Institute for Leadership & Business (ILB) Track Course Descriptions

IMPORTANT NOTE: This enduring program is not accredited for CME

Empowering Physician Leaders: Strategies for Inspiring Excellence and Achieving Success

• Course Co-Director: Vannita Simma-Chiang, MD, MBA
• Faculty: Robert C. Flanigan, MD; Christopher M. Gonzalez, MD, FACS, MBA; Mara R. Holton, MD; Kathleen C. Kobashi, MD, MBA; Bradley F. Schwartz, MD; Eila C. Skinner, MD; Landon Trost, MD; J. Stuart Wolf, Jr., MD
• Join us for an enriching series of leadership lessons crafted to empower physicians in inspiring others, achieving greatness, and realizing success in their professional journeys. In each session, esteemed speakers will delve into key leadership principles during a focused 15-minute presentation, followed by an engaging panel discussion. Explore the essential skills and insights necessary to navigate the dynamic landscape of healthcare leadership and become a catalyst for positive change within the medical community.

Time Efficiency and Productivity Hacks for the Busy Urologist

• Course Director: Angela B. Smith, MD, MS
• Faculty: David Canes, MD; Rena Malik, MD; Jennifer Miles-Thomas, MD, FPMRS
• Time efficiency and productivity optimization are critical skills for achieving success regardless of training level or practice type. This applied course will be an interactive session in which attendees will identify prioritized goals, learn how and when to say yes/no, apply email organization strategies, and create daily and weekly planning sessions to immediately apply in their daily life. Attendees will be provided a pre-reading list generated by faculty that will facilitate a flipped classroom teaching approach. Attendees will also be encouraged to bring their laptop and a bullet journal to create a personalized time efficiency system. This system will be created during small groups facilitated by mentorship from course faculty and peers, with the end result being a custom-made time management program that can be immediately implemented following the session. We will also discuss prioritization of self-care and incorporating time for passion projects or desired activities within this program.

Key Strategies in Building Your Group's Culture

• Course Director: Jason Hafron, MD; David Albala, MD
• Faculty: Scot Davis; Allison Griffin
• A key to success in today’s competitive environment is a robust and positive culture in your group practice. This is important for both current employees as well as for those joining or interested in joining the practice. This course will explore current strategies in defining and refining your group culture and address key human resources related issues that commonly occur in our groups. These issues include successful recruitment and retention of physicians and APPs, logistics of onboarding and importance of mentoring, addressing burnout, and managing expectations of the retiring or exiting physician. Join LUGPA’s leaders for this fast-paced interactive session designed to improve your group’s culture for the future!

What's in a Number - The Basics of Coding and Billing

• Course Director: Jyoti Chouhan, DO, PharmD, FACS
• Faculty: Jonathan Edward Kiechle, MD; Jonathan N. Rubenstein, MD
• Very few residency and fellowship programs in the United States provide a formalized curriculum in billing and coding. Join our urologic coding experts as they review fundamental coding terminology, important documentation principles, and relevant coding concepts.

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

• Course Directors: Jennifer Robin, PhD; Chandru P. Sundaram, MD, MBA
• Every urologist has a unique personality with tools and techniques for managing conflict and negotiating effective outcomes by virtue of his/her role in healthcare: clinician, administrator, educator, and/or researcher. However, the strategy to tackle different scenarios may not be well organized and deliberate. Through assessments, anecdotes, and discussions, we will create a deeper understanding of what conflict and negotiation require of physicians and leaders. This course will help develop skills and perspectives needed to meet the moment. Attendees will explore their tendencies and organizational obstacles, redeploy their current skills, and learn new ones, and leave with an understanding of how to better address conflict and engage in negotiation.

The Business of Urology: What I Have Learned on How to Be Clinically Productive

• Course Directors: Pablo J. SantaMaria, MD, FACS; Mark Painter, BA, CPMA
• Faculty: Una Lee, MD; John Lin, MD
• This course will provide examples and demonstrate how to be clinically productive within three years of employment in either a private practice, hospital employed, or a clinical academician model. Led by an active practicing urologist who became the number one urological producer within the first three months to three years of each of the above models, business leaders and consultants will present opportunities and systems that have resulted in repeated success for these three urologic employment models.

Avoiding and Defending Medical Malpractice

• Course Director: Mitchell C. Benson, MD
• Faculty: Ben Rubinowitz, JD
• Medical malpractice is a reality that we must live with. We live in a very litigious society that looks to place blame for every adverse event. Medical malpractice cannot be avoided! However, what you as a practitioner need to do to protect yourself, your finances, and your reputation is never taught during our training. This course, led by a leading medical malpractice plaintiff’s attorney and an experienced Urologist, is designed to help you navigate through this traumatic process and make certain you are prepared to defend yourself. This course will teach you how to minimize your risk of being named in a lawsuit by avoiding risk pitfalls, and the steps you must take to defend yourself if named in a lawsuit. Additionally, this course will teach you your rights in the courtroom and what you must ask of your insurance company to ensure you are being appropriately represented, protected, and defended.

How Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Transforming Healthcare and its Impact on Urology Practices

• Course Director: Jeffery P. Daigrepont, Senior Vice President, Coker Group
• The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is on the rise and solving a variety of problems for patients and providers.  This  on-demand session will take a closer look at how AI is solving problems and what’s on the horizon for the industry.   While we do not see AI taking the place of humans, we will discuss the ethics and risk of machine involvement over traditional methods.  We will also look at how the market is responding to AI and how vendors are creating features similar to how we interact with other natural language processing such as Siri (Apple) and Alexa (Amazon).

 Strategies to Effectively Integrate and Optimize Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in the Urology Care Team

• Course Director: Kristin Smith, RPA-C, MPAS
• As the aging demographic of our population continues to grow, so does the prevalence of urologic diseases, presenting an escalating challenge for healthcare providers. Compounded by the fact that a significant portion of urologists are delaying retirement due to increasing demands, the field is witnessing a rise in burnout among practitioners. In response to this critical issue, this on-demand presentation aims to shed light on the innovative strategies employed in Western New York to expand the urologic workforce and enhance patient care.