Welcome to our new mini-interview series with 2019 Interdisciplinary Conference on Orthopedic Value-Based Care Faculty. Our first featured interviewee is Dr. Alexander Vaccaro. 

Dr. Vaccaro is one of 38 amazing speakers joining us at the Third Interdisciplinary Conference on Orthopedic Value-Based Care in Newport Beach, CA, on January 18-20, 2019.

OVBC 2019 Talk: “Replace the Surgeon? Robotics in Orthopedics & Spine Surgery”

OVBC 2019 Panel Participant: “Volume to Value Panel: Perspectives of Private Practice, Supergroup, Academia and Integrated Care System.”

View Full Schedule Here: OVBC 2019

 

American College of Perioperative Medicine (ACPM): Can you share your best advice for motivating your teams?

Dr. Vaccaro: Make sure they clearly understand goals and objective of any initiatives and have the opportunity for feedback and buy in. Show that you care about them and their opinions, be humble, celebrate/ recognize/ reward small and large wins, roll up your sleeves.

ACPM: How do you break the silos in your organization?

Dr. Vaccaro: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate. Reward the Management team based on team goals/ targets so that it incentives to work “across lines/ departments”. Have each leader “walk in the other’s shoes” so they get a better understanding of the position, responsibilities, problems/issues, work product. Constantly motivate, meet as a leadership team often, teak the team to dinner/drinks – get to know each other personally.

ACPM: Surgery is moving to the outpatient area; how do you get ready for it?

Dr. Vaccaro: Develop OP ASC’s (we now have 8 – and will got up to 12-14 with Northern Jersey and NY). Larger OR’s and PACU bays; risk assessment all patients for appropriateness of care, visit existing ASC’s that are performing Spine/Joints on an OP basis. Define specific criteria for cases qualifying for OP ASC. Ensure that the OR’s are big enough.

 

About Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhD, MBA: In addition of being President of Rothman Institute, Vaccaro is Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University. He is the past President of the American Spinal Injury Association. He has over 650 peer reviewed publications and is the editor of over 54 textbooks and co-editor of OKU-Spine I and editor of OKU-8.

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