Wed, Jan 13
|Zoom
(FOCUS Lunchtime Seminar) Clinician Psychological & Physical Health: What the Data Show and Setting the Path For... (1)
In this talk Dr. Chang provides a broad summary of literature from diverse fields from medicine, health psychology, and occupational health on clinician psychological and physical health, with the goal of introducing a broad research agenda for clinician well-being.
Time & Location
Jan 13, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Zoom
About the Event
Dr. Chang is the Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University. A practicing emergency physician and research psychologist, he focuses on neurological and psychiatric emergencies, with expertise in the psychological and physiological effects of stress in both patients and clinicians. He has received grant funding at the institutional, state, and federal level, and is currently the PI of a NIH funded study of long-term emergency clinician psychological and cardiovascular health. He received his PhD from Harvard in Psychology, his MD from Stanford and completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Prior to medical school, he served as a sailboat captain doing boat deliveries internationally.