Forces of Change:
New Strategies for the Evolving
Health Care Marketplace
Driving successful implementation in an era of
disruption, innovation, and change

September 12-16, 2011
Boston, MA

Program Highlights

Engage Colleagues -- Lead Change

Forces of Change participants, who represent the diverse sectors within health care, are leaders whose contributions yield measurable, positive change within their organizations. Forces participants value the unique opportunity to interact with program faculty, such as patient safety expert Lucian Leape, and network with colleagues from other leading health care organizations.

Who Should Participate in Forces?

Forces is designed for health care professionals with leadership and strategy responsibilities at the intersection of health care and business, including:

Featured Forces Faculty:

Lucian L. Leape, MD
Adjunct Professor of Health Policy
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health

"Father of the patient safety movement"

Lucian L. Leape is a patient safety pioneer whose research has focused on error prevention and appropriateness of care. He has been a leading advocate of the nonpunitive systems approach to the prevention of medical error and has led several studies of adverse drug events and their underlying systems failures. In 2006, Modern Healthcare named him one of the 30 people who have had the most impact on health care in the past 30 years.

Participant Experience

"The program was challenging, highly educational, timely and well presented. The overall quality of the program and the enthusiasm with which the material was presented indicate the degree to which all participating faculty are committed to the program and its importance to the health care community."

-- Frederic Eckhauser, MD
Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Forces Program

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David A. Shore, PhD
Program Director
Forces of Change Program
Associate Dean
Harvard School of Public Health

For more information, or to register,
visit: ccpe.sph.harvard.edu,
call: 617.384.8692, or
email: contedu@hsph.harvard.edu

David A. Shore, PhD | Associate Dean and Executive Director | Center for Continuing Professional Education
Harvard School of Public Health | 677 Huntington Avenue | Boston, MA 02115