The Physician Leadership Journal (PLJ), the flagship publication of the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL), has been reimagined to address the evolving challenges of healthcare and physician leadership.
This article introduces a physician-specific ethical leadership framework to address challenges like AI, clinician burnout, and financial pressures. It highlights learnable behaviors to foster integrity in healthcare.
Healthcare supply chains face growing challenges like regulatory shifts, tariffs, and inflation. This article explores strategies for resilience, leadership's role, and a forward-looking framework for 2026 and beyond.
Medical school deans face complex roles, balancing diverse relationships and short tenures averaging four years. Success requires strategic planning, viewing the role as a step in their academic journey.
Leadership is an ongoing journey, not a destination. Emphasizing patience, adaptability, and mindfulness, this article explores how these traits foster resilience, innovation, and lasting organizational growth.
Lyndsay Hoy, MD, shares her journey with rare lung disease LAM, balancing life as a physician and patient. She discusses her marriage, advocacy for rare disease awareness, and the power of empathy and resilience.
This article reframes disruptive physician behavior as a leadership, governance, and patient safety issue. It proposes a five-step framework for addressing harmful conduct while ensuring fairness and accountability.
Leaders must model the transformation they expect others to deliver. Yet many leadership teams undermine their own ambitions by promoting agility, experimentation, and innovation while continuing to govern through legacy processes that reward predict...
Dan Collins shares insights from nearly 30 years of experience on how effective media strategy shapes reputation, drives patient growth, attracts top talent, and supports staff retention. He explores the evolving role of media in the digital age, the...
Healthcare supply chains face growing challenges like regulatory shifts, tariffs, and inflation. This article explores strategies for resilience, leadership's role, and a forward-looking framework for 2026 and beyond.
Discover how healthcare practices can build patient loyalty through trust, empathy, strong communication, and patient-centered care to thrive in a competitive market.
A caregiver lost insurance coverage for Zepbound, a GLP-1 obesity drug. She faced hurdles navigating appeals, discounts, and alternative options to access the medication.
This study explores systemic causes of physician leadership fatigue, highlighting vague roles, poor onboarding, and limited support. It recommends organizational reforms to boost retention, well-being, and care quality.
Physician leadership is increasingly valued globally, but leadership training lags. This article explores gaps and efforts to build development opportunities.
Federal cuts to food safety programs like CDC FoodNet and FDA inspections are reducing outbreak detection and prevention. Experts warn of deadlier foodborne illnesses as public health resources dwindle.
This article provides an innovative and practical approach to the use of social proof theory to enhance the effectiveness of popular models for organizational change.
Business leaders increasingly face decisions that are not just technical or financial but deeply philosophical. Questions about what a company is for, what counts as reliable knowledge, and what responsibilities organizations owe customers, employees...
Unlike most corporations, PE firms demand immediate value creation, lean execution, and direct, high-candor engagement with investors and boards. Rigorous assessment of candidates’ ability to deliver those things—and honest evaluation of their motiva...
This project improved HCC documentation accuracy by educating clinicians on VBC, RAF scores, and coding, using leaderboards and nonmonetary incentives to foster a culture valuing accurate documentation, chronic care management, and resource alignment...
This article explores a leadership framework for tackling future healthcare crises, emphasizing trust, communication, adaptability, and decision-making to address challenges like misinformation, cyber threats, and climate change.
The CMO-CNO relationship is key to healthcare success, uniting distinct expertise to improve culture, safety, and outcomes. Built on respect and collaboration, strong partnerships enhance teamwork, accountability, and patient care, despite structural...
Healthcare organizations face billions in revenue losses from Medicare cuts, halted value-based care models, and reduced federal funding. Traditional siloed leadership cannot tackle these interconnected challenges. This white paper emphasizes the cri...
A new Medicare pilot program called WISeR, aimed at reducing fraud and misuse through AI-driven prior authorization, is causing delays, errors, and frustration for patients and doctors.
AI has dramatically accelerated the pace of work, allowing employees to execute ideas, produce deliverables, and launch projects far faster than traditional management systems were designed to handle. As a result, many managers are becoming the new b...
Many leaders believe that diverse teams naturally produce better ideas and decisions. But difference creates value only when leaders can navigate the friction that accompanies different perspectives.
Aspiring leaders and high-potential professionals often prioritize building relationships with senior leaders, assuming visibility at the top drives advancement. But research on organizational networks suggests that reputation and influence depend mo...
Drawing on research, behavioral science, and a case study of the jewelry group Pandora, this article explains how false alignment arises from vague discussions, avoidance of disagreement, and pressure to move too quickly and shows how it leads to par...
From closing knowledge gaps in finance and AI to building emotional intelligence and peer communities, the future of healthcare demands bilingual leaders fluent in both medicine and strategy.
“Profiles in Success”: Certified Physician Executives Share the Value and ROI of their CPE Education
AAPL believes physician leaders who are pursuing leadership education and training — and the organizations that are supporting their effort — should be able to clearly see the value of their time, money, and effort.
This article introduces a physician-specific ethical leadership framework to address challenges like AI, clinician burnout, and financial pressures. It highlights learnable behaviors to foster integrity in healthcare.