Serving Others Is The Best Medicine For Ourselves | Dr. Stephen Trzeciak

Dr. Stephen Trzeciak was at the top of his game as a research scientist until an unexpected question from his 12-year-old son transformed his life's work. "What is the most pressing problem of our time? Do we really know? And what would happen if we actually did?"  

Landing ‘compassion’ as what Stephen believed for him was the most pressing problem of our time, and as a researcher he wasted no time getting down to business around looking at the science of compassion and the evidence based data that tells us without a shadow of a doubt that compassion is not only the cornerstone of the art of medicine, but it is a wonder-drug that serves the giver every bit as much as the receiver, if not more. In this conversation we talk about some of the scientific research around compassion, it’s effects on anxiety and depression and how the pandemic has highlighted the light and shade of compassion and it’s erosion in society today.

Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH is a physician-scientist, Chief of Medicine at Cooper University Health Care, and Professor and Chair of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Trzeciak is a practicing intensivist (specialist in intensive care medicine), and a clinical researcher with more than 120 publications in the scientific literature. Dr. Trzeciak’s publications have been featured in prominent medical journals, such as: JAMA, Circulation, and The New England Journal of Medicine. His scientific program has been supported by research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with Dr. Trzeciak serving as Principal Investigator.

Dr. Trzeciak is the co-author of two books, Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference, and Wonder Drug: 7 Scientifically Proven Ways That Serving Others Is the Best Medicine for Yourself. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets including CNN, NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, and Freakonomics. For this work, he was awarded the Influencers of Healthcare Award by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Broadly, Dr. Trzeciak’s mission is to raise compassion and kindness globally through science.

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