80: How to Become a Physician Leader with Dr. Inga Lennes

“When you’re just starting out and you have this sense of, ‘You know what? I think I could be a leader.’ First of all, don’t ignore that voice.” -Dr. Inga Lennes 

 

In this episode, Coach Jill Farmer talks with Dr. Inga Lennes about physician leadership, the leadership qualities you innately have as a physician, and what skills you need to become an effective leader.  Dr. Lennes is the Senior Vice President for Ambulatory Care and Patient Experience at Massachusetts General Hospital and for the Mass General Physicians’ Organization. She is also a practicing thoracic medical oncologist with an MPH and MBA. We are thrilled to have her on the podcast to share her wealth of knowledge on leadership. Whether you are in leadership now or you hope to be in the future, you will gain a lot from this episode! 

    

Books mentioned in the show: 

The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance In the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko & Molly Anderson

 

There’s Not Enough Time:...and other lies we tell ourselves by Jill Farmer

Dr. Inga Lennes is the SVP for Ambulatory Care and Patient Experience at Massachusetts General Hospital and for the Mass General Physicians’ Organization. She is a practicing thoracic medical oncologist and quality of care researcher and formerly the Medical Director of Ambulatory Services and the Director of Clinical Quality at the MGH Cancer Center. She went to the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed internal medicine residency training and chief residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  Dr. Lennes completed a fellowship in medical oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and joined the MGH and Harvard Medical School staff in 2009.   In 2011, she earned her MPH from Harvard University and completed her MBA at MIT in 2014.  Areas of interest include defining quality improvement metrics for oncology care, improving efficiency in oncology care delivery and integrating electronic health record technology into routine oncology visits.   Her areas of research interest include outcomes related to supportive care of cancer patients and measuring the quality of oncology care. 

Find Dr. Lennes on Twitter @ilennes and LinkedIn as Inga Lennes 

 

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