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ICPH International Conference Online on Physician HealthTM A vision for humanity in medicine Monday 26 – Friday 30 April 2021 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday ICPH This important conference, supported by the British, American and Canadian Medical Associations, aims to support doctors and medical students to create better working environments for themselves and their colleagues. This time, the conference will be an entirely online event, with an exciting schedule of presentations and interactive sessions to enable physicians across the globe to learn, connect and develop strategies and networks to support them. By presenting positive A healthier workforce delivers interventions and bringing better outcomes for patients together a vibrant, international and this conference will offer community of professionals, strategies to enable you to make we aim to enable you to make positive change for the benefit your career and workplace of your patients, your team and more conducive to sustaining yourself. The programme includes your health and wellbeing. inspirational keynote presentations, The conference will give you the themed presentation streams, tools to put ideas into practice. poster sessions and opportunities to connect with colleagues. ICPH CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: A vision for humanity in medicine A panel session chaired by Christopher Simon, strategic advisor of physician wellness and medical culture, Canadian Medical Association Chair: Christopher Simon Christopher Simon is the strategic advisor of physician wellness and medical culture at the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), where he has helped lead the CMA’s work in physician wellness for the past eight years. During that time, he has been involved in the planning and content for both the International and Canadian Conferences on Physician Health and led the development of the Canadian National Physician Health Survey and the CMA Policy on Physician Health. His current work includes helping support the CMA’s vision for a vibrant medical profession and a healthy population, with an emphasis on building positive and supportive medical training and practice cultures – an important element of promoting ‘humanity in medicine’. Christopher has been a part of the physician wellness community for nearly 15 years, having completed both his Master’s and PhD at the University of Ottawa in Psychosocial Sciences, with a focus on physician health and wellness – specifically, psychological well- being and self-regulation through a positive psychology lens. Panellists: Dr Jane Lemaire Jane Lemaire is a clinical professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, and vice chair, physician wellness and vitality, Department of Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She and her research colleagues have passionately advocated for recognition of physician wellness as a quality indicator of healthcare systems, and a shared responsibility for physician wellness that lies with individual physicians, the medical profession, and healthcare systems. Dr Lemaire received the 2016 Canadian Medical Association Misericordia Award for her contributions to physician wellness. She is also the director of wellness at the Office of Professionalism, Equity, and Diversity, as well as the wellness lead at the W21C Research and Innovation Center, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr Lemaire is the physician lead of Well Doc Alberta, a collaborative, co-operative, pan-provincial initiative with a focus education and prevention. Dr Jen Warren Dr Jen Warren is a mum, anaesthetist dual training with intensive care and a para athlete. An accident early in her career resulted in becoming a wheelchair user but ignited a passion for challenging perceptions: “Disability might define what you can’t do but the only limit on what you can do is your imagination.” This led to Jen participating in numerous sporting events; most notably winning 18 medals at the 2016 and 2017 Invictus Games, becoming the first person to take part in the Lewa Marathon using a wheelchair and captaining the first female disabled team to complete the Arch to Arc, all while rebuilding her career as an anaesthetist. Jen is a passionate advocate for diversity and well-being in medicine. She is a founder member of the Disabled Doctors network and on the hunt for her next sporting challenge. Professor Michael West Michael West is senior visiting fellow at the King’s Fund, London and professor of organisational psychology at Lancaster University Management School. He has authored, edited or co-edited 20 books and has published over 200 articles for scientific and practitioner publications, as well as chapters in scholarly books. He is a fellow of the British Psychological Society, the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the International Association of Applied Psychologists, the British Academy of Management, and the Academy of Social Sciences. The focus of his research over 30 years has been culture and leadership in organisations, team and organisational innovation and effectiveness, particularly in relation to the organisation of health services. He provides regular policy advice to many UK National Health Service organisations. He led the Department of Health Policy Research Programme into cultures of quality and safety in the NHS in England from 2009 t0 2013. He also led the NHS National Staff Survey development and implementation for eight years and has built a large evidence base. He assisted Health Education England and NHS Improvement in developing the national framework on improvement and leadership development in England (Developing People, Improving Care - 2016) and the Department of Health in Northern Ireland in developing the Collective Leadership Strategy for Health and Social Care (2017). He is supporting HEIW to develop the national NHS leadership strategy in Wales. He speaks to healthcare audiences widely, both nationally and internationally, about compassionate leadership and cultures of high-quality care, and evidence-based solutions for developing effective and innovative health care organizations. He co-chaired with Dame Denise Coia, the two-year inquiry on behalf of the UK General Medical Council into the mental health and wellbeing of doctors Caring for Doctors, Caring for Patients. Resilience, regeneration and restoration – learning from others Professor Debbie Cohen, emeritus professor of occupational health, Cardiff University Debbie retired from medical practice in September 2019. She now manages a small farm in rural South Wales (UK). She set up and ran for 20 years a service to support physician health in Wales and since the start of the pandemic has grown the service to support 60,000 NHS staff in Wales. She has now handed this work on to others but continues to work with charities, environmentalists and others working in the field of permaculture, biodiversity and regenerative agriculture to support wellbeing to the UK nation. COVID perspectives and learning Chair: Dr David Wrigley Dr David Wrigley is a senior GP in Carnforth, north Lancashire, UK, and has worked there for over 20 years. Currently he is a BMA chief officer and deputy chair of its UK Council. He is the BMA lead for doctor health and wellbeing. David is a former trustee at the Cameron Fund which is an independent charity that helps family physicians who struggle with health and wellbeing problems. David is a past elected member of the BMA General Practitioners Committee representing GPs in Lancashire and Cumbria. Professor Subodh Dave Professor Subodh Dave is dean elect of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, professor of psychiatry at the University of Bolton and a consultant psychiatrist at Derbyshire healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Karin Isaksson Rø Dr Karin Isaksson Rø is a senior researcher at The Institute for studies of the Medical Profession, Norway. She is affiliated to the Department of Behavioral Medicine at the University of Oslo, Norway and she works as a peer counsellor for doctors at the Resource Centre Villa Sana, Modum Bad, Norway. Professor Colin West Originally from Seattle, Dr West received his MD and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Iowa in 1999. He completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Mayo Clinic, and joined the faculty in General Internal Medicine in 2004. He is currently Professor of Medicine, Medical Education, and Biostatistics at Mayo. He directs the evidence-based medicine curriculum for the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and is the Assistant Dean for GME Scholarship at Mayo. Dr West’s research has focused on medical education and physician well-being, and he is Co-Director of the Mayo Clinic Program on Physician Well-Being. His research has been widely published in prominent journals including Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and JAMA Internal Medicine. Suicide and the myth of Sisyphus Dr Clare Gerada, medical director, NHS Practitioner Health Having qualified from University College Hospital in 1982, Clare Gerada started her career in psychiatry, training at the Maudsley Hospital. After obtaining her membership of Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1986, she left, trained in general practice and became a partner of the Hurley Clinic in 1992 where she has been ever since. Alongside this role, for the last decade she has also been the medical director of NHS Practitioner Health, a confidential service for doctors and dentists with mental health and addiction problems. Over the decade around 11,000 doctors have accessed the service which is now the largest physician health service in Europe. Over the years she has held a number of local and national leadership roles, including chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (2010 – 13) when she was only the second woman to hold this post in its fifty-year history. She is currently co-chair of the NHS Assembly. Currently Dr Gerada not only still leads NHS Practitioner Health but in 2020 established a service for problem gamblers; chairs the newly formed registered charity, Doctors in Distress and was made a Dame in the 2020 Queen’s birthday honours for services to general practice.

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