The 2024 Feagin Leadership Forum shared lessons in Compassion, Collaboration, and Compromise: Leadership in a Polarized World.
During the two-day experience, 2024 Feagin Scholar leaders presented leadership practices for engaging in a separate world. To summarize their thoughts, many quoted Henry Marsh, MD, a renowned UK neurosurgeon who was the subject of the Emmy Award-winning 2007 documentary The English Surgeon, which followed his work in Ukraine. “The simplest way of limiting our empathy and compassion is to divide patients into ‘us and them categories.”
Sessions discussed conflict resolution in healthcare, strength as one, healthcare equity, palliative care and the patient experience, and leadership development.
Featured speakers included Mike Krzyzewski, Former Duke Men’s Basketball Head Coach; Craig T. Albanese, MD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer of Duke University Health System; Dean Mary Klotman, MD, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs; Vincent Price, President, Duke University; Lisa Borders, Duke Board of Trustees and Former Commissioner of the WNBA; founder of Golden Glow Media; John Scheyer, Duke Men’s Basketball Head Coach; Gerald Henderson, Duke MBB Captain, Eight-Year NBA veteran, Found of Henderson Ventures Real Estate Firm.
The Feagin Leadership Program was created to honor John A. Feagin, Jr., M.D., Duke University Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Feagin's dedication to developing ethical leaders of character is the inspiration for this effort. Our program benefits leadership education within the Duke medical community. It engages Duke medical school students, residents, and fellows in their leadership journeys. The program includes five leadership sessions, individual coaching, monthly team meetings, attendance at the Feagin Forum, and the creation of a leadership project focused on leadership development in medicine.