<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc, FACEP is Professor and inaugural Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center where she holds the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Distinguished Chair in Clinical Care and Research.\u00a0 As a nationally recognized leader in the specialty, Dr. Diercks oversees the emergency medicine programs at UT Southwestern University Hospitals and Parkland Health & Hospital System, which together constitute one of the largest emergency medicine programs in the nation.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Diercks is the 2015-2016 President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and is on the Board of Directors for the Society of Chest Pain Centers.\u00a0 Additionally, she is active in several committees of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and American College of Emergency Physicians.<\/p>\n
1) What is your leadership style?\u00a0 How did you arrive at this style?<\/strong><\/p>\nI think that I have 2 different leadership styles predominately: Participative and Transformational. \u00a0Participative leadership is utilizes a democratic platform and seeks input from team members and peers. A transformational style uses motivation to enhance productivity of the group.<\/p>\n
I try to function in a participative style as I feel that is what is needed to increase engagement, however in my current situation decisions are often need to be made in a more rapid manner so I have to move to more a transformational style. This style allows me to share the vision that we can create and empower faculty to help use get there. I like focusing on big lofty goals so the transformational style is probably what comes most natural to me.<\/p>\n
2)\u00a0Who is your leadership hero and why?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nI\u00a0think this is a tough one.\u00a0I\u00a0have learned a lot from different leaders like Judd Hollander and Nathan Kuppermann. Both have very different styles and\u00a0have\u00a0been successful in their leadership roles but also their academic roles.\u00a0Judd has been a motivational leader to me and has really taught me how to elevate others. \u00a0Nate is a master at time management. He has maintained a productive research career while being a Chair. I\u00a0think\u00a0I\u00a0have learned the importance of work\/life balance from both of them.<\/p>\n
3) Have you accrued any insights from which other aspiring female leaders might benefit?<\/strong><\/p>\nI\u00a0think the\u00a0hardest thing about transitioning to a leadership role, is redefining professionally what makes you feel successful.\u00a0I\u00a0used to be proud of my collaborations and\u00a0research\u00a0endeavors. Now\u00a0I\u00a0have little time to focus on research so how\u00a0I\u00a0define my personal success has to change.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MSc, FACEP is Professor and inaugural Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center where she holds the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Distinguished Chair in Clinical Care and Research.\u00a0 As a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[29],"coauthors":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Whats Your Leadership Style WYLS: Deborah Diercks, MD - FemInEM<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n