The Well-Being Connector

Mallory Salentine, MD is a pediatrician and the Medical Director for Provider Well-Being for the Primary Care Group at Children's Wisconsin. She is also the Associate Medical Director for Provider Well-Being for the System of Children's Wisconsin, as well as a leadership coach and consultant. Connect or inquire about coaching on Linkedin: Mallory Salentine Website: www.salentinecoachinga...

Dr. Sisi Hu is a labor economist with a Ph. D. from the University of Oxford and postdoctoral training at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy and the National Bureau of Economic Research. She specializes in modeling disruption and risks in labor markets, and is passionate about protecting the welfare of workers in the healthcare industry.  In her spare time, Sisi loves traveli...

Dr. Omayra Mansfield serves as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for AdventHealth Apopka, and she is also the Chief Medical Officer for the Physician Experience of the Central Florida Division of AdventHealth. She is Board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and a Fellow with the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Mansfield completed her medical degree and Maste...

In this episode, Michael Brown, MD, long-running host of The Well-Being Connector, sits down with Roy Reid, APR, for a candid and insightful conversation about the past, present, and future of the podcast. Brown and Reid shared their respective backgrounds that brought them to well-being and the roles they've shared in the work they do everyday. Brown and Reid share their experiences with pod...

Arlen Moller is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Cornell University (2000), and master’s degree and Ph. D. degree in social and personality psychology from the University of Rochester (2004 and 2007, respectively). His primary research interest involves promoting healthy lifes...

Sharee is a registered Psychologist, Executive Coach, Author and Meditation Teacher. She is the founder of Coaching for Doctors, Australia's first coaching practice dedicated solely to doctor development and in 2021 published her international best selling book The Thriving Doctor - How to be more balanced and fulfilled, working as a doctor. Sharee spends her days deep in coaching conversatio...

Lara Hochman, MD is a Family Medicine physician and advocate for fellow physicians’ well-being amidst rising burnout and dissatisfaction. Her own experiences led her to discover the ways physicians lost autonomy, and how to reclaim their focus on helping patients. She founded Happy Day Health, a boutique physician matchmaking agency to match doctors with well run, physician-owned private practices...

Dr. Joan McArthur-Blair, Co-President of Cockell McArthur-Blair Consulting is an inspirational writer, speaker and facilitator. She believes positive leadership matters in the world and all of her work is around enabling and fostering that generative possibility. Joan specializes in the use of appreciative inquiry and appreciative resilience to foster leadership development, strategic planning and...

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.  Over the past several years he has become a recognized leader and national speaker in the field of Caregiver burnout and...

Dr. Paul DeChant is a thought leader to C-level executives pursuing organizational well-being. He is an authority on reducing physician burnout by fixing dysfunction in the clinical workplace. He is co-author of the book, “Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine”, speaks internationally, and blogs regularly at www.pauldechantmd.com . Dr. DeChant...

Todd Richwine, DO is a family practice physician who serves as the Chief Medical Information Officer for the Texas Health Physicians Group.  He also serves on multiple committees and boards within Texas Health Resources and Southwestern Health Resources. Thanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of The Well-Being Connector at www.bethejoy.org/podcast .

Christina Maslach is a Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a core researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley.  She received her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College (1967), and her Ph. D. from Stanford University (1971), and has been on the Berkeley faculty since then.   Maslach is the pioneer of research on the definition, predictors a...

Angela Augusto is the Executive Director of Clinical Mission Integration at AdventHealth, a faith-based, non-profit health system serving communities in nine states. She is a driving force behind a compassionate and highly skilled clinical mission integration team, serving 60,000+ caregivers in hospitals, physician practices, cancer institutes, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities, and...

Craig Uthe, MD is the Physician Director of Professional Health at Sanford Health and Chief Wellbeing Officer of the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.  He had a full scope family practice for 25 year and during that time became certified in Addiction Medicine and in two personality assessments: Myers-Briggs and Hogan Assessment. Thanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of...

Dr. Jennifer Reid is a board-certified psychiatrist and award-winning medical educator with a private practice in Philadelphia. She also has a clinical faculty role at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Reid is a regular contributor to Psychology Today with her blog, “Think Like a Shrink” and writes and podcasts as The Reflective Doc. Thanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of The Well-Bein...

Dr. Omayra Mansfield serves as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for AdventHealth Apopka, and she is also the Chief Medical Officer for the Physician Experience of the Central Florida Division of AdventHealth. She is Board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and a Fellow with the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Mansfield completed her medical degree and Maste...

Dr. Robin Stern PhD is the Co-founder and Associate Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She is a licensed psychoanalyst with thirty years of experience treating individuals, couples, and families. She co-developed RULER, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by about 4000 public, charter, and private schools across the United States a...

Dr. Christine Porath is a tenured professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.  She’s the author of three books: Mastering Community, Mastering Civility, and The Cost of Bad Behavior. Thanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of The Well-Being Connector at www.bethejoy.org/podcast .

Until recently,  Bruce Bethancourt, MD, FACP was the Chief Medical Officer of the Dignity Health Medical Group in Arizona.  While there, he promoted professionalism and civility in his physicians.  These efforts included a systematic process of feedback and coaching for all of his physicians.  He also developed a National Physician and APP mentoring program for Common Spirit Health (the parent com...

Les Schwab, MD is a primary care physician with 40 years of experience in medical practice and healthcare organizational leadership. Most recently he served as the Chief Medical Office at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates.  Les has attained certification in coaching and now operates a coaching and consulting practice focused on performance improvement and leadership development.  He also served...

Mark T. Hughes, MD, MA is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He sees patients as a primary care physician and as an inpatient consultant in palliative medicine.  Since soon after the start of the pandemic, Mark has been co-facilitating an online session for health care workers...

Colin West, MD, PhD is currently Professor of Medicine, Medical Education, and Biostatistics at the Mayo Clinic. He directs the evidence-based medicine curriculum for the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and is Assistant Dean for GME Scholarship at Mayo.  Dr. West's research has focused on medical education and physician well-being, and he is Co-Director of the Mayo Clinic Program on Physi...

Yotam Dagan is a former Israeli Navy SEAL commander and a certified clinical psychologist with expertise in Combat stress reactions (PTSD) and hostage negotiations. He is the author of two books, and he recently founded Dugri Inc., a startup that builds a support network for healthcare workers. Thanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of The Well-Being Connector at www.bethejoy.org/podcast .

Pennie Sempell is the cofounder of StressPal, a Web-based, self-paced platform and peer-networking solution that uses concepts from mindfulness-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Cognitive Behavior Therapy to promote individual and team resilience. Thanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of The Well-Being Connector at www.bethejoy.org/podcast .

Dr. Neil Finkler currently serves as the chief clinical officer for the entire AdventHealth Central Florida Division and leads the entire continuum of clinical care across the seven-county region that includes nearly 6,000 physicians and advanced practice providers. Finkler joined AdventHealth Orlando in 1992 where he founded the gynecologic oncology program and fellowship program, he is a highly...