STFM LAUNCHES INTERPROFESSIONAL LEADING CHANGE FELLOWSHIP

STFM has launched a new yearlong fellowship for mid-career and senior faculty in clinical leadership roles. The inaugural class of the Leading Change Fellowship will begin training at the 2015 STFM Conference on Practice Improvement in December.

The fellowship curriculum and resources will educate and empower family medicine faculty to lead change within their institutions, larger surrounding environments, and at the national level. Throughout the fellowship year, teams will interact with mentors and attend training sessions at STFM conferences and via teleconference.

Fellows will participate as interprofessional dyads and will implement a practice change. “The day when a single person can do it all alone, whether administrative, financial, or clinical, is past,” said John Franko, MD, task force chair. “The dyad format recognizes that leadership, especially leadership around change, must include a highly functioning team and the dyad is the first step in that process.”

Dyads in the inaugural class include:

• Tziporah Rosenberg, PhD, University of Rochester, and Mathew Devine, DO, Highland Family Medicine, Rochester, New York

• F. David Schneider, MD, and Craig Smith, PhD, St Louis University

• Jean Moon, PharmD, and Tanner Nissly, DO, University of Minnesota

• Joseph Teel, MD, and Heather Klusaritz, PhD, MSW, University of Pennsylvania

• Miranda Huffman, MD, MEd, and Lindsay Fazio, PhD, Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri

• Cheyenne Rincones, RN, BSN, FNP-C, and Albert Campos,BS, Texas Tech University HSC, El Paso, Texas

• Ann Tseng, MD, and Karen Aiello, CMPE, Oregon Health & Science University

• Briana Balderrama, LPN, and Daisuke Yamashita, MD, Oregon Health & Science University

• Alicia Jacobs, MD, and Holly Whitcomb, APRN-FNP, University of Vermont Medical Center

• Mark Drexler, MD, and Rita Yager, RN, University of Chicago Northshore FMR

“During the first year, I hope to see changes that are in line with the Quadruple Aim,” said Jennifer Johnson, MSHS, co-chair of the Leading Change Fellowship.

• © 2015 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.