Academy for Transformative Health Care Leadership
Course Features
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Carey Business School introduce the Academy for Transformative Health Care Leadership, an innovative new Executive Education program. This Academy equips the next generation of executive leaders with the essential skills required to elevate the health of the population and navigate the complex landscape for organizational and personal success.
Led by Johns Hopkins experts in health care leadership and the business of health care, the program includes two three-day residencies at the Carey Business School campuses in Baltimore and Washington, DC, along with virtual learning experiences, group leadership coaching and networking opportunities.
This comprehensive program supports growth tailored to each participant’s identified area for leadership skills development. Participants will leave the program with a deep understanding of the healthcare ecosystem's structural impact on organizational success and the skills necessary for effective decision-making and organizational transformation within the complex and evolving healthcare ecosystem.
All courses include:
Industry-leading faculty
Research-driven results
Practical applications
Collaborative learning
Lifelong connections
Custom solutions
Successful graduate
“I have attended executive education at the world's top one percent universities, and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Academy for Women and Leadership provides world-class speakers and facilitators aligned with individualized coaching and mentoring that is beyond compare. The Academy offers an exceptional level of academic excellence in executive education: the experience is earnest, challenging, good-humored, and radically transformational.”
— Dr. Elizabeth Gunn, Academy graduate
Target audience
Who should attend
- Existing and emerging clinical leaders working within a health care system
- Nonclinical leaders working in settings throughout the health care ecosystem
- Health care leaders working outside the walls of the care delivery system
What you will learn
- Leadership development through personal transformation aligned to individual areas for growth
- Negotiation, executive communication, strategic thinking, and decision-making skills
- Improved business acumen with skills development and insights in operations and finance, performance assessment and improvement,
- Health equity, social determinants of health and population health, along with an understanding of advocacy and health policy
Certificate and badge
Upon completion of the Academy you will receive a JHU Carey Certificate and badge.
Faculty
Pamela Johnson, MD
Sheldon B. Bearman, M.D. Endowed Professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology
Dr. Pamela T. Johnson, FACR is the Sheldon B. Bearman, M.D. Endowed Professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology, where she is Vice Chair of Quality, Safety and Value and holds joint appointments in Oncology and Urology. Her area of clinical expertise is Body CT and her radiology research interests include protocol design to optimize multidetector row CT image quality, interpretative performance improvement to increase longitudinal health care clinical and cost-effectiveness.
A passionate advocate for patient-center, high value health care, Pamela also serves as the vice president of care transformation for the Johns Hopkins Health System. In this role, she builds on the success of our existing provider-led initiatives to improve the efficacy, consistency and efficiency of care delivery by engaging multidisciplinary front line clinical teams in care redesign. The health system care transformation mission is aligned with multiple arms of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Innovation 2023 strategic plan: Aim for Precision in Everything We do, Improve the Quality and Affordability of Health Care, Make Hopkins Easy and Work Like One Organization. This work has been recognized through the Johns Hopkins Hospital 2017 and 2022 Innovations in Clinical Care awards and the Society of Hospital Medicine 2018 Excellence in Quality Improvement Teamwork award. In 2019, the Center for Innovative Medicine selected Pamela as the Stanley Levenson Scholar with a 5 year grant to support the high value initiative, and in 2023, she was named one of Becker's Healthcare Chief Transformation Officers to Know.
Dan Polsky, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Carey Business School
Daniel Polsky is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Johns Hopkins University. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School. From 1996-2016 he was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Robert D. Eilers Professor the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine. From 2012-2019 he served as executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. Dr. Polsky, a national leader in the field of health policy and economics, has dedicated his career to exploring how health care is organized, managed, financed, and delivered, especially for low-income people. His own research has advanced our understanding of the cost and quality tradeoff of interventions whether they are changes to large federal programs or local programs. His most recent work focuses on how to provide access to quality health care in low-resource settings with a particular interest in narrow provider networks.