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Host Mike Sacopulos interviews Beth (Elizabeth) Garner, MD, MPH, who contributed her life and career story to the AAPL book, published in 2022, Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Physician Leaders.

Garner is currently chief scientific officer of Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and president of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). She received joint MD and MPH degrees from the Harvard Medical and Public Health Schools and trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women’s (BWH)/Massachusetts General Hospitals. She was a 2019 awardee of the PharmaVoice 100 Most Inspiring Individuals in the life sciences industry and received the 2022 Women in Science Award from AMWA.

Physicians working to improve our healthcare system give us hope. Prepare to meet one of those extraordinary physician leaders. Dr. Garner’s story and career trajectory should inspire other physicians, other women.

@egarnermd

Learn more about the American Association for Physician Leadership at www.physicianleaders.org

https://doi.org/10.55834/sp.3986517666

Physician autonomy, patient autonomy, state authority. When it comes to end-of-life issues, these spheres do not interact smoothly. Legal and medical ethical questions abound. Physicians wrestle with this important topic. This episode takes a deep dive into topics surrounding right-to-die with one of our nation’s leading medical ethicists.

Ira Bedzow, PhD, is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, and head of the Unit of the International Chair in Bioethics at Emory University. His interests relate to understanding the ethical implications of biotechnology and healthcare policy as well as how organizations can create an ethical culture through values-driven leadership. Bedzow is also a senior scholar at the Aspen Center for Social Values, co-director of the Maimonides Institute for Medicine, Ethics, and the Holocaust (MIMEH), and a regular contributor in Forbes for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion section. He is also an Orthodox rabbi (yoreh yoreh, yadin yadin).

Prepare for a thoughtful exploration of an important and complex topic including topics such as these:

MAID (medical assistance in dying): Is avoiding suffering enough of a reason legally, or even morally, to take one's own life?  And how does a society decide when the suffering is great enough to legally approve that choice?

How can the U.S. create laws that would manage the nuanced individual cases that would arise in an area as sensitive as this?

Obviously, any laws on voluntary end-of-life must consider the rights of the individual to make decisions for himself or herself.  But should these laws also consider the effects of an individual decision on other people, especially those who might be involved in fulfilling the person's wishes?

https://www.cuanschutz.edu/centers/bioethicshumanities/education/aspen-ethical-leadership-program-2023

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Learn more about the American Association for Physician Leadership at www.physicianleaders.org.

https://doi.org/10.55834/sp.6003006825

Jeffrey T. Gorke is the author of The Employed Physician: Your Essential Guide to the Business of Medicine. His experience ranges from Medicare administration to running both large and small, single-specialty, privately held medical group practices to medical society management on a national level. Gorke specializes in turning around employed health systems and revenue cycle process improvement and delivering quantifiable returns on investment (ROI) for practices and health systems.

As more and more physicians opt for employed positions, either when starting their careers or transitioning from independent practice to “employee” status, or when a practice is sold or merged, this podcast interview sets the stage for giving physicians the history and elements of business know-how to succeed as an employed physician. This episode offers an important briefing on trends in employment for physicians by an accomplished official.

Jeff Gorke (678) 333-3419

https://doi.org/10.55834/sp.7474388397

As we consume news and information in different ways than in past generations, it is both an opportunity and a challenge for physicians to make use of social media platforms to inform and connect with each other … and their patients.

Mike Sacopulos interviews Umbereen Nehal, MD, MPH, FAAP, a digital health physician leader. She is an MIT Sloan Fellow MBA candidate, a former Medicaid medical director, and a former CMO.

Nehal has been named a “Top Voice” four times by LinkedIn. She is now developing a FemTech venture at MIT, combining her experiences as a patient, caregiver, payer, public servant, certified coach, physician, and advocate.

