Appendix E

Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members and Speakers

WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE

Reshma Jagsi (Chair) is chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University and Winship Cancer Institute. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Oxford, where she studied as a British Marshall Scholar, she completed her residency training and an ethics fellowship at Harvard before joining the faculty of the University of Michigan, where she served as the director of its Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine. Gender equity in academic medicine has been a key area of her scholarly focus. She has authored more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact studies in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and JAMA. Her research to promote gender equity has been funded by R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as large independent grants from the Doris Duke Foundation and several other philanthropic foundations. She has mentored dozens of others in research investigating women’s underrepresentation in senior positions in academic medicine and the mechanisms that must be targeted to promote equity. She has served on the Steering Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) Group on Women in Medicine in Science and the Lancet’s advisory committee for its theme issue on women in science, medicine, and global health. She serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee

on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the Advisory Committee for Research on Women’s Health for the NIH. An internationally recognized clinical trialist and health services researcher in breast cancer, her work is frequently featured in the popular media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR. She is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians and has received the Leadership Award of the AAMC’s Group on Women in Medicine and Science, LEAD Oncology’s Woman of the Year Award, American Medical Women’s Association’s Woman in Science Award, and American Medical Student Association’s Women Leaders Award. She is a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society for Radiation Oncology, American Association for Women in Radiology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Hastings Center.

Kelley Bonner leads Burn Bright Consulting, a consultancy specializing in developing customized plans to address burnout and enhance workplace safety and wellness. Prior to this, she was the Workplace Violence Prevention and Response program manager at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a specialist for the Primary Prevention of Violence in the United States Air Force (2017–2018). Her expertise lies in developing actionable strategies for workplace safety, including burnout prevention, employee wellness, stress management, fatigue management, and sexual assault/sexual harassment prevention. She has successfully managed large-scale programs and created the first comprehensive sexual assault and sexual harassment (SASH) prevention platform at NOAA. She is certified in mindfulness, compassion fatigue, resiliency, workplace violence, and psychological safety. Her work has been recognized as “revolutionary” by Anita Hill and “a benchmark in her field” by the Pentagon. Bonner served on the Gender Policy Committee for the White House and the International Women’s Economic Security Council, aiding the Biden administration in developing a national framework for workplace safety. She has been endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) as a thought leader on SASH and has been a speaker at several national events and an active participant in their Action Collaborative (2018–2022), co-leading their evaluation working group. She is a licensed clinical trauma professional with additional certifications as a master resiliency trainer, Green Dot implementer, mindfulness trainer, and emotional intelligence practitioner, and

she has trained in post-traumatic growth and acceptance and commitment therapy. She earned her Clinical Compassion Fatigue certification in 2018.

Elena Fuentes-Afflick is chief medical officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Prior to joining AAMC, she was professor of pediatrics and vice dean for the School of Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Throughout her career, Fuentes-Afflick has personally managed and mentored faculty and staff on a range of caregiving issues in the context of academic medicine. In 2010, she was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine and has served on numerous consensus committees, the Membership Committee, and the Diversity Committee; was elected to the Governing Council and the Executive Committee of Council; and was elected Home Secretary. In 2020, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fuentes-Afflick obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in public health (epidemiology) from UC Berkeley. She completed her pediatric residency and chief residency at UCSF, followed by a research fellowship at the Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.

Lonnie Golden is a professor of economics and labor and human resources at Penn State University, Abington College. His Ph.D. from the University of Illinois was in economics, focusing on labor economics. His research analyzes trends, patterns, determinants, and consequences of hours of work and nonstandard employment in labor markets, organizations, households, and individuals. Specifically, his research focuses on measuring employment/job quality, underemployment and overemployment mismatches, overtime work, part-time work, work schedules, labor and workplace flexibility, and outcomes such as overwork, health, earnings differentials/disparities, happiness, work-family time balance, and personal time-use; and relevant policies such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, Fair Workweek (predictive/secure scheduling), overtime regulations, paid leaves, independent contracting work, and work-sharing/short-time compensation. He has co-edited two books, Working Time and Nonstandard Employment, and numerous papers and scholarly articles in leading academic journals such as Industrial Relations, Monthly Labor Review, Health Affairs, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Economic and Family Issues. He has received grants or commissions from the Urban Institute (including WorkRise), the

International Labor Organization in Geneva, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C. He is affiliated with the Project for Middle-Class Renewal at the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations and with the Work-Family Research Network.

