The Center for the Health Professions

September 2008

Centering On…Leadership

This month, Ed O'Neil outlines three essential leadership challenges - understanding how institutions must change, working with other institutions to demonstrate how these changes can work, and pushing policymakers to move forward once the case has been made.

To read this essay, click here.

The Center is now accepting applications for Blue Shield of California Foundation's Clinic Leadership Institute, a training program for emerging leaders of California's community clinics. Applications are due on October 31. For more information, click here.

The Pharmacy Leadership Institute (PLI) welcomes the fifth Kaiser Permanente cohort, which will begin the year-long leadership program in September. For more information on the PLI, click here.

Theresa Manley, RN, MBA is a senior leader at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and chairs the newly formed California Patient Safety Action Coalition (CAPSAC). To read more, including how Manley’s participation in the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program and its alumni network contribute to her leadership initiatives, click here.