How Leaders Are Strengthening Their Clinical Workforce

How Leaders Are Strengthening Their Clinical Workforce 
Executive Insights on Retention, Resilience, and Sustainability

Thursday, March 19, 2026 
1 - 2 p.m. Eastern; noon - 1 p.m. Central; 10 - 11 a.m. Pacific  

Physician shortages are placing sustained pressure on clinical programs and exposing workforce risk across service lines. What was once primarily a recruitment challenge has become a broader workforce issue, where retention risk, physician well-being, administrative burden and long-term sustainability are converging and challenging leaders to maintain access, stability and performance.

This webinar brings health care executives together to examine how physician workforce strategy is evolving in response. The discussion will focus on retention, physician well-being, practice efficiency, leadership and culture, and sustainable workforce models, while exploring practical approaches to clinical workforce stabilization. The Medicus Transition Program will be discussed as one example of how organizations can maintain service line continuity during periods of strain. Attendees will leave with peer-informed insight they can apply to anticipate workforce risk and align coverage strategies with long-term sustainability goals.

Attendees Will Learn To:

• Identify leading indicators of clinical workforce risk and interpret what they signal about near-term coverage challenges and longer-term sustainability.
• Apply a strategic planning approach that aligns coverage models, operational design and culture to strengthen retention, resilience and service line continuity.
• Evaluate how partnership-based, project-focused staffing solutions, including the Medicus Transition Program, can support clinical stabilization during periods of strain while longer-term workforce initiatives are implemented.

Speaker:

Andrea Leslie 
Senior Vice President, Hospital Operations 
Corewell Health 
Grand Rapids, MI 

Albert James Cook II, M.D., M.B.A. 
Medical Director and Chief of Radiology 
University Medical Center (UMC) Of Southern Nevada 
Las Vegas, NV  

Deborah Graves 
President  
BJC Health System, Memorial Hospital Belleville | Shiloh 
Belleville, IL

Shannon Peterson 
Senior Vice President and Head of Delivery 
Medicus