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Academic health centers (AHCs) are complex organizational structures. Their purpose is to, as author Richard Burton puts it, “advance medical knowledge for the betterment of patient care and population health for current and future generations.” The AHCs’ role in the excellence of the current care of patients and their impact on the advances in research and education to improve patient care to even higher levels in the future can only be as successful as their leadership in structural organization and financial management.

Unique among more generalized leadership books, Leading Department Excellence is written specifically for leaders, and aspiring leaders, of major departments and innovative projects within AHCs. Instead of dispensing lines of theory, this guide provides readers with practical answers to questions of how.

Written with a well-labeled table of contents and index, the book is easy to search and navigate for those not able to read it all in one sitting. These features, as well as the final two chapters, “The When and How for the Established Chair to Step Aside,” and “Life after Relinquishing Chair Leadership,” make this book an excellent resource for even seasoned leaders.

The art of success is in knowing, loving, and believing in what you do. This book can help you with the knowing.

Richard I. Burton, MD, a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School, trained in surgery at the University of Rochester and the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program, and has now lived and breathed academic health centers (AHCs) for over fifty years.

Since 1974, Dr. Burton has held many significant administrative roles at the University of Rochester, including fourteen years as the chair of orthopaedics and rehabilitation, two years as acting chair of neurosurgery, and ten years as the senior associate dean of academic affairs.

Dr. Burton has additionally served in several national leadership positions, including director of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.

When granted sabbatical from the University of Rochester Medical Center, Dr. Burton wrote Leading Department Excellence to enhance medical leadership and build stronger structures for current and future students, doctors, and patients of AHCs.