Virtual Sessions
Virtual Sessions Available in June
Please join Don Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, KBE, co-founder and former president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and Andy Shin, JD, MPH, chief operating officer for the AHA Center for Health Innovation, as they discuss the future of compassionate healthcare.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Please note, there are no continuing education credits available for this session.
Presenters:
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, KBE
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Andy Shin, JD, MPH
Chief Operating Officer, AHA Center for Health Innovation
This session will explore edge states, essential qualities for personal and social health, which have shadows that are important to be aware of. Edge states include altruism, empathy, integrity, respect and engagement. Compassion is the force that allows one to shift out of the grip of an edge states. This session will explore how this happens.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Rev. Joan Jiko Halifax, PhD
Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
The presence of a strong, supportive peer support community is critical to clinician wellness, yet scarce in today’s fast-paced, high-pressure clinical environments. After years studying the epidemic of burnout and the search for meaning among America’s healthcare workforce, a team of researchers and practitioners have developed a toolkit that provides concrete models—from Balint Groups to supper clubs—to help clinicians and leaders bring community into their clinics. Topics range from how to decide which model works best for your team and needs, making the “business case” to the C-suite, facilitating your first gathering, and evaluating and sustaining your efforts.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Elizabeth Métraux
CEO, Women Writers in Medicine
Curtis Mock, MD, MBA
Vice President, Workforce Strategy and Provider Experience, Office for Provider Advancement, OptumCare
Using case studies, this session will explore culturally competent, trauma-informed spiritual care for LGBTQ+ elders. For many, religion can be tied into trauma as well as resilience. How can LGBTQ+ elders feel empowered to use spiritual resources in ways that support their well-being; when, how, and why should a caregiver approach these sensitive topics? Attendees may include healthcare/spiritual caregivers, and those interested in intersectional approaches to LGBTQ+ aging.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Mandi Rice, MDiv
LGBT Chaplain Resident, Hebrew SeniorLife
Rabbi Sara Paasche-Orlow, BCC
Director of Spiritual Care, Hebrew SeniorLife
The COVID-19 pandemic has created numerous ethical challenges for front-line clinicians. In response, moral suffering ranging from moral stress, moral distress and in extreme situations moral injury, are evident in our day to day practice. This session will explore ways to preserve integrity in the midst of these challenges by cultivating capacities that foster moral resilience.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN
Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics, Berman Institute of Bioethics/School of Nursing
Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University
Virtual Sessions Available in July
Attunement is the process of feeling connected and understood which opens the space for learning and growth. This interactive session will present the FAN (Facilitating Attuned Interactions), a widely used conceptual framework and practical navigational tool for attunement to self and other within helping relationships. Providers learn to read cues for engagement and flexibly respond to match their interactions to what the other is showing they are most able to use in the moment. The session will actively engage the participants in the attunement process and strengthen both mindful self-regulation and self-compassion.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Linda Gilkerson, PhD, LSW
Professor and Director, Irving B. Harris Infant Studies Program
Executive Director, Fussy Baby Network, Erikson Institute
Listen in as Schwartz Center CMO Dr. Beth Lown interviews Drs. Noopur Raje and Jag Singh, physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, both of whom had COVID-19. They will discuss their experiences as patients, caregivers and parents, how they experienced vulnerability, how they coped, how healthcare has changed, and how it may evolve in the future.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Please note, there are no continuing education credits available for this session.
