Anesthesia Grand Rounds - Well-Being, featuring Guest Speaker Amy Vinson, MD, FAAP
About the Speaker
Amy E. Vinson, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Boston Children’s Hospital
Associate Clinical Director, Waltham Hospitalist Program
Chair, ASA Committee on Physician Well-Being
Chief Wellness Officer, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Medicine
Amy Vinson is a Pediatrician and Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She attended college and medical school in Georgia before coming to New England where she completed a residency in pediatrics at Brown, an anesthesiology residency at BIDMC and Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. She has a long-standing interest in well-being, burnout, peer support, and substance use disorder in anesthesiologists and has lectured widely on these subjects. She established wellness programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital and has consulted on the formation of many other programs throughout the country. She currently serves as the Chair of the ASA’s Committee on Physician Well-being, is the ASA representative to the National Academy of Medicine’s Clinician Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience and is the Chief Wellness Officer for own department. Her research on Burnout in Anesthesiologists - the largest such study of anesthesiologists to date, was recently published in Anesthesiology and she has numerous other publications and research manuscripts on subjects related to overall physician well-being. She is a self-described “well-being pragmatist” focusing on systemic and organizational factors impacting well-being and burnout.
Moderator
Jina Sinskey, MD
Associate Chair for Well-Being
Zoom Info
https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/92970759319?pwd=bE9SR1dGTS9VWGEyamMwTWdWQkYzUT09
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Meeting ID: 929 7075 9319
