Transformative Leadership: Emergency Physicians Lead AOA and AMA

Transformative Leadership: Emergency Physicians Lead AOA and AMA.

This was a historic summer in Chicago for emergency medicine. On July 18, 2015, John W. Becher, DO, became the 119th president of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), while a month earlier, on June 9, 2015, Steven J. Stack, MD, became the 170th president of the American Medical Association (AMA). This is the first time that emergency physicians have led the two largest professional physi...

Bold board leadership required for transformative times.

The transformative power of personal and organizational leadership.

Transformational leadership has both personal and professional domains. Key concepts and research related to transformational leadership are explored, as well as a framework for personal and professional leadership, in relation to leadership of self, leadership in relation to others, and leadership in relation to systems. A review of the issues and trends facing nurse executives results in iden...

Emergency Departments, simulation and leadership

Methods We accomplished three training courses with twelve participants attending course. The first two days were theoretical introductions and the third day was a practical exercise, where the theories and tools learned at the first two days were tested in a case-based full-scale simulation with debriefing afterwards. The simulation reflected different set-ups from a busy clinical day where th...

A time for transformative leadership in academic health sciences.

Academic medicine, in its broadest sense, has made major contributions to human health in the past quarter century. This has been achieved in large part because it has attracted an outstanding cadre of--largely altruistic--professionals. These pioneering efforts have served as the life-blood of the discipline. Their journeys of discovery, often complemented by collaboration with the pharmaceuti...