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Presenting Sponsor:
Healthcare Burnout Symposium
2023 Distinguished Faculty
Mark Allen
Mark Allen is the CTO of Cobalt Innovations, Inc. He has served as the technical lead of the Cobalt platform at the University of Pennsylvania Health System since its inception in 2020 and has managed the recent rollouts of Cobalt to NYU Langone and Dartmouth Health.
Elisa Arespacochaga, MBA
Elisa Arespacochaga is vice president, clinical affairs and workforce at the American Hospital Association. In her role, Elisa supports the workforce strategy efforts of the association, focused on strengthening the current health care workforce and planning for the workforce needed for the future.
Jana Boehmer, MSM, RD/N
Jana Boehmer is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is a Clinical Champion for Employee Whole Health in the VHA Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation (OPCC&CT) with her primary focus as the Co-Lead of the Chief Well-Being Officer Program.
Tammie Chang, MD
Dr. Tammie Chang is the Medical Director of MutliCare Provider Wellness in Tacoma, Washington, a board-certified Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, and co-founder of Pink Coat, MD an innovative, digital platform designed to help women physicians thrive...
Rebecca Chickey, MPH
Rebecca B. Chickey, MPH is the American Hospital Association's Senior Director, Behavioral Health. In this role she serves as the AHA field engagement, strategic behavioral health expert -- a priority area for the AHA.
Scott A. Cook, MD. MPH
Scott A. Cook, MD, MPH. is an author, physician, businessman, and international lecturer. Currently, Dr. Cook is Medical Director & Chief Medical Officer at multiple addiction & mental health organizations. Dr Cook lectures on avoiding professional burnout and creating world-class corporate cultures. An avid traveler, Dr. Cook has visited more than 50 countries and lectured in many. He has published brain exercise books for both adults and children.
Cecilia Cruz, MD, MPH, FACEP, CPCC, ACC
Dr. Cecilia Cruz is the founder and CEO of MARPE, LLC, a Co-active Mental fitness coaching company for physicians. MARPE provides physicians and other healthcare workers with the tools they need to define their best pathway to career joy and satisfaction, to be transformational leaders, to successfully adapt to the changing world of medicine, and to consistently generate positively impactful interactions.
Bruce Cummings, MPH, LFACHE
Bruce D. Cummings, a Colby College and Yale School of Public Health
graduate,is a distinguished healthcare leader with over 40 years of experience --
27 of them as a hospital CEO. He is the retired CEO of Lawrence + Memorial
Healthcare and Executive VP of Yale New Haven Health. Along with Paul
DeChant, MD,MBA, Bruce co-founded Organizational Wellbeing Solutions, LLC.
graduate,is a distinguished healthcare leader with over 40 years of experience --
27 of them as a hospital CEO. He is the retired CEO of Lawrence + Memorial
Healthcare and Executive VP of Yale New Haven Health. Along with Paul
DeChant, MD,MBA, Bruce co-founded Organizational Wellbeing Solutions, LLC.
Michellene Davis, Esq
Michellene Davis, Esq. is the President and CEO of National
Medical Fellowships and former Executive Vice President and
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ)
Barnabas Health.
Medical Fellowships and former Executive Vice President and
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ)
Barnabas Health.
Corey Feist, JD, MBA
J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA is a health care executive with over 20 years of experience. Corey is the Co-Founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation and Corey currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Virginia Physicians Group, the medical group practice of UVA Health comprised of 1200+ physicians and advanced practice providers.
Thea Gallagher, PsyD
Thea Gallagher, PsyD, is a nationally recognized psychologist and anxiety specialist and is an assistant professor and digital mental health, outcomes, and wellness coordinator in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Health. She is also the director of the Cobalt wellness platform at NYU Langone Health.
Mary Gallagher-Seaman
Mary Gallagher-Seaman is a Registered Nurse Whole Health consultant working on the Employee Whole Health team within the Veterans Health Administration’s Employee Whole Health team.
Mary joined VA in 2005 and has held progressive leadership roles in nursing.
Mary joined VA in 2005 and has held progressive leadership roles in nursing.
Kevin Hopkins. MD
Dr. Kevin Hopkins has been a Staff Physician in the Department of Family Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic since 2005. Dr. Hopkins also serves as Primary Care Medical Director for Cleveland Clinic Community Care, the Cleveland Clinic’s primary care, population health institute.
Jill Jin, MD, MPH
Dr Jill Jin is a practicing internist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, a Senior Physician Advisor for Professional Satisfaction & Practice Sustainability at the American Medical Association, and an associate editor for JAMA.
Stephanie Jones-Wood, MPH
Stephanie has a Masters of Public Health from UCLA. After graduating from UCLA, Stephanie joined the CDC in Atlanta, GA as Public Health Fellow were, she gained expertise strategic planning, organizational development, and management of national and international chronic and infectious disease programs. While working on public health systems issues, Stephanie was introduced to quality improvement which in time became the bridge for her transition to healthcare.
Michael P Leiter, PhD
Michael P Leiter, PhD (U of Oregon) MA (Vanderbilt) BA (Duke), an expert on the psychology of work, was Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health and Wellness at Acadia University in Canada and Professor of Organisational Psychology at Deakin University in Melbourne Australia.
Russell Libby, M.D., FAAP
Founder and president of the Virginia Pediatric Group, Fairfax, Virginia. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine and The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and a board member of the Physicians Foundation.
Thom Mayer, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FACHE
Dr. Mayer is the medical director for the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA); the founder of BestPractices, Inc.; the chief executive officer (CEO) of Survival Skills Solutions; a medical director for Huron | Studer Group; a clinical professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University; and a senior lecturing fellow at Duke University.
Caroline McEneaney, JD, MA
Caroline is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research. Her research focuses on scalable mental health interventions and global mental health.
Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, PhD, APRN-CNP, FAANP, FNAP, FAAN
Dr. Bern Melnyk is Vice President for Health Promotion, University Chief Wellness Officer, Dean and Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Evidence-based Practice at The Ohio State University where she also is Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry in the College of Medicine and Executive Director of the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice (EBP).
Jeffrey Ring PhD
Jeffrey Ring is a health psychologist, leadership coach and health justice
champion. He is the first author of the book, Curriculum for Culturally
Responsive Healthcare: The Step-by-Step Guide for Cultural Competence
Training.
champion. He is the first author of the book, Curriculum for Culturally
Responsive Healthcare: The Step-by-Step Guide for Cultural Competence
Training.
Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH
Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale University and completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine (IM) at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In the role of chief wellness officer, Dr. Ripp oversees efforts to assess and provide direction for system- and individual-level interventions designed to improve well-being for all students, residents, fellows, and faculty in the Mount Sinai Health System.
Susan Scott, PhD, RN, CPPS,FAAN
Susan D. Scott is a Nurse Scientist at MU Health Care and deployed the 'first-of-its-kind' rapid response team of emotional first aid for healthcare professionals suffering as second victims. The "forYOU" Team uses peer support to ensure comprehensive/holistic care for the suffering individual(s). This support model has been emulated worldwide.
Jeremy Segall, MA, RDT, LCAT
Jeremy Segall, MA, RDT, LCAT is the System Chief Wellness Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal public healthcare system in the nation. He oversees wellness including employee well-being response efforts and engagement strategy, governing the system’s wellness programming, person-centered certification, and care experience portfolios consisting of the enterprise's customer service values.
Bryan Sexton, PhD
Bryan is the Director of the Duke Center for Healthcare Safety and Quality. He leads the efforts around research and training that guide our quality improvement and well-being activities.
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