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Stephen Beeson

Stephen Beeson

Founder Practicing Excellence

Dr. Beeson began his career as a family medicine physician with the Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego in 1994. In 2001, Sharp HealthCare selected him as medical director for the "Sharp Experience," focused on exceptional care and experiences for patients and care teams. He worked for more than a decade to design, develop, and deploy a system-wide skill development approach to transform culture, deliver results, and bring the Sharp Experience to life. During his tenure, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group reduced clinician attrition by over 80%, increased clinician engagement above the 95th percentile, and advanced patient experience from the 6th to the 93rd percentile. Dr. Beeson personally achieved scores in the 99th percentile for a decade straight. He has authored two best-selling books: Practicing Excellence: A Physician's Manual to Exceptional Healthcare and Engaging Physicians: A Manual to Physician Partnership. In 2013, he founded Practicing Excellence to help organizations scale skill building and drive measurable results. Practicing Excellence has supported tens of thousands of clinicians, teams, and leaders across the U.S. and produced over 15 case studies. Practicing Excellence partners with healthcare systems and medical groups, combining strategic and operational expertise with technology and content, to help achieve meaningful outcome

The Integrated Human Experience in Healthcare: Designing Seamless Patient & Workforce Journeys

3:40 PM Partner Keynote: Engaging Physicians To Improve Patient Experience: Virtua Health's Joruney

Improving patient experience requires more than training programs and performance metrics; it requires engaged physicians, aligned leaders, and a culture that supports lasting behavior change. Join Practicing Excellence Founder Stephen Beeson, MD, and Sam Weiner, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Virtua Health Medical Group, as they share how Virtua Health partnered with Practicing Excellence to engage physicians, strengthen culture, and translate learning into everyday behaviors that improve the patient and colleague experience. Hear how this approach has contributed to measurable improvements in physician and nurse communication, colleague engagement, and organizational performance. Discover how Virtua is building on this success with personalized, technology-powered coaching through Wexl, meeting physicians where they are while connecting individual development to broader patient experience goals.  

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