You are invited to UVA's next Medical Center Hour, THE STIGMA OF CLINICIAN BURNOUT: BREAKING THROUGH THE CULTURE OF SILENCE, on Wednesday, 21 October 2020, 12:00-1:00 pm, on Zoom.
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic's extraordinary stresses for front-line healthcare
workers, doctors and nurses in the U.S. were experiencing high rates of depression,
anxiety, and PTSD—and dying by suicide at twice the rate of the general population.
But healthcare workforce burnout made major media headlines in April 2020 with the
death by suicide of New York City-based emergency medicine physician and Covid
survivor Dr. Lorna Breen. This Medical Center Hour examines legislative efforts sparked
by Dr. Breen’s death to reduce stigmatization of health professionals’ mental health
needs and calls for healthcare organizations—and individual doctors and nurses—to
develop real strategies to address burnout’s root causes and create workplace cultures
that truly and sustainably care for the health and well-being of those who serve.
The Medical Center Hour will feature:
Jennifer B. Feist JD, Founder, Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, Charlottesville VA
J. Corey Feist JD MBA, Co-founder, Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation and Chief Executive Officer, UVA Physicians Group, UVA
Pam Cipriano PhD RN NEA-BC FAAN, Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor and Dean, School of Nursing, UVA
A. Bobby Chhabra MD, Lillian T. Pratt Distinguished Professor and Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery and President, UVA Physicians Group, UVA
A Zoom Webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86828545236 Passcode: 439854
Medical Center Hour programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more information, see Center for Health Humanities and Ethics: https://med.virginia.edu/biomedical-ethics/medical-center-hour/ Watch Medical Center Hour recordings at http://www.youtube.com/uvamch