Presented by David Welsh, MD, FACS
(Recorded September 2016)
This webinar attempts to address how you can become a leader within your role as a medical staff person at your hospital. Learn how, when, where, and why it is important to be involved with medical staff leadership at the start of your career.
Learning Objectives
In this webinar, you will hear about:
- Why be involved in medical staff leadership?
- When to be involved with medical staff leadership.
- How to get involved with medical staff leadership and activities.
- Where to find additional resources about medical staff leadership.
About David Welsh
David Welsh, MD, FACS, is a general surgeon in a rural critical access hospital and has been in practice for more than 25 years. Dr. Welsh is a board-certified general surgeon and has been recertified several times. With an interest in improving quality of care, Dr. Welsh has been heavily involved with organized medicine. In addition to serving as the past chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Indiana State Medical Association, Dr. Welsh served as president, working on behalf of physicians and patients of Indiana. As a member of the Governor's trauma care committee, his goal is to set up a state-wide trauma care system. He also represents the Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) at the Physician Consortium. Over the years, Dr. Welsh has been heavily involved in leadership at his critical access hospital, which is accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC). He has been instrumental in initiating a number of quality care initiatives at his local hospital as well as the state level. In Indiana, the Indiana State High School Athletic Association and the ISMA work closely to improve the care of student athletes of the state. Indiana has a progressive and forward-thinking approach to the concussion issue for student athletes and Dr. Welsh has been involved from its inception as a member of the sports medicine committee at ISMA.
Dr. Welsh's activities with organized medicine extended to the American Medical Association (AMA), specifically the Organized Medical Staff Section (OMSS), as well as the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Interest in local and state medical leadership has occupied Dr. Welsh’s time and helped to energize him. The local critical access hospitals where Dr. Welsh has taken care of patients have called on him to lead medical staffs as chief of staff, secretary/treasurer, and chair of surgery departments and hospital services. At the state level, Dr. Welsh has gained experience and training in medical leadership as a trustee at the ISMA and chairman of their board of trustees. In 2009, Dr. Welsh started his term as president of the ISMA. Each experience of medical leadership has been positive and led to further challenges.
