Women Leaders of Color In Medicine - Featuring STFM President Tricia Elliott, MD

01/06/21 • 73 min

STFM PODCAST - Academic Medicine Leadership Lessons

In this episode, STFM President Tricia C. Elliott, MD, presents the third of her President's Podcasts, which will be periodically released over the course of her term. “Women Leaders of Color In Medicine” features interviews with, Tochi Iroku-Malize MD MPH MBA, Jehni Robinson, MD, FAAFP and Alicia Monroe, MD.
Guest Bios:
Tochi Iroku-Malize MD MPH MBA is the inaugural chair of family medicine at Northwell Health and professor and chair of family medicine for the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. She is dual board certified in family medicine and hospice and palliative medicine and holds a masters degree in public health policy and management as well as one in business administration. Dr. Iroku-Malize is involved in diverse programs including, but not limited to, global & planetary health, clinical informatics, women’s & children’s health, special needs populations, cultural competency, advocacy and leadership. She has worked for over the past three decades on clinical, research and academic initiatives to enhance health and equity for both providers and patients across various communities locally, nationally and internationally.
Jehni Robinson, MD, FAAFP: Dr. Jehni Robinson is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. She also serves as Associate Dean for Primary Care. Prior to coming to USC, she served as Chief Medical Officer for The Saban Free Clinic also known as The Long Angeles Free Clinic and taught in the Harbor UCLA Transforming Primary Care faculty development fellowship. Dr. Robinson has expertise in leadership development, care delivery redesign and care for the underserved. She teaches first year medical students in Professionalism in the Practice of Medicine and serves as Faculty Advisor for a student interest group on homelessness. Dr. Robinson received her undergraduate degree from Stanford and her medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Harbor-UCLA in Family Medicine and completed a one year faculty development fellowship. She has also completed the California Healthcare Foundation Health Care Leadership Fellowship program in 2013.
Dr. Alicia Monroe has served as the Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic and Faculty Affairs, and Professor of Family Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (Baylor), Houston, Texas since 2014. At Baylor, Dr. Monroe oversees Academic Affairs, Faculty Development, Faculty Affairs, Institutional Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity and Center for Professionalism. She currently serves as the chair of the AAMC Advisory Committee on Advancing Holistic Review, and she is a member of the AAMC Board of Directors and Baylor University Board of Regents.

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Improving Your Presentations with Dr Jacob Prunuske. December 9, 2020

Host Dr Saria Soccocio, MD, FAAFP, MHA interviews Dr Jacob Prunuske, MD on this episode.
Host Bio:
As the Ambulatory Chief Medical Officer for Prisma Health, Dr. Saria Saccocio supports population health initiatives that span across all departments and specialties in the outpatient space, striving for optimization of quality, patient experience and efficiency of healthcare delivery.

Dr. Saccocio has demonstrated a consistent history of leading award-winning programs and improving patient care and safety as a Chief Medical Officer for health systems in the southeast. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Florida, and her Executive Master of Health Administration from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Miami before opening her own solo family practice. She continues to serve patients at the Free Medical Clinic and precepts family medicine residents at the Center for Family Medicine in Greenville, South Carolina.

Becker’s Hospital Review has recognized Dr. Saccocio as one of the top 100 Hospital and Health System CMOs to Know and has been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Her extensive civic and community involvement has included serving in many ways including: the Modern Healthcare Women Advisory Board, board member for the South Carolina Hospital Association, United Way of Greenville County; Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate, the South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians Board, and is an Alum of the Women’s Leadership Institute and the Diversity Leadership Institute at Furman University.

Guest Bio:
Dr. Jacob Prunuske is an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine and the Assistant Dean for Clinical Learning at the Medical College of Wisconsin – Central Wisconsin campus. His research has focused on family medicine and public health education and his clinical practice is at the Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine clinic. Dr. Prunuske is a member of the STFM Medical Student Education Committee, represents STFM on the steering committee of the America Needs More Family Doctors: 25x2030 Initiative, and serves as a liaison to the AAFP Commission on Education.
What separates a good leader from a great one? These in-depth interviews with some of family medicine's most influential leaders provide insight into pivotal experiences that boosted leadership skills and provided unprecedented opportunities for personal growth. This series of podcasts explores the development of leadership skills, including clarity, courage, decisiveness, humility, and passion, as a means to facilitating growth during times when healthcare professionals are addressing:

• Motivation and Mentorship

• Burnout and Transitions

• Milestones and Meaning

• Barriers and Bureaucracy

This series of podcasts is sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the academic home for family medicine educators.

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Leading a Committee with Karly Pippitt, MD. February 5, 2021

What separates a good leader from a great one? These in-depth interviews with some of family medicine's most influential leaders provide insight into pivotal experiences that boosted leadership skills and provided unprecedented opportunities for personal growth.

In this episode, Dr Saccocio discusses Committee Leadership with Dr Karly Pippitt.

This series of podcasts is sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the academic home for family medicine educators.

Guest Bio:
Karly Pippitt, MD is the director of medical student education in family medicine for the Department of Family and Preventive medicine at the University of Utah where she maintains a clinic practice. She directs two courses in the pre-clinical years of medical education. Additionally, she is an Assistant Dean for Community Faculty, working to improve the connection with our adjunct faculty.
Host Bio:
Saria Saccocio, MD, FAAFP, MHA
As the Ambulatory Chief Medical Officer for Prisma Health, Dr. Saria Saccocio supports population health initiatives that span across all departments and specialties in the outpatient space, striving for optimization of quality, patient experience and efficiency of healthcare delivery.