Speakers:
Noopur Raje, MD
Director, Center for Multiple Myeloma, MGH Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jag Singh, MD, ScM, DPhil
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
This panel will illustrate and discuss the ever-changing forces affecting migration. Immigration has been driven by war, famine and fear since biblical times. Recent intersecting conflicts such as economic deterioration, systemic racism and moral determinants of health are creating a difficult and confusing panorama for immigrant families. Advocacy becomes imperative. Ana Torres, a front line social worker caring for a diverse population of children including immigrant children will participate in the panel with Dr. Alan Shapiro, a practicing pediatrician with an extensive history of work and publication in the field of care of immigrant children, and Cristina Muniz, the co-founder of Terra Firma with extensive experience in issues of immigration in more than one continent.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Fernando Stein, MD, FAAP, FCCM
Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor School of Medicine
Associate Chief of Critical Care, Texas Children's Hospital
Past President, American Academy of Pediatrics
Panelists:
Cristina Muñiz de la Peña, PhD, CCEP
Licensed Psychologist, Core Energetics Practitioner
Alan Shapiro, MD, FAAP
Senior Medical Director, Community Pediatric Programs, Montefiore
Co-Founder and Medical Director, Terra Firma: Healthcare and Justice for Immigrant Children
Ana Torres Thornton, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker/Therapist, Texas Children's Pediatrics Gulfton-A Community Cares Practice
Chris Herren is a former NBA star who battled addiction and now shares his inspirational story of recovery across the country.
The First Day film premiered on ESPN on July 16, 2019 and since then a conversation has started in school systems and communities across the country on the topics of substance use and mental wellness with a focus on the beginning. Compassion in Action Conference attendees are invited to a free screening of The First Day film followed by a Q&A with Chris Herren and filmmaker Jonathan Hock to mark the 1-Year release of the film.
Please note, there are no continuing education credits available for this session.
A recording of the Q&A for this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Chris Herren
Former Professional Basketball Player, Author, Motivational Speaker and Wellness Advocate
Clinical encounters in intensive care settings can result in psychological trauma for patients, families and medical staff, yet only rarely is there psychological assistance to help to cope with such trauma. Here, a clinical nurse manager and a clinical psychologist, both from the neo-natal ICU, discuss the ways in which the psychologist helped the staff to better understand their own emotional reactions at a deeper level, which proved profoundly beneficial both to staff and to the parents of the desperately ill babies.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Rochelle Steinwurtzel, PsyD
NICU Psychologist, New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Samantha Alessi, MSN, RNC-NIC, CLC, AACNS-N
Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone Health
Maureen O’Reilly-Landry, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC)
This workshop will enable participants to shift their conception of serious illness discussions from “breaking bad news” to “sharing emotionally challenging news” by practicing specific and teachable micro-skills. The shift from “breaking” to “sharing” enables the clinician to move from “fearing” to “welcoming” patient emotions. By understanding the patient’s suffering through exploration of their emotional responses, the clinician and patient can co-create a road map towards tailored compassionate care, thus generating hope.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Joseph S. Weiner, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Medicine and Science Education, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Panelists:
Taranjeet Kalra Ahuja, DO
Co-Leader, Communications Curricular Thread, Assistant Professor of Science Education, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
John D. Eun
MD/PhD candidate, Peter Davies Lab, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
R. Ellen Pearlman, MD, FACH
Associate Dean for Advanced Clinical Learning, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine & Science Education
Fellow, Academy of Communication in Healthcare
Join Schwartz Center CMO Beth Lown, MD, for a discussion on what we need to do now to avoid a “second pandemic” of mental health issues among healthcare workers. Dr. Lown will discuss what we know now about the current psychological status of healthcare workers and identify their key sources of stress and psychological distress. She will identify factors that promote recovery from stress and adversity, and will summarize evidence-informed individual and organizational approaches to support healthcare workers’ mental health. Attendees with learn how they can collaboratively advocate for the support of mental and physical health for all.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Beth A. Lown, MD
Chief Medical Officer, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States has revealed deep failures in the country’s healthcare system and reinforced longstanding health inequities. This presentation will focus on how the COVID-19 response can protect the health and well-being of all Americans, not just during a pandemic, but every day.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Virtual Sessions Available in August
People who use drugs and those with substance use disorder are deeply impacted by stigma and discrimination, which limit access to medical care and effective treatment. In addition, our society’s drug policy and approach towards people who use drugs has been fueled by racism. This panel includes thought leaders from addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, and the field of recovery coaching to discuss how to address stigma, discrimination and racism in order to develop compassionate systems of care for people with substance use disorder.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Sarah E. Wakeman, MD
Medical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Initiative
Chief Medical Officer, RIZE Massachusetts
Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Panelists:
Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD
Associate Director of Psychiatry Residency Program, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Miriam Komaromy, MD, DFASAM, FACP
Medical Director, Grayken Center for Addiction
Boston Medical Center, Boston University
Windia Rodriguez, CARC
Recovery Coach Team Lead, Population Health Management, Mass General Brigham
Dr. Trzeciak will share the scientific evidence that compassion matters – in not only meaningful ways, but also measurable ways. And it matters even more in times of crisis.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH
Professor, Chair & Chief of Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Health professionals and caregivers often are skilled in extending compassion and support to those around them but may have difficulty offering themselves the same kindness and understanding, especially when they fail to meet their own expectations or when they experience a difficult or undesirable patient outcome. Self-compassion–or comforting and caring for oneself under trying circumstances–can mitigate feelings of isolation and improve workplace performance. This workshop will focus on reflective writing as a tool for cultivating self-compassion. Participants will leave with writing prompts and strategies for developing and maintaining a reflective writing practice that fosters self-compassion.
