PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL STAFF LEADERSHIP - Corralling Cattle, Coyotes and Coots: Principles of Medical Staff Leadership

Dr. White has been involved in medical staff governance for the last 35 years. He has served on virtually every medical staff committee and chaired the Performance Improvement Committee, the Quality Improvement Committee and ultimately served as the Chief of the medical staff in 1999 and 2000 at Texas Health Harris Methodist HEB Hospital in the Dallas Ft Worth Metroplex. He served on the Board of Trustees for the same hospital for six years. He has served, part time, as the Medical Staff Advisor for the last nine years (2002-2011). He has been responsible for medical staff orientations, leadership development, coaching and mentoring, behavioral event peer review and the physician health committee. He championed and helped implement the medical staff code of conduct in 2003.

He presents frequently and consults with medical staffs and their leadership as well as medical staff professionals on a state and national level. He serves on faculties for Maintaining Proper Boundaries and Prescribing Controlled Substances. He has been a speaker for the Greeley Medical Staff Institute on several occasions and his topics include managing disruptive behavior and impairment, leadership principles for physicians, ethics in a changed workplace and empathy training for the physician. He is the author of A Practical Guide to Managing Disruptive and Impaired Physicians, published by HCPro in December of 2010.

Dr. White practiced oral and maxillofacial surgery from 1974 to 2002 in the Dallas Ft Worth Metroplex. He received his dental degree and oral and maxillofacial surgery training and master of science degree from the University of Texas Dental Branch in Houston Texas. He is a past president of The American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He can be reached at DeanWhiteConsulting.com.