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Invitation to Speak at the 2009 Congress on Healthcare Leadership

Congress offers sessions on the hottest topics, access to leaders in healthcare and the opportunity to meet and learn from national experts and your peers. We welcome new proposals for the 2009 Congress, to be held in Chicago on March 23-26, 2009.

Do you have best practices to share? Have you developed successful hospital/physician relations strategies, created new techniques to support leadership, management or team development, or would you like to share new technologies, advancements in facilities planning or other innovations? If so, we encourage you to submit your ideas.

Thank you for your interest in submitting a proposal for the 2009 Congress on Healthcare Leadership. At this time the submission process is closed.

Do you know qualified colleagues who would make great speakers? Please invite them to also submit their presentation abstract for consideration.

The submission deadline for Congress proposals is May 9, 2008

The program from the 2008 Congress on Healthcare Leadership (PDF) is available to provide examples of past sessions.


Faculty Information

We strongly encourage you to limit your sessions to two faculty or panels to four faculty (including one moderator). On occasions when one additional faculty may be critical to the program, it may be allowable. Additional faculty may not be added once the proposal is accepted. Changes to the faculty are discouraged and must be approved by the Division of Education.

Duration and Format of Congress Presentations

Sessions generally consist of a presentation and Q&A. We also accept panel discussions. The duration of sessions is either 90 minutes, which may be selected to be delivered once or twice (on the same or consecutive days) or three hours (delivered once with a 15-minute break). Panel discussions can either be 90 minutes or three hours in length.

Honorarium for Faculty

Congress faculty that present one 90-minute session will each receive $400 up to a maximum of $800 for the session. Faculty who present two 90-minute sessions or one three-hour session will each be given $800 up to a maximum of $1,600. In addition, complimentary basic Congress registration will be provided.

For Congress panel discussions, there is a $1,600 honorarium to be divided among all faculty (one moderator/facilitator and up to three panelists). In addition, each will be provided complimentary basic Congress registration.

All fees for additional events beyond the basic registration fee are the responsibility of the faculty.


Congress Attendees

Attendees include senior executives, middle managers, new managers and students from across the U.S. and around the world. They represent a range of organizations from hospitals, healthcare systems, other healthcare organizations and the profit and nonprofit sectors. Individual session attendance may range from 25 to more than 500 attendees.


Congress Proposal Guidelines

Focus of the Sessions

The sessions focus on your experience as a healthcare leader, enterprise decision maker or implementer of technologies. Proposals should generally be consistent with that focus and any new methodologies, techniques or tools used to support such applications.
View a sample proposal

No Commercial Content

Submissions will not be selected if they appear to directly promote any products or services or are of a commercial nature. Likewise, if your submission is selected and your submitted presentation appears to be commercial in nature, ACHE has the right to request that you make the appropriate modifications to keep your session within the “no commercial content” restrictions.

Criteria for Acceptance of Proposal

To assist you in submitting a successful proposal, we suggest you review the following list. While not all of the criteria must be met, selected proposals generally meet most of them. Proposals should:

  • Address a topic of critical interest to healthcare executives
  • Reflect the importance of the topic to healthcare executives now and at the time of Congress
  • Make sure that key elements of your presentation are described in a clear and logical fashion
  • Indicate the experience and expertise of all presenters
  • Note any presenters with experience speaking or publishing with ACHE
  • Include at least one current healthcare executive as a presenter
  • Have practical application and focus on solutions and not just the problem
  • Be capable of delivery in the time frame selected (90 minutes or three hours)
  • Demonstrate originality and innovation
  • Provide "take home" tools or new techniques or strategies
  • Encourage audience interaction

Responsibilities of the Lead Presenter

The lead presenter is responsible for the format and content of the presentation and for ensuring that materials are correctly assembled. S/he will also be the primary contact with ACHE. If your proposal is accepted and your co-presenter cancels, the lead presenter will locate a replacement that is acceptable to ACHE.


You must log in to submit a proposal. If you do not have an ACHE User ID and Password, please Create one now.

Thank you for your interest in submitting a proposal for the 2009 Congress on Healthcare Leadership. At this time the submission process is closed.

The submission deadline is May 9, 2008

For more information contact the Division of Education at (312) 424-9300.

   
 

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