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Our Speakers


Our Speakers Bureau is comprised of academicians, leading organizational development practitioners, coaches, consultants, and motivational speakers who custom design and expertly deliver leading insights and cutting-edge learning sessions.

Click on each speaker’s picture to read their bio and view video samples of their topic areas.

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Steve Beeson, MD

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Steve Beeson, MD

Stephen Beeson is the Founder of Practicing Excellence.com, a premier on-line destination for clinician learning and development. He is a board-certified family medicine physician practicing with Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group. In 2001, Dr. Beeson was selected by Sharp HealthCare leadership to serve as the Physician Director for the Sharp Experience, an organizational commitment to service and operational excellence.

 

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Steve Berger, FACHE, CPA

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Steve Berger, FACHE, CPA

Steven Berger is President of Healthcare Insights, LLC, which specializes in the teaching and consulting of healthcare financial management issues. In addition, Healthcare Insights has developed INSIGHTS, a management accountability and decision support software solution for the healthcare industry. Prior to his role at Healthcare Insights, Mr. Berger was Vice President, Finance for seven years at 250- bed Highland Park Hospital in suburban Chicago, Illinois. Before Highland Park Hospital and since 1978, he has been a hospital or health system finance officer in New York, New Jersey and Missouri.

Mr. Berger has 39 years of healthcare financial management experience.

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Jon Burroughs, MD, MBA, FACHE, FACPE

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Jon Burroughs, MD, MBA, FACHE, FACPE

Jonathan H. Burroughs, MD, MBA, FACHE, FACPE works with some of the nation’s top healthcare consulting organizations to provide ‘best practice’ solutions and training in the areas of governance, physician–hospital alignment strategies, credentialing, privileging, peer review and performance improvement/patient safety, medical staff development planning, strategic planning, physician performance and behavior management as well as ways in which physicians and management can work together in new ways to solve quality, safety, operational, and financial challenges.

 

 

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Kent Bottles, MD

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Kent Bottles, MD

An accomplished author, speaker, and physician executive, Dr. Kent Bottles is known as a pioneer in population health management tools, digital medicine, social media, and big data predictive analytics. Currently on the faculty of The Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health, Dr. Bottles delivers 50 keynotes and 20 hospital board retreats a year on the topics of the future of health care delivery, digital medicine, predictive analytics, the Affordable Care Act, disruptive technologies, and engaging physicians in quality and transformation of payment programs.

 

 

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Amy Edmondson, PhD

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Amy Edmondson, PhD

Amy C. Edmondson currently serves as the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, where she has taught since 1996. Edmondson’s research examines leadership, learning and innovation in teams and organizations, and has been published in more than 70 articles in journals, books, in addition to over 30 Harvard cases. Her research, teaching, and consulting on these issues has occurred in the contexts of health care delivery, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, financial services, government agencies, and consumer product companies. Her emphasis is on teaming – the activities of collaborative work across boundaries – rather than on stable team structures. Her books – Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate, and compete in the knowledge economy (Jossey Bass, 2012) and Teaming to innovate (Jossey-Bass 2013) – translate her research into practical advice for managers.

 

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Louellen Essex, PhD

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Louellen Essex, PhD

Dr. Louellen Essex is an organization learning and development consultant specializing in leadership, communication, team building, and conflict resolution. For over twenty years, she has worked extensively with private industry, government, health care organizations, and educational institutions. Her work focuses on helping leaders develop specific skills they can immediately apply to real-life situations. Dr. Essex is certified to administer and interpret the MBTI, Steps I and II, and the DISC Profile. She has developed her own Conflict Management Style Profile and Teamability Assessment.

