Academic Medicine Dean Insights: Terence Flotte, M.D.

In this Impactful Leaders episode – the first in our special Academic Medicine Dean Insights series– WittKieffer Executive Partner Kim Smith speaks with Dr. Flotte about his early inspirations to become a physician leader, and how he supports other physicians to develop the skills and mindset to lead others. Even the most high-functioning physicians, he explains, need to develop the team orientation and fearlessness to excel as leaders.

"Great leadership requires achieving a sense of satisfaction in yourself by the success of others," believes Terence Flotte, M.D., Executive Deputy Chancellor and Provost of UMass Chan Medical School and the Dean of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine. Over a long career as an academic physician and physician leader, Dr. Flotte has strived to bring others into change and growth initiatives, which is essential for success. "When you're contemplating a change," he adds, a good idea "will remain your idea unless you bring other people into the process of helping to create the change."