Leadership Development Designed for the Academic Health Professions
The Chairs and Academic Administrators Management Program (CAAMP) is a 3-day in-person event to provide a practical, hands-on, interactive leadership development experience for department chairs, program directors, and administrators, including assistant and associate deans, in the academic health professions. Develop the core competencies for effectively managing your department or program.
July 28-30, 2025 Atlanta, GA
Chairs and Academic Administrators Management Program
Leaders want and need to get it right. We all know the stakes are so high.
As a program director, chair, assistant or associate dean, you wear many hats—the ‘big picture’ leader, the guide, mentor, and role model, the liaison between your department and stakeholders, the first-line of defense, and the gatekeeper. Meeting the challenges and opportunities of the evolving academic landscape is difficult.
- How do you align your natural leadership strengths with institutional goals and stakeholder expectations?
- How do you handle maintaining momentum, morale, and vision?
- How do you articulate the big picture to senior leadership and not get stuck on the details; “acting strategically”?
- How to gain trust to lead in position?
- How do you establish work-life boundaries when faced with effectively mentoring faculty, staff, and students through their challenges?
- How do you improve your academic culture to promote innovation, collaboration, and productivity in a way that fosters engagement and value of faculty, staff, and students?
With all that’s on your plate, where can you turn to reset, recharge, and regroup? The Chairs and Academic Administrators Management Program provides a supportive atmosphere for you to assess your leadership and focus on purposeful preparation for effectively managing your department or program. Through practical, interactive learning and engagement with leaders who have successfully powered through the obstacles you are currently facing, you will explore tangible strategies on improving communication, overcoming impediments, and expanding your influence for a lasting leadership and management impact.
Tuition: $1,975 |
This program is for you if you desire to:
- Learn strategies to be an influential leader.
- Develop and continuously enhance your leadership approach.
- Effectively manage your unit, program or department to align with institutional goals.
Who Should Attend?
- New, Current, and Aspiring Administrators
- Academic / Administrative Leaders
- Associate / Assistant Deans
- Clinical / Course Director
- Department Chairs / Heads
- Directors
- Faculty Leader
- Program Coordinator
- Program / Project Directors
During the program, you will learn:
Professional Assessment of Leadership Competencies
Financial efficacy
Wellness & Work-Life Boundary Management
Communication Skills & Interprofessional Engagement
Critical feedback and managing civility
Strategic Thinking and Decision-making
Collaborative change and impact
Academic legal issues
What Our Alumni Say
Program Faculty
Below are our 2024 experts:
Karl Haden, PhD
AAL President & CEO
Felicia Tucker-Lively, PhD, MPH
AAL Vice President
Marcia Mastracci Ditmyer, PhD, MBA, MS
Dean, College of Health & Human Services Saginaw Valley State University
Seena L. Haines, PharmD
Director for Professional Well-Being and Belonging, University of Mississippi, School of Pharmacy
Jeff Johnson, DMD, MPH
Chair, Pediatric Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry – Alumni Speaker
Anita Joy-Thomas, BDS, PhD
Chair and Professor, Diagnostic Sciences, UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry – Alumni Speaker
Herminio L. Perez, DMD, MBA, EdD
Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
Michelle A. Robinson DMD, MA
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Pamela Zarkowski, MPH, JD
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Detroit Mercy