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Dr. Striker welcomes Drs. Amy Vinson and Florence LeCraw, from ASA’s Committee on Physician Well-Being, to discuss the committee’s background, work, and goals. Tune in for a dynamic discussion of burnout, resilience, economics, culture, and the path forward. Recorded June 2021.
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Amy Vinson, MD, is a pediatrician and pediatric anesthesiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She serves as the Chair of the ASA’s Committee on Physician Well-being, the ASA representative to the National Academy of Medicine’s Clinician Well-being Collaborative, and the director of clinician well-being in her own department. Dr. Vinson has a long-standing interest in wellness, burnout, peer support, and substance use disorder in anesthesiologists, and has lectured widely on these subjects. Her research on burnout among anesthesiologists, the largest such study to date, was recently published in Anesthesiology. Dr. Vinson attended college and medical school in Georgia before completing a residency in pediatrics at Brown, an anesthesiology residency at BIDMC, and a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she served as chief fellow. She established wellness programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital and has consulted on the formation of many other similar programs throughout the country.
Florence LeCraw, MD, is an adjunct professor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. A practicing anesthesiologist for over 35 years, she is now an outpatient imaging physician at Northside Hospital. Her research focus is medical liability, patient safety, and physician burnout. With her research colleagues, she has published papers on CANDOR in medical journals. Dr. LeCraw earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and has practiced at Emory University Hospital, Kennestone Hospital, and Atlanta Medical Center.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is currently Chair of the ASA Committee on Communications, and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is an Associate Professor and serves as staff anesthesiologist in the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and in the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at Kentucky Children’s Hospital as part of the Joint Congenital Heart Care Program. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.
