2023 Annual AOC Connect Business & Leadership Symposium

DRAFT 2023 AGENDA TOPICS:

• Organizing Research: Leadership Structure & Budget
• How to Organize your Overall Department Budget and use your Meeting with C-Suite & Dean to get what you Need
• Effective Models to Consider for Chair-CAO Relationships/Partnership
• How to optimize peri-operative efficiency (i.e. evolution to ASC, assigned nursing teams in OR, room turnover goals, incentives, etc.)
• Best Practices for Faculty Onboarding
• Back by Popular Demand- Steve Forti- Establishing Programs for Cognitive Fitness in your Department
• Mentorship Accountability
• Strategies to optimize ASC Revenue
• Managing Problem Faculty- “Shape Up or Ship Out”
• “Unicorn” Workflows you can adopt in clinic and OR (right person, in right place, at right time, doing right thing)
• 5 Most Important Things you Need to do to Launch Your New Clinic Successfully
• Strategic Decision Making: Affiliations vs Growing Organically
• Med-Tech Partnership to drive improved patient care, margins, learning, training, and efficiency
• Negotiating the 5 most Important Funds Flows your Departments Needs to Survive & Thrive
• Minimizing the Opioid Footprint
• What to do when the &*&%$#! hits the Fan (Panel answers anonymous questions from attendees)
• Benchmark Reports: Faculty Research Pay by Rank; Recruitment Packages; Milestones & Associated Timelines
• Managing the growth of your clinical enterprise: Knowing when and how to grow clinical service lines and the keys to navigating those decisions.
• Managing the growth of your clinical enterprise: The criticality for effective marketing and best practices to consider for optimizing marketing ROI in a significant/measurable way to grow musculoskeletal enterprises across competitive markets.
• Recognizing and Overcoming your Leadership Blindspots
• How to establish a healthy culture of engagement, collegiality, goal alignment, and accountability
• Optimizing performance of your Division Chiefs and Chief Administrative Officers, accountability, and performance evaluation tools
• Top 3 most impactful revenue enhancements and top 3 cost cutters to improve margins associated with your orthopaedic department.
• Attracting Diversity and establishing a healthy environment to grow diversity among trainees and faculty