Alicia Kowalski is a full-time professor of anesthesiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where her academic passion is promoting and supporting professional engagement and career sustainability for individuals and organizations in healthcare and has multiple peer-reviewed publications in this realm. This fervor led her to obtain her Chief Wellness Officer certification from Stanford Medicine. At her organization, she served as the sole clinical faculty representative to the institutional council CREWS (Career Resiliency Engagement Wellness and Sustainability) during its entire existence, helped implement a robust infrastructure to support professional well-being across all communities, and served as the University of Texas MD Anderson liaison to the University of Texas System Task Force for Physician Well-being. She is the lead instructor of the Chief Wellness Officer Training and Certification Program through a collaboration with the Institute of Physician Wellness. Additionally, she founded and chairs a national symposium, Burnout to Brilliance, for physician well-being and career sustainability, which earned Congressional Recognition. She and her sister founded the Charles S. DeJohn, MD, PhD Scholarship fund for physician education for wellness and career sustainability. Kowalski participated in the Veterans’ Health Administration Executive Management Fellowship through Congress as a mentor to establish chief well-being officers at numerous VA locations across the country.

José A. Pagán is chair and professor of the Department of Public Health Policy and Management at the School of Global Public Health, New York University. He is also chair of the Board of Directors of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States. Pagán is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has led research, implementation, and evaluation projects on the redesign of healthcare delivery and payment systems. He is interested in population health management, healthcare payment and delivery system reform, and the social determinants of health. He also served as chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars and was a member of the Board of Directors of the

Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science and the American Society of Health Economists. Pagán received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of New Mexico.

SPEAKERS

Bryant Adibe is the Jay S. Sugarman Practitioner in Residence in the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Previously, he served as system vice president and chief wellness officer at Rush University System for Health in Chicago, Illinois. He also held the distinction of off-site, full professor of organizational change and leadership at the University of Southern California. At Rush, he founded the Center for Clinical Wellness, an innovative facility designed to study and treat the effects of burnout and emotional exhaustion on healthcare workers. His work has been featured by the National Academy of Medicine, American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, and other leading outlets. Adibe is a graduate of Cambridge University. He earned his medical degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He completed clinical clerkships in emergency medicine at both Harvard Medical School and the Stanford School of Medicine. As a graduate student, he studied health policy and evidence-based healthcare at Oxford University.

Youngjoo Cha is an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University Bloomington and Yonsei University. Her research interests are in gender, work, and family. Her major line of research investigates how the trend toward long work hours reinforces gender inequality and what organizational and institutional conditions help to challenge this trend. Her other research focuses on the effect of marriage and parenthood on the gender pay gap, the role of Asian stereotypes on labor-market outcomes for Asian women and men in the United States, and conditions under which discrimination lawsuits undermine workplace inequality. Her recent work appears in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, ILR Review, Gender and Society, and Sociological Science.

Natalia Cineas is senior vice president, chief nursing executive, and co-chair of the Equity and Access Council for NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal public healthcare system in the nation, serving 1.4 million New Yorkers annually in more than 70 patient care locations. She serves as clinical lead for the organization, directing more than

9,600 nurses: planning, overseeing, and evaluating all aspects of clinical operations, services, and nurse education to ensure the delivery of quality, safe, standardized, and cost-effective nursing care to patients and the community. As co-chair of NYC Health + Hospitals’ Health and Equity Access Council, she is actively engaged in identifying and defining systemwide strategic diversity and inclusion priorities. Cineas previously held nursing leadership roles as senior director of nursing and deputy chief nursing officer at New York City’s Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital and as patient care director of neurosurgery and the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at Columbia University Medical Center New York Presbyterian Hospital. She holds a master of business administration in healthcare from Northern Arizona University’s W.A. Franke College of Business, a doctorate of nursing practice from George Washington University, a master of science in management and a bachelor of science in nursing from New York University, and a bachelor of arts in psychology from Stony Brook University.

Arla Day is a professor in occupational health psychology at Saint Mary’s University, director of the CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, and a former Canada Research Chair. Her research focuses on leveraging the positive aspects of work to create healthy workplaces. In her role as project director for the EMPOWER Partnership (a collaborative group of researchers and organizations, workplace experts, and stakeholders), she develops and examines evidence-based solutions to foster psychologically healthy workplaces by supporting workers, strengthening work groups, and developing leaders.

Liselotte Dyrbye is senior associate dean of faculty and chief well-being officer for the University of Colorado School of Medicine, the first to hold this newly created position. Dyrbye began her work at the Mayo Clinic in 2001, where she has made many creative contributions to education programs, taught medical students and residents, and implemented several innovative programs in support of faculty development, diversity, and well-being. She is professor of medicine and medical education and co-director of the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Physician Well-Being Program. Dyrbye graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1996 and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. After working in private practice for a few years, she accepted an appointment at Mayo Clinic in September 2001, where she rose through the ranks to become

professor of medicine and medical education at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in 2014. She earned a master of health professions education from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine in 2009. She has also led significant initiatives to promote faculty development at Mayo Clinic, including serving as assistant dean of faculty development for the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education and creating and implementing Mayo’s Academy of Educational Excellence. Through these efforts, Dyrbye has helped create useful and popular programming, including short videos, that can fit into the busy schedules of faculty. The “Take5” videos are broadly available for use in Mayo Clinic faculty meetings and cover key topics of interest, such as how to deal with patients expressing bias toward learners. In 2018, the videos were viewed more than 33,000 times.

Eve Kerr is Kutsche Memorial Chair of Internal Medicine, professor of internal medicine, and section head of the Division of Gender Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. She has dedicated her research career to understanding how to more effectively translate advancements from clinical and translational research to routine practice in order to improve patients’ health and healthcare. In particular, she is internationally recognized for developing innovative, clinically meaningful methods to assess and improve quality of care and decrease low-value care. She has led major studies that demonstrated a significant U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs quality advantage over community care, developed “clinical action measures” to improve the intensity of blood pressure treatment that were implemented VA-wide, and developed new measures that assess and promote appropriate care. In addition to her faculty appointment and role as division chief of general medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, Kerr is a senior research scientist at the VA Ann Arbor Center for Clinical Management Research, and the founding director of the Michigan Program on Value Enhancement. She has been recognized for her scholarship, leadership, and mentorship through election to the National Academy of Medicine, Association of American Physicians, and American Society of Clinical Investigation; selection as a master of the American College of Physicians; and the VA Undersecretary for Health Award for Excellence in Health Services Research and the Society of General Internal Medicine John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research.

Jean King is an active neuroscientist and Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Previously, she was the

vice provost of biomedical research and professor of psychiatry, radiology, and neurology (with tenure) at UMass Medical School, where she had been a faculty member since 1994. Together with other administrative leaders at WPI, King has launched new undergraduate and graduate programs in learning science, neuroscience, interactive media and game development, and artificial intelligence (AI) and has expanded undergraduate research opportunities. Her research is broadly focused on the adverse effects of stress on the brain, body, and behavior, with current projects on chronic pain and youth and young adult mental health. She has been the recipient of continuous extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for more than two decades. She has published more than 100 original scientific papers in highly respected international scientific journals and more than 10 book chapters and review articles in major neurophysiology journals and is an editor of the New York Academy of Sciences publication Roots of Mental Illness in Children. A major current research project is centered on the use of AI to predict the response to mindfulness for chronic pain, supported by a 5-year NIH grant through the HEAL (Helping to End Addition Long-term) initiative.

Alden Lai is an assistant professor of public health policy and management at New York University (NYU). He studies how the jobs and work environments of healthcare workers can be improved to increase employee outcomes (e.g., well-being, retention) as well as organizational performance (e.g., program implementation, patient safety). He uses theories and frameworks from psychology, organization science, and health services research in his work. Lai’s research has appeared in both management and healthcare journals, including Academy of Management Discoveries, Health Care Management Review, Medical Care Research and Review, and The Milbank Quarterly. He has an affiliated faculty appointment in the Department of Management and Organizations at NYU Stern. He has advised federal and state governments, health systems, international and nonprofit organizations, corporations, and philanthropies internationally. His professional experiences include being a management consultant, social enterprise strategist, and education researcher. He currently serves as executive advisor to the Global Wellbeing Initiative, a collaboration between the Wellbeing for Planet Earth Foundation and Gallup Inc. to foster a more globally inclusive understanding of well-being for research, practice, and policy. Lai also serves as chair of the Health Care Research Stream for the Industry Studies Association. He is co-editor of an upcoming book by Springer on professional

development for early-career researchers. Previously, he served as chair of the European Health Psychology Society’s early-career researcher division and was an executive committee member in the Academy of Management’s Division of Health Care Management.

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, and measurement of job burnout. This work is the basis for the 2019 decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to include burnout as an occupational phenomenon, with health consequences, in the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision. She created the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the most widely used instrument for measuring job burnout, and has written numerous articles and books, including The Truth About Burnout. Several of her articles have received awards for their significance and high impact, including her longitudinal research on early burnout predictors, which was honored in 2012 as one of the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. Recently, she received the 2017 Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award, as well as several lifetime career achievement awards. In 2020, she received the award for Scientific Reviewing, for her work on burnout, from the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, she was named by Business Insider as one of the top 100 people transforming business. Her latest book, The Burnout Challenge, was named by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the top 10 books in business/economics for fall 2022.

