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.
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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.
