Presenter: William Border, MD, MPH
Overview:
Physician Burnout and Wellbeing: Lessons Learnt and New Horizons
Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
William Border, MD, MPH is a pediatric cardiologist, Director of Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and a professor of pediatrics in the Emory University school of medicine. He is originally from South Africa where he did his medical school at the University of Cape Town. He did residency in pediatrics at Baystate Medical Center in Massachusetts followed by cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He has been in Atlanta since 2008. He has also recently taken on the role of Chief Physician Wellness officer and works with the physician wellness leadership committee to develop programs to reduce burnout improve and improve wellbeing of physicians at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. His research interests have been directed mostly towards the evaluation of cardiac function by echocardiography. He has an interest in the utilization of exercise stress echo in evaluating cardiovascular hemodynamics during exercise. He has also collaborated extensively with oncologists to explore the role of echocardiography in detecting early cardiac dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors. Most recently his research efforts have been directed towards evaluating and mitigating the effects of physician burnout.
Financial Disclosures: William Border, MD, MPH has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclosure.
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator.
Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hour)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hour)
MOC-2 credit (1.00 hour)
Target Audience:
Pediatric Doctors and Providers
Faculty, residents, health care providers; medical students and trainees.
Accreditation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.