Handouts and a recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Elizabeth Mitchell, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center
Sarah Wingerter, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Director, Boston University Medical Campus Narrative Writing Program
In this session, three panelists will share their unique backgrounds, perspectives, and talents, and discuss how their innovative yet simple interventions ensure that the resident physicians who train in their program are afforded the best opportunities to foster their own resilience, avoid burnout and remain engaged learners and healers who look out for one another. Creative yet simple ideas like “Cappuccino Therapy” and the “10-Minute Pause” among other strategies will be discussed.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Stuart Bagatell, MD, FACP
Program Director, University of Miami/JFK Internal Medicine Residency Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Panelists:
Heidi Allespach, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Medicine & Surgery
Director of Behavioral Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, General Surgery & Neurology Residency & Fellowship Programs
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital
Gabriel Ghanoum, PsyD
Director, Spiritual Care & Palliative Care, HCA East Florida Division
Daniel Lichtstein, MD, MACP
Professor of Medicine
Regional Dean for Medical Education, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
In this 90-minute session, guided by lead RISE Facilitator, Sam Chase, participants are introduced to the core concept of “staying centered”— developing the capacity for effective self-regulation. We’ll discuss three steps that strengthen our ability to stay centered — Embody Calm, Cultivate Clarity and Deepen Connection — and practice a simple centering tool that integrates all three.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Sam Chase, MFA, E-RYT
Lead Facilitator and Curriculum Designer, RISE Program, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
Compassion in healthcare starts with connection. In order to connect, healthcare providers must be able to communicate effectively with patients. However, many patients face barriers that impact their communication related to their diagnosis, health literacy or primary language. This session will provide an overview of two training models implemented in a rehabilitation hospital system to train allied health staff, nurses and patient care technicians on evidence-based supportive communication strategies and share pilot effectiveness data. Participants will complete interactive reflection exercises to analyze communication needs in their own settings and collaboratively discuss how to increase communication accessibility in their environment.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Elissa Larkin Conlon, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist & Research Clinician, Center for Aphasia Research & Treatment, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Healthcare providers encounter patients and circumstances every day that lead to compassion fatigue, moral distress and burnout. Research indicates that interventions at the institutional level provide the most significant relief from burnout. However, other studies indicate that personal qualities, skills and interventions are responsible for nearly a third of one’s professional well-being. This session will present the work of two innovative offices that support well-being and promote compassionate care at Loma Linda University Health. The Office of Employee Spiritual Care and the Office of Physician Vitality offer physicians, medical trainees and healthcare professionals interventions through education, programming, training, research and direct care. The session will share an institutional model for the work, as well as aims and efforts to address the hidden curriculum, teach whole person care, and enhance the biopsychosocial-spiritual wellness of employees and physicians. Attendees will have an opportunity to explore personal well-being and consider a variety of tools and resources that can be implemented to promote compassionate care.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Jessica ChenFeng, PhD, LMFT
Associate Director of Physician Vitality, Associate Professor of Medical Education, Loma Linda School of Medicine
Barbara Couden Hernandez, PhD, LMFT, RN
Director of Physician Vitality and Professor of Medical Education and Palliative Care, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Kathy McMillan, MA, BSN
Director of Employee Spiritual Care, Loma Linda University Medical Center
This session will profile the accomplishments, challenges and lessons learned from four healthcare leaders on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Hear how physician and nurse leaders led their organizations through the largest deployment of healthcare resources in their cities and across the country.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Lorraine Ryan, BSN, MPA, Esq.
