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Growing from your Professional Discipline to being Interdisciplinary

Keynote Speaker: Christopher J. Ott, MD '97, FACEP

Monday, November 4: 12 – 1 p.m. via Zoom (please register to receive meeting details)

About the Keynote Address

“A tree that is unbending is easily broken.” Lao Tzu

Careers in science and medicine necessarily begin with developing a narrow expertise that can sustain, with continued learning, an individual’s career for decades. However, in this keynote, you’ll learn that in order to be a successful leader in complex organizations, you must progress to a convergence mindset. Healthcare leaders must transcend the traditional, narrow specialty boundaries that develop early in our training and develop skills that promote collaboration, aggregate knowledge to understand matrixed systems and to balance competing priorities.

During this keynote, attendees will gain insights into how being an effective healthcare and science leader necessarily means evolving from a narrow discipline to leading the convergence of many disciplines. Individuals who create and maintain their own bandwidth, dedicate themselves to continuous learning and are open-minded are best suited to become the healthcare and science leaders of the future.

About the Keynote Speaker

Christopher Ott, MD, FACEP, is the chief medical officer for HCA Healthcare’s Physician Services. Dr. Ott oversees the clinical, quality, ambulatory informatics, value-based care and payer initiatives strategy and teams for more than 14000 physicians and advanced practice providers in direct employment as well as joint venture relationships. Physician Services providers generate 22 million patient encounters at 1750+ clinical locations annually. Prior to his role with the Physician Services Group, he was the Group Chief Medical Officer for the Centura Health Mountain and North Denver Operating Group and the entity Chief Medical Officer at St. Anthony Hospital in Colorado. He previously served as the emergency department medical director for St. Anthony Hospital Level 1 Trauma Center. He is a former partner in the Apex Emergency Group P.C., which provided Colorado-based ED physician services, and was the corporate medical director for AMR Air, Inc., a fixed wing air medical transport company.

Dr. Ott received his bachelor’s degree in history from Marquette University and his doctorate in Medicine from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed an Internal Medicine internship at St. Joseph Hospital and an emergency medicine residency at Denver Health. He is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.