For Seasoned Leaders
in Healthcare
The Vanguard Program is designed to provide high-level programming and networking to match seasoned physician leaders’ sophisticated degree of experience in leadership, education, achievement, and dedication to improving the industry.
2025 AAPL Annual Leadership Conference Vanguard Meeting
This Vanguard Meeting will be held in person on Friday, April 25, 2025, at the 2025 AAPL Annual Leadership Conference in Boston, MA. Enhance your understanding and engage via panels, cases, peer presentations, and exercises covering the critical topics physician leadership faces every day.
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A focus on giving back through leadership, mentorship, and knowledge sharing.
A member of the Vanguard group for the American Association for Physician Leadership signifies a physician leader, that is a member of the association, has attained the Certified Physician Executive credential or other advance medical management degrees in addition to demonstrating a commitment to physician leadership through membership, tenure, and experience.
Vanguard Programming
Here are the events and ways for Vanguard program members to participate:
- Annual Vanguard Meetings: Live and in-person events with your peers
- Virtual Vanguard Sessions: Online, interactive, engaging sessions with pre-work, case studies, and breakout sessions with peers.
- Additional meetings as announced to the Vanguard community
How do I participate in the Vanguard Program?
Start by earning your certification in medical management by receiving your CPE credential. This certification is awarded based on your stature as a physician, educational achievements, medical management experience and completion of a multi-day, skill-building capstone event administered by the Certifying Commission in Medical Management. This also is the way to become a Fellow of the association. Once you have your CPE credential, you must also be an active Member of the American Association for Physician Leaders.
Get ahead and give back with Vanguard
Live Events
Networking
Custom education and networking opportunities are available at the association’s live events. These are invitation-only events where physician participants can network with other top physician leaders and address current trends and challenges in the healthcare marketplace.
Give Back
Panels
Vanguard members serve on review panels, analyze, and abstract topical discussions, write articles for the association’s publications, and represent it at events with the media. Comprising the upper echelon of medical leaders, their counsel is sought by the association’s board of directors and they help guide its future.
Network Online
Private Community
A private online network is available for Vanguard members to share and discuss current medical management issues.
Get Ahead
Career Advancement
The latest career-advancement opportunities are made available to vanguard members, as are coaching for writing and presentations, and preparation to become full-time or part-time consultants.