American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL)

They are the American Association for Physician Leadership, and They provide physicians the knowledge and skills required to become better leaders. In fact, they are the only professional organization in the world that solely focuses on providing leadership education, management training and career development designed for the physician workforce (and the organizations they represent). From our beginning, they have been committed to educating, training and supporting physicians of all types, encouraging them to assume leadership and management opportunities within the global health care industry. They train thousands of physicians every year, and have approximately 10,000 active members (across 40 countries) at any given time – including CEOs, chief medical officers, vice presidents of medical affairs and others at all levels of organizations.

Mission:
To expand the impact of physician leadership that embraces and promotes inter-professionalism, ultimately improving health care globally by independently and collaboratively innovating and delivering exceptional offerings.

Vision:
The Association is the world's premier organization for all aspects of physician leadership in every sector of health care.