APA Mission

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APA Mission

• The APA is dedicated to improving the health
  of all children and adolescents through
  leadership in education of child health
  professionals, research and dissemination of
  knowledge, patient care, and advocacy, in
  partnership with patients, families and
  communities.

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Leadership

• Creating the future by initiating and sustaining
  change in areas where there is no precedent, as
  well as seizing the opportunities offered in the
  present.
• Morahan PS, Kasperbauer D, et al.
• Acad Med 1998731159-68

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Top Leadership Images

• Images of Inspiration and Power

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Top Leadership Images

• Images of Direction, Shared Goals

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Top Leadership Images

• Images of Leaders with Followers

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Top Leadership Images

• Images of Challenge and Change

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5 Practices of Excellent Leaders

• Challenge the Process
• Inspire a Shared Vision
• Enable Others to Act
• Model the Way
• Encourage the Heart

Kouzes Posner. The Leadership Challenge 1995
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Physician Leadership

• physician leadership is critical for attaining
  balance among conflicting pressures for quality
  of care versus cost containment, prevention
  versus high-technology medical intervention, and
  application of specialized versus primary care.
• Lane Ross

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4 Types of Physician Leaders Needed Today

• Leadership to Enhance Clinical Effectiveness
• Leadership to Promote Organizational
  Effectiveness
• Leadership to Advance and Disseminate
  Evidence-Based Innovations
• Leadership to Advocate for Reform of Healthcare
  Policy, Laws, and Regulation

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Conference Objectives

• Develop leadership skills
• Develop and share innovations for strengthening
  the educational, research and clinical missions
  of divisions and departments of pediatrics
• Network with other leaders in academic
  pediatrics across the nation.

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Expectations

• Actively participate
• Generate potential actions for you and your
  team/division/department
• Networkmeet some new people
• Have fun!

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Leadership

• We must be the change we wish to see in the
  world.
• Mahatma Gandhi

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Focus on Leadership

• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
  committed citizens can change the world. Indeed
  its the only thing that ever has.
• Margaret Mead