Infectious diseases and vaccine safety expert Dr. Jan Bonhoeffer discusses strategies health care professionals can use to ensure they are tending to their own mental health.
Lifestyle
Amber Orman, MD, DipABLM, highlights the role physical activity plays in maintaining her mental health, especially concerning all of the joy and grief that comes with being a radiation oncologist. In particular, she loves outdoor activities such as trail running, rowing, and cycling. She also speaks to the role a plant-based diet plays in her and her family’s life and how she supports this lifestyle through her love of gardening.
Dr. Yehuda Handelsman discusses how he has maintained his mental wellbeing throughout his career as a practicing endocrinologist who has served as president of the AACE and currently serves the medical director and principal investigator of The Metabolic Institute of America.
This episode of After Hours features Dr Heather Kvitko-White, DVM, DACVIM, as she shares her love for ice skating and her path to playing recreational hockey.
On this episode of After Hours, Theresa Craig, RN, an infusion nurse at Saint Vincent Hospital, joins us to discuss her work with a local animal rescue shelter.
Managed Healthcare Executive speaks with Inovalon Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Paige Killian about how expanding her reading further than it typically goes and even her language has created a sense of mental wellbeing and a better understanding of our world. A subject of literature Dr. Killian has been reading more of has been focused on history, more specifically of different countries. She also shared that she is learning Italian.
Mike Middleton, MD, leads a busy life. As well as serving as the Director of Nuclear Medicine and Professor of Radiology at the Scott & White Clinic/Texas A&M Health Science Center, he is also an award-winning accordion player. When he’s not with his patients, you can find him on the cover of accordion magazines and playing at local festivals.
Two esteemed maternal-fetal medicine specialists, Joshua Copel, MD, and Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PHD, share their hobbies, including tennis and reading.
Sonia Jhas, a Health and Wellness Expert for busy health care professionals, talks about layering in self-care so that you can recharge and regroup. To do this, she recommends strategies such as journaling, brief meditation, and breathwork exercises that can be done anywhere.
Dr. Michael Birrer explains how deer hunting entered his life while growing up in New Jersey and how he still makes time for it today.
Peter Durlach, chief strategy officer of Nuance, shares with Managed Healthcare Executive how he cares for his wellbeing during tough times, like coping with the after effects of the COVID-19 pandemic or just a long, hard day’s work. Durlach shared he looks to the companionship and excitement of his golden retriever when he comes home and enjoys its company by playing and walking the dog along with his wife and kids. He shared his dog has been his saving grace because its full of positive energy, radiates purity and is always happy to see you.
Sebastián Herrera, MD, of Clínica Las Américas Auna and ARTMEDICA joins After Hours to discuss his passions of playing guitar, music, podcasting about rheumatology.
On this episode of After Hours, we are featuring Dr. Marc Rosenberg, who can be seen at the clinic as the director of Voorhees Veterinary Center in New Jersey, or on the court sinking shots as a basketball star.
Burnout is uniquely pervasive in medicine, regardless of specialty, making physicians more susceptible than the average person. Matthew T. Siedhoff, MD, MSCR, discusses warning signs to watch for and shares his habit-hacking tips to refocus your routines and bring wellness back into your life.
In this episode of After Hours, Gretchen A. McNally, PhD, ANP-BC, AOCNP, a nurse practitioner scientist with The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute of Ohio State University, joins Oncology Nursing News® to discuss and compete in the daily word puzzle, Wordle, that has taken the internet by storm.
Daniel J. Lovell joins Wellbeing Checkup to discuss how he has maintained his wellbeing and avoided burnout?
Steven Eisenberg, DO, a San Diego-based oncologists at California Care Associates for Research & Excellence, has a passion for singing and songwriting, which he shares with patients and with the world.
This Wellbeing Checkup features Dr. Shelgikar sharing her tips and tricks for how she maintains her mental health, as well as her hobbies outside of the clinic, which include prioritizing her sleep health, reading, and playing tennis.
Jessica Vanhouten started her own Dungeons & Dragons dice business because she wanted more and more custom dice for role playing games, but the skills she learned there led her to a job finishing dentures in a Wisconsin dental lab.
April Kapu, a Vanderbilt professor, acute care nurse practitioner (NP) based in Nashville, TN, and president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), who is here to discuss the future of the nurse practitioner workforce amid healthcare staffing burnout and the extreme fatigue and stress of the pandemic.
Is it true that taking 10 minutes every day to practice self-care can reduce the risk of burnout? Urologist and life coach Diana Londoño, MD, believes so. In a recent interview, she discusses how urologists can practice wellness on a daily basis. Londoño is a urologic oncology surgeon and assistant clinical professor in the department of surgery at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California.
Biotricity CEO Dr. Waqaas Al-Siddiq discusses his unique hobby of playing polo and how it not only helps him to relax, but that it forces him to focus on just one thing and not multitask. He offers some insights on playing the game as well as the care of the horses and some insights into the game for those who are not familiar with it.
Veterinary technician Walter Brown explains how he began his comedy career and how he uses his sense of humor to make clients feel at ease about their pet’s care.
As health care providers, we are often so busy helping and healing others that we forget to help and heal ourselves. In this episode of Wellbeing Checkup, Frank A. Clark, MD, discusses the importance of mindfulness and the things that keep him healthy in mind, body, and spirit.
In this episode, we’ll hear one of our associates at Medical Economics interview Dr. Michael DeGeorgia, a neurologist at University Hospitals of Cleveland and founding director of the Center for Music and Medicine. Dr. DeGeorgia became interested in the drums as a child, but stopped playing while getting his medical education. His passion reignited while organizing medical conferences in the early 2000s, and in 2006 decided to form his own rock and roll band, The Codes, made up entirely of fellow physicians. Dr. DeGeorgia is also intrigued by music’s use as a therapeutic tool for people who have experienced brain injury.
Stress is the root cause of so many of our chronic conditions, and chronic stress can wreak havoc on the body. In this episode of Wellbeing Checkup, Jennifer Bourgeois, PharmD, a clinical pharmacist and founder of Well and Free, LLC, shares her tips for managing chronic stress, prioritizing rest, and practicing self-care.
Burnout isn’t just a personal issue – combating burnout should be a top priority of companies and organizations as a whole, with a community-first approach. Christopher Mattern, MD, joins Wellbeing Checkup to discuss.
Writing for general readers can be a very rewarding experience. William H. Reid, MD, MPH, walks us through the process of writing and publishing fiction and nonfiction books, plus how you can get started.
This interview discusses William “Bill” Loeffler and his outside hobby of competing in triathlons and climbing the Adirondacks.
Cedric Steiner is a licensed nursing home administrator in Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. He’s also a consultant who specializes in building ventilation and how properly ventilated buildings are crucial in the battle against infection. Outside of work, he details his interest and hobby in beekeeping.
