NC Medical Society to Honor 2025 Academy for Advanced Healthcare Leaders Graduates

The North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) invites you to celebrate the accomplishments of the 2025 NCMS Academy for Advanced Healthcare Leaders graduating class. 

The NCMS Academy for Advanced Healthcare Leaders is an intensive, 8-month leadership development program designed for experienced physicians, PAs, residents, and healthcare administrators. This program is dedicated to cultivating advanced leadership skills, focusing on strengthening professional networks, optimizing team performance, and implementing strategic changes through high-impact, individual projects.

The upcoming graduation and project presentations will highlight the culmination of this rigorous program. Graduates will present their key learnings and demonstrate how they will apply these insights to their professional roles. They will also present their capstone projects, which are initiatives of their choosing with direct applicability to their workplaces, local medical societies, and the NCMS.

Event Details

These virtual events will be held over the course of two days and conducted via Zoom. Attendees can join or leave the sessions as their schedules allow. See the Presentation schedule below to include topics and presenters.

Register for each virtual session using the following links.

Part 1: Monday, September 15, 2025 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET

Part 2: Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET

 

Presentations:

 Part 1: Monday, September 15, 2025

6:10 pm- 6:20 pm   Shades of Strength: Raising Awareness About Vitiligo

Stefan Weiss, MD

6:25 pm – 6:35 pm   Promoting Wellness of General Surgery Residents 

Susan Roberts, DO

6:40 pm – 6:50 pm  Syringe Service Program in an FHQC 

Jiyun Chang, MD, MBA

7:00 pm – 7:10 pm       The Curious Case for Adult Transgender Health in Primary Care 

Linda Myers- Reed, PA-C

7:15 pm – 7:25 pm               Point of care ultrasound curriculum for residents to improve quality of care

Jonathan Hunter, DO

7:30 pm – 7:40 pm     Connecting physicians and healthcare providers with their communities– a registry of local resources 

Abigail Maiorana-Boutilier, MD

Part 2: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
6:10 pm – 6:20 pm Standards of care at community health centers – programming for diabetics

Julia Niemi, PA-C

6:25 pm – 6:35 pm Nourish the Bump: Tackling Food Insecurity in Pregnancy  

Lakeisha Majette, MD

6:40 pm – 6:50 pm  Development and implementation of trainee focus groups to improve teaching faculty evaluations

Jason Holbrook, MD

7:00 pm – 7:10 pm Improving Relationships Between Nurses and General Surgery Residents   

Macie Edwards, MD

7:15 pm – 7:25 pm         How do we use leadership in Rural Health communities

Kisha Powell

7:30 pm – 7:40 pm  Community Practitioner Program (CPP)

Rachel Thompson