 

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Peter Finkelstein, MD

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Peter Finkelstein, MD

Dr. Finkelstein, a trained as a physician and psychiatrist, has worked for over fifteen years helping organizations achieve higher performance by examining and changing their internal dynamics, leadership and team practices, and culture. What connects his work as a business coach and consultant with his training as a physician is the universal element of discovery and diagnosis—at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
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Mike Guthrie, MD, MBA

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Mike Guthrie, MD, MBA

Dr. Mike Guthrie’s experience includes work as a practicing physician, a medical director, a chief operating officer, a health system CEO, and a senior executive for a large national healthcare alliance. Dr. Guthrie has special experience in the area of physician leadership development; helping physicians, hospital and health systems work effectively together to improve quality, safety, and cost. He is also a strategic business advisor to several healthcare companies. He leads learning collaboratives on healthcare issues for health care executive teams, boards of trustees, and physician leader groups in organizations of various types. He is well known as a thought leader regarding physician engagement and physician relationship strategy for hospitals and health systems.
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Jeff Hull, PhD

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Jeff Hull, PhD

Dr. Hull is a highly accomplished executive coach, organization effectiveness, leadership development, and human resource management professional. An expert in the field of organizational and leadership development since 1995, he has worked with leading multi-national companies in the US, Asia, and Europe, both as a senior management team member, as a coach and consultant. He has worked on projects with Fortune 100 and global organizations in a wide range of industries, including health care, financial services, technology, pharmaceuticals, media/advertising and education.

 

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Irwin Hurn

Irwin Hurn, consultant and faculty member of the Institute for Medical Leadership, has more than 35 years of experience in health care management, finance, and research. He has a proven track record in using his insight and expertise to lead intense turnarounds in hospitals, health care systems, and medical facilities. He is an accomplished speaker and presenter on using information from complex data to make business decisions and on how physicians directly impact the financial and operational performance of hospitals and physician groups.
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Carol Kauffman, PhD, ABPP, PCC

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Carol Kauffman, PhD, ABPP, PCC

Carol Kauffman, PhD ABPP PCC, is a leadership coach with over 20 years of experience helping leaders raise the bar on their performance and managing their success. Dr. Kauffman has extensive coaching experience with over 40,000 hours of client contact. She works with multi-national organizations either on an individual basis or in tandem with large-scale leadership development programs. A sampling of clients includes: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Massachusetts Medical Center, Health Dialog (BUPA) Partners, Wellington, Bombardier, Linklaters, Norton Rose, Cameron McKenna, and McKinsey. In addition to coaching, Carol has designed and delivered Leadership Coach Training programs to physicians and business leaders. Some examples include: 75 MGH Physicians/Faculty in Internal Medicine, the top 100 at Unilever, top 25 at BUPA/Health Dialog and, as coach educator, Carol is the Chief Supervisor of the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme in the UK, supervised the BCG European/Middle Eastern fleet of leadership coaches.

 

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Philippa Kennealy, MD, MPH

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Philippa Kennealy, MD, MPH

Dr. Philippa Kennealy's experience includes work as a practicing Family Physician in Santa Monica, a VPMA and then Chief Administrative Officer for UCLA-Santa Monica Hospital, an Executive VP for a dot-com startup, and now a full-time ICF-certified (PCC) and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) for the last 16+ years. She has extensive coaching experience, partnering deeply as a strategic adviser with her senior leader clients to elicit their powerful leadership presence and maximize their influence and impact while achieving meaningful business results, with a measurable Return on Investment. Dr. Kennealy has special experience in the area of physician executive and senior healthcare leadership development; healthcare team performance; guiding physician-led teams to tackle and accomplish strategic organizational initiatives; physician professional and career development. In addition, she has been a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator for healthcare organizations and conferences. Dr. Kennealy believes passionately in the importance of having thoughtful, well-informed, self-and socially aware clinicians “at the table” for optimal decision-making in healthcare.
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Carrie Kish

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Carrie Kish

Carrie Kish is a Partner and the CEO of CultureSync, a management consulting firm that specializes in leadership development and culture change. Carrie has over 20 years’ experience as a consultant a leadership trainer and a coach who specializes in leadership training for executives, small businesses and non-profit leaders. She is a serial entrepreneur who has built and sold several businesses over the last 20 years, the last one for 8 figures. Carrie is a CTI Leadership Graduate, a Mastery University Graduate, a Leadership Mastery Graduate and a UCLA Graduate. She is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and the Past President and Executive Advisor of The International Coach Federation in Los Angeles.
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Lisa Lahey

