This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Joy & Wholeness Summit in Asheville, North Carolina. Kristen Gradney, MHA, RDN, LDN, is the Chief Wellness Officer and Vice President of Total Rewards for LCMC Health in New Orleans, LA, with over a decade of experience leading healthcare teams and transforming care through innovative, community-based strategies. A graduate of Louisiana State University with degrees in Sociology and Nutritional Science, she completed her dietetic internship at th...

This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Joy & Wholeness Summit in Asheville, North Carolina. Dhaval Desai was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and completed his undergraduate studies at Emory University. He completed medical school at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in St. Maarten, performed his clinical years of medical school in New York City, and had the opportunity to rotate through various different community hospitals. He completed his residency at Wright State...

This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Joy & Wholeness Summit in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Xi (Sisi) Hu is a Co-Founder and the Chief Wellbeing Economist of Atalan Tech, a mission-oriented startup focused on using machine learning to predict and prevent clinician burnout and turnover. She is also a Fellow of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, with a research focus on labor issues. She s...

With a background in law, conflict resolution, health advocacy, and stress education, Pennie Sempell, JD, is well-equipped to address the critical issues surrounding burnout prevention in healthcare. As the CEO of StressPal, Pennie is at the forefront of innovation, developing ACCME and ANCC accredited programs that provide participants with a solid foundation of concise intervention strategies to excel in high-pressure situations and interactions. Pennie's educational background includes stu...

Britney Broyhill, DNP, ACNP-BC, FAANP, is the Senior Director of Advanced Practice for Atrium Health. Thanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of The Well-Being Connector at www.bethejoy.org/podcast.

Advocating for yourself is a crucial skill for well-being, professional identity formation, and career advancement as women in medicine. In this episode, our guest speakers touch on their RAFFT (Resident and Faculty Females Together) program, where participants learn tangible skills for building their own self-promotion toolkit. The program involves skill breakout groups that include hands-on guidance on crafting your elevator pitch, the art of negotiation,and tangible ways to advocate for yo...

Arpita Gupta DePalma, MD founded Thought Work, MD to help physicians and professional women learn how to identify, manage, and then let go of what is not serving them through transformational mindset coaching. She helps powerful women learn how to stay ahead of their anger so that they show up calm, collected and in control, ready to lead and execute with poise. In her one to one and group coaching programs, she provides clients the unique tools they need to optimize how they show up each day...

Jenny Michel is the Director of Advanced Practice at Akron Children’s and works clinically as a nurse practitioner in the emergency department. She is currently the co-chair of the provider resilience committee, the Well-Being index APP champion, and an advocate for recognizing the importance of provider wellness and improving the health and wellness of APPs. In 2022, she participated in the Intelligence for Quality Improvement program and completed a project with a focus on increasing APP in...

Amber Orman, MD, DipABLM is a double board-certified radiation oncologist and lifestyle medicine specialist focusing on focusing on breast cancer treatment and prevention, providing holistic care that encompasses mind and body. She is the first ever Chief Wellness Office (CWO) of AdventHealth Medical Group, working to improve the well-being of her colleagues. She is also the co-founder of the HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyle) program at AdventHealth in Orlando, Florida. HEAL is an 8-...

This is Part II of a special two-part series on the Coalition for Physician Well-Being. Note: This episode was recorded in September 2024, prior to the landfall of Hurricane Helene in the continental United States. The Coalition is dedicated to supporting the residents of western North Carolina and will produce the 2025 Joy & Wholeness Summit responsibly. Robert M. Rodgers, MD, is a dedicated family medicine specialist based in Altamonte Springs, FL, with over 33 years of experience in ...

This is Part I of a special two-part series on the Coalition for Physician Well-Being. Correction: (9:07) This takes place at AdventHealth Hendersonville in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The original recording erroneously states AdventHealth Shawnee Mission. About the Speaker Michael Cacciatore, MD, is Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for AdventHealth. In this role, he provides leadership and direction for safety and quality programs and the clinical performance of the ...

Dr. Liz Chamberlain is a Licensed Psychologist in clinical practice for 20 years, holds a clinical appointment as Assistant Professor and a leadership position as Faculty Wellness Officer in the Department of Psychiatry, and has been with the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center since 2016. Dr. Chamberlain has worked in private practice, university counseling centers, community mental health/family therapy settings, has presented at national conferences and has authored a book chapter on cu...

Dr. Sue Padernacht, EdD, PCC is the CEO and Founder of Ncline Leadership Strategies. She brings a 30+ year track record working with executives, teams and organizations to pivot, innovate or transform to meet the disruptive, volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) changes taking place in organizations. She uses leading-edge change agility and people development tools to drive business results, strengthen leadership capabilities, re-build cultures and teams, and re-engage employees work...

About Pink Coat, MD Pink Coat, MD was created by two Ivy-League friends, Dr. Tammie Chang and Dr. Luisa Duran, who first met as Freshmen at Brown University nearly 25 years ago. Both first generation Americans and born into immigrant families, Drs. Tammie and Luisa are incredibly compassionate souls who felt called to serve others as physicians from a young age. They dedicated their lives to becoming the very best physicians only to discover they would suffer silently from physician burnout ...

Tyra Fainstad, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado where she is a primary care doctor and as teaching attending for Internal Medicine residents. She has a scholarship interest in learner-centered feedback, assessment bias, and psychologically safe educational environments. She is also a certified professional life coach and has created and co-directs an online group coaching program for physicians and trainees called Better Together Physician Coaching. Her p...

This episode features a special guest appearance by Omayra Mansfield, MD. Dr. Mike Rucker is an organizational psychologist, behavioral scientist, and charter member of the International Positive Psychology Association. He has been academically published in publications like the International Journal of Workplace Health Management. His ideas about fun and health have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, Vox, Thrive Global, Mindful...

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.salentinecoachingandconsulting.com Thanks for tuning in! Check out more episodes of The Well-Being Connector at www.bethejoy....

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 traveling, painting and salsa dancing. sisi@atalantech.com Tiffany Chan, MA managed an engineering ...

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 Masters in Healthcare Administration at the University of Florida and her emergency medicine residency...

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 podcasting and its feasibility as a tool for conversations on well-being in the workplace, while highligh...