CPE Circle: 2026 Healthcare CPE & CMO Networking Event
Spring TBA
Spring TBA
Engage Directly with Health System Leaders
As healthcare grows more complex, Chief Physician Executives face mounting challenges. Leading through these shifts requires a trusted network of peers who understand the realities of modern healthcare leadership and can help navigate what’s next.
The Health Management Academy’s Chief Physician Executive (CPE) Circle, a highly curated physician executive conference, brings together system-level leaders from independent and integrated health systems alongside select industry innovators. Held in an intimate, retreat-style setting, members engage in peer-led discussions, share best practices, and co-develop strategies that drive measurable impact. With continuing education accreditation and a 1:1 health system-to-industry ratio, the CPE Circle offers a private environment for authentic dialogue, practical insight, and enduring professional growth.
Upcoming Event Dates and Locations
For over 25 years, The Health Management Academy has convened health system C-suite leaders and select industry executives, curating two-way conversations, collaborative problem solving and thought leadership sharing.
Health System Forum Members
What Sets the CPE Circle Apart
Member-Driven Content, Curated for CPEs: All our meetings are built around the priorities that matter most to today’s healthcare CPEs. Members shape forum content to reflect their top priorities, such as navigating changes in Medicaid funding to system leadership for better clinical and organizational outcomes.
The Right People, in the Right Room: Attendees include health system CPEs from regional health systems like Baptist Health Care, Children’s Minnesota, and Loma Linda University Health, alongside key industry leaders - typically CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and product and strategy executives. All participants are hand-selected based on their ability to contribute meaningfully to the conversation.
A Forum Built for Relationships: Reception-style dinners and informal social gatherings welcome friends and family and facilitate long-term relationship building.
True Partnership: This is a peer-to-peer forum. The industry executives who attend want to listen, contribute insights, and build lasting connections with CPEs facing similar challenges.
The THMA Difference Lies in Access, Intentional Design, and a Strict Focus on Community
The CPE Circle creates a purpose-built space for executive-level engagement. Every session, social setting, and touchpoint is curated to foster meaningful, candid dialogue between fellow health system CPEs and select industry innovators, most commonly CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and strategic product leaders.
Industry Forum Members
Topics include:
Navigating the New Policy Landscape: The political environment is creating uncertainty around Medicaid funding, 340B programs, and regulatory changes. CPEs need strategic guidance on preparing for these shifts while maintaining quality care.
Strengthening CFO-CPE Partnerships: How can CPEs improve collaboration between physician leaders and finance teams, from shared ROI frameworks to innovative revenue cycle approaches?
Digital Leadership in the AI Era: As healthcare technology rapidly evolves, physician executives need frameworks for leading digital transformation initiatives and leveraging AI tools effectively.
Systems Thinking for Better Outcomes: CPEs are seeking robust implementation science approaches and frameworks for managing complex challenges, from adverse events to organizational change.
The CPE Circle Experience
Each CPE Circle is a 2.5-day immersive experience with member-led sessions focusing on real-time challenges and forward-looking strategies. The Health Management Academy’s Fall 2025 CPE Circle provides original insights and analysis of today’s most pressing issues in revenue, patient care, and technology innovation.
Our Convening Experiences
Extending Value Beyond the CPE Circle Healthcare Networking Event
Members gain access to a year-round ecosystem of insights and engagement through THMA’s Executive Insights Hub. This digital platform discusses trends and challenges unique to strategic planning, as well as trending CXO priorities, from large health systems across the country. Our other year-round resources include:
Quarterly Trend Reports: Digestible insights and follow-ups from live briefings and proprietary research.
Executive Edge: A Sunday evening digest with quick-read summaries of industry-impacting events.
Post-Forum Debriefs: Key takeaways and insights from our Forums - useful even for teammates who did not attend.
Healthcare Bootcamp: A library of short videos and modules to onboard new team members or sharpen your team’s healthcare knowledge.
About The Health Management Academy
Since 1998, The Health Management Academy has cultivated the premier membership-based community of healthcare’s most influential CXOs from top U.S. health systems, as well as decision makers from innovative industry companies.
We cultivate exceptional peer groups, providing original market insights, world-class leadership development programs, and novel member alliances to more than 2,000 health system senior executives and 200 industry organizations.
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Health System Executives
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Health System C-Suite Members
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Of U.S. Physicians
