2025 FLIGHT ACADEMY PRE-CONFERENCE
2025 APCCMPD ANNUAL CONFERENCE

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

March 12-14, 2025
Philadelphia, PA

Richard Winters, MD

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Medical Director of Professional Leadership Development

How to Lead When Experts Disagree
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 / 8:50 AM - 9:50 AM (Eastern)

Richard Winters, MD, author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book You’re the Leader. Now What?, is a practicing emergency physician at Mayo Clinic. As director of Leadership Development for the Mayo Clinic Care Network, Dr. Winters delivers leadership development programs that train leaders at all levels of healthcare organizations worldwide. As a professional certified coach, Dr. Winters provides executive coaching for Mayo Clinic leaders.

Dr. Winters graduated from the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in 1994. He is board certified and residency trained in Emergency Medicine from the University of California, San Francisco at Fresno. He graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas Executive and Professional Coaching Program and is a professional certified coach through the International Coaching Federation. He completed a Healthcare Management Executive MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Prior to his work at Mayo Clinic, Dr. Winters served as managing partner of a democratic physician group, chair of emergency medicine, president of an 800-physician medical staff, and CEO/founder of a managed care startup.

2025 APCCMPD ANNUAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Stacey B. Lee, JD

Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
Professor of Law and Ethics

Negotiating for What’s Next: Strategies and Approaches for Career Success
Thursday, March 13, 2025 / 9:20 AM - 10:20 AM (Eastern)

Stacey B. Lee, JD is a Professor of Law and Ethics at Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School, with a joint appointment at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. A Fulbright Specialist recognized for her expertise in healthcare negotiations, Lee is the author of the forthcoming book Transforming Healthcare Through Negotiation: A Guide to Success in Medicine, Care Delivery and the Business of Health (Routledge, 2025), which introduces her groundbreaking HEAR (Healthcare-specific Empowerment, Acknowledgment, and Recasting) Approach. This innovative framework is transforming how healthcare professionals navigate complex discussions across clinical, operational, and business domains.

Before entering academia, Lee practiced law for over a decade, beginning as a securities litigator before serving as in-house counsel for two of the country's largest healthcare corporations. She also served as senior regulatory specialist for America's Health Insurance Plans, the nation's largest healthcare trade association, giving her unique insights into healthcare's complex regulatory and business landscape.

Her scholarly work, published in prestigious journals including the Journal of Business Ethics, Yale Journal of Health Policy and Ethics and Health and Human Rights International Journal, focuses on pharmaceutical access and transformative healthcare negotiations. A featured TEDx speaker on "Patient Voices," Lee has received numerous research grants and fellowships for her teaching innovations and consistent recognitionfor teaching excellence at both the Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

Lee regularly appears as an expert commentator on CNN, The Washington Post, CBS, Bloomberg Radio and NPR, providing insights on healthcare law, negotiation and policy. Her academic rigor, practical experience, and engaging presentation style make her particularly effective in addressing the complex challenges facing today's healthcare professionals.

Adam Rodman, MD, MPH

Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine

The Future of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Education
Friday, March 14, 2025 / 9:10 AM - 10:10 AM (Eastern)

Adam Rodman, MD, MPH is a general internist and hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. He completed his medical and public health degrees at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR, as well as a fellowship in global health at BIDMC while practicing in Molepolole, Botswana. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the co-director of the iMED Initiative at BIDMC, which is dedicated to the study and best practices of digital education and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on clinical reasoning and human-computer interaction.

Besides an educational researcher, he is also a medical historian, focusing on the evolution of medical epistemology, especially the history of diagnosis. He is the host of the medical history podcast Bedside Rounds, made in partnership with the American College of Physicians. His first book, entitled Short Cuts: Medicine, was released in 2023.