Crafting an influential presence on social media platforms, Nehal shares:

• Strategies that have had an impact on the way she practices medicine.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/usnehal

https://www.nehalgroup.com/

Learn more about the American Association for Physician Leadership at www.physicianleaders.org

https://doi.org/10.55834/sp.1800891373

Aimee Greeter, MPH, FACHE, is a principle at SullivanCotter in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the author of Effective Crisis Leadership in Healthcare: Lessons Learned from a Pandemic. A popular speaker across the nation, and an author of articles on topics such as hospital-physician alignment, clinical engagement, practice mergers, professional service agreements, and executive leadership, Greeter is also a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and holds a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.

In this timely podcast, host Mike Sacopulos and Aimee Greeter discuss the elements of planning for and managing a crisis for any healthcare organization through the lens of the recent pandemic.

In addition to her work in crisis management, Greeter also specializes in helping organizations assess, develop, and implement pay and career equity initiatives and consults with employers on ways to improve fairness, transparency, and advancement for all people regardless of their gender identity, race, and ethnic background. She also collaborates closely with clients to optimize physician and advanced practice provider alignment and affiliation activities to support quality care outcomes, cost efficiencies, integrated care team delivery, and patient-centered operations.

https://doi.org/10.55834/sp.6250908509

Susan Fink Childs, FACMPE, is the author of the new book, The Emotionally Intelligent Physician Leader, published by the AAPL.

Ms. Fink Childs’s mission is to help healthcare practices build compassionate, accessible care while ensuring each staff member is respected and recognized for their individual value, impact, and contribution to the organization.

Host Mike Sacopulos discusses the following with Susan Fink Childs:

• The genesis of the book project.

Childs is a national presenter and international author for organizations including AAPL, AAOE, AAP, MGMA, Ascent, ACC, and the AMA. She also served as the ACMPE education advancement chair with MGMA.

https://evohcc.com/contact/

Learn more about the American Association for Physician Leadership at www.physicianleaders.org

https://doi.org/10.55834/sp.6392024767

Richard J. Baron, MD, MACP, is president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation. In this timely and important podcast, Baron discusses the history and mission of the ABIM and its role in healthcare in the United States. The ABIM, most recently, has taken on the issue of medical misinformation and how it has contributed to the deterioration of trust in medicine and science.

Baron discusses, in detail, a recent piece in The New England Journal of Medicine where he and his co-author discuss the importance of the medical profession maintaining independence from political interference and the consequences of attempts to politicize medical issues. Baron expands on how this situation is having an impact on physicians, their patients, and medicine.

As a bonus, host Mike Sacopulos and Dr. Baron discuss Baron’s undergraduate degree in English and how those studies helped both his writing and his skills as a physician leader.

Protecting the Legitimacy of Medical Expertise by Richard J. Baron, MD, and Carl H. Coleman, JD

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2214120

https://www.abim.org/

Learn more about the American Association for Physician Leadership at www.physicianleaders.org

https://doi.org/10.55834/sp.3186837611

Bruce Goldfarb is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, USA Today, Baltimore magazine, American Archaeology, American Health, and many other publications. For ten years, Bruce has served as executive assistant to the Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Maryland and the public information office for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). Bruce’s newest book, OCME: Life in America’s Top Forensic Medical Center published February 2023.

Host Mike Sacopulos discusses the new OCME book with Goldfarb, a behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the largest and busiest forensic medical centers in the United States. Once celebrated as the gold standard of death investigation, the OCME of Maryland was hammered between an epidemic of violence and opioid deaths and strangling budgetary restraints imposed by indifferent state officials, ultimately plunging the institution into crisis. The author highlights the dedicated professionals who work against increasingly daunting odds.

In the U.S., forensic death investigation is in a precarious state.  The shortage of forensic pathologists, shrinking government support, a decade-long opioid epidemic causing a rising tide of drug related deaths, delays in autopsies leading to delayed burial and survivor benefits being paid, delays in criminal investigations and civil litigations, all contribute to a system failing to provide essential public health services in many parts of the country.

brucegoldfarb.com/ocme

Learn more about the American Association for Physician Leadership at www.physicianleaders.org

https://doi.org/10.55834/sp.4086514258