organizations on topics including collaboration, team management,
physician leadership, physician organizations, and healthcare marketing.
He is the executive coach for a number of Chief Medical Officers. He
serves on the editorial advisory board for several national healthcare
journals and has published over 40 articles on health management, and
physician leadership topics.
Jeffrey
G. Wiese, MD Professor of Medicine, Tulane University
Health Sciences Center
Jeffrey G. Wiese, MD, is a Professor of Medicine with Tenure, and the
Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the Tulane University
Health Sciences Center. He is also Associate-Chairman of Medicine, the
Chief of the Charity Medical Service and the Director of the Tulane
Internal Medicine Residency Program. He also serves as the course
director for the Clinical Diagnosis, Biostatistics, Advanced Internal
Medicine, and Medical Education courses.
Dr. Wiese attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
where he received his medical degree in 1995. He completed his
residency in internal medicine, chief residency and a medical education
fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco. He has been
on faculty at Tulane since 2000.
Dr. Wiese devotes his time to teaching and educational
research, some of which incorporates evolving technologies in clinical
reasoning and patient safety. Dr. Wiese won 45 teaching awards in the
first nine years of being on faculty. He was named the University of
California San Francisco's Professor of the Year in 2000, and the Tulane
Attending of the Year in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007. He was the
recipient of The Society of Hospital Medicine' Education Award in 2005,
the ACGME's Parker Palmer Courage to Teach Award in 2006, the AAMC's
Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award in 2006, and the ACP's
Walter J. McDonald Award in 2007, and the Society of General Internal
Medicine's Mid-Career Mentorship Award.
Dr. Wiese has written over 70 articles, books, or book
chapters and has made over 200 presentations to national and
international audiences. He is a reviewer for six national journals,
and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Hospital
Medicine The Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, and
The Association of Subspecialty Professors. He is the President of the
Society of Hospital Medicine.
As Chief of Medicine for Charity and University
hospitals, he serves on over twenty different Tulane and MCLNO
committees. Over the past two years he has lead an effort to enact a
recurrent $1.2 million dollar hospitalist grant for Charity hospital.
His work in redesigning graduate medical education to augment the supply
of primary care physicians is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from
HRSA.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Wiese's leadership
was on display. He drove over 56,000 miles visiting his displaced
residents and continuing to teach a curriculum that rotated weekly in
the three cities in which they were placed. Under his leadership, Tulane
lost none of its residents, and completely rebuilt their team within
months.
Patience E. Reich, MD, SFHM Medical
Director, Wake Forest Inpatient Physicians, Wake Forest University
Baptist Medical Center
Patience Reich holds the positions of Medical Director of Wake Forest
Inpatient Physicians and Hospital Medicine Unit Co-director at Wake
Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina. She is also Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Wake
Forest University School of Medicine. She graduated from the University
of Minnesota School of Medicine in Minneapolis and trained as a resident
in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in
Baltimore, Maryland. She's long been interested in high performance
teams and the conditions necessary to create and maintain such teams in
the hospital setting and has spoken and conducted workshops on the
subject at both the regional and national levels.
She's the current chair of the Society of Hospital Medicine's
Leadership Committee.
Eric
Rice, MD, MMM, SFHM Assistant Director Hospital Medicine
Services, Alegent Health System
Dr. Eric Rice used the leadership training and experience he acquired
in the Army to create the first hospitalist program in Omaha. Dr. Rice
later received a Masters of Medical Management at the University of
Southern California. Dr. Rice currently leads multidisciplinary teams at
Methodist Hospital in Omaha to improve clinical processes. He also
collaborates with other hospitalist programs in the region to improve
their operations.
Dr. Rice studied molecular biology at Creighton
University before attending medical school and residency at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center. He serves on the Leadership
Committee of SHM and is a Senior Fellow. Dr. Rice founded the Nebraska
Area Chapter of the SHM and is the current president. He serves other
organizations, including the Editorial Board for Today's
Hospitalist. Dr. Rice is excited to be a part of SHM's Advanced
Leadership seminars.
Dr. Mike Guthrie is Executive-in-Residence at the University of
Colorado- Denver campus in the School of Business, Program in Health
Administration. For the past twenty-five years he has worked with
physicians, hospitals and health systems to improve performance. Mike
has been a practicing physician, a medical director, a chief operating
officer, a health system CEO, and a senior executive for a large
national healthcare alliance. He is nationally known as a facilitator
and consultant on physician engagement and physician leadership, having
worked with numerous healthcare and physician organizations. He is also
an executive coach, focusing on supporting physician executive
performance. Dr. Guthrie was most recently a Senior Vice President for
Premier, Inc. Previously, he was the CEO of the Good Samaritan Health
System in San Jose, CA. Mike has special experience in the areas of
physician leadership development, and change management, especially
helping hospitals and health systems work effectively with their
physicians to improve quality, safety, and cost. He has also been a
strategic advisor to healthcare companies of many types.
Dr. Holman's long-standing commitment to leadership development and
improving safety and quality in hospital medicine is a tremendous
resource in his role as a Chief Operating Officer for Cogent. Holman is
immediate past president of the Board of Directors for the Society of
Hospital Medicine. He is SHM's key liaison to the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), serves as course
director for the SHM Leadership Academies, is founder of the Leadership
Development Committee, and a member of the Performance and Standards
Task Force. Previously he served as Course Chair of the 2004 SHM Annual
Meeting, and on numerous other committees in the areas of public policy,
education and communications. In 2002, the Society honored him with the
SHM Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine. Prior to Cogent,
Dr. Holman was the Medical Director of Hospital Services for
HealthPartners Medical Group & Clinics (HPMG&C), part of
HealthPartners, Inc. in Minnesota, and also was an assistant professor
of medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Holman founded the
HPMG&C hospitalist program in 1997, expanding it to 30 physicians
across four hospital sites. He also was the founder and director of the
HealthPartners Fellowship Program in Hospital Medicine.
