Leadership training

Leadership training is a cornerstone of the department’s commitment to fostering an inclusive, supportive environment. Surgical/trauma intensivist and emergency medicine physician Tiffany Osborn, MD, MPH, has benefitted from this commitment and now supports development of her faculty peers as co-director of the department’s Leadership and Professionalism Committee. Osborn was an early leader in the evolving combined field of emergency medicine/critical care (EM/CC) and is the nation’s first female EM/CC full professor. She has completed institutional academic leadership training and women-specific programs through the university’s Women Faculty Leadership Institute and Olin Business School. Osborn believes today’s cultural divisions demand strong leadership among physicians. “Learning medical principles is ultimately done alone; applying them requires a team. Inclusivity, service and collaboration are essential physician tools, especially today.”