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From the Editors Editorial Corner Lauren Block, MD, MPH; Sunil K. Sahai, MD We are pleased to share this December issue of ACLGIM’s Leadership Forum with perspectives from colleagues across the country. As ACLGIM President, Mark Earnest shares his leadership journey, including how childhood lessons in advocacy and organization spurred professional success and leadership skills. In these challenging times of staffing shortages and pandemic fatigue, Lucille Torres-Deas and Abby Spencer write ...

President’s Column My Journey to Leadership Mark Earnest, MD, PhD Dr. Earnest ( mark.earnest@cuanschutz.edu ) is division head, General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and ACLGIM President. My path to leadership arose from something very simple—there were things I wanted to see happen that I couldn’t do alone. In middle and high school, most of those things were primarily for fun: Boy Scout contests, an overnight basketball marathon to raise money for charity, ...

Leadership Profile Trade-offs and Compromises: Reflections on My Time as an Academic General Internist and Human Being in the United States and Canada Peter Cram, MD, MBA Dr. Cram ( pecram@utmb.edu ) is chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, TX, and previously director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at Sinai Health System and University Health Network at the University of Toronto (2014-21). ...

Wellness Wellbeing: Lead by Example Lucille M. Torres-Deas, MD; Abby Spencer, MD, MS, FACP Dr. Torres-Deas ( lmt2183@cumc.columbia.edu ) is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Internal Medicine Division at the Allen Hospital at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Spencer ( abbys@wustl.edu ) is professor and vice chair for education and director, Academy of Educators, at Washington ...