SEA 2026 Chief Leadership Workshop
Saturday, April 25

Space is limited to 40 Chief Residents.

2026 Spring Meeting Registration Fees:

  • Resident, Fellow or Medical Student Member = $150.00
  • Resident, Fellow or Medical Student Non-Member = $165.00
Time Topic Facilitators
8:00am – 9:00am Breakfast with Full Conference SEA, Main Session
9:00am – 10:15am Fireside Chat with Jerome Adams: Finding Your Professional Purpose Fireside Chat

SEA, Main Session

10:30am – 10:40am Welcome/House Rules

Bridget Marroquin, MD, MHPE
Megha Patel, MD

10:40am – 11:10am

Meet your Neighbor and
Introductions

Bridget Marroquin, MD, MHPE
Megha Patel, MD

11:10am – 11:45am

What to Expect

Objective:

  • Identify the multifactorial Anesthesiology program requirements that impact the chief resident’s duties and responsibilities
Megha Patel, MD
11:45am – 12:00pm

Break / Lunch

 
12:00pm – 12:45pm

Leadership Primer

Objectives:

  • Define leadership
  • Distinguish between managing and leading
  • Enumerate the challenges of leadership
  • List character attributes of effective leaders
Stephen Kimatian, MD, FAAP
12:45pm – 1:00pm

Break

 
1:00pm – 2:15pm

Promoting Empathetic Leadership in Your Role as Chief

Objectives:

  • Demonstrate Effective communication
  • Identify techniques utilized when engaging team members in collective problem solving
  • Discuss strategies for successful implementation in the clinical and educational environments
Bridget Marroquin, MD, MHPE
2:15pm – 3:45pm Round Tables (Pick 3):  
 

Managing Microaggressions

Objectives:

  • Recognize microaggressions in medical education and clinical practice
  • Reflect on microaggressions experienced and their consequences on both victim and observer
  • Develop ways of responding to microaggressions as the victim and as the ally.

Tracey Straker, MD
Benjamin Houseman, MD

 

Double Jeopardy: Peer & Leader

Objective:

  • Reflect on strategies to approach challenging situations with peers in which you have a role as both a peer and a leader
Bridget Marroquin, MD, MHPE
 

Mentor Forward, Mentor Up: The Chief’s Leadership Journey

Objectives:

  • Define mentorship vs advising and coaching
  • Reflect on what role is needed in different situations as peer and leader
  • Create 3 ways to inspire growth in others while accelerating one's own evolution as a leader
Rachel Danowit, MD
 

Negotiation

Objectives:

  • Define negotiation vs compromise
  • Define and apply elements of Principled Negotiation
  • Compare 3 main types of Principled Negotiation
  • Apply negotiating strategies to commonly encountered scenarios in residency 
Megha Patel, MD
 

Making a Leadership Plan

Objective:

  • Reflect on the type of leadership style best suited to their program and an action plan that sets the groundwork for success
Stephen Kimatian, MD, FAAP
3:45pm – 4:15pm

I Have a Dream

Objective:

  • Develop a plan for creating change within your residency program.

Bridget Marroquin, MD, MHPE
Megha Patel, MD

4:15pm – 4:30pm Wrap-Up

Bridget Marroquin, MD, MHPE
Megha Patel, MD

 
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