It was on a beautiful sunny afternoon in September, my sixth week on the job as CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock – a health system based in Lebanon, New Hampshire — when the pastoral innocence of our ...
As a new leader for an organization, the honeymoon is over when you begin to change things. Let’s admit it…the board hired you. They picked you out of a broad slate of candidates. There were things about you or your ...
I had the opportunity this summer to enter a well-regarded academic health care organization as its new leader. This is not my first institutional leadership role….and you get better at figuring things out quickly. ...
Originally posted on June 30, 2017 Recently, Modern Healthcare published its list of the 50 most influential physician executives and leaders. The list included only seven women. There were seven in 2016, nine in ...
By Joanne Conroy, MD I had the opportunity recently to shadow Matt Lawler, MD, on the Hospitalist Service here at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC) in Burlington, MA. After that experience, I have a much ...
The Wall Street Journal devoted an entire section on Tuesday, September 27, to “Women in the Workplace.” It was thought-provoking and made me consider where we are at my own organization. The consensus from the ...
The Wall Street Journal devoted an entire section on Tuesday, September 27, on “Women in the Workplace.” It was thought provoking and made me consider where we are at my own organization. The consensus from the ...
As Hurricane Matthew barreled toward Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday, I reached out to several of my friends still living there to make sure they had an exit strategy. I spent 22 years in Charleston, and was ...
Originally posted on September 29, 2016 By Joanne Conroy, MD, and Susan Dentzer In a recent post on WBUR’s CommonHealth, two doctoral students pleaded with Boston-area hospitals to collaborate on a joint community ...