Burnout: strategies and tools for clinicians

This webinar unites leading experts in healthcare well-being to address the critical issue of physician burnout. Discover fresh perspectives, actionable strategies and a forward-looking roadmap to foster resilience within the oncology profession.  

Join Jennifer Ligibel (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, MA, USA), Jennifer Griggs (University of Michigan, MI, USA), Aoife Gallagher (University of Limerick, Ireland) and Jessica Brown (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) as they delve into the root causes of burnout, its profound impacts and practical solutions to support clinicians. 

This webinar was recorded on Thursday 6 March 2025

What will you learn?Who may this interest?Speakers

What will you learn?

  • Gain a clear definition of burnout and learn to recognize its symptoms.
  • Discover practical steps oncologists can take to manage burnout.
  • Learn how healthcare systems in different regions are addressing burnout at individual and institutional levels.
  • Understand the real-world challenges of implementing burnout interventions.

Who this may interest?

  • Oncologists 
  • Other healthcare professionals
  • Healthcare leaders 
  • Mental health professionals
  • Policy makers and public health experts

Speakers

Jennifer Ligibel

Jennifer Ligibel is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Physician in the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her research focuses on the impact of energy balance factors, such as physical activity and body weight, upon cancer risk and outcomes. She has conducted more than a dozen randomized trials evaluating the impact of exercise and weight loss interventions on endpoints such as cardiorespiratory fitness, biomarkers associated with cancer risk and outcomes, body composition and quality of life in cancer patients and survivors.

 

Ligibel is also the Director of the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies and Healthy Living and has built a comprehensive clinical Healthy Living Program for patients at Dana-Farber and beyond to foster wellness during and after cancer treatment. Finally, Ligibel is the inaugural Director of Center for Faculty Well-Being at Dana-Farber. In this role, she studies the prevalence and predictors of burnout in academic physicians, as well as develops solutions to mitigate and prevent burnout in Dana-Farber Faculty.

Jennifer Griggs

Jennifer Griggs is a professor of medicine and hematology/oncology and health management and policy at the University of Michigan. She is the Director of the Michigan Oncology Quality Consortium, statewide collaborative of nearly all oncology practices in Michigan. Her research program focuses on patient-clinician communication and disparities in the quality of cancer care. She is also a narrative medicine practitioner, a leadership coach for healthcare professionals, and the host of the podcast, The Dignity Lab.

 

Aoife Gallagher

Aoife Gallagher employs rights-based approaches in her research to advance the inclusion and participation of individuals with speech, language and communication needs in society. Aoife has an international reputation as an expert in child voice. She was an invited member of an international consortium (CATALISE) led by the University of Oxford (UK), aimed at agreeing terminology and diagnostic criteria for children and young people with DLD.

She is national lead in knowledge translation efforts to facilitate the uptake of the findings from CATALISE into policy and practice. Aoife is currently leading on qualitative research with children with DLD as part of an NIH funded project exploring gender- related service inequities. Aoife is also UL lead on a HEA funded study aimed at implementing gender-informed workload allocation models to support women in academia. Aoife represents Ireland as a management committee member of a COST Action (CA22139 – Justice to youth language needs: human rights undermined by an invisible disadvantage (Y-JustLang). Aoife and co-panelist Jessica Brown have co-authored a paper on the potential of narrative medicine in targeting physician burnout, view the full paper here.

Jessica Brown

Jessica Brown works in the creative writing field as a poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, teacher, mentor and narrative practitioner. She has led writing workshops at schools (all ages), prisons, festivals and community events. Her research interests include narrative studies, ecological and medical humanities, affect theory, theology and literature and spiritual formation. Beyond academic publications and shorter works, Jessica has published two collections of poetry and two novels for children. View Jessica’s paper on narrative medicine interventions here.

 

 

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