AHA Leadership Summit

Potential speakers interested in participating in AHA's 2025 Leadership Summit, July 20-22 in Nashville, Tenn., must apply by Nov. 25.
The AHA is seeking speakers for the 2025 Leadership Summit, July 20-22 in Nashville, Tenn. Interested participants must apply by Nov. 25.
The 2025 AHA Leadership Summit, July 20-22, brings together senior health care executives, clinicians and experts in the field presenting innovative approaches for delivering better care and greater value, ensuring financial stability, addressing workforce challenges and improving the health care…
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In a new blog, Chris DeRienzo, M.D., AHA’s senior vice president and chief physician executive, highlights three ways this year's AHA Leadership Summit exemplified the three priority areas of AHA's Patient Safety Initiative — culture of safety, health equity and workforce safety.
AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego unveiled presentations from five health care startups that are addressing health care’s most complex and pressing challenges. The featured companies are backed by the AHA as part of its initiative to invest in and support the development of needed innovations for…
Winners of the Foster G. McGaw prize, the Quest for Quality prize and the Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award were presented at the 2024 AHA Leadership Summit.
Joy Lewis, AHA senior vice president of health equity strategies and executive director of AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, shared the stage with Dayna Bowen Matthew, author and law professor at George Washington University Law School, to explore the fundamental issues of health…
AHA Immediate Past Chair John Haupert, president and CEO of Grady Health System in Atlanta, opened the afternoon plenary session during the second day of the Summit discussing how health care has faced extraordinary change and will continue to transform through innovation. “Sometimes the pace of…
During the July 22 morning plenary session, Stacey Hughes, AHA’s executive vice president of government relations and public policy, moderated a panel with Paul Begala, political analyst and commentator for CNN, and Scott Jennings, CNN contributor, conservative columnist and former presidential…