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Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, APRN, FAAN, Senior Partner, Tim Porter-O'Grady Associates, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., Associate Professor, Leadership Scholar, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Ariz., Visiting Scholar, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.
Sponsored by KU HealthPartners, Inc. and the
University of Kansas School of Nursing
If leadership and learning are to occur for healthcare providers as they move into the future, better partnership, creativity and innovation must be their guides. To avoid professional irrelevance, we must not only develop strategies but we must first have a vision. No generation can move successfully into the future without first dealing with its own expectations. This is equally true for the healthcare profession. Imagining an accurate vision of our future is the major task of leadership in healthcare today.
This program grapples with creating a partnership between future and current health practices. As Leland Kaiser so accurately points out, "We all live within someone’s perception of reality." It is this reality we acknowledge as we present new skills and processes in healthcare that will affect the construction of our future. We want to create a paradigm that both challenges our experience and inspires new insights.
Upon completion of this program, the participant will be able to:
This program is designed for healthcare professionals who want to influence quality healthcare delivery and systems improvements, including hospitals, social services, ambulatory care and community and business organizations.
Commercial vendors are invited to exhibit at this meeting. Limited exhibit space will be available. Call Mary Gambino at 913-588-1695 or e-mail mgambino@kumc.edu for an application or more information.
This program is co-sponsored by Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Mo.; North Kansas City Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.; St. Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo.; St. Mary's Medical Center, Blue Springs, Mo.; St. Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.; and the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kan.
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