102. Dr. Hudson Garrett and Karen Niven of the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP) on Innovation, Membership Recruitment, and Succession Planning

How do you ensure that your organization is forward facing? How do you inspire Board members to be involved in recruiting new members? How do you make sure that the next set of leaders will be well trained and focused on the strategic plan?In this episode of Associations Thrive, host Joanna Pineda interviews Dr. Hudson Garrett, ED & EVP and Karen Niven, President of the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP). Dr. Hudson and Karen discuss:How healthcare value analysis professionals work to improve the overall patient experience, reduce costs within the system, and make healthcare affordable and available for all.How Karen is a nurse by training and how she found a home and her people in the AHVAP community.How Karen was motivated to become a board member because through her training as a nurse, she learned that you always leave organizations and places better than how you found it.How good relations between the chief staff executive and the board really power associations to success.How these good relations are the result of trust and dedication towards a shared goal.How AHVAP recently held a Future Summit that brought together people from all organization types, levels, and functions in healthcare to talk about clinical innovations and making healthcare better.How they reached out to an academic partner to help them document what they discussed during the summit to hopefully encourage more research.How a lot of innovation is coming from the industry partners, so they can’t be excluded from the conversation just because they aren’t doctors, nurses, or working in hospitals.How the board has a very active role to play in the recruiting of new member. Karen, as board chair, expects board members to post about what AHVAP is doing, as well as post about AHVAP membership to their networks. AHVAP provides toolkits for board members to use, including graphics and messaging.How Karen and Hudson are working together to ensure that when the next set of leaders come in, they will be well trained and laser focused on the AHVAP mission.References:AHVAP WebsiteAHVAP Annual Conference and Industry Partner Expo