Leadership Development

Grady Memorial Hospital's Yolanda Wimberly, MD, created the Teen Experience and Leadership Program (TELP) for students to explore health care careers.
AHA leaders are participating in the International Hospital Federation’s World Hospital Congress in Lisbon, Portugal.    
The Next Generation Leaders Fellowship welcomes its inaugural cohort of mentors. Fellows are matched with an executive level health care leader during this 12-month program. Fellows and mentors work closely throughout the year on a transformation project and other professional development goals.
Archive 2023, During the Next Gen Fellowship program, fellows work through the planning and execution of a year-long transformation project at their hospital or health system.
Developing innovative approaches and creative solutions to tackle the unprecedented challenges in health care calls for skilled, knowledgeable and innovative leaders. Empowering the next generation of health care leaders is the aim of the AHA’s Next Generation Leaders Fellowship.
The Next Generation Leaders Fellowship welcomes its inaugural cohort of mentors. Each of the 40 fellows of the Next Gen Leaders Fellowship is matched with an executive level health care leader during this 12-month program. Fellows and mentors work closely throughout the year on a transformation…
During the Next Gen Fellowship program, fellows work through the planning and execution of a year-long transformation project at their hospital or health system.
Health care organizations should view innovation as requiring a series of separate skills and behaviors that demand a different kind of leadership than exists in many health care organizations.
At the height of the pandemic and patient surges, New York-based Northwell Health and Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare began collaborating on how to address each system’s staffing shortfalls. Intermountain would soon deploy 48 team members to Northwell, which later returned the favor.
COVID-19 has amplified the need for and impact of leadership. Prioritizing certain leadership capabilities and growing the next generation of leaders will enable the transformation needed and position the field to reimagine care delivery.