Twenty-two physicians recently completed the Physician Leadership Academy. It was established in 2004 to fulfill the need to develop physicians as leaders and to provide educational opportunities for subjects not offered in their medical curriculum.
Program objectives include:
- Grow the pool of leadership candidates by widening their view to health system challenges and the role physician leaders can play in driving performance.
- To develop physicians’ leadership skills and knowledge so that their time spent as leaders is as rewarding and productive as time spent on clinical care.
- To positively shift physician leaders’ perspective on a closer health-system partnership and the opportunities it presents.
The latest class to complete the academy include:
- Aaron Barksdale, M.D. (Emergency Medicine)
- Angela Brennan, M.D. (Family Medicine)
- Jennifer Buescher, M.D. (Family Medicine)
- Zach Frey, D.O. (Family Medicine)
- Lindsay Gage, M.D. (Nephrology)
- Kalpesh Ganatra, M.D. (Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep)
- Matthew Goede, M.D. (Surgery)
- Scott Goodman, M.D. (Neurology)
- Allyson Hascall, M.D. (Anesthesiology)
- Jason Helvey, M.D. (Radiology)
- Dan Herold, M.D. (Radiology)
- John Huscher, M.D. (Family Medicine)
- David Ingvolstad, M.D. (Ophthalmology)
- Shiuvaun Jaeger, M.D. (Family Medicine)
- Alex Markin, M.D. (Transplant Surgery)
- Joe Metcalf, M.D. (Medicine-Pediatric)
- Brian Poole, M.D. (Nephrology)
- Uriel Sandkovsky, M.D. (Infectious Disease)
- Pam Santamaria, M.D. (Neurology)
- Paul Schenarts, M.D. (General Surgery)
- Jayesh Thakker, M.D. (Pediatric Critical Care)
- Lucille Woodard, M.D. (Family Medicine)