The Well-Being Connector

Liz Boehm is the Executive Strategist for Stryker and its Heart of Safety Coalition, a community of healthcare leaders, learners and advocates focused on advancing the three pillars of care team safety: psychological and emotional safety, dignity and inclusion, and physical safety. As an Executive Strategist and one of the Coalition’s co-founders, Liz orchestrates research to identify and share evidence-informed practices that advance care team safety and wellbeing, including human-centered leadership. She is also the host of the Caring Greatly™ podcast, a destination where listeners can connect to human-centered stories and be inspired to drive change that supports a thriving healthcare workforce. For more than 20 years, Liz has collaborated with hospitals and health systems across the country to discover and share best practices that advance solutions to improve experiences for patients, families and care teams. In addition, Liz is on the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine and a member of the Dr. Lorna Breen Foundation’s ALL IN Coalition.

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Dr. Schumm is a seasoned family physician and administrator with a rich background in healthcare leadership. After a decade of private practice, Dr. Schumm transitioned to administrative roles, serving as a Chief Medical Officer and later as a medical group president in Lima, OH. His career took a significant turn in 2016 when he moved into a system role focusing on provider professional development, emphasizing physician well-being and learning at Mercy Health, now known as Bon Secours Mercy Health. In November 2022, Dr. Schumm retired and founded Schumm Associates, an organization dedicated to the wellness and leadership of health and ministry professionals. His contributions to education and healthcare are further highlighted by his service as Chair of the Huntington University Board of Trustees.

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Dr. Arpan Waghray is a geriatric psychiatrist who serves as the CEO of Providence’s Well Being Trust. In this role, he oversees the foundation’s strategy to drive measurable improvement in the mental health and well-being of communities within the Providence footprint of Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington. Dr. Waghray has served on the Well Being Trust team since its inception in 2016 in the capacity of chief medical officer. He also serves as chief medical officer of Behavioral Medicine at Providence, one of the largest non-profit health systems with 120,000 employees, 52 hospitals, 1,085 clinics and a comprehensive range of health and social services across its footprint. In this role, he facilitates clinical collaboration across the organization to design, develop, and deploy solutions that reduce variation and spread innovation in behavioral medicine.

He additionally oversees Providence’s Tele-Behavioral Health Network that brings access to essential mental health services across 36 Providence ministries, including many rural and critical access hospitals. In partnership with key stakeholders from human resources, population health, Mission and digital innovation, he is leading efforts to improve the mental health and well-being of 120,000 Providence caregivers.

Dr. Waghray co-chairs the Providence Behavioral Health Leadership Council, which aligns system-wide mental health efforts by bringing together teams from the clinical services division, population health, community partnerships, government affairs, human resources, digital innovation, Mission integration, and social engagement.

Tiffany Chan is CEO and Co-Founder of Atalan, the Clinician Retention Intelligence (CRI) platform helping health systems predict and prevent clinician resignations up to 12 months in advance. She leads Atalan’s mission to turn workforce data into actionable insights that improve retention, care continuity, and financial performance. Previously, Tiffany managed a Harvard University engineering and applied sciences research center and earned a graduate degree in policy from Yale University. 

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Dr. Dawn Sears is an academic professor and practicing board certified gastroenterologist/hepatologist who has focused much of her career and research into wellbeing of her colleagues. She was system-wide Chief of Wellbeing for several years and later spearheaded the Women Leaders in Medicine serving over 300 women physicians and moving the needles of engagement, retention and burnout. She has received multiple grants and awards for her work, including AMA, AMWA, TMA and a $150,000 grant from The Physicians Foundation. She has led many conferences for women physicians and APPS including WLiM, ACE and Emerge. She is an ICF certified Executive Coach who regularly works with private, institutional and medical society associated physicians and APPs. Her goal is to stop the hemorrhaging of women from healthcare. She currently proudly servers at the Veterans Administration Gastroenterology Division in North Texas as Key faculty at UT Southwestern as a Clinical Professor.

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Kevin Hartman, MD currently serves as the ambulatory chief medical officer of Bon Secours Mercy Health. He has been with the organization since 2012. He completed medical school at the University of Cincinnati and residency in internal medicine at the University of Colorado. He is currently completing a master’s degree in healthcare management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In his role as ambulatory chief medical officer, he is focused on clinical transformation to improve outcomes for patients and increase the professional satisfaction and well-being of physicians and the care team members they work with. He is the father of 5 children and the husband of a family doctor/mother who inspires him to strive to be the best version of himself.

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Hernan Barenboim, PhD, PCC, LMFT, is the Chief Wellness Officer at the KPC Group in Menifee, California. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a registered psychologist. After moving to the US, he completed a PhD in Medical Family Therapy at the University of Saint Louis and a fellowship in Medical Family Therapy at the Chicago Center for Family Health. He has more than 20 years of clinical experience, including providing psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families, supervising mental health students, and teaching culturally informed behavioral science to family medicine residents. In addition to his clinical experience, Dr. Barenboim has been a consultant in health equity, cultural competence, and integrated care for several national and international companies.

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Kelly Hines-Stellisch is a practicing nurse practitioner. She holds board certifications in family practice and emergency medicine and currently practices in both settings. She is also a part-time assistant professor at California State University, Channel Islands in the College of Nursing as a clinical instructor. She is also the owner and founder of Reviving Wellness, a small business that provides wellness coaching services to individual clinicians and organizations committed to improving clinician well-being.

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Gregory Guldner, MD, MS, FACEP is the Vice President of Academic Affairs for

Jason T. Siegel (PhD) is a Professor of Social Psychology at Claremont

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Arpita Gupta DePalma, MD, TIPC founded Thought Work, MD to help physicians and professional women learn how to identify, manage, and then let go of what is not serving them through transformational mindset coaching. She is a retired pediatrician and the co-founder of Virginia iSpine Physicians, a medical practice she opened with her husband. After completing her coach certification with The Life Coach School in 2021, she went on to become certified as a Trauma Informed Professional Coach (TIPC) with Lodestar, and then earn her certification as an Advanced Deep Dive Coach with Bev Aron.

Arpita helps powerful women learn how to stay ahead of their emotions so that they show up calm, collected and in control, ready to lead and execute with poise. In her one to one and group coaching programs, she provides clients the unique tools they need to optimize how they show up each day in order to accomplish more, while being happier doing so.

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Dr. Jillian Bybee is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. At Corewell Health West and Michigan State University, she serves as the Director of Wellness for Graduate Medical Education and Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship programs. Additionally, she is a mindset and leadership coach for Corewell Health West. She dedicates her work to fostering an organizational culture of wellness and helping healthcare professionals create satisfying careers. Dr. Bybee is a prolific speaker and has delivered numerous presentations nationally on improving the lives of healthcare workers including stress management, team-based strategies for professional fulfillment, creating a career you love, mindset, resilience, and work-related distress which have positively impacted thousands of people. Her signature workshop 'Transform Your Day' helps attendees go from overwhelmed and frazzled to present and empowered. Additionally, Dr. Bybee writes a newsletter called ‘Humans Leading’ and hosts a podcast of the same name which both help hundreds of high achievers live less stressed, more satisfying lives.

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