Leadership Under Pressure Sessions 1-3
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Leadership Under Pressure
This three-part series will be moderated by Dr. Hilary Worthen, course director for the ACCMA’s Physician Leadership Program. Each session will be led by different speakers, who will bring their own unique leadership and adversity training to the session. These unique learning experiences will be modeled on hospital visit rounds, with “cases” or different challenging situations presented by the participants. Our visiting faculty will discuss the case, identifying key aspects and relevant leadership principles, followed by an open discussion.
Session 1:
Claire-Cecile Pierre, MD is a Program Director in Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and also serves as Chief Medical Officer for Harbor Health Systems in Massachusetts. She has extensive experience working with government leaders, health agencies, multinational and non-government organizations, and the World Bank on the reconstruction of the health sector after natural disasters and disease outbreaks.
Session 2:
Arpana Vidyarthi, MD is currently the Head of the Division of Advanced Internal Medicine at NUH in Singapore. In this role, she integrates her skills in leadership, education, developing others, system change, and clinical medicine to re-envision the division and the profession of Academic General Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine across Singapore. She also directs and teaches longitudinal leadership development programs; she is currently the Director of the Singapore Ministry of Health Chief Residency Program, a national program for junior doctors, and AMLead-Education, a program for senior-executive academic physicians.
Session 3:
Read Pierce, MD is a practicing internist at the University of Colorado and concurrently serves as Vice President of Culture Transformation and Strategy at the Institute for Healthcare Excellence (IHE). In this role, Dr. Pierce works with health systems around the country on clinical transformation, creating healthy workplace culture, and increasing performance of physicians, clinical teams, and healthcare leaders.
If you have any questions, please contact Jenn Mullins at jmullins@accma.org or call the ACCMA at 510-654-5383
Accreditation Statement: ACCMA is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) to provide continuing medical education.
Credit Designation Statement: ACCMA designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Hilary Worthen, MD
Course Director
Dr. Worthen is an internist who has served in many leadership roles, including CMIO, at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a public academic health care system affiliated with Harvard and Tufts medical schools. He taught leadership for physicians through the UCSF’s Healthforce Center for nine years, and is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Worthen has served as course director for the first two cohorts of the Physician Leadership Program on UC Berkeley’s campus.
Claire-Cecile Pierre, MD
Guest Speaker
Dr. Claire-Cecile Pierre, born in Haiti, is a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University's six-year combined accelerated BS-MD program. She trained in internal medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), where she served as chief medical resident and later as Clinical Director of Quality Informatics, a role that focused on health care improvement and the use of information technology to support safe and effective patient-centered care.
Beginning in 2009, Dr. Pierre assisted Dr. Paul Farmer as a volunteer working with President Bill Clinton, the UN Special Envoy to Haiti. In 2010, she joined the earthquake rescue and relief efforts in Haiti where she remained to work with the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission as the senior health advisor and sector lead. In this role, she worked closely with the Prime Minister, Ministry of Health, country donors, multinational organizations, and partners across sectors on key policies and programs to support the long-term reconstruction of the health sector.
Dr. Pierre serves as Director of the Program in Health Systems Strengthening and Social Change in Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine where she looks at how NGOs and partners can work together to ensure proper allocations of 'staff, space, stuff and systems' after disasters and outbreaks. Dr. Pierre has worked extensively with the NGO Partners in Health and has consulted for the World Bank.
In 2014, she became one of the first US physicians to be board certified in Clinical Informatics. She has served as Chief of Quality and Medical Informatics at the South End Community Health Center in Boston and is currently Chief Medical Officer for Harbor Health Systems, a system of 6Massachusetts FQHC sand two PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) sites.
Aprana Vidyarthi, MD
Guest Speaker
Dr. Vidyarthi has two decades of experience as a leader in Academic Medicine in the United States and Singapore. She is currently the Head (Chief) of the Division of Advanced Internal Medicine at NUH in Singapore. In this role, she integrates her skills in leadership, education, developing others, system change, and clinical medicine to re-envision the division and the profession of Academic General Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine across Singapore.
Read Pierce, MD
Guest Speaker
Dr. Pierce is Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Dell Medical School where he also serves as Associate Chair for Faculty Development and Wellbeing in the Department of Medicine. Previously he founded the Hospital Medicine Section at the San Francisco VA Medical Center; the University of Colorado’s Hospital Medicine Division. He has worked locally and nationally with many organizations to improve healthcare quality and safety.
