Private equity (PE) has grown in private practice medicine, impacting ophthalmology. Interviews revealed mixed views on PE’s influence on clinical autonomy, care quality, patient costs, and operational sustainability.

Toxic leadership harms healthcare organizations, creating unreported negative outcomes. This article offers eight evidence-based strategies to measure, monitor, and reduce toxic behaviors, fostering ethical leadership and better organizational health...

This article highlights how healthcare organizations can combat the risks of silence by fostering psychological safety and courageous cultures. It outlines strategies for empowering frontline workers to share insights, drive innovation, and enhance t...

Healthcare leadership faces structural pressure, with lives at stake and constrained resources. Burnout, trust erosion, and blame persist, highlighting the need for values-driven leadership under stress.

Asha Padmanabhan, MD, shares her journey from reluctant leader to anesthesiologist, advocating for women, resilience, and physician-led growth in medical leadership.

The author reflects on leading an Internal Medicine department, emphasizing trust, humility, and collaborative leadership to balance patient care and team well-being.

To successfully deploy gen-AI-powered robots, companies must choose use cases tied to real labor constraints, design interactions that feel natural, position robots as partners to—rather than replacements for—employees, match robots’ capabilities to ...

Despite boards placing greater emphasis on cyber risk, their ability to mitigate it is improving slowly and marginally. There are three prominent factors driving this problem: 1) there’s a lack of cybersecurity expertise; 2) board-level conversations...

AI is reshaping work, but eliminating entry-level jobs is short-sighted. These roles are crucial for developing future leaders, fostering innovation, enriching organizational culture, and protecting society. Instead of cutting these jobs, companies s...

Dr. Louis M. Profeta shares his journey in emergency medicine, reflections on societal challenges, writing career, and insights on physician resilience and medical education.

The AMA's 2027 CPT maternity care changes will shift coding, affecting provider compensation, staffing, and governance, requiring system-wide adjustments.

Susan Baker shares strategies to boost patient loyalty, emphasizing personalized care, feedback, social media, and teamwork while addressing service failures to enhance experiences.

This article explores two phases of physician development: structured training and fragmented post-training growth. It advocates for continuous, structured programs to enhance skills, retention, and organizational alignment.

This article explores toxic followership, its causes, and its negative impact on leaders and organizations, offering strategies to address manipulative behaviors and foster healthier workplace dynamics.

Toxic leadership harms healthcare organizations, creating unreported negative outcomes. This article offers eight evidence-based strategies to measure, monitor, and reduce toxic behaviors, fostering ethical leadership and better organizational health...

You propose a strategic shift. The case is solid, the logic sound. But weeks later, nothing moves. You advocate for a technology investment and get polite nods, then silence. You’re in the upper ranks of your organization with a track record of good ...

Followership is a vital aspect of leadership, emphasizing active engagement, critical thinking, and shared vision. Strong leader-follower partnerships rely on trust, respect, communication, and adaptability.

This article defines courageous conversations in healthcare leadership, explores when to have them, and offers strategies, ground rules, and frameworks for effective dialogue.

Generative AI revolutionizes medical hiring by automating sourcing, screening, and communication, but demands ethical oversight to address risks and challenges.

The author shares her journey to becoming CMO, tackling negotiation, gender bias, and career growth, emphasizing preparation, strategy, and collaboration.

Despite decades of effort by companies to boost engagement and loyalty, employee trust and customer commitment continue to decline. Most organizations try to fix deficiencies or incrementally raise satisfaction levels. But human behavior does not cha...

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...

This analysis traces U.S. healthcare policy from the 1798 Marine Hospital Act to today's value-based care, highlighting key laws like Medicare and Medicaid. It explores spending growth and future sustainability challenges.

Private equity (PE) has grown in private practice medicine, impacting ophthalmology. Interviews revealed mixed views on PE’s influence on clinical autonomy, care quality, patient costs, and operational sustainability.

Servant leadership empowers physician executives to navigate clinical complexity and limited authority by fostering moral authority, psychological safety, and workforce engagement. It emphasizes structured listening, leader development, and accountab...

This article explores team excellence in healthcare, highlighting characteristics like trust, communication, emotional intelligence, and offering a strengths audit and quiz.

This article explores physician leadership's evolving role and suggests strategies to enhance effectiveness, including role clarity, structured meetings, and self-leadership, to improve well-being and reduce burnout.

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.

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 highlights how healthcare organizations can combat the risks of silence by fostering psychological safety and courageous cultures. It outlines strategies for empowering frontline workers to share insights, drive innovation, and enhance t...