Association of Chiefs of General Internal Medicine

LEON HESS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT TRAINING INSTITUTE:
Building Your Warchest: Development Strategies for Leaders in General Medicine
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
8:00 - 5:30pm
 Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN

Who Should Attend

The Institute is designed as a resource for Division Chiefs, Hospitalist Directors, Associate Chiefs, Section Heads, Administrators, and other leaders in Divisions of GIM. Leaders are encouraged to attend, actively participate, and consider bringing along a colleague from their Institution who would benefit from attendance and leadership development.  It offers an unparalleled opportunity to network with the community of scholars devoted to GIM.  Chiefs from other IM sections, administrators and anyone with a leadership role within GIM divisions are also encouraged to participate.  We look forward to welcoming you to this community. 

Institute Goals

The goals of the Institute are to build leadership and management skills among current and future leaders in General Internal Medicine, as well as to communicate and inform chiefs of emerging critical challenges and solutions to meeting their mission and leadership roles.  

Keynote Speaker:

Joe K. Golding - Building a Better War Chest - Nuts and Bolts of Raising Funds
8:00am - 12:00pm

Joe K. Golding - Chairman and CEO of Advancement Resources. Advancement Resources is the nation's leading provider of professional education in philanthropy, development, and grateful patient fundraising. Most of the nation's top universities and academic medical institutions contract with Advancement Resources to provide highly-interactive and relevant development workshops for deans, faculty, medical professionals, development personnel, and volunteers.

In this session, Advancement Resources will present its latest research into donors, donor motivation, and best practices in engaging in philanthropy at academic medical institutions. Contents for this session will include:

• Overview of Advancement Resources research into donors and medical philanthropy
• Exploring myths about the economy and donors, who has money, who doesn't
• Donor motivation: the myths and truths
• Understanding the complex interplay of why donors consider various alternatives and the processes by which they make gifting decisions
• The four critical development roles for medical professionals
• A difference in perspective: how donors see the world and how that's different from physician perspectives
• Bringing science to the art of fundraising:
• The Donor Commitment Continuum and appropriate metrics
• Nine Navigation Points of Strategy
• Priority Grid
• Building effectiveness and efficiency into your development work
• A step-by-step process for getting started and growing your private support rapidly

Lunch - Topical Round Tables:
12:15pm - 1:15pm

Grab a boxed lunch and join collegues for lunch discussions around topical tables on:

• Safety Net hospitals
• Motivation: What Drives People?
• Research Units
• Hospitalist programs
• Mentoring Table

Afternoon Panel Discussion Session:
1:15pm - 2:45pm

Negotiating Resources Inside of Your Institution: Success Stories
Panel discussants: Bob Dittus, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Alpesh Amin - University of California, Irvine; Larry McMahon - University of Michigan
Panelists and participants discuss ways of developing unique funding sources, share strategies, successes and ways to "think outside of the box" when it comes to resources, in particular, those that might be close to home.

Concurrent Workshops
3:00pm - 4:30pm

• A1. So You Want to Be a Leader or You Want to Develop New Leaders? How to Get There! - Fred Brancati, Mark Linzer and Bob Centor
• A2. Managing in Lean Times - Ann Nattinger, Jean Kutner
• A3. Life after Chiefdom - Rick Lofgren, David Fairchild

Year-end Report to Members
4:45 - 5:30pm

Annual ACGIM Dinner (tickets available for purchase)
6:30 pm - 8:00pm
The Annual Chiefs Recognition Award will be announced

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Online registration now open We welcome ACGIM members and non member chiefs of divisions of GIM, VA Sections, Hospitalist sections, Administrators and others who may have a role in division leadership. 
Institute registration fee - $395.00 (members) or $450 (non-member)

Online Registration:

1. Go to SGIM Members Section (even if you are not a member)  Quick Link: http://www.sgim.org/impak/members_online/registration/regstart.asp?action=start
2. Selelect Registration link for 33rd Annual Meeting or ACGIM Only if you don't plan to attend the SGIM meeting.
3. Enter your email address and password if you are a current or former member of SGIM or ACGIM.
4. Fill out/ double check the required information.
5. Select form of payment and submit registration

You will receive an email confirmation of your registration.