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Lisa Lahey

Lisa Lahey is Co-director of Minds At Work, a consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. For the past several years, Lisa has served as a trusted advisor and executive coach to leaders in the private and public sectors worldwide. She teaches in executive development programs at Harvard University and Notre Dame, and she is regularly asked to present her work throughout the world, most recently in China, Kazakhstan, and New Zealand. Her seminal books, How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work (2001), and Immunity to Change (2009) have been published in many languages. Her latest book, An Everyone Culture (2016) will be published next spring, 2016. Lisa has been on the faculty of the World Economic Forum’s Davos Conference, and had her work featured in The Atlantic, MSNBC News, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times Sunday Business Section, Oprah Magazine and Fast Company. Lahey and long-time collaborator Robert Kegan are credited with a breakthrough discovery of a hidden dynamic, the “immunity to change,” which impedes personal and organizational transformation. Her work helps people to close the gap between their good intentions and behaviors.

 

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Drew Lawson, MD

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Drew Lawson, MD

Dr. Drew Lawson is a Stanford trained, Board-certified physician and a professionally trained and certified executive coach, educator, consultant, quality assurance and risk management director, and recognized speaker. He specializes in coaching business executives, physicians and other healthcare professionals. He has extensive experience in business executive leadership and advancement, work/life balance, stress reduction, time management, communication, and conflict management. Dr. Lawson combines his passion for teaching, mentoring, and coaching with his experience in the chaotic world of Emergency Medicine where he is known by his colleagues as incredibly efficient, calm, “never cracks under pressure”, and “smiles even during the most hectic situations.”
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Michelle Lederman, MBA

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Michelle Lederman, MBA

Michelle Tillis Lederman is a communications experts, trainer, and executive coach and was named one of the top 25 Networking experts by Forbes. Michelle believes real relationships lead to real results and specializes in teaching people how to communicate with confidence, clarity, and connection. She has delivered seminars internationally for Fortune 500 companies, universities, and non-profit organizations on a variety of topics including relationship networking, communicating for results, and establishing executive presence to make a lasting impression. Michelle is the author of two well-reviewed books in the field: The 11 Laws of Likability and Heroes Get Hired and has been featured on Fox, CBS, NBC, and in Working Mother, the NY Times, The Wall Street Journal and many others. She serves on the faculty of the American Management Association and Rutgers Executive and Professional Education.
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David Logan, PhD

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David Logan, PhD

Dave Logan is co-founder and senior partner of CultureSync, a management consulting firm specializing in cultural change, strategy, and negotiation. CultureSync’s clients include Intel, Colliers International, American Express, Prudential, and Health Net. Dave is also a professor at the Marshall School of Business at USC. From 2001-2004, he served as Associate Dean of Executive Education. During that time, he launched the largest training program in commercial real estate (with CB Richard Ellis), and new programs with dozens of organizations, from Northrop Grumman to numerous small cap financial institutions.
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Larry McEvoy, MD, FACEP

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Larry McEvoy, MD, FACEP

Larry McEvoy, MD, a seasoned health care executive and experienced emergency physician, has the unique capacity to integrate different strategic and professional perspectives through leadership, facilitation, coaching and presentation. Larry’s experience as both a CEO and a clinician deepens his skill in facilitating dynamic shifts in mindset, culture and performance. Whether he is working as a titular leader, consultant, facilitator or storyteller, Larry is particularly effective at creating strategic alignment, inclusive leadership and energetic collaboration. Dr. McEvoy is the co-founder of Chief of Strategy and Innovation for Practicing Excellence and serves as an executive-in-residence at the Center for Creative Leadership, a global resource for leadership development, practice, and research.

