UPMC Well-being Symposium 2024

Pittsburgh, PA US
February 9, 2024

A full day of programming consisting of lectures and workshops to discuss ways to address personal well-being and resilience, enhance our culture of wellness, and develop systems level solutions.

Target Audience

Physicians and Other health care professionals.

Learning Objectives

Educate physicians on the definition of physician burnout as well as the extent of this problem nationally. 
Educate our physicians about the causes of physician burnout both nationally. 
Educate physicians about the national initiatives, most notably those of the National Academy of Medicine, to address physician burnout and promote physician wellness. 
Teach the attendees about ongoing initiatives to improve physician burnout at UPMC. 
These include education about strategies to integrate wellness into their work, workshops with strategies to improve their resilience. 
We will also present exciting, ongoing work on revolutionizing the electronic health record at UPMC. 

Additional Information

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 4.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
01/16/2024
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
Event starts: 
02/09/2024 - 8:00am EST
Event ends: 
02/09/2024 - 1:00pm EST
Magee Hospital- Auditorium and Meeting Room Area
300 Halket St
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
United States

Course Director(s):
Jennifer Berliner, MD
Director of Physician Well-being, Co-Chair - Physician THRIVE, UPMC

Joe Losee, MD 
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, CoChair - Physician THRIVE, UPMC 

Jane Liebschutz, MD 
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Falk Chair in Ambulatory Medicine, , University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC

Couse Faculty:
1.    Jennifer Berliner, MD, Director of Physician Well-being, Co-Chair - Physician THRIVE, UPMC
2.    Donald M. Yealy, MD, Senior Vice President, and Chief Medical Officer, UPMC
3.    Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD, Dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC
4.    Elizabeth Harry, MD, Chief Wellness Officer for Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School – Michigan Medicine
5.    Fred Hargett, MS, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, UPMC 
6.    Osar Marroquin, M.D. Senior Vice President, President, Physician Services Division, UPMC
7.    Sansea Jacobson, MD, Co-Chair, UPMC GMEC WELL Subcommittee, UPMC
8.    Kristin Ondecko Ligda, MD, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine & UPMC Mercy Hospital, UPMC
9.    Denise Hall-Burton, MD, Assistant Professor, Medical Student Coordinator, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
10.    Alyssa Vigliotti, MD, General Academic Pediatrics Medical Education Fellow, Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics,  UPMC 
11.    Gary Fischer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, Associate Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Medical Director, Clinical Decision Support and Analytic Tools, Ambulatory eRecord, UPMC
12.    Jose Abad, MD, Community Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC  
13.    Michael Curren MD, MS, Cardiologist, Clinical Instructor, UPMC    
14.    Felicia Snead, MD, FASTRO, Dept of Radiology Oncology, Hillman Cancer Center, UPMC
15.    Ian Barbash, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine) and Critical Care Medicine, UPMC
16.    Anna White, MD, FAAP, FACP, Medical Director, Street Medicine at Pitt; Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, UPMC
17.    Jane Liebschutz, MD, Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Professor of Medicine (with Tenure), UPMC Endowed Chair of Translational Medicine and Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC 
18.    Raymond Truex, MD, Medical Director, Health Programs at The Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED)
19.    Joe Losee, MD, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Co-Chair - Physician THRIVE, UPMC 
 

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity. 

Available Credit

  • 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 4.00 Attendance
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For additional information, contact the Conference Manager, Crystal Ackles, at 412.647.0505 or via email at acklescr@upmc.edu.