Clinician Well-Being Collaborative Member Change Makers
Building on the Foundation of the NAM Clinician Well-Being Network
The NAM Change Maker Campaign builds on almost six years of collective work among 200 Clinician Well-Being Collaborative members and network organizations. We want to recognize the deepening partnerships with our network through the Change Maker Campaign.
Clinician Well-Being Collaborative members were asked in 2023 how they could best support a national movement through our Change Maker Campaign. These member organizations have elected to accelerate, coach, amplify, and drive change to ensure the Collaborative’s work continues in a meaningful way.
Change Maker Accelerators
Accelerating Change
Our inaugural Change Maker Accelerators have committed to tracking implementation of the National Plan at their institutions. The NAM is working directly with this group to facilitate and measure progress across the National Plan’s priority areas and build a community of practice. The Collaborative intends to spotlight the work of these organizations to inspire others to operationalize the National Plan and accelerate our collective efforts toward well-being.
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
The ACGME is a private, non-profit, professional organization responsible for the accreditation of more than 13,066 residency and fellowship programs and the approximately 886 institutions that sponsor these programs in the United States. Residency and fellowship programs educate approximately 158,079 resident and fellow physicians in 182 specialties and subspecialties. The ACGME’s mission is to improve health care and population health by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians’ education through accreditation.
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
The American Association of Colleges and Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) is the leading voice for the education of physicians practicing osteopathic medicine across the US. We support colleges of osteopathic medicine in their efforts to train future physicians fueled by a desire to make a difference, to treat the whole person and build a future of health and wellness for all people.
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
AACP recognizes a special responsibility to provide leadership in advancing and enhancing the quality of education and training in its member institutions while respecting the diversity inherent among them. The association includes institutional members – the 142 schools of pharmacy accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education – and individual members, including administrators, faculty and staff. We represent more than 6,400 faculty, 62,500 students enrolled in professional programs and 5,100 individuals pursuing graduate study.
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) is the collective voice of pharmacists who serve as patient care providers in hospitals, health systems, ambulatory clinics, and other health care settings spanning the full spectrum of medication use. The organization’s members include pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians. ASHP works to improve medication use and enhance patient safety.
American College of Physicians
As you work towards transforming your clinical environments to nurture well-being, ACP is committed to supporting you every step of the way. Connect with a wealth of resources and programs to help you, your teams, and your organizations flourish and achieve your goals.
Brown University Division of Biology and Medicine
The Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown is composed of The Warren Alpert Medical School and the Program in Biology. It is home to five basic biology departments and 14 clinical departments and is affiliated with eight diverse teaching hospitals in and around Providence.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai physician wellness is a core organizational strategy that enhances the culture of wellness and finds systematic solutions to help physicians thrive. Key to this is the executive steering committee which establishes strategy, assesses progress, allocates resources, and creates a culture of wellness for physicians at the health system.
CommonSpirit Health
Foundational to CommonSpirit Health® is our belief that compassion, kindness, and empathy are critical to the healing of body, mind, and spirit. That notion is at the heart of our care and our culture. Through programs, culture and leadership our goal is to support employees throughout their well-being journey and reinforces a simple message: be kind to yourself.
Kedren Health
KEDREN, acute psychiatric hospital / FQHC / out-pt mental health services / Historically Black Institution / teaching hospital for Charles Drew University CDU a Historically Black Medical School HBMS (Photo Caption: KEDREN Mobile Street Medicine Team at work vaccinating in the community of South Los Angeles.)
Medical College of Wisconsin
The Medical College of Wisconsin is a Health Science University focused on 4 missions of health education, research, community engagement and clinical care.
Montefiore Medical Center
Montefiore has a longstanding commitment to the well-being of its workforce. Montefiore’s current well-being initiatives were initially convened in 2019 to further increase professional fulfillment by enhancing the physical, mental and social well-being for all associates. Its goal is to develop a centralized entity to oversee all well-being initiatives and coordinate implementation of systems wide solutions aimed at cultivating associate well-being and professional growth.
Ochsner Health
The Office of Professional Well-Being (OPW) at Ochsner Health was created in 2019 to address the well-being of Ochsner’s workforce. Our goal is to develop evidence-based solutions aimed at improving the well-being and engagement of clinical and corporate teams across the state. OPW is determined to help our workforce and employees find the resources they need to avoid disengagement, reclaim joy and find harmony.
Ohio Health
OhioHealth is a not-for-profit, charitable, outreach of the United Methodist Church, recognized 6 times as one of the top five large health systems in America by IBM Watson Health™. OhioHealth serves over half of Ohio’s counties with 35,000 associates, physicians and volunteers, 14 hospitals, 200+ ambulatory sites including hospice.
The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University is a large Mid-west public land grant university with one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and 7 health sciences colleges. Our vision is to be a model university and health system that prioritizes well-being and promotes professional and personal fulfillment for all faculty, employees and learners. (Photo Caption: The Gabbe Health & Well-Being Wellness Cart makes the rounds to offer brief activities, snacks and resources to help employees take short breaks focused on well-being.)
Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network
The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (PMCC) is part of Canada’s largest academic hospital, University Health Network, providing state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary, digitally enabled personalized care for patients with heart and vascular disease in Canada and around the world. The PMCC is committed to fostering a positive, fulfilling, and mutually respectful workplace. We promote joy in work by focusing on the well-being of our staff and patients, leading to better patient outcomes.
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
The work of SCPMG’s Physician Wellness and Peer Support teams are to acknowledge, embrace, understand, and act to engage our organization to operationalize evidence-based strategies to optimize systems and mitigate work-related drivers of burnout and, by advocating for the physician experience, enable our physicians to enhance the patient experience.
University of California San Diego Health
UC San Diego Health (UCSDH) is a two-hospital academic medical center in San Diego, California. In 2022, UCSDH funded and formally established a Physician Wellness Office. UCSDH was ranked as the #1 hospital in San Diego and placed within the top 22 nationwide “Best Hospitals Honor Roll” by US News & World Report in 2023.
University of Kansas Medical Center
The University of Kansas Medical Center includes schools of medicine, nursing and health professions along with an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, an NIH-designated Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and a national Clinical and Translational Science Award consortium. We partner with the University of Kansas Health system, a separate entity, to advance the well-being of our campus community. (Photo Caption: Executive Vice Chancellor Robert Simari, MD, delivered opening remarks at the inaugural, campus-wide Well-being conference at the University of Kansas Medical Center, March 2023.)
University of Nebraska Medical Center
The Wellness office at UNMC provides consultation to individuals and groups on a wide variety of issues, including recognition and management of clinician burnout, common mental health issues, and personal resilience strategies.
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
University of New Mexico’s Office of Professional Wellbeing team provides well-being programming, advocacy, and direct clinical services to our students, residents/fellows and faculty.
University of North Carolina Health and University of North Carolina School of Medicine
UNC Health and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine is an integrated health care system owned by the state of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. Known as “North Carolina’s Health Care System,” UNC Health provides care to patients in all of the state’s 100 counties through its 11 hospitals, 13 hospital campuses, and hundreds of clinical practices.
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
As one of the world’s foremost recognized institutions in cancer care and research, we hope to inspire and guide other healthcare institutions in cultivating a supportive environment that prioritizes the health and happiness of their physicians and staff. We aim to contribute to a national conversation on physician well-being and drive meaningful change throughout the healthcare industry.
University of Utah
The Osher Center for Integrative Health and the Resiliency Center of the University of Utah is made up of a group of experts in human flourishing, individual and organizational change. We guide the University in optimizing personal and professional well-being of our populations, including our employees, patients and communities. As an organization we focus on the culture of medicine and building systems for thriving.
Meet representatives from our Accelerator organizations
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Bethanie Alden, MPA
Timothy Brigham, MDiv, PhD
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
Patricia Delaney, MEd, CPA
Mark Speicher, PhD, MA
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Sarah Shrader, PharmD, FCCP
American College of Physicians
Cynthia (Daisy) Smith, MD
Crissy Walters, MSOD
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Anna Legreid Dopp, PharmD, CPHQ
Kayla Waldron, PharmD, MS, BCPS
Brown University Division of Biology and Medicine
Kelly Holder, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Richard Riggs, MD
Manisha Chaudhary, MBA
CommonSpirit Health
Lesly Kelly, PhD, RN, FAAN
Stacey Clough, MHS
Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin
Alicia Pilarski, DO
Rachel Trower
Kedren Health
Jerry Abraham, MD, MPH, CMQ
Montefiore Medical Center
Carol A. Bernstein, MD
Niha Malcomson
Ochsner Health
Nigel Girgrah, MD
Molly Richard
OhioHealth
Laura Hommema, MD, FAAFP
Kristi McClure, MSN, RN
The Ohio State University
Laxmi Mehta, MD
Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network
Barry Rubin, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCSC
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
Ruben Sanchez, MD
Debbie Newman, MA, LMFT
University of California San Diego Health
Habib Sabbagh, MHA
University of Kansas Medical Center
Richard Korentager, MD, FACS
Jennifer Keeton, EdD
University of Michigan Medical School
Elizabeth Harry, MD
Shelagh Saenz, LPC
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Stephen P. Wengel, MD
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Cori Poffenberger, MD
University of North Carolina Health and UNC School of Medicine
Nadia Charguia, MD
Jenny Tauber, RN, MHA
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Carin A. Hagberg, MD, FASA
Katrina Wright, MBA
University of Utah
Amy Locke, MD
Mindy Vanderloo, PhD
Member Change Makers in Action
Coaching Change
These Change Maker Coaches will serve as guidance groups to be available to the above Member Change Makers. These teams are an opportunity not only to share best practices and personal experience but also to foster interpersonal connections.
Amplifying Change
Change Maker Nodes, encompassing a variety of health professional associations and national organizations, are providing platforms for the Collaborative to help penetrate the National Plan’s messages and continually bridge the awareness gap among different audiences.
Driving Change
These Member Change Makers will be focused on driving forward Priority Area 6 of the National Plan (Institutionalizing Well-Being as a Long-Term Value).
