Hope for Healthcare

I was privileged to interview our repeat distinguished guest Dr. Thom Mayer, who is the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association. Dr. Mayer is one of the most widely-sought speakers on healthcare patient experience, leadership and management, hardwiring flow, trauma and emergency care, pediatric emergency care, EMS/disaster medicine, and sports medicine. His work in each of these areas has...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Andrew McLean recently on Hope for Healthcare!    Dr. McLean is Clinical Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Associate Dean for Wellness at UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences.  He has lectured internationally on pertinent behavioral and public health issues. Dr. McLean has an interest in collaborative models...

I had the honor of interviewing my great friend and colleague Dr. Sue Padernacht! Dr. Padernacht is the CEO of Ncline Leadership Strategies, bringing over 35 years of experience and expertise in organizational, leadership, team, and negotiations coaching, training, consulting, public speaking, and facilitation to her practice. During our podcast, Dr. Padernacht highlights common leadership deraili...

I had the absolute honor of interviewing my friend and colleague Dr. Todd Otten on my podcast recently! Dr. Otten, MD, is a Powerful Change Agent and Co-Founder of Our Quadruple Aim, a movement that challenges the status quo in healthcare and promotes patient experience, quality care, lower costs, and provider wellness. He is also the co-author of the book  Ripple of Change , which offers a bare b...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Marcelo Hochman this past week: he is President of Independent Doctors of South Carolina, a double Board-certified head, neck, and facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, founder of Charleston’s Facial Surgery Center, and Past President of the Charleston County Medical Society.   Dr. Hochman is on a mission to put the power of choice back into the hands of...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Diane Shannon, MD, MPH. Dr. Shannon is a former primary care physician with more than 20 years of experience as a professional health care writer and author. As an award-winning health care writer she has crafted expert reports, focused white papers, and case studies for national foundations, policymakers, and professional advocacy groups that are working to...

I was deeply honored to interview Dr. Thom Mayer, who is the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association, Executive Vice President of Leadership for LogixHealth, Founder of BestPractices, Inc., Speaker for Executive Speakers Bureau, Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University - and Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University. Dr. Mayer is one of the most widely-sou...

I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Robin Geiger  on Hope for Healthcare! She is the Senior Vice President, Clinician Advocacy at Ingenovis Health and a board-certified nurse executive with over 20 years of hands-on clinical leadership experience. Dr. Geiger and I discuss the current healthcare landscape with nursing and clinician burnout, and how Dr. Geiger, along with her team,  are increasi...

I had the absolute pleasure in interviewing Dr. Sisi Hu on Hope for Healthcare today! She and her business partner Tiffany Chan have created an AI model to support our healthcare workers, specifically to support our health systems to measure, benchmark, and mitigate clinician burnout and turnover using data-driven technologies. Please tune in to hear how their model is complementary, and utilizes...

Hello everyone, we have a special edition of Hope for Healthcare Podcast today spotlighting both Paul DeChant, MD, MBA, and Bruce D. Cummings, MPH, LFACHE! They are both nationally recognized experts in clinician burnout, and are the healthcare innovators behind Organizational Wellbeing Solutions. They are on a mission to help healthcare leaders change the administrator-clinician relationship to a...

I had the absolute honor of interviewing Dr. Jody Stern on Hope for Healthcare Podcast! Dr. Stern is Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Author  of “Grief Connects Us: A Neurosurgeon’s Lessons on Love, Loss, and Compassion”. In our discussion we take a deeper look into Dr. Stern’s own journey of grief, and how he was able to transform his...

I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Helen Riess on Hope for Healthcare recently! Dr. Riess is the CEO and Founder of Empathetics- a company that provides evidence-based empathy and communication skills training for healthcare and allied health professionals and front line staff. In our podcast discussion, Dr. Riess explains how Empathic Skills Training for clinicians and healthcare lea...

I was honored to interview Dr. Tammie Chang, a good friend and colleague of mine- who is afierce national advocate for cultural change in healthcare and fellow Well-Being Change Agent!  We had such a great conversation around our own journeys with healing burnout and depression, and how Dr. Chang has been able to use her own personal experience to co-found Pink Coat MD to help women physicians thr...