Senior Vice President Legal, Regulatory and Professional Affairs, Greater New York Hospital Association
Panelists:
Tosan O. Boyo, MPH, FACHE
Chief Operating Officer, San Francisco General Hospital
Deputy Commander, San Francisco COVID-19 Command Center
Angela Patterson, DNP, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP
Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer, CVS MinuteClinic
Vice President, CVS Health
Rosanne Raso, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Penny Wheeler, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Allina Health
Virtual Sessions Available in September
Come experience an evidence-based curriculum that pivoted to a one-hour online format during COVID. The new format provides tools for healthcare professionals to manage burnout, empathy fatigue and moral distress in today’s constantly changing healthcare landscape. You will leave the session with coping tools for yourself and a format to replicate in your institution immediately following the workshop. In our quantitative research with this format, 97% of participants experienced a decrease in anxiety from before to after attending, averaging a 40% decrease overall. Qualitatively, many report feeling more grounded in their calling as compassionate caregivers and more equipped to stay present with themselves and their patients during this global crisis.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Rev. Krista Gregory, M.Div, BCC
Founder, The Center for Resiliency at Dell Children's Medical Center
Phoebe Long Franco, PhD
Research Scientist, The Center for Resiliency at Dell Children's Medical Center
Clinicians are rarely taught how to handle the intense emotions experienced in clinical practice. These unprocessed emotions may result in chronic stress and social isolation. Trauma from patient care may be compounded by a personal history of past trauma, the lack of opportunity to safely debrief, a focus on helping others while ignoring our own needs, and institutional productivity and performance metrics. In this workshop, we use guided imagery, self-compassion, and reflective writing to explore how participants relate to the wounded healer archetype and to highlight our strengths as wounded healers. Participants will leave with new awareness and evidence-based skills that promote self-care and enhance professional well-being.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Maureen Mayhew, MD, MPH, ACC
Physician, Physician Health Program
Owner & Coach, Dr.Mayhew.Coach
Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia
In looking to the future of healthcare, at its heart will remain a commitment to the human experience and what it means to care for yourself and others. Join The Beryl Institute and The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare for an interactive conversation on an integrated view of experience and the importance of workforce resilience, well-being and engagement today. Presenters will also discuss the current state of affairs and where they see things heading as we face the ever-changing circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic together.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Beth A. Lown, MD
Chief Medical Officer, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Jason Wolf, PhD, CPXP
President & CEO, The Beryl Institute
The COVID-19 pandemic has sickened millions and taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S., disproportionately affecting people of color. The healthcare workforce caring for these patients and families is experiencing, and will continue to experience, high levels of psychological stress from multiple sources. Their stressors include grief and loss, fear of exposing their loved ones or falling ill themselves, moral distress, perceived leadership indifference and more. During this session, panelists will discuss the impacts of trauma on healthcare workers, teams, organizations and systems. They will cover emerging data about the psychological status of the healthcare workforce, adaptations they have observed at all levels, programs and interventions they have co-created and participated in, and thoughts about the way forward towards equity and post-traumatic growth.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Beth A. Lown, MD
Chief Medical Officer, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Panelists:
David C. Henderson, MD
Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Boston Medical Center
Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine
Allison Norful, PhD, RN, ANP-BC
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University School of Nursing
Richard G. Tedeschi, PhD
Distinguished Chair, Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth
Patricia Watson, PhD
Psychologist, National Center for PTSD
This panel will discuss the importance of community for well-being and highlight several simple practical interventions that can help to build community among healthcare providers. Panelists will discuss the importance of ambient relationships in creating a sense of social belonging, the effect of small acknowledgments from peers on a sense of professional mattering, and how appreciative practices can promote a positive and inclusive work environment.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Patrick Kinner, LCMHC
Evaluation Consultant, Center for Behavioral Health Integration
Panelists:
Julie Haizlip, MD, MAPP, FNAP
Clinical Professor of Nursing & Attending Physician, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
Natalie May, PhD
Associate Professor of Research, UVA School of Nursing and School of Medicine
Elizabeth Métraux
CEO, Women Writers in Medicine
This workshop will provide an introduction to a strengths-based, solution-focused approach to communication with application in both engaging with care recipients and with healthcare colleagues. Participants will be introduced to some of the basic principles and core practices of solution-focused communication (SFC), and will engage in discussion around potential ways in which these strategies could be applied in their own practice and interprofessional contexts to facilitate collaborative, solution-focused conversations. Through discussion and reflection, participants will enhance their skills for working collaboratively with others toward a shared goal.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Elaine Cook, PhD
Solution-Focused Team Lead, Holland Bloorview Kid’s Rehabilitation Hospital
Joanne Maxwell, OT Reg. (Ont.), PMP, CHE
Senior Director, Collaborative Practice, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto
PhD student, University of Toronto
Virtual Sessions Available in October
This panel discussion will focus on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting people and communities of color, reflecting the social determinants of health and the historical legacy of structural and systemic racism. The moderator and panelists will discuss lessons learned and approaches to change.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Dani Monroe, MSOD
Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Mass General Brigham
Panelists:
Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS BH
Medical Director for Quality, Safety and Equity, DQS/DI&E, Brigham Health
Terry Stancin, PhD, ABPP
Chief of Psychology, Vice-Chair for Research, Psychiatry, and Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychology, The MetroHealth System
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, & Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Jennifer Valenzuela, LICSW, MPH
Chief People & Equity Officer, Health Leads
Compassion is a core value in healthcare; however, the factors that lead to compassion are still not well understood. The perception of common humanity has been suggested by researchers as the prerequisite for unbiased universal compassion. This workshop outlines a compassion training intervention focusing on common humanity that has been delivered to hundreds of healthcare workers in Australia.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
Debbie Ling, PhD
Senior Clinician Social Worker, Epworth HealthCare
Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Monash University
This faculty development focuses on giving and receiving feedback by using a multidisciplinary model to guide challenging conversations. Individuals who experience this program will leave with a tool to help create common language surrounding feedback. Other topics that are covered include the difference between feedback and evaluation, barriers to giving and receiving feedback, and the importance of observable encounters where actionable, timely and consistent feedback can occur.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Alexis Haftka-George, MD
General Internal Medicine Senior Staff Physician
Associate Program Director for Internal Medicine Residency
Clinical Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Mara M. Hoffert, PhD
Senior Instructional Design Consultant, Henry Ford Health System
The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that 23% of respondents did not see a doctor when needed because of fear of being mistreated and 33% of those who saw a healthcare provider had at least one negative experience related to being transgender. Based on this data and additional community input, we knew that we needed to create a new model of patient-centered care using a framework of cultural humility in order to better serve these patients. Please join us to learn about our model and the evidence-based practices you can apply in your clinical setting.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Asher Bruskin, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker, Transgender Health Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Melanie Cohn-Hopwood, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker, MGH
We have a robust system for detecting and evaluating physical harm through the daily review of our safety learning report process. We noticed that our process for detecting and evaluating emotional harm needed improvement. We believe that the way we treat each other and our patients/families directly impacts the outcomes of the care we provide. We committed to collect, analyze, and track emotional harm events using a similar process used for assessing physical harm.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Emily Rogers, MHA
Operations Manager, Simulation Center
Chair, Schwartz Rounds, Children’s Minnesota
Panelists:
Alex Heisel, BA, MSLOC, OLCC, CPPS
Manager, Experience and Health Equity, Children’s Minnesota
Lisa Skjefte
Health Equity Specialist, Manager, American Indian Community Collaborative, Children’s Minnesota
In primary care, interventions to improve patient experience have traditionally been limited to scripted communication tools. At Community Care Cooperative (C3), a MassHealth ACO founded and governed by FQHCs, we followed the research showing that customer service is a symptom of workforce satisfaction. We also recognized that front line staff at FQHCs may not have regular access to development opportunities. In this session we will share our approach to improving patient experience through developing and implementing trainings for front line supervisors and staff that focused on strengthening teams through understanding burnout and moral injury, resilience, trauma-informed communication, and communicating with empathy.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Jenny Azzara, MM
Senior Director, Performance Improvement & Organizational Development, Community Care Cooperative (C3)
Louise Keogh Weed, MS
C3 Consultant, Community Care Cooperative (C3)
During this hour, we will interview Laura Crooks, co-founder of Chad’s Legacy Project and CEO of Yakima Children’s Village. Ms. Crooks provides us with powerful insights on how her lived experience as a parent and advocate for her child navigating the mental healthcare system highlights the need for compassion and real action to improve mental health care. This taps into the idea of compassion beyond the emotional piece and into an empowered stance where people can contribute at every level. We also address the stigma, specifically around how it impacts care, how it is carried in the diagnosis for the patient, caregivers, family members as well as the system as a whole perpetuating it. Laura emphasizes the importance of approaching these challenges with this recognition of the vulnerabilities of the system and the people working in them with compassion rather than blame. We explore how we can build on that compassion to inviting people to change rather than leading with blame. Finally, we review the importance of providing compassionate care to patients as well as between caregivers, stressing the idea of compassion that extends beyond the clinical care and into the office of providers and clinicians as a means of addressing burnout and insuring the delivering of better overall care.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Laura Crooks, MHA, OTR
CEO, Yakima Children’s Village
Co-Founder, Chad’s Legacy
Sophia Maurasse, MD
Medical Director, 3East Girls Intensive and Step-Down Programs, McLean Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
A dramatic rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric and enforcement policies since the 2016 presidential campaign has included increased immigration arrests, detention, and family separation. These policies and rhetoric have had a chilling effect on immigrant patients and their families seeking healthcare. It is imperative for healthcare professionals to address this fear by focusing compassion and empathy on their immigrant patients and their families and helping them to find additional resources. Compassionate care may encompass individual, institutional or local advocacy. This panel will equip healthcare professionals with the necessary knowledge and tools to safeguard immigrant patients and ease their heightened fear and anxieties, whether in a clinical encounter, at healthcare facilities, or in detention.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Altaf Saadi, MD, MSc
Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Panelists:
Chanelle Diaz, MD, MPH
Instructor of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Mark Kuczewski, PhD
Professor of Medical Ethics, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Peer recovery coaching is a breakthrough intervention aimed at breaking down stigma, eliminating bias, and providing compassionate and culturally sensitive care. This panel aims to highlight how a community-based primary care with a large Latinx patient population has successfully embedded recovery coaching as a culturally responsive intervention to aid patients with substance use disorders.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Adeyoola Adeniji
Former Workflow Optimization Project Specialist, Mass General Brigham
Panelists:
Nicole Carr, MSW, LICSW
Triage Clinical Care Coordinator, Mass General Brigham/Partners PCPO
Aleta Carroll, LMHC, MBA
Project Manager, Quality and Patient Experience, Mass General Brigham
Eddie Casado, CARC
Addiction Recovery Coach, Pentucket Medical Association/Mass General Brigham
Windia Rodriguez, CARC
Recovery Coach Team Lead, Population Health Management, Mass General Brigham
Virtual Sessions in November
Compassion fatigue is a term commonly used to describe the distress and emotional disengagement of clinicians who are responding to the suffering of patients. However, the emerging neuroscience of compassion calls into question the accuracy of defining this distressed and disengaged state as being a consequence of compassion. This workshop will unpack the definitional conundrums surrounding our understanding of empathy and compassion and will highlight the way in which definitional clarity can contribute to better understanding and design of well-being interventions. Examples of interventions designed to promote emotional regulation and compassion will be shared.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Julie Collier, PhD
