Registration and Breakfast


 

Welcome and Speaker Introduction

Dr. Mike Dolan, Chief Clinical Officer – Gundersen Region


 

Why physician engagement is imperative in tackling external threats to patient care, and how physician leaders can shepherd physician voice to drive positive change.


Chris DeRienzo, MD, MPP, Chief Physician Executive, AHA


 

Break

 

Identifying and Addressing Current Challenges Impacting Physician Practice in Wisconsin


Eric Borgerding, President and CEO, Wisconsin Hospital Association


Health care providers are facing challenges from all sides – workforce shortages, demands for cost-containment, resurgence in union demands, niche disruptors unconcerned with providing safety net services, payor consolidation and practices, demands for greater transparency in cost, quality and care, Medicare and Medicaid losses, and ever-shifting regulatory requirements. Understanding what these external challenges are can help equip physician leaders better communicate to staff the “why” and “how” these external factors drive disruptions and change within your organizations, as well as help physician leaders be an effective advocate with government officials for positive health care policy change.

 

Lunch


 

Leading High-Functioning Teams: Habits of Systems Thinkers that Build Followership
People follow the person, not the position. Leaders of high-functioning teams need to be enthusiastic and intentional about having a holistic understanding of the organization. They also need to understand the impact of their decisions and behaviors by seeking to understand their relationships, effects, and delays among information, problems, people, events, departments, and systems. And they form relationships which empower others to act, while allowing individuals freedom to make decisions, remove obstacles and thrive. In this program, Physician Leaders will learn the habits of systems thinkers, checking their assumptions, gaining perspective, and empowering and influencing others that create engaging experiences for their teams and activate the desired culture.


Andy Hillig, LAK Group
 
 

Break

 

Leading High-Functioning Teams: Habits of Systems Thinkers that Build Followership, con’t

Andy Hillig, LAK Group
 
 

Strategies to foster a positive, impactful physician culture within your organization – perspectives from physician and non-physician leaders

Panelists
 Jeff Bahr, MD, FACP, Chief Physician Executive - Midwest Region, Advocate Health
Wendy Ledesma, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Sauk Prairie Healthcare
Chris Woleske, Executive Vice President and President Bellin Region, Emplify Health
Brad Groseth, Regional President - Western Wisconsin, Marshfield Clinic Health System

 
 

Adjourn for the Day

 

Dinner Reception





 

Kohler Design Center

Breakfast
 

Welcome and Speaker Introduction

Paul Horvath, MD, Physician Site Lead, Mayo Clinic Health System, Red Cedar in Menomonie
 

Opening Presentation - TBA

 

Break



 

An Executive Physician’s Personal Leadership Journey


Dr. Imran Andrabi, MD, President and CEO, Froedtert ThedaCare Health
 

Closing Remarks, 2026 Announcement, and Adjourn


Matthew Stanford, JD, MHA, General Counsel, Wisconsin Hospital Association