CLINICAL LEADERSHIP
VIRTUAL ACADEMY
Join the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN) for a 10-month webcast series designed to cover the fundamental concepts and skills for leading change within your practice. This course will teach you how to identify your own leadership style, understand how to effectively lead a team, experiment with frameworks for leading change within your practice, and more!
INSTRUCTORS:
Erin E. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Research Director, Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School, Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Catharine Smith
Executive Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Lindsay Hunt, Med
Director of Health Systems Transformation, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Aaron Hoffman, DO, MPH
Practicing Family Physician at the Ambulatory Practice of the Future at Massachusetts General Hospital, Medical Director, Physician Assistant Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and Adjunct faculty Member at the Institute
A live webcast hosted by:
Harvard Medical School, Center for Primary Care and
Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN)
This course is pending for up to 15.0 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
What Do Leaders Do?
Presentented by: Erin E. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Erin E. Sullivan, Ph.D., is the Research Director at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. In this role, Erin leads the Center’s research program, where her team studies high-performing domestic and international primary care systems. She also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Erin co-directs the Physician as Leader course for fourth year medical students as well as the Center’s “Charting the Future of Primary Care” executive education programs.
Prior to joining the Center, Erin worked at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University, where she initially focused on developing a Master’s level global health curriculum before moving on to direct a series of mixed methods health systems studies focused on HIV, TB and malaria programs in resource-limited settings. She served as the qualitative methods expert for these studies, designing interview tools, focus group guides and analysis plans for her team and 14 partner institutions. This research yielded technical reports for academic and large international health institutions (e.g. WHO, UNAIDS).
While at the Global Health Delivery Project, Erin also co-directed the management seminar within the Global Health Effectiveness Program at Harvard’s School of Public Health and served as a Faculty Member for Global Entrepreneurship Lab GHD, MIT Sloan’s flagship international project-based class.
Erin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in Business Studies from Trinity College, Dublin.
Hiring Strategies
Presenter by: Catharine Smith
Catharine Smith is the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care Executive Director. Previously, Catharine was Vice President of Quality and Education at the Society of Hospital Medicine in Philadelphia. In addition, she was senior leader for the Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement, SHM’s quality improvement and patient safety-focused consulting arm, with interventions and resources in more than 400 hospitals across the United States. Additionally, Catharine worked at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and their Department of Family Medicine. Catharine holds a Bachelor of Arts from DePaul University and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago.
Quality Improvement: Tools and Techniques
Presenter by: Lindsay Hunt, MEd
Lindsay Hunt, MEd, is the Director of Health Systems Transformation at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. In this role, Lindsay is responsible for programs all sharing a focus on strengthening teams and building leadership capacity to improve primary care. Prior to joining the Center for Primary Care, Lindsay was a Project Director at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lindsay holds a Masters of Education with a focus on Adult and Organizational Learning from Northeastern University and a Bachelors of Arts from Cornell University. She is a graduate of IHI’s Improvement Advisor Program.
“The Es” of Leadership
Presenter by: Aaron R. Hoffman, DO, MPH
Aaron R. Hoffman, DO, MPH is a practicing family physician at the Ambulatory Practice of the Future at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he focuses on primary care for adults in an innovative, team-based practice. Dr. Hoffman is also medical director of the Physician Assistant program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Institute. As faculty at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, Dr. Hoffman is actively engaged with the Harvard Home for Family Medicine, and is passionate about advocating for family medicine and fostering leadership development among family physicians. Dr. Hoffman completed is training and chief residency at Central Maine Medical Center, in Lewiston, Maine. He attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received a Masters of Public Health with a focus on health economics and policy at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire.