Wellbeing Checkup - Season 7

M. Katherine Shear, MD, discusses her top self-care methods that help her beat burnout.

Sajid Khan, MD, details a study examining racial disparities associated with gastrointestinal surgery.

Diversity in oncology nurse leadership is important for institutional health, according to Aliènne Salleroli, MS, BSN, RN, OCN.

Wellbeing, burnout, depression, and suicide all are important for physicians and must be addressed in the workplace and by individuals. While they may be discussed together and have some overlapping conditions, they are not the same thing, and one does not necessarily cause another. Christine Yu Moutier, MD, chief medical officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, sat down with Medical Economics to discuss some key differences between and among these three important issues.

Dr. Alok Patel is one busy clinician. He is a physician, journalist, and producer, a special correspondent for ABC News, who regularly appears as an on-camera expert for several news outlets, and co-host of PBS/NOVA’s “Patentalogic” show, a digital series on the science of parenting. He is also a pediatric hospitalist at Columbia University, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Francisco. One of his ways to absorb the daily stressors of his very busy life? Martial arts, which he does whenever it is needed, including during the 4 minutes he has before a child is being helicoptered in from another location for emergency help.

Dr. Paul Peloso discusses ways in which he maintains his wellness and avoids burnout during more stressful times.

CancerNetwork’s Audrey Sternberg spoke with Kirsten West, a naturopathic doctor who specializes in integrative oncology and recently joined the Riordan Clinic based in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. West has a Fellowship with the Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians and holds a Metabolic Approach to Cancer certificate from the Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health. In the interview, West talks about her strategies for keeping herself healthy in a demanding health care environment.

Psoriasis and other skin conditions have been associated with quality of life and mental health issues among patients. Effectively managing the physical and psychological burden of these conditions requires therapeutic management, but exercise and other self-care activities can also prove important to achieve positive outcomes. On today's Well-Being Checkup, Patrick Burnett, MD, PhD, FAAD, chief medical officer of Arcutis Biotherapeutics, speaks with The American Journal of Managed Care® on behavioral health risk factors for patients with skin diseases and nondrug-related strategies that may prove helpful in managing symptoms.

Nathan Allen, Senior Vice President – Healthcare Provider Solutions at Firstsource, discusses his love for the outdoors and how spending time with his family and furry friend outside in his Western New York hometown benefits his mental health and wellbeing. Nathan and his family also picked up cooking early in the COVID-19 pandemic to find something new and fun to do. They have continued to create recipes from scratch since. One of the many meals they make from scratch is homemade pasta and pasta sauce.

Jason Dinger, SVP of Strategy and Innovation at AmerisourceBergen, joins After Hours to discuss seeing the world one trail at a time.

How can we support our loved ones in active addiction? In this installment of Wellbeing Checkup, Alex Colyer, founder and president of The Albertus Project, discusses how we can help and empower our loved ones through their addiction and sobriety journey with compassion and support.

Detecting burnout is essential in healthcare providers, and though it is common, helping patients to liver better, longer lives is key in boosting clinicians’ mental health, explained Parissa Tabrizan, MD, MSc, a surgeon specializing in liver transplantation at Mount Sinai.

Heather Saunders, MPH, RN, CIC, infection preventionist, registered nurse, and mother to 2 young boys is busy…and sometimes very stressed, especially the last couple of years with the COVID-19 pandemic. So how does she save herself from burnout, practice self-care, find herself again? She tells Infection Control Today®.

Christine Schneider-Worliczek, RN the physiologic issues patients face after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and being admitted to the cancer ward.

Raj Chovatiya, MD, PhD, discusses the burnout associated with always saying yes. As a busy medical professional and a family man, he stresses the importance of deciding what is most important to you for your own wellbeing. The power of saying no gives Dr. Chovatiya more time with his kids and family and helps prioritize what is most important.

Pierluigi Porcu, MD, discusses the need the include a diverse population of patients when enrolling for clinical trials in oncology.

Betsy Charles, DVM, highlights a 3-pronged approach to improving veterinary wellness including personal responsibility coupled with community support that leads to change in broken systems. She shares what recently inspired her to approach wellbeing this way, how each component works together and is strong on their own, plus more.

Margaret Pericak-Vance, PhD, of the Miami University Miller School of Medicine, provided insight on ways to stay engaged and positive throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode of Wellbeing Checkup, Patricia Jakel, RN, MN, AOCN, and co–editor-in-chief of Oncology Nursing News®, highlights the importance of self-stewardship in oncology nursing.

Jan Bonhoeffer, MD, PhD, a global expert on infectious diseases and vaccine safety and a thought leader on efforts to transform how medical professionals care for their patients and themselves, discusses rates of burnout, divorce, and suicide rates among health care workers—particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic—and strategies clinicians can use to tend to their own mental health.

Vivienne Hau, MD, clinical assistant professor with the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, speaks with The American Journal of Managed Care® on the important role physicians have in curating an inclusive health care environment for all patients.

For early career clinicians, balancing responsibilities between personal life and a blossoming career can prove difficult. In this Wellbeing Check-up, Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, MPH, a trialist and co-director of Center for Implementation Science and staff cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, discusses what mental wellbeing means to him and how he makes it a priority to maintain his own.

Rosario Ligresti, MD, of Hackensack Meridian Health, discusses advancements in pancreatic cancer screening that could help detect the disease in earlier stages.

With the summer months finally upon us, the time has come for fun and frivolity. But, all that recreation also comes with its own risks. Ike Devji, founder and managing attorney at Pro Asset Protection, walks us through ways to limit your liability during these “100 deadly days.”

Matt Parker, vice president of products at Kyruus and HealthSparq, shares with MHE how he manages his wellbeing each day through activity like walks through nature with his dog, an Australian Shephard, Remy, before and after work. Parker added that making time to separate work with his personal life is crucial to his mental health as these walks really help him clear his head and remember what’s important in life.