CEO FORUM | Executive Attendees

On creating organizational focus:

“You can’t do it all. You can’t say “Our number one priority is…” and then list five things. We build our stakeholder messages around patient-centeredness. We fit everything we’re doing under that umbrella. It gives us the ability to help the organization feel there is not too much going on, when clearly there is too much going on.”

On the next generation workforce:

“New doctors are all about work-life balance. They’re also better team players, and they’re more likely to deliver more coordinated care.”

On physician compensation:

“We have studied physician RVUs, and we are currently separating our contracts into two levels. Level 1 is Clinician/Educator and Level 2 is Physician/Scientist. This approach to contracting and compensation seems to make sense in a large, complex academic medical center like UCLA.”

About David T. Feinberg:

David T. Feinberg, MD, MBA is the president of UCLA Health System and chief executive officer of the Hospital System. Previously, he served as medical director of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and head of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital Faculty Practice Group. Dr. Feinberg is also a clinical professor of Psychiatry on the faculty of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and associate vice chancellor of Health Sciences.