Sarah
Smithson,
MD. MPH
Vice President of Partnerships
Intend Health Strategies
Sarah Smithson is an internal medicine physician and Vice President of Partnerships for Intend Health Strategies, a non-profit organization committed to helping healthcare professionals thrive in the workplace through the practice of Relational Leadership. She thrives in interprofessional collaborations around leadership development and innovation in health systems, communication, and team-based care delivery. She brings over a decade of experience in clinical practice, quality improvement, and medical education leadership to her work with Intend Health Strategies. Sarah earned a dual MD/MPH degree from Emory University in Atlanta and completed internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Structural inequities and power imbalance add significant complexity for patients and team members in interprofessional care teams. We need effective strategies to address this complexity, and one approach is relational leadership (RL).
RL is a human-centered approach to working with others that cultivates connection and awareness to increase belonging, collaboration, equity, and impact across health systems. RL is vital for care teams to lead change, advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and navigate the complexities of modern healthcare delivery.
People are multi-…