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Health systems frequently rely on surgical cases for revenue, and the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in frequent disruptions in surgical operations for the last few years. CIL Faculty Director Chris Myers and colleagues highlight the value of aligning the surgeon-hospital relationship in this column for Medpage Today.

CIL Directors Mike Doyle and Chris Myers interviewed about leadership development in healthcare for this episode of HI Pitch, the AHIMA podcast

Learning vicariously from the experiences of others at work, such as those working on different teams or projects, has long been recognized as a driver of collective performance in organizations. In this Administrative Science Quarterly article, CIL Faculty Director Chris Myers draws on his research with air medical transport teams to uncover strategies for using storytelling as a collaborative tool to promote learning in teams.

A new Academy of Management Annals article by CIL Faculty Anna Mayo, Chris Myers, and Kathleen Sutcliffe reviews research on “organizational science and health care,” defined broadly as research focusing on topics commonly studied in the organizational and management literatures and conducted in health care settings.

Elective surgical suspension during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a sizeable surgical case backlog throughout the world. As we ramp back up, how do we decide which cases take priority? CIL Faculty Director Chris Myers and collages present a framework for deciding in BMJ Leader.

Covid-19 has made clear why all physicians need to know about the business of healthcare. Amid longstanding recognition that healthcare challenges are often managerial, not just clinical, CIL Faculty Anna Mayo, Chris Myers, and Kathleen Sutcliffe call for greater attention to developing physicians’ business management abilities in the Journal of Patient Safety & Risk Management.

An exploratory study on gender bias in collaborative medical decision making from CIL Faculty Erik Helzer, Chris Myers, and Kathleen Sutcliffe examined the degree to which physicians’ reliance on a team member’s patient care advice differs as a function of the gender of the advice giver.

Physicians are being increasingly called upon to engage in leadership at all levels of modern health organizations, leading CIL Faculty Chris Myers and Kathleen Sutcliffe to call for greater research and training interventions regarding physician leadership development in Academic Medicine.

Recent years have seen a palpable change in the surgical community, with major efforts made to shift towards a more positive, humanistic surgical culture, write CIL Faculty Director Chris Myers and colleagues in this article for BMJ.

In August 2018 officials from Tokyo Medical University admitted to systematically altering medical school admission test scores to disadvantage female applicants. CIL Faculty Chris Myers and Kathleen Sutcliffe discuss the impact of this sort of discrimination on female physicians in this article for the Harvard Business Review.

Physicians are being called upon to engage in greater leadership and management in increasingly complex and dynamic health care organizations. Yet, management skills are largely undeveloped in medical education. CIL Faculty Director Chris Myers co-authored an article to highlight the need for more leadership training in Academic Medicine.