Through the ongoing support of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Academic Program and Practitioner Workshop (APPW) will once again bring together leaders from practice and academe to exchange information and to discuss issues that are crucial in educating future healthcare leaders.
The APPW will be held at the Marriott Marquis in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 7:30 - 11:30AM Central time during the 2026 ACHE Congress. It will begin with an opening breakfast keynote by Edward Jimenez, MBA, President and CEO Main Line Health. Two panels that will continue the discussion will follow.
A special thank you to Kimberly Enard, PhD, MBA, MSHA, FACHE, and Kevin Broom, PhD, MBA, who are leading the development of this year’s program. Visit this site frequently to stay up to date on the Workshop’s details.
ACHE/AUPHA JOINT KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
7:30 – 9:00AM Central Time
Edward Jimenez, MBA
President and CEO
Main Line Health, Pennsylvania
Leading with Stamina: Purposeful Resilience in a Shifting Healthcare Landscape
It is not uncommon for a healthcare administrator to field a comment that fits the following description: “It’s a difficult time to be a leader in healthcare.” And there is, indeed, a long list of complex situations and issues that leaders confront daily.
But “today” being difficult is not new. Leadership has been difficult for several generations. More than likely, the issues are more complex today, and quite possibly the list of issues is longer than ever. Leaders are therefore confronted with a truism: Leadership is hard every day; patient care is hard every day; the delivery of care by all inside of health systems is hard every day.
If this is true, stamina becomes a core skill that leaders need to develop. But stamina in leadership is more complex than the stamina that comes from athletic activity. Systems, approaches and team building are required to help healthcare leaders build the stamina needed to make tomorrow better than today.
About the Speaker
Edward Jimenez serves as the President and CEO of Main Line Health. Ed, a veteran healthcare executive with nearly 30 years of progressive leadership experience, joined the System in 2025. Ed has an exceptional track record of leadership, innovation and a deep commitment to fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence and continuous improvement.
Before joining Main Line Health, Ed served as President and CEO of University Hospital, a 500-bed academic medical center in Newark, New Jersey. Prior to University Hospital, Ed worked at UF Health for 12 years, first serving as the COO and then becoming the CEO, a role he held for nearly a decade. Over his career, Ed has held progressive senior leadership roles at St. Joseph’s Healthcare System, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and University Hospital (under its previous name as the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey).
Ed earned a Master of Business Administration from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Brandeis University in Massachusetts.
Ed is the Chair-Elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Council of Academic Health System Executives Administrative Board and currently holds several national board appointments. He also has faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University, University of Florida and Rutgers University.
