Leadership Dialogue
In this Leadership Dialogue, I鈥檓 joined by Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center, in Sedalia, Mo. Lori and I discuss working in a 鈥渇amily atmosphere鈥 unique to a rural hospital and navigating the same pressures that face urban hospitals.
Join AHA鈥檚 Board Chair Tina Freese Decker for Leadership Dialogue as she discusses key issues with hospitals colleagues from across the country. Watch the video and listen to the podcasts. New videos will post the last Monday of each month.
In this Leadership Dialogue, Lynn Hanessian, former chief health strategist for Edelman, which recently released its 2025 Trust Barometer, and AHA Board Member Robert Trestman, M.D., chair of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Carilion Clinic., join Tina Becker Freese to discuss the importance鈥
In this Leadership Dialogue conversation, Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health and 2025 AHA board chair, talks with two health care leaders, Lynn Hanessian, former chief health strategist at Edelman, and Robert Trestman, M.D., Ph.D., chair of psychiatry and behavioral medicine鈥
There is so much for health care leaders to navigate when it comes to public policy and government relations. Thankfully, the AHA has an expert team with extensive experience who are advocating for the field and here to listen and help.
In the first Leadership Dialogue of 2025, Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health and 2025 AHA board chair, talks with two policy experts at the AHA 鈥 Stacey Hughes, executive vice president of government relations and public policy, and Ashley Thompson, senior vice president of鈥
In this Leadership Dialogue 鈥 my last one as AHA board chair 鈥 I talk with Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health system headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., and serving the entire state. Tina will be taking the reins as chair of the AHA鈥
In this Leadership Dialogue, I talk with Amy Perry, president and CEO of Banner Health, based in Phoenix. Before joining Banner Health three years ago, Amy held leadership roles at Atlantic Health System in northern New Jersey, LifeBridge Health in Baltimore, and Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami鈥
In this Leadership Dialogue episode, I talk with Tom Priselac, who recently retired after 30 years as president and CEO of Cedars-Sinai, based in Los Angeles.
In this episode, I talk with Steve Diaz, M.D., chief medical officer at MaineGeneral Health in Augusta and an AHA board member. Steve is an emergency medicine physician by training and has been involved in many of MaineGeneral鈥檚 health care quality and safety initiatives.