Corey Feist, Dr Mona Masood, Janae Sharp on health worker well-being

Spread the light with Dr Devika B

This month, in honor of the newly named Health Workforce Well-Being Day on March 18th, commemorating the day the President signed the Lorna Breen Act into law in 2022, I’m thrilled to feature conversations with three brilliant national leaders who are transforming health worker well-being:

Corey Feist, JD, MBA, CEO and co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, founded in 2020 to address the systemic drivers of health worker ill health and honoring Dr Lorna Breen, a frontline emergency room doctor and Corey’s sister-in-law, who died by suicide. The work of the Foundation was recognized by the US Surgeon General’s Medallion Award in 2023 and I’m proud to serve as an Ambassador.
Mona Masood, DO, the psychiatrist who founded the Physician Support Line, staffed by volunteer psychiatrists to extend free, 1-1, anonymous support to physicians and medical students, starting in 2020.
Janae Sharp, CEO and founder of the Sharp Index in 2018, with a vision to make health care “the healthiest place to work,” and to prevent physician suicides like that of her ex-husband, Dr John Madsen.

Trigger warning: In this episode, we talk about systemic challenges inherent to working within the US medical system and their mental health consequences, including burnout and death by suicide.
Transcript with sources here. Video conversation here.

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