Senior Symposium

Take part in a healthcare executive experience that will enhance your capabilities and leadership skills to maximize organizational performance. Specifically designed for healthcare executives with 15+ years of experience who are in leadership positions in their organizations, the Senior Executive Symposium has been planned to refine the leadership, interpersonal, and operational skills you need for success.

Combining the general sessions, networking events, and concurrent sessions of the Annual Conference with advanced-level sessions exclusive to Senior Executive Symposium registrants, Executive Connections 2010 gives you the best of both worlds—access to exceptional keynote presentations and outstanding networking opportunities, along with focused, intimate sessions created just for senior executives.

Additional fee required. Limit 100 participants.

Sunday, September 12

Pathfinders Luncheon
12:00 noon–1:30 p.m.
This special “invitation only” luncheon is for SHSMD leaders and Senior Executive Symposium participants. Begin the 2010 conference by reconnecting with old friends and networking with other senior executives.

Senior Symposium Meet and Greet
3:30–4:00 p.m.
For Senior Executive Symposium registrants only, this is your opportunity to network with other symposium registrants and discuss the hot topics in healthcare that will be highlighted over the next two days.

Preshow Cocktail Reception and Networking
4:00–4:45 p.m.
SHSMD wants to welcome you to our home town in style. Before the Second City performance, join us for drinks and meet and mingle with other attendees. This informal reception gives you an opportunity to talk with speakers, the SHSMD Board, and other SHSMD leaders.

Opening Performance
5:00–6:30 p.m.
The Second City
Fifty Years of Funny

Welcome Reception with Exhibitors
6:30–8:30 p.m.

Monday, September 13

SHSMD Annual Business Meeting Breakfast
8:00–9:00 a.m.
Join SHSMD President David Kantor for breakfast and discover what’s new with the Society. Learn more about the activities and projects SHSMD committees and task forces have been working on and how you benefit through enhanced membership products and services.This is the only breakfast served on Monday.

General Session
9:00–10:15 a.m.
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
Dev Patnaik
Founder, Jump Associates
Author, Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy

Coffee Break with Exhibitors
10:15–11:15 a.m.

For Senior Executives Only: A Private Conversation with Dev Patnaik
11:15–11:45 a.m.
Be part of an exclusive conversation and Q & A session with this outstanding speaker, and explore how empathy—the ability to reach outside ourselves and connect with other people—can help your organization prosper.

Annual “Coffey Talk” Round-Table Luncheon
12:30–1:30 p.m.

For Senior Executives Only: CEO Round-Table with Rick Wade
1:30–3:30 p.m.
Join Rick Wade, former senior vice president for strategic communications at the American Hospital Association, as he hosts a dynamic and interactive Q & A with a panel of prominent hospital CEOs. You get to drive the conversation. You ask the tough questions. This unstructured, free-flowing dialogue will give you insights into what your CEO may be thinking. Get answers to the tough questions you haven’t been able to ask your CEO.

Panel members include:
Sandy Bruce
CEO and President
Resurrection Health Care
Chicago, IL

Larry J. Goodman, MD
President and CEO
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

Nancy M. Schlichting
President and CEO
Henry Ford Health System
Detroit, MI

The hottest topics that are revealed in this session will be explored in Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Exchange sessions on Tuesday.

Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
2:45–3:45 p.m.

Attend the Concurrent Session of Your Choice
3:45–5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 14

Thomson Reuters Healthcare SIG Breakfast for Senior Symposium Participants
8:00–9:00 a.m.
Start your morning off right with Thomson Reuters Healthcare’s Sunrise Breakfast for senior leaders. Participate in highly focused, intimate discussions on topics that are important to you. Explore with experts and colleagues what’s happening in healthcare and how it could affect you, your organization, and your community.

General Session
9:00–10:15 a.m.
The Right, the Wrong, and the Difference: Six Strategies to Prevent Diagnostic Error (Or Don't Just Do Something, Stand There...and Think)
Lisa Sanders, MD
Columnist, New York Times Magazine
Technical adviser to the TV medical drama “House”
Author, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

For Senior Executives Only: A Private Conversation with Dr. Lisa Sanders
10:30–11:00 a.m.
Be part of an exclusive conversation and Q & A session with our morning keynote speaker. Explore the issues she raises, and engage in a dialogue about the use of technology in diagnosis.

For Senior Executives Only: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Exchange (Round 1)
11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
The Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Exchange sessions have been developed as a direct result of evaluations of previous Senior Executive Symposiums. You told us you wanted more time to discuss your biggest issues and problems with your peers. And we listened. These unstructured, facilitated discussions will be grouped around the topics and issues that emerge from Monday’s CEO Round-Table. A group leader will guide the discussion, but the content is up to you.

Lunch with Exhibitors
12:30–1:45 p.m.

For Senior Executives Only: Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Exchange (Round 2)
1:45–3:00 p.m.
The conversation continues. Same format as the morning session, but a different set of issues to choose from.

Attend the Concurrent Session of Your Choice
3:30–4:45 p.m.