Finding a Physician Champion

Where will you find a physician champion? Begin with the active medical staff. Physicians will not relate as well to a retired physician champion, or to one coming from outside the medical staff. So, focus on the active physicians. Effectiveness increases the more that the physician champion is regarded as “one of us”.

Have you experienced "outside" physicians that have been effective championing initiatives on the medical staff? How did they do it? What made them effective?