I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Donte Vaughn, who is an expert in Organizational Leadership, Workforce Management, and Company Culture. Dr. Vaughn,  is the CEO and Managing Partner of CultureWorx, a company dedicated to providing Culture Performance Management™  (CPM) solutions to help organizations measure, manage, and foster cultural change through “real-time” learning and practi...

I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Wendy Dean on Hope for Healthcare Podcast. Dr. Dean really helped me better understand the concept of Moral Injury in Healthcare,  and how this concept is really a distinct entity from Burnout, and yet they may occur separately,  they may co-exist and they may influence each other as well.   Dr. Dean realized in healthcare, that  as physicians, our d...

I had so much fun interviewing Ryan Wolf, who a key leader for Gallup’s Health and Well-Being Strategies! Did you know that only 1 out of 33 million people have the same top 5 strengths? Please tune in to learn more about how understanding and embracing your strengths can improve your life in all areas! Title: “How Knowing Your Top 5 Strengths Can Beat Burnout” Discussion Topics: Why is it importa...

I want to introduce you all to my friend/colleague Jodie Green- CEO of the Clinician Burnout Foundation (CBF)!   We had a very heartwarming conversation about what needs to change on the frontlines, and how CBF is giving out free solutions ranging from technology support, tools and services to the entire healthcare workforce.   Title:  “How The Clinician Burnout Foundation Offers Free Services to...

I am privileged and proud to introduce you all to Steven Wolt!  He is the CEO and Founder of Veritus Solutions, a virtual outpatient, confidential recovery treatment program for executives and healthcare professionals. We had the most authentic discussion on addiction, the recovery process, and how Steve himself was able to permanently heal his addictions by understanding and addressing his own un...

I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Beth Lown, Chief Medical Officer of The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare! We dove deeply into the importance of bringing compassion to healthcare, and how organizations around the country are enrolling in The Schwartz Center Rounds to learn how to implement evidence based practices to support clinician-patient relationships and empathic l...

I had the privilege of interviewing my friend and colleague, Dr. Kavitha Reddy on how she, along with her team at the Veterans Health Administration are re-designing their healthcare culture over the next several years by focusing on creating a healthier work environment for all employees, and patients! Title: How The Veterans Health Administration is Spearheading Culture Transformation through De...

I had the absolute honor and privilege to interview Dr. Christina Maslach on Hope for Healthcare Podcast! Dr. Maslach is a true legend when it comes to researching and understanding burnout from a global perspective, especially in healthcare today. She has been teaching how to resolve burnout for over 40+ years! Please listen to this episode and learn how as a healthcare leader, stakeholder, or in...

I had the absolute honor and pleasure of interviewing my good friend and colleague Dr. Michelle Robin, who is CEO and Founder of Small Changes Big Shifts. She is an influential author, teacher, mentor, holistic healer, and individual and organizational well-being expert. What I love about our discussion is how Michelle guides us through the Four Quadrants of Wellbeing, and how to apply these found...

Dr. Paul DeChant and I reconnected and had the most uplifting conversation around approaching healthcare leadership through empowerment. Empowering leaders to to make decisions that benefit the well-being of our workforce and patient quality and experience. Dr. DeChant updated us on successful tactics that he is employing at several healthcare systems nationwide and how they are transforming burno...

I had the absolute honor and privilege of interviewing Dr. Richard Carmona, our 17th U.S. Surgeon General. I was very humbled to hear about his own childhood experiences impacting his journey to becoming the U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Carmona shares so much wisdom with us including his “hard knock lessons” learned over the past 5 decades in medicine, military, politics and his many impactful, diver...

Christopher Lehrach, MD, MBA - Chief Physician Executive Officer at Nuvance Health I had an enlightening and Hope-Full conversation with Dr. Christopher Lehrach, Chief Physician Executive Officer at Nuvance Health. What I love most about our discussion is the step-by-step approach to evaluating your own organization, and where to begin with shifting our culture of medicine and healthcare. Dr. Lera...