What separates a good leader from a great one? These in-depth interviews with some of family medicine's most influential leaders provide insight into pivotal experiences that boosted leadership skills and provided unprecedented opportunities for personal growth.
In this episode, Dr Saccocio discusses Leadership with Dr Joseph Gravel.
This series of podcasts is sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the academic home for family medicine educators.
Guest Bio:
Dr Gravel is Professor and Chair of Family & Community Medicine Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr. Gravel also serves as Chair of the Academic Family Medicine Advocacy Committee, and is on the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)’s Board of Directors and on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)’s Review Committee for Family Medicine.
Dr Gravel is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and the VCU-Fairfax Family Practice Center residency in Fairfax, VA, and was a residency program director for 20 years. He is a past president of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD), the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) and the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians (MassAFP) and served as Treasurer and Credentials Committee Chair for the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).
Host Bio:
Saria Saccocio, MD, FAAFP, MHA
As the Ambulatory Chief Medical Officer for Prisma Health, Dr. Saria Saccocio supports population health initiatives that span across all departments and specialties in the outpatient space, striving for optimization of quality, patient experience and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
Dr. Saccocio has demonstrated a consistent history of leading award-winning programs and improving patient care and safety as a Chief Medical Officer for health systems in the southeast. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Florida, and her Executive Master of Health Administration from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Miami before opening her own solo family practice. She continues to serve patients at the Free Medical Clinic and precepts family medicine residents at the Center for Family Medicine in Greenville, South Carolina.
Becker’s Hospital Review has recognized Dr. Saccocio as one of the top 100 Hospital and Health System CMOs to Know and has been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Her extensive civic and community involvement has included serving in many ways including: the Modern Healthcare Women Advisory Board, board member for the South Carolina Hospital Association, United Way of Greenville County; Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate, the South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians Board, and is an Alum of the Women’s Leadership Institute and the Diversity Leadership Institute at Furman University.