Director, Office of Professional Fulfillment & Resilience
Director, SAFTeam, Stanford Children’s Health
Andy Helgesen, BA, BSN, RN
Resilience Education Program Manager, Stanford Children’s Health
Join the presenters for an immersive learning experience that will broaden your palette of wellness offerings. Explore both the art and the solid neuroscience behind the act of simple ritual — and the many ways that it can be used to foster a sense of grounding and well-being. Examine different avenues for embedding ritual into the culture of a healthcare setting. And last but not least — experience firsthand the effectiveness of personal ritual and use it as a tool to reinforce the learning and transformation occurring within you here and now.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Courtney Gambrell, MA, MSW
Spiritual Care and Wellness Teams Member, Boulder Community Health
Sharna Ill, MDiv
Manager, Spiritual Care and Palliative Care Wellness Teams, Boulder Community Health
Stressed during uncertain times? If you, your staff or your colleagues are feeling particularly spent, it is probably because the level of emotional exhaustion in healthcare workers was already at an all-time-high before COVID-19, with one out of three people already meeting the criteria for burnout. In this enlightening and entertaining module, we will provide some perspective, hope, and simple strategies to try during tense times.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenter:
J. Bryan Sexton, PhD
Director, Duke Center for Healthcare Safety & Quality
Listen in as leaders in quality, safety and the human experience discuss how innovation emerged out of necessity during the pandemic. They’ll consider the human side of innovation, the rules and regulations that had to be adjusted to meet patients’ and families’ needs, the impact of current constraints and losses and new pathways being forged to sustain healthcare quality, safety and healing.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, CPPS
Vice President, Safety Programs, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
President, Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety
Panelists:
Gaurdia Banister, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FAAN
Executive Director, The Institute for Patient Care
Director, Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research Connell - Jones
Endowed Chair for Nursing and Patient Care Research
Adrienne Boissy, MD, MA
Chief Experience Officer, Cleveland Clinic Health System
Sven Gierlinger
Senior Vice President & Chief Experience Officer, Northwell Health
Join this interactive session to begin to design the steps you can take at home to implement the great work presented throughout the conference. Identify key supports and barriers as well as the action steps that will get you on the road to growing compassion in action.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Elisa Arespacochaga, MBA
Vice President, AHA Physician Alliance, American Hospital Association
Sue Collier, MSN, RN, FABC
Chief Engagement Officer, Patient Centered Innovation, Inc
Christopher Hund, MFA
Senior Director, American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation
As the conference draws to a close, join national oral history project, StoryCorps, as they share stories of resilience, hope, and gratitude from across the country in an hour of community connection and reflection.
StoryCorps is proud to be celebrating ten years of StoryCorps Legacy — a program dedicated to providing people of all ages with serious illness, their families, and caregivers the opportunity to record, preserve, and share their stories.
During this hour, you’ll hear StoryCorps stories from healthcare professionals across departments — from nurses to chaplains to security officers — in a celebration of the human voice.
Learn more at storycorps.org
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Presenters:
Perri Chinalai
Managing Director, Learning and Engagement Department, StoryCorps
Emily Janssen
Associate Director, Learning & Engagement, StoryCorps
Don Berwick, MD, president emeritus of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, opened our Compassion in Action Healthcare Conference with thoughts about moral choices in a world reshaped by a global pandemic that has highlighted the fractures and inequities in our healthcare system. Months later, and 11 months into the U.S. pandemic, Drs. Berwick and Beth Lown, Schwartz Center CMO, will have a conversation about key lessons learned and choices we can make to move towards more compassionate healthcare for all.
A recording of this session can be found on the conference app for registrants.
Moderator:
Ellen Barry
New England Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Presenters:
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, KBE
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Beth A. Lown, MD
Chief Medical Officer, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School