Rene Pana-Cryan is chief economist and director of the Economic Research and Support Office in the Office of the Director of the National Institute for Occupational safety and Health (NIOSH). She also comanages the NIOSH Healthy Work Design and Worker Well-being Cross-Sector Program. Her interests include understanding how to improve the design of work, management practices, and the physical and psychosocial work environment in order to enable workers to thrive and contribute productively at work, at home, and in society. She is particularly interested in understanding the economic factors that affect work arrangements and the effects of work arrangements on the well-being of workers and their

families. Pana-Cryan joined NIOSH in 1996 as a postdoctoral Prevention Effectiveness fellow.

Carolyn Porta is the associate vice president for clinical affairs for the University of Minnesota. She is a professor in the School of Nursing, and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health and the Center for Spirituality and Healing. Porta is a forensic clinician and scientist committed to promoting the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities. Her current scholarship focuses on the science of trauma-informed practice, leadership, and organizations, and system-level strategies to strengthen the healthcare workforce and mitigate threats to their well-being. She has extensive experience in clinical service, team science, mixed methods clinical trials, interprofessional clinical training, and strategic and operational leadership of large-scale research and workforce development initiatives (more than $100 million in funding and more than 115 publications).

Joan Y. Reede is dean for diversity and community partnership at Harvard Medical School. Appointed in January 2002 as the first dean for diversity and community partnership, she is responsible for the development and management of a comprehensive program that provides leadership, guidance, and support to promote the increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of underrepresented minority faculty at Harvard Medical School (HMS). In 1990, Reede founded the HMS Minority Faculty Development Program and currently serves as faculty director of the Community Outreach programs. In 2008, she became the director of the Harvard Catalyst Program for Faculty Development and Diversity. In addition, she holds appointments of professor of medicine at HMS, professor of society, human development, and health at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and assistant in health policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. The impact of Reede’s work is reflected in the numerous programs she has created to benefit minority students, residents, scientists, and physicians. She created and developed more than 20 programs at HMS that aim to address pipeline and leadership issues for minorities and women who are interested in careers in medicine, academic and scientific research, and the healthcare professions. She has developed mentoring programs for underrepresented minority students from the middle school through the graduate and medical school levels. She has also designed a training program for middle and high school teachers, developed science curricula for public schools,

implemented research and exchange clerkship programs at HMS, and designed and implemented innovative fellowships in minority health policy for physicians, dentists, and doctoral-level mental health professionals.

José E. Rodríguez is associate vice president for health equity, diversity, and inclusion (HEDI) at University of Utah (U of U) Health. He served as interim associate vice president beginning in August 2018. Rodríguez is a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and has extensive background in diversity work in the healthcare arena. In addition to his HEDI position, he is a family physician and associate medical director at U of U Health’s Redwood Health Center. Prior to joining the University of Utah, Rodríguez co-chaired the Council on Diversity and Inclusion and co-directed the Center for Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Medicine at Florida State University College of Medicine. He is an accomplished academic, publishing numerous articles on the importance of underrepresented minorities in academic medicine. Rodríguez received his M.D. degree at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and his B.A. at Brigham Young University.

Tait Shanafelt is the Jeanie and Stew Ritchie Professor of Medicine, associate dean and chief wellness officer at Stanford Medicine. A hematologist-oncologist by training, Shanafelt is a leading researcher on clinician burnout and its impact on quality of care, access to care, and the healthcare workforce. Prior to his position at Stanford, he was a professor of medicine and hematology at the Mayo Clinic and served a 3-year term as president of the Mayo Clinic voting staff from 2013 to 2016. He was the founding director of the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Program on Physician Well-Being and led a number of initiatives at Mayo to mitigate burnout and improve physicians’ sense of fulfillment and well-being. He has published more than 325 peer-reviewed manuscripts and research studies, including more than 125 on the topic of healthcare professional well-being. His research in this area has involved physicians at all stages of their career, from medical school to practice, and has included many multicenter and national studies. In 2018, he was named by Time magazine as one of the 50 most influential people in healthcare.

Julie K. Silver is the senior associate dean for faculty experience and success. Her research and clinical work has focused on improving gaps in the delivery of healthcare services. She has published many scientific

reports focused on surgical prehabilitation and cancer rehabilitation. Her ground-breaking work on “impairment-driven cancer rehabilitation” was initially published in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians—a high-impact factor oncology journal that is published by the American Cancer Society. Impairment-driven cancer rehabilitation was subsequently incorporated into the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures. Silver co-founded the Cancer Rehabilitation Group for the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine—a research-focused interdisciplinary professional society.