Faculty
William S. Frank, M.A.,
is the country’s leading authority on non-clinical careers for physicians. In
1978 he founded CareerLab®, a consulting firm specializing in career management,
executive coaching, leadership development, and outplacement. Bill has sold more
than 300 consulting contracts to brand-name corporations, including American
Cancer Society, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, CIBA Vision, Columbia/HCA, GAMBRO
Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, LifeCare, Medtronic HemoTec, Penn State College
of Medicine, and Sunrise Healthcare. In 1998 he founded a subspecialty practice
called "The Physician Career Network,"™ which became the authority for MDs
wanting to improve their careers. PCN has had physician clients from all 50
states in all practice specialties, from anesthesiology to urology. Bill has
been featured in "The Physician Executive," "Physician Practice Options,"
"Physician Financial News," and "Unique Opportunities: ®The Physicians’s
Resource." He authored three best-selling career books and his career articles
have appeared in more than 250 business publications and newspapers, from The
WSJ’s "National Business Employment Weekly," and Forbes.com to The Denver Post
and Rocky Mountain News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Atlanta
Journal-Constitution. Bill earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts (1968) and an M.A. in
Philosophy (1969) from Colorado State University.
Terry Fouts, MD
joined Great West HealthCare in
May of 2003 to fill the newly created position of Chief Medical Officer. In this
role Dr. Fouts has national responsibility for all Medical Outreach (SM)
programs including care management, quality management, pharmacy, disease
management and technical assessment. Prior to joining Great West HealthCare, Dr.
Fouts has had several senior level positions in managed care organizations over
the past twenty years. Most recently he was at Aetna in Hartford, Connecticut,
where he was National Medical Director for patient management, prior to that
served as Global Medical Director for Cigna International in Philadelphia with
responsibilities in Latin America, Asia and Europe. His managed care career
started with the company now known as Health Net where he held multiple national
medical leadership positions including CMO. Dr. Fouts started his medical career
as a practicing Internist for 13 years.
Steven Babitsky, Esq.,
is a former trial lawyer who has trained thousands of physicians in the past 25
years. He has over 30 years of experience as a professional negotiator, has
himself successfully made the switch from practicing law to a non-clinical
career, and is an expert in networking, running a small business, medical-legal
opportunities for physicians, responding to tough questions, persuasion skills,
consulting, publishing, and turning ideas into money. Attorney Babitsky is the
co-author of the best-selling book The Successful Physician Negotiator: How To
Get What You Deserve and numerous other publications. He is the creator of the
annual Medical Fiction Writing for Physicians seminar and dozens of other
seminars for physicians. He is a lively and entertaining trainer, and is the
President and Founder of SEAK, Inc.
Registration Information
Locations:
Chicago is a tourism
center, with world-renowned shopping, dining, museums, architecture, theater,
music and more. Chicago is centrally located. Flights to Chicago are no more
than four hours from most major American cities. The workshop will be held on
Friday and Saturday, November 17-18, 2006 in the DePaul Center, Room DPC 8005 of
DePaul University’s Loop Campus, 1 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. This
is a state of the art meeting room in an academic setting in the heart of
downtown Chicago. Upon registering you will be provided with directions to
DePaul along with a list of numerous nearby hotels.
Cape Cod - The
Cape Cod course will take place on Saturday and Sunday, August 19-20, 2006 at
the Sea Crest Oceanfront Resort in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Falmouth is one of
the Cape’s best playgrounds for vacationers of all ages. The Sea Crest (www.seacrest-resort.com)
is a full service resort with its own private 700 foot long white sandy beach. A
limited block of rooms have been reserved at special rates ($199/single/double)
at the site hotel. To make your reservations, please call 1-800-225-3110 and say
that you are with the SEAK group. The two major airports closest to Falmouth are
Logan (Boston-70 Miles) and T.F. Green (Providence-65 Miles). Car rentals, taxis
and car service is available at both airports. If you have any questions
regarding travel to Cape Cod, please call us at 508-457-1111.
Registration Information:
Tuition for each
Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians workshop is $1,195. This includes
two-days of interactive training, two continental breakfasts, two lunches with
faculty, a 43 page Birkman Preview® diagnostic assessment, and detailed handout
materials.
Cancellations:
Cancellations received in writing on or before November 1, 2006 for the
Chicago program and on or before August 1, 2006 for the Cape Cod program will
receive a full refund.
Free Resources
SEAK Inc.
P.O. Box 729
Falmouth MA 02541
Customer Service: (508) 548-7023
Orders: (508) 457-1111
Fax: (508) 540-8304
Email: Mail@seak.com
Couriers: 316 Gifford St, 2nd Floor Falmouth, MA
02540