Dr. Margaret Cary is President of The Cary Group, an executive coaching, training, facilitation and public speaking firm. She started her professional career as a family physician in Santa Rosa and has moved through nearly every facet of health care – private practice; emergency department management; turn-around expert for an occupational medicine clinic; television program developer and co-host; senior executive in President Clinton’s administration; envisioner, developer and Director of Community of Champions, the national physician leadership development initiative in the Veterans Health Administration; medical director of a $200M medical communications company; employee #6 in a medical device startup and author of Telemedicine and Telehealth: Principles, Policies, Performance and Pitfalls. She is a credentialed and certified leadership coach (PCC), a member of the National Speakers Association and of the International Women’s Forum. She is a faculty member at Georgetown and George Washington universities’ medical schools. She combines her understanding of the critical importance of effective communication, emotional intelligence and leadership and management skills in physician leadership development with practical knowledge of how organizations work. As an executive coach for physicians, Dr. Cary’s clients value her honesty, insight, evidence-based approach, understanding of the challenges in being a physician and ability to help them understand their strengths and how to use them in increasing their management and leadership effectiveness. Dr. Cary adds to healthcare’s improvement one physician at a time.