Physician Burnout Symposium
Speakers
Anoop Kumar MD, MMgt
Anoop Kumar is a member of the homo sapiens species. His body is comprised of tens of trillions of cells.
Dr. Benjamin F. Miller, PsyD
Dr. Benjamin F. Miller, PsyD is the Chief Strategy Officer for Well Being Trust, a national foundation committed to advancing the mental, social and spiritual health of the nation.
Christal Ramos, PhD MPH
Christal leads the team that has been contracted by ONC to develop the EHR Reporting Program. She is a health services researcher and has played a key role in a number of federal research, evaluation and technical assistance contracts focused on health information technology, payment and delivery system reforms, health care quality and equity.
Elisa Arespacochaga, MBA
Elisa Arespacochaga is vice president of the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Physician Alliance, a strategic initiative launched as part of the AHA’s ongoing mission to improve the health of patients and communities.
Harris Onugha Co-Founder of Without The White Coat
Harris is an aspiring pediatrician inspired by the stories of his fellow healthcare providers. In his journey through medicine, he's observed a culture of sacrifice that limits our self expression, compromises well-being, and diminishes our complex, vibrant, and dynamic identities. This experience led him to co-found Without The White Coat.
Dr. Heather Farley
As the first Chief Wellness Officer for ChristianaCare in Newark, DE, Dr. Farley’s focus is on advancing the professional fulfillment and wellbeing of healthcare workers.
J. Bryan Sexton, PhD
Dr. Sexton is an Associate Professor and Director, Duke Center for Healthcare Safety & Quality, Duke University Health System
Janae Sharp
Janae is the Founder of the Sharp Index, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing physician suicide and burnout.
Jason Onugha Co-Founder of Without The White Coat
As a psychiatry resident at Northwestern, Jason is committed wholeheartedly to entering vulnerable spaces alongside his patients and advocating fiercely with his colleagues on their behalf. He's co-founded Without The White Coat, an organization dedicated to humanizing medicine and strengthening the medical community.
Jessica Gold
Jessica (“Jessi”) Gold, M.D., M.S., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, where she works at the Habif Health and Wellness Center seeing undergraduate and graduate students as patients and teaches medical students and residents.
Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW
International speaker, best-selling author of Suicide in Schools, President of the American Association of Suicidology, and associate professor at Loyola University Chicago
Kevin D. Hopkins
Dr. Hopkins has been a Staff Physician in the Department of Family Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic since 2005. He is also the Primary Care Medical Director for Cleveland Clinic Community Care, the Cleveland Clinic’s population health institute.
Megan Ranney MD MPH FACEP
Megan Ranney MD MPH FACEP is a practicing emergency physician, federally funded researcher, and nationally-recognized public health innovator. She is the Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, a joint venture between Brown University and Lifespan health system.
Dr. Mona Masood
Dr. Mona Masood, DO is an American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certified general outpatient psychiatrist practicing in the greater Philadelphia area. She is a board member of Muslim Wellness Foundation, an American nonprofit mental health awareness and education organization.
Dr. Nicole Fisher
Nicole Fisher is the founder and President of Health & Human Rights Strategies, a health care and human rights-focused advising firm in Washington, D.C. She is also a global health policy advisor and expert on health technology and human behavior.
Paul DeChant, M.D., M.B.A.
Dr. DeChant advises C-level leaders on transforming organizations to enhance clinician well-being, based on his experience as CEO of a 300-physician group. He speaks internationally on the subject and is co-author of Preventing Physician Burnout.
Perry Lin, MD, FACP
Perry Lin, MD, FACP is an Assistant Program Director in Internal Medicine at Mount Carmel Health System, Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Co-Chair of the Physician Suicide Awareness Committee at the American Association for Suicidology.
Rachel Reinhart Taylor M.D.
Dr. Taylor is board certified in Family Medicine and author of "Medication Detox: How to Live Your Best Health"
Read Pierce, MD
Read Pierce, MD, is a practicing internist and lead faculty for the National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare and the Institute for Healthcare Excellence.
Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, FAAN
Dr. Rhonda Collins is the Chief Nursing Officer at Vocera, where she works with nurses, physicians, and other hospital leaders to improve the safety and well-being of patients and clinicians by improving communication and reducing cognitive overload.
Ronald A. Paulus, MD
Ronald A. Paulus, MD, is President and CEO of RAPMD Strategic Advisors, Executive In Residence with General Catalyst and immediate past President and CEO of Mission Health, a $2 billion integrated health system serving all of western North Carolina.
Shawn C. Jones, MD, FACS
Dr Jones wrote of his personal journey with burnout in his book, Finding Heart in Art: A Surgeon’s Renaissance Approach to Healing Modern Medical Burnout. He has spoken on burnout at the ACGME, at multiple universities and hospital systems.
Thomas Mason, MD
Dr. Thomas Mason is Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As CMO he is a health IT and stakeholder ambassador for ONC, routinely meeting with clinicians in the field and advocates across the healthcare industry, focusing on improving health IT usability, reducing clinician burden, and advancing ONC’s mission to improve data use and its availability across the health care spectrum.
Todd Dunn
Todd Dunn is the Director of Innovation; Intermountain Healthcare Transformation Lab at Intermountain Health
Dr. Wendy Dean
Wendy Dean, MD is the President/CEO, and cofounder of The Moral Injury of Healthcare, a nonprofit organization addressing the crisis of clinician distress.
William Maples, MD
Dr. Maples is President and Chief Executive Officer The Institute for Healthcare Excellence