Leadership Development

HMS LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
FOR PHYSICIANS AND SCIENTISTS
Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
March 31 - April 3, 2009

This course is designed for HMS and HSDM instructors, assistant professors, or associate professors (see specifics under "guidelines") who currently have responsibility for a research grant, laboratory, educational course, or clinical unit. This course is intended for those in the early stages of leadership and not for chairs of departments or divisions. The goal of the Program is to build on participants' knowledge base and skills to enhance their professional development as administrative leaders in academic medicine. Participants will acquire skills in institutional organization, health care economics (with a heavy concentration on finance), legal and regulatory issues, and the full spectrum of communication skills. Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Application Procedure: Completed applications must be received via email by 12:00 Noon on October 29, 2008. Email completed application to hmsofa_programs@hms.harvard.edu, Office for Faculty Affairs, Harvard Medical School. For information about this application, call (617) 432-1198 or email hmsofa_programs@hms.harvard.edu. Attendance is limited to no more than 60 HMS clinicians, educators, and researchers, to be selected by Program Directors. Participants will be notified around December 21st of acceptance into the Program.

Faculty Eligibility Guidelines: Instructor for at least 3 years as of July 1, 2009, Assistant Professors, and Associate Professors for no more than 3 years as of July 1, 2009.

Continuing Medical Education Credits: Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 23.15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This course is designed to meet the criteria for 1 hour Risk Management credits in Massachusetts.

Course Directors:
Maureen T. Connelly, MD, MPH, Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs, Harvard Medical School
Rosemary B. Duda, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Faculty Development, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
S. Jean Emans, MD, Director, Office of Faculty Development, Children's Hospital Boston
David B. Hackney, MD, Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, Harvard Medical School
Tayyaba Hasan, PhD, Director, Office for Research Career Development, Massachusetts General Hospital
Ellice Lieberman, MD, DrPH, Dean for Faculty Affairs, Harvard Medical School
Carol C. Nadelson, MD, Director, Partners Office for Women's Careers at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Joan Reede, MD, MPH, MBA, Dean, Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School
Jo Shapiro, MD, Chief, Division of Otolaryngology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Glorian Sorensen, PhD, MPH, Director, Office for Faculty Development, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Course Sponsors:
HMS Office for Faculty Affairs
The Academy at Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Center for Faculty Development
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
Children's Hospital Boston, Office of Faculty Development
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Office for Faculty Development
HMS Department of Continuing Education
HMS Office for Diversity and Community Partnership
Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Faculty Development (includes Offices for Research Career Development and Women's Careers)

Confirmed Speakers:
Robert Amelio, MSW, MS, Vice President for Diversity, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Stanley W. Ashley, MD, Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Edward J. Benz Jr., MD, President/CEO and the Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Susan D. Block, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Sally Mason Boemer, Vice President for Finance, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Steven D. Freedman, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Harvard Medical School
Leon D. Goldman, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA, President and Professor of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Allen B. Kachalia, MD,JD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ursula B. Kaiser, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Paul F. Levy, MCP, President and Chief Executive Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr., MD, William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston
Edward Lowenstein, MD, Henry Isaiah Dorr Professor of Research and Teaching in Anaesthetics and Anaesthesia,
Massachusetts General Hospital
James Mandell, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer and Professor of Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston
Ellis J. Neufeld, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston
Jennifer E. Potter, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ellen W. Seely, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Clare M. Tempany, MD, Professor of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Linda J. Wilcox, MA, CAS, Ombudsperson, Harvard Medical School
Claudyne Wilder, President, Wilder Presentations
Marshall A. Wolf, MD, Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

For more information please contact:

Office for Faculty Affairs
Harvard Medical School
25 Shattuck St., Room 206
Boston, MA 02115
Tel. 617-432-1198
Email: hmsofa_programs@hms.harvard.edu