title: Physician executives breaking out of middle management.
abstract: Physician executives are slowly moving into top management jobs, holding the same stature on senior management teams as chief financial officers and executive vice presidents. Learn how the role of the physician executive is evolving and how opportunities are expanding for even more physicians to assume the top-level posts.
authors.affiliation: Witt/Kieffer, St. Louis, USA. maryl@wittkieffer.com
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Lyons
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D007587:Job Description; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States