Dyad leadership can drive patient safety and quality
A dyad—a team of two people operating as co-leaders at a system, hospital or other organization—isn’t a new phenomenon in healthcare, but this leadership style had a large hand in determining this year’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives.
For Baylor Scott & White Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alex Arroliga and Chief Nursing Officer Janice Walker, having a close working relationship built on mutual respect, constant communication and shared goals and accountability before COVID-19 hit meant the system was better prepared to save lives and protect front-line nurses and doctors as the pandemic worsened.
Without that leadership structure, BSWH’s COVID response might have seen “increased variability” that “could have promoted more harm, more fear and more chaos,” Walker said.
It also sends an important message to front-line workers that “in order to take care of a patient, you need a team— and the product is going to be better,” Arroliga said.
DR. ALEX ARROLIGA
Chief medical officer Baylor Scott & White Health
DR. MONICA BERNER
Chief clinical officer Health Care Service Corp.
DR. MARJORIE BESSEL
Chief clinical officer Banner Health
DR. AKRAM BOUTROS
President and CEO MetroHealth System
SUSAN BROWN
Senior vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer City of Hope
DR. JOSEPH CACCHIONE
Executive vice president, clinical & network services Ascension
BONNIE CASTILLO
Executive director National Nurses United
DR. ELISSA CHARBONNEAU
Chief medical officer Encompass Health
DR. AUGUSTINE M.K. CHOI
Dean Weill Cornell Medicine
DR. JOSEPH CRANE
Chief medical officer TeamHealth TAMMY DANIEL Senior vice president and chief nursing officer Baptist Health
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI
Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
ROXANNA GAPSTUR
President and CEO WellSpan Health
ERNEST GRANT
President American Nurses Association
SUSAN GRANT
Executive vice president and chief nursing officer Beaumont Health
DR. MARC HARRISON
President and CEO Intermountain Healthcare
DR. JAMES E.K. HILDRETH
President and CEO Meharry Medical College
DR. ROD HOCHMAN
President and CEO Providence
JILL HOGGARD GREEN
President and CEO The Queen’s Health Systems
DR. RICHARD ISAACS
CEO and executive director The Permanente Medical Group
DR. ASHISH JHA
Dean Brown University School of Public Health DR. TAHA KASS-HOUT Director of machine learning and chief medical officer Amazon Web Services
MARY BETH KINGSTON
Chief nursing officer Advocate Aurora Health
WILHELMINA MANZANO
Senior vice president, chief nursing executive and chief operating officer for perioperative services New York-Presbyterian
DR. STEPHEN MARKOVICH
President and CEO OhioHealth
DR. LAWRENCE MOSS
President and CEO Nemours Children’s Health System
KAREN MURPHY
Executive vice president and chief innovation officer Geisinger
VICE ADMIRAL DR. VIVEK MURTHY
U.S. Surgeon General HHS
DR. JANICE NEVIN
President and CEO ChristianaCare
APRIL NOVOTNY
Vice president of clinical services and chief nurse executive Lakeland Regional Health
DR. MARCELLA NUNEZ-SMITH
Chair, White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force,
Associate dean, Yale School of Medicine
FRAN WITT
President and CEO Effingham Health System
MARY ANN OSBORN
Senior vice president and chief nursing executive UnityPoint Health
DR. PHILIP OZUAH
President and CEO Montefiore Medicine
DR. HAROLD PAZ
Executive vice president and chancellor for health affairs, Ohio State University,
CEO, Wexner Medical Center
DR. CHERYL PEGUS
Executive vice president, health and wellness Walmart
DR. JONATHAN PERLIN
President of clinical operations and chief medical officer HCA Healthcare
DR. SCOTT RISSMILLER
Executive vice president and chief physician executive Atrium Health
MARY ROBINSON
Executive vice president and chief nursing officer, Reliable Health Texas Health Resources
DR. RISHI SIKKA
President of system enterprises Sutter Health
DR. ANTHONTY SLONIM
President and CEO Renown Health
JOHNESE SPISSO
President, UCLA Health, CEO, UCLA Hospital System
DR. IMAMU TOMLINSON
CEO Vituity
DR. SUSAN TURNEY
CEO Marshfield Clinic Health System
DR. ROCHELLE WALENSKY
Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
JANICE WALKER
Executive vice president and chief nursing officer Baylor Scott & White Health
DR. ERIC WEI
Senior vice president and chief quality officer NYC Health + Hospitals
DR. DONALD WHITING
Chief medical officer Allegheny Health Network
AMY WILSON
Senior vice president of clinical operations Ascension
DR. CHARLOTTE YEH
Chief medical officer AARP