Bill Satterwhite
J.D., M.D., CPE Contact Bill SatterwhiteDr. Satterwhite brings more than 25 years of experience as a pediatrician, physician administrator, healthcare executive, and innovator as he leads healthcare organizations through performance improvement and care transformation. He has deep experience in ambulatory care process improvement and in designing new value-based care models, both of which save money, improve health, and increase health system revenues.
With decades of experience in healthcare, Bill led health system change from the inside as a practicing doctor and health system leader and understands what it is like to work in the trenches. His experiences give him unique insights into strategic and operational aspects of healthcare that accelerate change and improve adoption. At Huron, Bill has been involved in several health system turn-a-rounds, cultural change initiatives, and market growth strategies. Prior to Huron, he served as a regional physician leader for over 40 primary care practices, served as the Chief Wellness Officer at a major academic institution, and built a direct-to-employer service line that saved client-employers money, improved employee health, and resulted in significant network growth for his health system. Bill still sees pediatric patients and maintains an active law license. He also served a stint as the CEO of a health tech startup that he co-founded.
Industry speaking engagements
Dr. Satterwhite is an active, engaging, and entertaining speaker who has spoken nationally on physician leadership, healthcare innovation, compassion, direct care models for employers, provider wellness, and burnout. His speaking engagements include the following:
- Building a Culture of Compassion Keynote Address, Clinician Excellence Conference in New Orleans, March 2024
- Forces of Change and the Need to Innovate Keynote address and Strategy and Innovation Workshop for Dayton Children’s Hospital physician leaders, September 2023
- Decoding the Patient Experience, November 2023
- How to be a Peace-Filled Person, HIMSS (NC), January 2023
- Understanding, Communicating With, and Aligning Physicians, 2022
- The Nurse-Health Coach Direct Care Model, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, March 2021
Areas of Expertise
- Care Transformation
- Organizational Transformation
- Strategy and Innovation
Industries
- Healthcare
Professional Associations
- American Association for Physician Leadership
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- American Health Law Association
Education & Certifications
- M.D., Wake Forest University
- J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- B.A., Davidson College
- North Carolina medical license
- North Carolina law license
- CPE
Speaking Topics List
- Change Management and Leadership
- Leadership
- Resilience and Well-Being
- Physician Alignment and Engagement
- Strategy and Innovation
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Top Presentations
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Building a culture of compassion
Audience: Doctors, Nurses, and other Clinicians Focus: Leadership, Communication, Engagement, Inspiration and Purpose Length: KeynoteThis talk draws on published literature and Dr. Satterwhite’s personal experience with patients. It aims to reconnect clinicians to their purpose for a healthcare practitioner and to convey that acts of compassion are good medicine, as well as the antidote to burnout.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the sound science behind engaging in acts of compassion.
- Provide teaching on the power and brevity of replicable acts of compassion in the listener’s daily work life.
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Forces of change and the need to innovate
Audience: All Leaders, All Healthcare Roles Focus: Leadership, Change Management, Engagement Length: Keynote, Half-dayThis talk starts with client-led sessions and small group work on innovative changes clients should consider as they face increasing competition in their market. The keynote begins with non-healthcare examples of disruptive innovations, shifts to healthcare disruptive innovations, and then elaborates on inflection points and the need to change.
Learning Objectives:
- Be able to describe the natural and inevitable process of innovation.
- Apply that concept to healthcare
- Develop concrete actions to foster innovations within their health system.
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Using workplace healthcare to address social determinants of health
Audience: All Leaders, All Healthcare Roles Focus: Inspiration and Purpose, Innovation, Quality, SDOH Length: KeynoteThis talk reveals how an employer’s worksite can be a place to address the social determinants of health of the working class. Learn how to build a direct-to-employer service line that improves health, saves employers money, and improves a health system’s bottom line. The model also improves clinician engagement and lessens provider burnout.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact of SDOH on the working class
- Learn how to build your own direct-to-employer service line
- Describe how this model addresses the needs of the employer, the employee, and the health system.
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