2025 Annual Conference
Immersion Sessions ($)
This year’s immersion sessions take place on Thursday, March 27, from 1:30 to 5:00 pm.
($) additional fee requiredEligible for Continuing Education Credit
Compensation & Operations Semi-Annual Meeting
Alen Voskanian, MD, MBA, COO Cedars-Sinai Medical Network, Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation; Fred Horton, President, AMGA Consulting; Kelsi O'Brien, Senior Director, AMGA Consulting and Matt Wells, Director, AMGA Consulting
AMGA Consulting's semi-annual meeting on compensation and operations fosters ongoing discussions about achieving high performance in the physician enterprise. This immersion session will provide attendees with strategies, approaches, and solutions for improving operational performance, creating sustainable compensation models, developing executive leadership, and fostering a culture that drives performance throughout your organization.
Featured session includes: "Compensation Plan Imperatives" covering the essential building blocks for a successful compensation plan, including establishing a provider compensation committee with the right structure, accountability, and use of market data. Additionally, the session will provide a governance playbook, insights on avoiding pitfalls in applying survey data, and key considerations for Fair Market Value (FMV). The session concludes with a retrospective look at one organization’s compensation redesign, highlighting successes, lessons learned, and future direction.
Note: This session is closed to consulting firms.
Driving Workforce Well-Being: A Strategic Imperative for Healthcare Leaders
Ankita Sagar, MD, MPH, FACP, System Vice President, Common Spirit; Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, SFHM, MACP, President Elect, American Medical Women's Association, Chair Emeritus, Board of Regents, American College of Physicians; Mukta Panda, MD, MACP, FRCP-London, Professor Emeritus Internal Medicine, ACGME; Mark Schildt, MD, Chief Wellness Officer and Medical Director, El Rio Health; and Eladio Pereira, MD, MACP, Chief Medical Officer, Mariposa Community Health Center
As a healthcare executive, you’re acutely aware that the health of your workforce directly impacts the health of your organization. But with burnout, stress, and mental health challenges at an all-time high, the stakes have never been greater. The question is: How can you, as a leader, champion the change needed to reverse this crisis? In this session, you’ll explore the critical role of leadership in reshaping organizational culture to prioritize workforce well-being, safety, and engagement. With expert insights and actionable strategies, you’ll learn how to align mental health advocacy with organizational goals to drive measurable improvements in both staff and patient outcomes.
Key takeaways include:
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Strategic Leadership: How to lead a cultural transformation that supports mental health, fosters resilience, and promotes joy in work.
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Breaking Barriers: Practical solutions to eliminate systemic obstacles to timely, effective mental health care for your teams.
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Data-Driven Change: Leveraging continuous quality improvement (CQI) strategies and open-source toolkits to achieve sustainable workforce and patient safety outcomes.
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Actionable Plans: Crafting and implementing a blueprint for improving workforce well-being across your organization.
This interactive session goes beyond theory to provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration to lead the way in building a healthier, more productive healthcare environment—one where both your workforce and patients thrive. Your leadership matters, and the time to act is now to become a catalyst.
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to reflect on the organization’s current culture and systemic drivers of burnout, emphasizing the role of leadership in fostering humble listening to frontline staff, accountability and driving change; build allyship by engaging leaders, clinicians, and staff in shared ownership of wellness initiatives, promoting agility and adaptability in addressing burnout; design and apply system-level interventions focused on purpose, mastery, autonomy, and peer support, while ensuring accountability for measurable outcomes; utilize tools evaluate burnout, track progress, and adapt strategies as needed, celebrating incremental successes along the way; develop actionable plans that incorporate effective communication and agile approaches to implement systemic changes and enhance engagement and foster a sustainable culture of wellness by celebrating small wins, appreciating contributions, and building continuous improvement into the organizational fabric