2025 Workshop Registration Coming Soon!
The Chief Resident Leadership Workshop is a skills-based event for family medicine residents transitioning into their new roles as clinical leaders. Sessions are designed to be interactive and offer incoming chiefs a learning environment for increasing confidence as leaders/managers, developing interpersonal communication, improving group dynamics, and advancing the educational mission of their programs. Faculty will challenge participants to think and act strategically, and adopt innovative approaches for handling complex managerial situations.
The workshop is divided into a virtual session (Part 1) and an in-person meeting (Part 2):
Topics include:
Serena Liu, MD is a primary care physician in Palo Alto and served as chief resident at John Muir Health’s Family Medicine Residency Program. She is passionate about empowering medical learners in primary care who may not always feel like a leader. This led her to create John Muir Health’s Resident Leadership Development Track, which received UCSF’s Excellence in Education Collaboration award, and present on leadership techniques at AAFP’s National Conference. She is a content creator and speaker at CAFP’s Leadership Workshop for Chief Residents and USC School of Medicine’s Primary Care Leadership Conference. As a medical student, she received AAFP’s FM Interest Group Program of Excellence award and AAFP’s Emerging Leader Institute scholar award. Most recently, she was named the winner of the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group’s Primary Care Innovation Challenge.
Kishore Nath, MD is the Associate Program Director at the John Muir Health Family Medicine Residency in Walnut Creek, California. As a preceptor, he has mentored residents to develop curriculum and dedicated clinics within the residency for family planning, addiction medicine, transgender health, eating disorders, and refugee medicine. He is the Medical Director of the John Muir Health’s Mobile Clinic, a clinic dedicated to the underserved and uninsured, specifically leading efforts for community outreach to care for immigrants and refugees. He has personally organized large-scale covid-19 vaccination clinics through the Mobile Clinic, vaccinating over 2000 patients, with over 60% having a non-English language preference. His other leadership responsibilities include Executive Councilmember of the Dept of Belonging and Equity for the JMH health system, board member on the Board of Directors of the John Muir Medical Group, and recently serving as Health Chair for the NAACP Oakland Branch. He identifies as a Southern Californian transplant, moving to the Bay Area in 2009 after completing medical school training at the Keck USC School of Medicine and residency training at Long Beach Memorial, where he served as chief resident.
*Subject to change.
8:30 - 9:00 am
Transitioning into Your New Role as Chief Resident: The Annual Cycle
Serena Liu, MD
9:00 - 9:30 am
Leadership Toolkit - Managing Up and Across, What Every Chief Resident Should Know
Sarah McNeil, MD
9:30 - 9:40 am
Break
9:40 - 10:40 am
Leadership Toolkit- Navigating Tough Team Dynamics
Kishore Nath, MD
10:40 - 10:50 am
Break
10:50 - 11:20 am
Sharing Our Experiences: A Panel Discussion with Current Chiefs
Peter Ro, MD
Tricia Bautista, MD
11:30 am
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Saturday, August 26, 2023 - Family Medicine POP (formerly FM Summit/Clinical Forum)
TIME
SESSION
SPEAKER
10:00 am
Welcome, Purpose Setting & Overview
Serena Liu, MD
10:10 - 10:30 am
Meet & Greet
Moderator: Serena Liu, MD
10:30 - 10:50 am
Inspiring a Shared Vision and the Why of Leadership, Advocacy and Community Service
Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH
10:50 - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 - 11:55 am
Leadership Toolkit: Giving Effective Feedback
Jo Marie Reilly, MD
11:55 - 12:05 pm
Break
12:05 - 1:00 pm
Lunch & Reflection
