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Leadership Academy Working Group
The focus of the Working Group is to: 1) promote collaboration among FOPO member organizations, 2) create a database of leadership activities, 3) influence the PAS Planning Committee to ensure ample educational options at the PAS Meeting, 4) work with the Pediatric Leadership Alliance of the AAP to create programming, 5) consider creating a longitudinal curriculum or activity and look at outcomes, 6) examine the educational continuum from medical school through residency and beyond, and 7) create curricula around the core competencies of leadership.
At the PAS Program Committee, FOPO was given one selection for the invited science portion of the meeting (Mini-Courses, State-of-the-Art Plenary Sessions, and Hot Topics). The Mini-Course, "Leadership Skills for Academic Pediatricians," was recommended by FOPO for the PAS Meeting. This proposal was a joint submission from members of the planning group for a leadership conference sponsored by APA and APPD. The Program Committee selected the Mini-Course sponsored by our Task Force on Women in Pediatrics for inclusion in the program, "Developing Women as Leaders in Academic Pediatrics." In addition there are three workshops accepted which are devoted to leadership, "Development of Essential Medical Leadership Skills," "Leading From the Middle," and "So You Want to Be a Leader? Here is How You Do It!" An important function of the Leadership Academy Working Group will be to ensure adequate programming about leadership topics at PAS and encouraging the submission of abstracts for invited science (mini-courses, hot topics, and state-of-the-art plenary sessions) and workshops.
| Members of the Working Group |
 Robert Perelman, MD, Chair |
| Tina Cheng, MD |
| Aaron Friedman, MD |
| Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD |
| Susan Guralnick, MD |
| Gil Liu, MD |
| Rob McGregor, MD |
| Ken Roberts, MD |
