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About the Healthcare Leadership Foundation

HLF develops ethical, patient-centered leaders across healthcare — clinicians, residents, and program leaders who can carry both the science and the spirit of medicine forward.

Developing Ethical Leaders Who Heal Healthcare

Healthcare needs leaders who can hold complexity, restore trust, and put patients first. We exist to develop them — not as a program graduates pass through, but as a practice they grow into over a career.

Our mission

To develop physician-leaders of character who build high-performing teams and deliver patient-centered care.

Our vision

A healthcare system led by people who serve patients first — and the colleagues, communities, and institutions that care for them.

Born from a Proven Model of Leadership Education

HLF grew out of the Feagin Leadership Program at Duke University, a model that has shaped a generation of physician-leaders. We built HLF to extend that work — to bring patient-centered leadership development to clinicians and program leaders across the country.

The Foundation of Our Work

Five values shape every program we run and every leader we develop.

Ethical Leadership

Character is the foundation of every leader we develop.

Patient-Centeredness

We start from what patients need and build leadership around it.

Service

Leadership in healthcare is a calling to serve others well.

Collaboration

Better outcomes come from teams that learn and lead together.

Continuous Learning

Leadership grows over a career, not over a single program.

Meet the Team Behind the Mission

HLF is led by a leadership team, an education team, and strategic advisors — clinicians, educators, and leaders united by a shared commitment to patient-centered leadership.