In 2024, we will continue to see the collateral impacts of the pandemic on human connection—connections with self, family and community. Healthcare professionals will need to focus on what really matters, the connections to themselves and those around them.
Join our thought-provoking conversation with Derek Bell, Vice President of Solutions and Clinical Operations with VITAL WorkLife, and Paul DeChant, MD, MBA, internationally recognized thought leader on healthcare burnout. Together, we will review statistics and trends facing healthcare and explore actionable strategies so that your healthcare professionals can not only survive but thrive in 2024.
Our goals are to help you:
- Identify key impacts on burnout and physician satisfaction
- Explore 3 ways that building relationships can improve physician well-being
- Develop strategies to improve well-being of physicians
If you can't attend live, register anyway and we'll send you the recording to watch on demand after the event.
About the Speakers
Derek Bell, MS, CWP
Vice President of Solutions and Clinical Operations - VITAL WorkLife
Derek leads the solutions, user journey, consultant network, and clinical operations teams for VITAL WorkLife. As a nationally recognized expert in the health and well-being field, Derek has led organizational and enterprise-wide health and well-being programs, services, and strategies. Derek received his Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point and his Bachelor’s Degree from Knox College. He is a Certified Wellness Practitioner and holds certificates in Worksite Wellness Program Management and Project Management.
Derek is also an educator and teaches a unique well-being course, “Finding Purpose and Meaning in Our Work,” in the MBA Program at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. Derek is often sought to provide well-being leadership to organizations and collaborates with other leaders to innovate and transform and enhance cultures of well-being through promoting gratitude, resilience, and joy. Derek can also be heard on his own podcast series, “Highway to Well with Derek Bell,” available on most podcast platforms.
Paul DeChant, MD, MBA
Principal and Cofounder - Organizational Wellbeing Solutions, LLC
Dr. Paul DeChant advises C-level healthcare executives on managing critical problems such as financial and staffing challenges by addressing the root causes of clinician burnout.
Following 25 years practicing family medicine in settings as varied as the San Francisco bay area, Breckenridge Colorado, and Geisinger Health in Central Pennsylvania, he became CEO of the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, where he led a transformation that achieved recognition for the group as the highest performing among 170 medical groups across the State of California two years in a row, while improving physician satisfaction from the 45th to 87th percentile on AMGA’s Provider Satisfaction Survey.
He received his MD from the Oregon Health Sciences University and his MBA from the University of Colorado-Denver. Co-author of the book, “Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine”, Paul speaks internationally, and blogs regularly at www.pauldechantmd.com