Joseph S. Bujak, MD, FACP, currently serves as vice president of medical affairs for Kootenai Medical Center, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where he has organizational responsibility for performance improvement and outcomes measurement. He is also a speaker, facilitator, and consultant on issues related to healthcare organization–physician relationships, physician leadership development, patient safety and clinical quality improvement, and leading and managing transformational change. He and Tom Atchison coauthored the book, Leading Transformational Change: The Physician-Executive Partnership (Health Administration Press, 2001), and he has published numerous articles on physician culture and behavior.