Eric E. Howell, MD, SFHM currently holds the positions of Section
Chief of Hospital Medicine, as well as Deputy Director of Hospital
Operations, for the Department of Medicine, at Johns Hopkins Bayview
Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He holds the title of Associate
Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine. Dr. Howell was recently appointed Chief, Division of
Hospital Medicine and Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Operations at
John Hopkins Bayview. Dr. Howell graduated from the University of
Maryland, School of Medicine, and after finishing residency training in
Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, completed
one year as Chief Resident. Dr. Howell joined the Johns Hopkins Bayview
hospitalist program in 2000, where he has overseen the development of
the 30 physician group. His work in the areas of conflict management,
and hospital systems, including care transitions and patient flow
initiatives, has earned him national recognition.
Tim Keogh is an Assistant Professor at The Citadel School of Business
Administration and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of
Health Systems Management at Tulane University's School of Public Health
and Tropical Medicine where he directed the Master of Health
Administration Program. Dr. Keogh received his Ph.D. in English with
concentrations in Linguistics and Technical Communication from Louisiana
State University. He teaches Managerial Communication in the Master of
Medical Management Program at Tulane, and Communications for Leadership
in the Master of Business Administration Program at The Citadel.
Dr. Jack Silversin is a founding partner of Amicus, a highly regarded
consulting firm working with many of the nation's leading physician
organizations and hospitals to improve their ability to implement needed
change. For more than twenty years he has been working to help physician
organizations, hospitals and health systems to develop shared
organizational vision, strengthen leadership and governance, improve
administration-physician relations, and accelerate the implementation of
change.
Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM, is the Chief Executive Officer of the
Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the fastest growing medical
professional association now with more than 10,000 members. Dr Wellikson
has held this position since January 2000. Dr. Wellikson is Board
certified in Internal Medicine. Prior to assuming his current position
with the SHM, Dr. Wellikson was the Founder and Senior Manager of an
integrated medical group, independent practice association, and
management services organization in Southern California that managed the
health care of 130,000 captivated lives, a total of 300,000 patients,
and contracted with 570 physicians and 20 health maintenance
organizations. Dr. Wellikson was also a founder and senior partner in
MedQuest Partners, LLC, a national consulting practice specializing in
physician group, hospital, and/or insurance company relationships.
Dr. Marcus is founding Director of the Program for Health Care
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard School of Public
Health (HSPH). Dr. Marcus is also founding Co-Director of the National
Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a collaborative effort of HSPH and
the Kennedy School of Government, developed in collaboration with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House, and the
Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense. In
addition, he is Associate Director of the HSPH Center for Public Health
Preparedness, funded by the CDC. In recent years, Dr. Marcus has played
a leading national and international role in terrorism preparedness and
emergency response, developing the conceptual and pragmatic basis for
connectivity the coordination of people, organizations, resources, and
information to best catch, contain, and control a terrorist or other
public health threat, and meta-leadership- overarching leadership that
strategically links the work of different agencies and levels of
government.
An award-winning executive coach since 1999 and former healthcare
executive, Kay Cannon has interviews in more than 50 publications,
including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes
Online, The London Financial Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, CIO
Magazine and Executive Travel.
Randy Olson is a scientist-turned-filmmaker. He is the
writer-director of the feature films, "Flock of Dodos: The
Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus," (Tribeca '06, Showtime '07,
viewable on Netflix) and "Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy" (Outfest Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival, '08), as well as author of "Don't Be Such a
Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style," (Island Press, '09).
As a scientist he earned his Ph.D. in Biology (Harvard, '84) and was a
tenured professor of marine biology at the University of New Hampshire
before losing his mind and moving to Hollywood in 1994 where he obtained
his M.F.A. in Cinema from the University of Southern California ('97)
and founded the Shifting Baselines Ocean Media Project ('08 to the
present).
Jeffrey G. Wiese, MD, is a Professor of Medicine with Tenure, and the
Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the Tulane University
Health Sciences Center. He is also Associate-Chairman of Medicine, the
Chief of the Charity Medical Service and the Director of the Tulane
Internal Medicine Residency Program. He also serves as the course
director for the Clinical Diagnosis, Biostatistics, Advanced Internal
Medicine, and Medical Education courses.
Patience Reich holds the positions of Medical Director of Wake Forest
Inpatient Physicians and Hospital Medicine Unit Co-director at Wake
Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina. She is also Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Wake
Forest University School of Medicine. She graduated from the University
of Minnesota School of Medicine in Minneapolis and trained as a resident
in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in
Baltimore, Maryland. She's long been interested in high performance
teams and the conditions necessary to create and maintain such teams in
the hospital setting and has spoken and conducted workshops on the
subject at both the regional and national levels.
Dr. Eric Rice used the leadership training and experience he acquired
in the Army to create the first hospitalist program in Omaha. Dr. Rice
later received a Masters of Medical Management at the University of
Southern California. Dr. Rice currently leads multidisciplinary teams at
Methodist Hospital in Omaha to improve clinical processes. He also
collaborates with other hospitalist programs in the region to improve
their operations.
