National Institutes of Health: change of leadership.

So Few Women Leaders

Despite good intentions and occasional interventions by leaders in higher education, women are still underrepresented in academic leadership positions, both absolutely and relative to the eligible pool of tenured women. This finding has been documented extensively in the literature on academic leadership, by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and by many academic institutions that have und...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Continuing America’s Leadership: The Future of Medical Innovation for Patients Witness before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

Medical Leadership Development (MLD): the need of change and the way to approach it

The missing link of NIH funding in pediatric research training program restructuring.

The restructuring of pediatric and other academic programs is intrinsic to academia and has long been a reflection of leadership turnover. In pediatrics, department chairs turn over on average once every 5 years. With such leadership changes comes enthusiasm and introduction of fresh ideas that herald novel departmental directions. Yet, in the era of extremely competitive National Institutes of...

The Health System Impact Fellowship: Perspectives From the Program Leads; Comment on “CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System”

As the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) leads in designing and implementing the new Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship program, we congratulate Sim et al for their thoughtful contribution to the nascent literature on embedded research, and for advancing our own learning about the HSI Fellowship experience. In our commentary, we describe the HSI Fellowship and its key components,...

Leader Characteristics in Hospital Change Management: A Case Study

Leader Characteristics in Hospital Change Management: A Case Study Masoud Etemadian1, Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad2, Mohammad Javad Soleimani3, Seyed Pouria Hedayati4* 1 Urology department, Hasheminejad Kidney Center, Hospital Management Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Health Management and Economics, Health Information Management Research...