Dyad Track
Monday
Leading Without a Title: Build Your Ability to Influence Physicians and Staff
Effective leadership is not limited to those with titles or positions of formal authority. Whether you're managing clinic operations, leading a team, or working alongside physicians, your ability to influence others can shape outcomes just as powerfully as any C-suite role. This session explores how to lead from where you are, especially when you're not the owner, a physician, or even the department head. You'll leave with strategies to build influence and foster collaborations with physicians and staff.
Strategic Planning That Drives Real-World Results
Discover a practical, results-driven approach to strategic planning that keeps leadership aligned, accelerates decision-making, and drives execution. This session shares tools and real-world examples to help your organization set priorities, assign accountability, and measure progress. Walk away with a clear path forward for strengthening and scaling your organization.
Clinic to C-Suite: Physician–Executive Leadership That Works
Clinical mastery isn’t executive leadership. This interactive session gives physicians and executives a cognitive-behavioral playbook to shift mindsets, communicate with clarity, and lead through ambiguity. Learn practical strategies to strengthen communication, engage teams, and navigate organizational complexity—empowering you to lead with greater confidence and impact. Real cases from orthopaedic practices translate into Monday-ready habits that turn precision in the OR into purpose at the org.
Tuesday
Agentic AI in Orthopedics: Current State and Future Impact
Orthopedic and musculoskeletal practices face rising patient demand, staffing shortages, and complex technology decisions. While AI offers potential, separating proven solutions from hype is critical. This session explores practical, real-world applications already making an impact on patient experience as well as back-office operations, while preparing practices to adapt to the next wave of healthcare transformation.
Revenue Diversification as a Strategy for Preserving Practice Independence
Faced with shrinking reimbursements and rising competition, independent orthopedic practices must rethink how they grow and flourish financially. In this candid panel, leaders from independent groups share how they’ve diversified revenue through ancillaries like direct-to-employer contracts, value-based arrangements, and digital health partnerships. Learn what worked, what didn’t, and the operational, cultural, and financial trade-offs involved so you can protect your autonomy and build a more sustainable, resilient business model.
First-Visit Mindset: Modernizing Patient Experience
Your millionth patient is someone’s first visit. This session blends timeless, patient-centered care with modern tech to elevate every touchpoint—from check-in to follow-up. Learn communication scripts rooted in emotional intelligence, map the patient journey, and turn real patient narratives into fixes you can deploy Monday. Walk out with simple tools to align teams, personalize care, boost engagement, and turn experience into measurable practice growth.
Using Appointment Data to Improve the 3 Ps: Profitability, Patient Access, and Provider Satisfaction
What would change in your practice if you could reliably see what’s coming? From right-sizing staffing to fine-tuning templates that prevent leakage and expand access, foresight matters. This session shows how to use real appointment data—not guesses—to forecast demand, uncover bottlenecks, and plan proactively. You’ll learn practical methods to translate analytics into daily operations and decision-making. Walk away with actionable steps to increase profitability, improve patient access, and enhance provider satisfaction.
Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas
Doctors are often encouraged to think like business owners—but doing so can trigger a very different set of legal expectations. This session explores how growth strategies like productivity incentives, efficiency measures, and expansion plans can clash with fraud and abuse laws, even with the best intentions. We’ll walk through real-world examples and share practical guidance on how to run a compliant, profitable practice—without inviting scrutiny.
Strategy First, Marketing Second in the AI Era
As AI transforms how patients engage with orthopaedic practices, thriving requires strategy—not scattered tactics. This session shows leaders how to align marketing efforts with organizational goals to flourish in a shifting landscape. Explore how AI fuels growth, improves competitiveness, and sharpens decision-making. Learn practical ways to evaluate sponsorships, reduce waste, and build a data-driven marketing roadmap that delivers measurable results and long-term sustainability.
Wednesday
Two Seats, One Mission: Aligning Physicians and Administrators for Better Results
Great dyads win. This session equips physician–executive partners to align priorities, make faster decisions, and model trust that lifts teams. Using real cases, we’ll share a simple playbook for purpose-driven collaboration: clarify roles, set joint goals, create psychological safety, mentor across clinical/administrative tracks, and lead change without drift. Leave with tools, scripts, and meeting rhythms to strengthen your partnership and deliver better outcomes for patients, staff, and the organization.
The Business of DME: Metrics, Models, and Market Forces
As orthopedic practices pursue new revenue and improved patient outcomes, DME and ancillary service lines present major opportunities to help your practice thrive—but success requires more than operational know-how. This session features practice leaders sharing real-world results, KPIs, challenges, and lessons learned from recent years. Attendees will gain insights on building scalable DME programs, including compliance considerations, staffing models, and technology integrations that support growth and measurable performance.