As healthcare systems increasingly expand into the global healthcare market, leaders employ tactics to increase agility and resilience. One expansion route is through international joint ventures. In “The Importance of Culture When Forming Successful International Joint Ventures,” learn to review and assess potential joint venture partners to ensure they fit with your organization’s objectives and values through a case-study model. Find common ground with leaders around the world to share experiences and insights navigating the COVID-19 crisis in “Leadership Insights: Global Learnings from the Pandemic,” which focuses on the importance of collaborating to help others implement best practices, drive change, reduce variations in care and improve patents’ lives. Finally, if your career trajectory is heading toward a position abroad, “Experiences From Being a Hospital Internationalist CEO: What It Is Like to Lead a Hospital in a Foreign Country?” provides pragmatic advice and insights to cultivate the right leadership style, approach and skills to become a “hospital internationalist CEO.”

Learning Objectives:

• Explore lessons learned on leadership style, approach and skills to be successful in leading a hospital in a foreign country.
• Describe best practices for operating as a hospital internationalist CEO.
• Explore international leaders’ experiences navigating the COVID-19 crisis.
• Examine tactics to promote agility and resilience within the global healthcare sector.
• Define your organization’s objectives for forming an international joint venture.
• Review and assess potential joint venture partners against your organization’s objectives and cultural values.

Experiences From Being a Hospital Internationalist CEO: What It Is Like to Lead a Hospital in a Foreign Country?

Presented By:

• Ron Lavater, FACHE, CEO, International Hospital Federation
• Linda Clark, FACHE, CEO, Corniche Hospital
• David Hoidal, CEO, Delta Health China
• Ben Frank, FACHE, Market President, Chen Medicaled

Leadership Insights: Global Learnings From the Pandemic

Presented By:

• Bertrand Levrat, CEO, University Hospitals Geneva
• Risto Miettunen, MedSc, Chief Executive, Kuopio University Hospital District
• Lesley Dwyer, CEO, Central Adelaide Local Health Network
• Lee Chien Earn, Deputy Group CEO, SingHealth

The Importance of Culture When Forming Successful International Joint Ventures

Presented By:

• Andrew Parks, Manager, International Advisory Services, Mayo Clinic
• John Osborn, Senior Director, International Operations, Mayo Clinic

This session was originally presented at the 2021 Congress on Healthcare Leadership.

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