Why Present at the AAPL Annual Leadership Conference?

· Demonstrate thought leadership: Gain recognition for your successes by sharing your experiences and lessons learned on the largest stage for physician leadership.

· Shape the future of the healthcare industry: From engaging attendees with your leadership journey, to empowering others with insight, tools and solutions that have helped you, and your practice or organization, your participation will enhance the knowledge, skills and competencies of your peers

· Strengthen your skills: Each presentation is an opportunity to refine your presentation skills and to experiment with new audience engagement techniques. 

· Build community: Sharing your work is a great way to make connections and find partners within the healthcare community. It encourages increased peer-to-peer learning, networking, and collaboration to support a stronger campus sustainability community.

· AAPL Fellowship: Your participation as a presenter counts as volunteer credits towards AAPL’s Fellowship requirements. 

· Save: Accepted presenters will receive a $300 discount on registration for the AAPL Annual Leadership Conference. 

Session Formats

The sessions will be offered in the following formats. When deciding which session format to submit a proposal for, consider which format will be best suited for your topic and content. Please choose one of the session formats described below:

Concurrent Session: A concurrent session is a 60-minute presentation, delivered by either solo or co-presenters. These should contain original content and tactical advice, featuring best practices, forward-looking strategies, and resources physician leaders need to advance their leadership competencies.

Career & Professional Development Workshop Lightning Talks: The lightening talks are rapid, 15-minute sessions that will be held on Sunday, April 14^th, during the Career and Professional Development Workshop. These short, intimate, informal sessions require no presentation materials or PowerPoints but are intended to offer valuable insight on physician leader advancement in a concise format while also answering questions the attendees may have. The content of these lightening talk sessions should support the aim of career and professional development, and should focus on topics such as self-management, professional capabilities, and improving oneself personally and at work. These sessions will be repeated 6 times to allow attendees to switch to different topics that best pertain to their personal needs. Please see more on the Career and Professional Development Workshop below.

Session Topics:

Please consider the following topics and select the one which is the best fit for you. When you submit your proposal, please be sure to address the prompt under each topic.

Topic 1: ROI of Physician Leadership

How has investing in your development as a physician leader manifested in your day-to-day work? Furthermore, how has the application of the concepts you’ve learned through your leadership education brought value to your organization? These sessions should outline problems organization faced and how physician leaders solved them through use of their leadership skills, while demonstrating quantitative results to the organization.

Topic 2: Optimizing Payor Relationships

As healthcare delivery continues to evolve and transform, so do healthcare payment models. Essential to a physician leader’s development is the skillset to navigate the complex and ever-changing landscape of payors. Sessions on this topic should aim to provide insight and increase member understanding of how payors work, and how physician leaders can best communicate and partner with them to improve patient care and outcomes.

Topic 3: Optimizing Practice Management

What does a physician leader, or group of physician leaders, need to know to lead their own practice in today’s competitive healthcare market? Sessions on this topic should explore case studies of leading and operating practices effectively. Additionally, the benefits of interprofessional collaboration should be discussed.

 Topic 4: AI in Healthcare

The rapid advancement and implementation of emerging and developing AI technologies is shaking up industries everywhere, including healthcare. What do physician leaders need to know about AI to lead their organizations successfully, and ethically?

 Topic 5: Benefits of Building Optimal Cultures

Creating a workplace culture that values wellness, diversity, equity, and trust is essential for achieving optimal outcomes for patients and providers. These sessions should explore wellness, DEI, and trust, with speakers sharing their experiences and data on the impact of these initiatives on patient outcomes and provider satisfaction.

Topic 6: Career & Professional Development Workshop Lightning Talks

Depending on the phase of one’s leadership career, professional development becomes a personal competitive advantage. This path focuses on self-management, professional capabilities, and improving yourself personally, and at work. Those early in their career may seek opportunities to advance, at mid-career they may look to manage and influence others, and as they have advanced to senior roles they may look to influence and create systemic change by leading organizations. This highly interactive and experiential workshop takes place on Sunday and allows attendees to choose a path that matches their current level of need in their career development. The goal of this workshop is to provide attendees at varying career levels actionable strategies they can employ to advance in their career. Objectives and outcomes of this session by level include:

· Advance yourself (Early Career/Novice): Support physicians in clearly articulating their skills set/value proposition through tools available to them (Resume, Interviews, Social).

· Impact others (Mid-Career/Intermediate): Raise visibility of their work and unique skill set and influence others.

· Impact and influence your organization at a systemic level (Senior Career level/Advanced): Create a plan to impact and influence systemic change.