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Leadership in Surgery

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Melina R. Kibbe

    1. Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

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  2. Herbert Chen

    1. Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

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  • The book teaches key aspects of surgical leadership, including theories as well as practical tips on how to become a good leader
  • Detailed examples of how to manage different situations are provided to make the book easily comprehensible
  • This book teaches practical management skills for a surgical leader
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Success in Academic Surgery (SIAS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. What Is Leadership?

    • Meera Kotagal, Carlos A. Pellegrini
    Pages 1-13

  3. Leadership in Surgery

    • Michael W. Mulholland
    Pages 15-28

  4. Are You Ready to Be a Leader? The Ontology of Leadership

    • Juan Carlos Puyana, Timothy Billiar
    Pages 29-47

  5. Leadership Theories and Styles

    • Melina R. Kibbe
    Pages 49-57

  6. Leadership Traits: Are People Born to Lead?

    • Jeffrey B. Matthews
    Pages 59-66

  7. Understanding Emotional Intelligence and Its Role in Leadership

    • Harry C. Sax, Bruce L. Gewertz
    Pages 67-78

  8. Common Mistakes in Leadership

    • David W. McFadden
    Pages 79-89

  9. Practical Tips for Developing Leadership Skills Early in a Career

    • Gregory Kennedy, Herbert Chen
    Pages 91-98

  10. Leading Teams Effectively: Motivating and Prioritizing Work

    • Justin B. Dimick
    Pages 99-106

  11. How to Manage Difficult Team Members

    • Nathaniel J. Soper
    Pages 107-113

  12. How to Effectively Manage Up

    • Gerard M. Doherty
    Pages 115-122

  13. How to Manage Difficult Situations and Decisions: Conflict Resolution

    • Larry R. Kaiser
    Pages 123-143

  14. Change Management: How to Effectively Lead a Cultural or Organizational Change

    • K. Craig Kent
    Pages 145-154

  15. How Culture Influences Leadership Styles

    • Marco G. Patti, Daniel Albo
    Pages 155-167

  16. Women as Leaders in Surgery

    • Diana Farmer, Connor Long, Julie Ann Freischlag
    Pages 169-181

  17. What Does It Mean to Be an Underrepresented Minority Leader in Surgery?

    • Henri R. Ford, Jeffrey S. Upperman, Joanna C. Lim
    Pages 183-193

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 195-201
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About this book

How does one become a successful leader? This book teaches the theories and concepts behind leadership and explains the skills and traits needed to become a good leader.

Teaching surgical faculty and trainees (i.e., residents and fellows) how to successfully lead will create more effective surgeon leaders.  The skills and theories reviewed in this Volume are highly useful for numerous leadership situations, ranging from heading a committee, leading a research laboratory, directing a clinical effort, leading a Division, leading a Department, among others.  By gathering these skills and theories into one comprehensive, portable book, more readers will have access to them. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

    Melina R. Kibbe

  • Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

    Herbert Chen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Leadership in Surgery

  • Editors: Melina R. Kibbe, Herbert Chen

  • Series Title: Success in Academic Surgery

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11107-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-11107-0Published: 20 April 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2194-7481

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-749X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 201

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: General Surgery, Practice and Hospital Management

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