 

 

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David B. Nash

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David B. Nash

David B. Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement. Dr. Nash is the Founding Dean and the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH), which is dedicated to developing healthcare leaders for the future. He also serves on several boards in the healthcare industry. Wharton honored Dr. Nash in 2009 with the Wharton Healthcare Alumni Achievement Award and in 2012 with the Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award. Also in 2012, he received the Philadelphia Business Journal award for innovation in medical education.
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Judy O'Neil, EdD

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Judy O'Neil, EdD

Dr. Judy O’Neil is President of Partners for Learning and Leadership. In that role, she works with companies, in the US and internationally, interested in using development and change to increase bottom line results. Prior to her work with Partners, she was principal in her own consulting firm. Dr. O’Neil specializes in the implementation of interventions with teams that can help to increase capacity for learning within companies to improve results and create the capacity for organizational learning. Her practice focuses on Action Learning. She has implemented, managed, facilitated, researched and/or consulted on Action Learning programs for several organizations. Her approach to working with clients is based on a fundamental belief that learning best occurs using real work through repeated cycles of action.
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Peter Prichard, CMF

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Peter Prichard, CMF

Peter Prichard is a leadership excellence, talent management and peak performance consultant who has presented to over 400 conferences and regional and local meetings. He has designed and delivered on dozens of topics including emotional intelligence, how to master change, how to deal with difficult people, the keys to recruiting, retention and improving clinical and financial outcomes. His engaging and effective style often leads to invitations to return to organizations to speak on additional topics.
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Susan Reynolds, MD, PhD

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Susan Reynolds, MD, PhD

Dr. Susan Reynolds has a depth of expertise conducting organizational assessments, leadership development seminars, executive and physician coaching, Joint Commission consulting, and strategic planning retreats for numerous healthcare organizations, academic medical centers, and national and state medical associations. A former emergency physician, emergency medical center CEO, and White House health care advisor, Dr. Reynolds is the creator and Program Director for the highly acclaimed Chief of Staff Boot Camps®. During the past ten years, over 2,000 physician leaders and healthcare executives have been trained through this program.

 

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Bob Sachs, PhD

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Bob Sachs, PhD

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Laura Schwarz, CPCC

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Laura Schwarz, CPCC

Laura Schwarz is an executive coach, trainer and founder of i2 Leadership. As a former Marketing Director, Laura knows the value that high-performing leaders can contribute in driving business results. Laura’s passion for executive development derives from her helping individuals and teams to significantly upgrade their performance with actionable feedback and organizational support. She is a frequent speaker on topics such as executive presence, leading teams through change, psychological safety, and women’s advancement in leadership positions. Laura’s coaching and training experience spans a diverse set of industries, including Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services, Media and Entertainment, Non-Profit, Higher Education and Advertising. She is certified to administer and interpret a wide variety of personal assessments and inventories.
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Brian Silverstein, MD

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Brian Silverstein, MD

Dr. Brian Silverstein is a national healthcare thought leader with extensive consulting and operational expertise in the business of health care including a focus on population health management. Dr. Silverstein has dedicated his 20 years of health care experience on creating a positive impact on patient care and provider satisfaction thought business strategy and operations. In recognition of his contributions to the industry, Dr. Silverstein was named was named one of the “10 people to know in the World of ACOs” in 2010. Currently, Dr. Silverstein is focused on assisting select organizations throughout the country on their value based care delivery strategy and operations. Recent engagements include a range of provider systems from large prominent academic medical centers to community based health care systems.

