How to be an effective leader, per UH of Brooklyn’s Dr. David Berger

David Berger, MD, serves as chief executive officer at Brooklyn, N.Y.-based University Hospital of Brooklyn.

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Dr. Berger will serve on the panel “What It Takes to Right the Ship: Turning Around a Financially Struggling Hospital” at Becker’s 10th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable. As part of an ongoing series, Becker’s is talking to healthcare leaders who plan to speak at the roundtable, which will take place in Chicago from Nov. 7-10, 2022.

To learn more about the conference and Dr. Berger’s session, click here.

Becker’s Healthcare aims to foster peer-to-peer conversation between healthcare’s brightest leaders and thinkers. In that vein, responses to our Speaker Series are published straight from interviewees. Here is what our speakers had to say.

 

Question: What is the smartest thing you’ve done in the last year to set your system up for success?

Dr. Berger: We have partnered with Press Ganey on our journey to high reliability.

Q: What are you most excited about right now and what makes you nervous?

DB: I am both excited and nervous about our digital health journey. We are a safety net hospital, and I am concerned that our challenging financial situation will make it difficult to keep up in the short term.

Q: How are you thinking about growth and investments for the next year or two?

DB: We are working with our community to try to address the healthcare needs in partnership with other providers in our area.

Q: What will healthcare executives need to be effective leaders for the next five years?

DB: Flexibility and resilience. How to build effective diverse teams. Ability to deal with a partially remote workforce.

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