
Leading During Crisis
The first webinar in the 2021-2022 STS Leadership Series will be held on Thursday, April 8, at 7:00 p.m. ET. Add this event to your calendar.
The 60-minute webinar will be moderated by Mara B. Antonoff, MD, and Ram Kumar Subramanyan, MD, PhD.
During this webinar, experienced physician leaders will provide insight, helpful tips, and lessons learned on how to navigate various unstable and surprising situations that leaders undoubtedly will encounter at some point in their careers. These can include financial crises, infrastructure changes, sexual harassment, natural disasters, security threats, regulatory failures, and the COVID pandemic.
Following an introduction of various leadership styles and a keynote address, a panel of distinguished cardiothoracic surgeon leaders from across the United States will answer questions about the professional difficulties they have faced and explain how they’ve successfully managed them. Webinar participants will be able to ask questions using the platform “chat” feature.
Agenda
Subject to Change
7:00 p.m. ET
Introduction
Mara B. Antonoff, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
Ram Kumar Subramanyan, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
7:00 p.m. – 7:10 ET
Leadership Styles
David A. Fullerton, MD
Executive Director, American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Head, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, CO
7:10 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. ET
Keynote
Includes Q&A with the speaker
Matthew P. Smith, MD
Regional Chief, Emergency Medicine
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Chief of Service, Emergency Department
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
7:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. ET
Panel Discussion
Includes Q&A with the panelists
Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS
Chair, Cardiac Surgery
Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, CA
Joseph A. Dearani, MD
Director, Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Surgery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Nathaniel R. Evans III, MD
Director, Division of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
Jennifer S. Lawton, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, MD
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Mara B. Antonoff, MD Chair, STS Workforce on Career Development MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Moderator |
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Ram Kumar Subramanyan, MD, PhD Moderator |
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Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS |
Joseph A. Dearani, MD |
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Nathaniel R. Evans III, MD Professor of Surgery; Director, Division of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA |
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David A. Fullerton, MD |
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Jennifer S. Lawton, MD |
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Matthew P. Smith, MD Regional Chief, Emergency Medicine Southern California Permanente Medical Group Chief of Service, Emergency Department Los Angeles, CA |