 

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Paul G. Stoltz, PhD

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Paul G. Stoltz, PhD

Dr. Paul G. Stoltz is considered the world’s leading authority on the integration and application of grit and resilience. He is author of five international bestselling books on the subject—printed in 17 languages—was voted by HR Magazine as “One of the Top 10 most influential global thinkers,” and by Executive Excellence as “One of the 100 Most Influential Thinkers of Our Time.” In newest book, GRIT—The New Science of What it Takes to Persevere, Flourish, Succeed, he pioneers the first validated construct and method in existence for growing both the quantity and quality of one’s GRIT. Dr. Stoltz has served as faculty for MIT’s acclaimed entrepreneurship program and for Carnegie Mellon’s distinguished Global Leaders Program, where his AQ and GRIT-related methods and assessments have been used to equip tomorrow’s leaders and entrepreneurs. Harvard Business School has selected and incorporated Dr. Stoltz’s Adversity Quotient® tools and methods into it’s top-rated MBA and Executive Education programs, and is featuring Dr. Stoltz’s newest work on GRIT in a new video series for Harvard Business Review.
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Ruth Wageman, PhD

Ruth Wageman is one of the foremost scholars and practitioners studying and working with leadership teams. Understanding the conditions that influence superb team performance has been the core of Ruth’s research, teaching and consulting for the last thirty years. Ruth’s work places particular emphasis on modern challenges to organizations and society. She studies and develops the capacities that are needed to solve complex problems and to lead systems change. She builds collaborative leadership capacity within and across organizations, especially with multi-stakeholder leadership groups working to transform regional health. Ruth has been a professor at Columbia, Dartmouth, and Harvard, where she has led many original research programs about the design and leadership of teams. Based on her scholarly work, Ruth designed the Team Diagnostic Survey with Richard Hackman and Erin Lehman, a powerful, well-validated assessment that characterizes team effectiveness and how well the Six Conditions that drive effectiveness are established for that team; she leads accreditation workshops and supervises coaches in the use of the instrument in their practice.

 

Sample Topics


Leading Self

Exhibits emotional connectedness with oneself and strives to continuously improve in an effort to create win-win scenarios.

Sample Modules:

• Emotional Intelligence and its Impact on Leadership Effectiveness
• Your Relationship with Your Ego. What’s the Impact on Others?
• Training your Brain – Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
• Managing Self to Manage Others
• The Neuroscience of Leadership
• Feedback: How to Receive It
• Cognitive Conflict
• Executive Presence

Leading Others

Engages, inspires, and motivates individuals and teams to collaborate toward organizational goals.

Sample Modules:

• Servant Leadership
• Building a High Trust Organization
• Creating a Physician Coaching Program
• Creating the Rapid-Feedback Physician Culture
• Mentorship as Strategy
• Collaboration and Teamwork
• Motivating Through Effective Communication
• The Art of Persuasion and Storytelling
• Adaptive Leadership – From the Dance Floor to the Balcony
• What High Performing Boards and Executives Know About Physicians

Leading Change

Exhibits creativity, innovative thinking and courage to take calculated risks to meet change objectives.

Sample Modules:

• New Rules for a New Kind of Healthcare
• When Everyone’s Hair is on Fire: Leading Chaos
• What’s in it for Us? A Compelling Case for Change
• Creating a Culture to Support Compassionate Care
• Change Management for Health Care Organizations
• How to Engage Physicians in Quality, Payment Reform, and Change
• Herding Cats Just Ain’t What It Used to Be—Engaging Physicians around a Shared Mission
• ACO 101
• The ACA: Past, Present and Future Implications for Health Care Organizations
• How Digital Medicine Will Transform Health Care
• Social Media for Health Care Organizations
• Big Data Analytics and the Transformation of the Health Care Delivery System

Leading for Results

Demonstrates a systems approach coupled with keen business acumen to drive projects forward.

Sample Modules:

• Business Fundamentals
• From Vision to Business Case
• Meeting Management
• Population Health Management Tools 101
• Payment Reform: Physician Compensation
• Trends
• Designing for Agility, Stability, Sustainability and Quality
• After the Merger: Crafting a United Agenda
• Integrating Systems: A How-To Approach
• Delivering the Patient Experience, Every Patient, Every Time
• How to Do More with Less
• Physicians’ Impact on Bottom Line
• Physician Hospital Integration: Is Employment the Only Model?
• Gathering, Assessing, and Reporting Performance Data to Physicians