Tyson, Shortell, Inducted Into Hall of Fame
Bernard J. Tyson and Stephen M. Shortell, PhD, were honored today as inductees in the Modern Healthcare Health Care Hall of Fame.
Tyson was inducted in honor of his significant, lifelong contributions to the healthcare field. Tyson died in November 2019 at the age of 60. Tyson believed in high-quality, affordable healthcare for all, saying that “everybody should have access to the front door of the American healthcare system.”
Tyson worked for Kaiser Permanente for more than three decades, beginning in the medical records department, later becoming a hospital administrator and serving in a series of executive posts until being named CEO in 2013 and chairman in 2014.
He encouraged healthcare leaders to face challenging issues—homelessness, food insecurity, gun violence, equity of care—head on, advocating for a healthcare model that integrates primary care, health-risk assessments, disease and case management, wellness programs, behavioral health, and health advocacy.
Shortell, an ACHE Member, is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management Emeritus, dean emeritus and professor of the Graduate School at the School of Public Health and Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley.
There, he is the founding director of the Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research as well as co-director of the Center for Lean Engagement and Research in Healthcare.
His research examines the formation and performance of integrated delivery systems, the organizational factors associated with quality and outcomes of care, and the factors that influence the adoption of evidence-based processes for treating patients with chronic illness.
He was the recipient of the ACHE Gold Medal Award in 1998, the winner of the James A. Hamilton Award for Book of the Year, a Dean Conley Award winner and a two-time Edgar C. Hayhow Award winner.
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Congress Wrap-Up
With Congress over, it has been a great week of learning and networking—four days of reimagining healthcare, solutions and leadership.
Keep earning ACHE Qualified Education credits after Congress. You can access the on-demand sessions in the Congress virtual platform through April 20. Credits can be self-reported in your My ACHE account.
The ACHE Board of Governors, Regents and staff would like to thank each one of you for attending the Congress on Healthcare Leadership, and we hope your experience this week has inspired, encouraged, refreshed and reinvigorated you.
We are also hopeful that we will be able to meet in person in Chicago next year—please mark your calendars for March 28–31, 2022, and check ache.org for updated information. Thank you, again, for being such an important part of this year’s Congress! And we look forward to gathering together again one year from now.
To recap the week’s events, click on the day of the week to go to all events that day, or click on one of the events listed below:
Monday
- Innovator Keller Renaudo.
- Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande, MD.
- AHA, AHIP, AMA leaders.
Tuesday
- Journalist Amy Walter.
- Leadership Insights: The Future of Healthcare Strategy.
- Thomas C. Dolan Diversity Address: The Role of Health Systems in Advancing Equity.
Wednesday
- Fireside chat with Anthony S. Fauci, MD.
- Veteran and Rhodes scholar Wes Moore.
- Hot Topic: The Health System 2021 Playbook.
Thursday
- Innovator Indu Subaiya, MD.
- Modern Healthcare Health Care Hall of Fame inductees.
- Leadership Insights: Maintaining Essential Patient Care During a Pandemic—Perspectives from Children’s Hospitals.
Keep earning ACHE Qualified Education credits after Congress. You can access the on-demand sessions in the Congress virtual platform through April 20. Credits can be self-reported in your "My ACHE" account.
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