TITLE: Resilient MD: Physician Wellness and the “-isms” - a Holistic Approach to DEI
DATE: May 17, 2022
TIME: 6:00-7:00 PM
SPEAKERS: Maiysha Clairborne, MD and Jill Wener, MD
PRICE: FREE. Attendees will receive a $15 DoorDash gift card for each session attended and a copy of Conscious Anti-Racism: Tools for Self-Discovery, Accountability and Meaningful Change by the speakers.

The Resilient MD Series is made possible by support from ProAssurance, professional liability insurance that defends healthcare providers facing malpractice claims and provides fair treatment for its insureds. ProAssurance Group’s rating is AM Best A (Excellent).

Join the SCCMA and the Physician Wellness Committee for a monthly solution-oriented wellness series, Resilient MD. Each one-hour session will begin with a grounding, wellness exercise led by Dr. Gail Wright so participants may be fully present and experience a moment of self-care. This is followed by a brief thematic presentation and engaging discussion aimed at envisioning a future where issues that negatively impact the practice of medicine and physician resilience can be successfully addressed. The session will close with Dr. Wright's Wellness Bite - an action-oriented take away you can use personally, with colleagues, and within your practice setting to find joy and meaning in medicine.

This session is the sixth in the Resilient MD series, and will be led by Maiysha Clairborne, MD and Jill Wener, MD.

Physicians and trainees with marginalized identities face micro-aggressions, bias, and overt racism on a daily basis. Research has shown that this can negatively impact their wellbeing. In this session, anti-racism educators Dr. Maiysha Clairborne and Dr. Jill Wener share some of the ways that the ‘isms’ can impact physician wellness, how the culture of medicine can perpetuate harm, and some practical tools that can help doctors and wellness leaders create true inclusion, justice and belonging.

About the Speakers:

Maiysha Clairborne, MD is a Physician, and Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis & Time Line Therapy®. Founder of the Mind Re-Mapping Academy®, Dr. Clairborne works with individuals and organizations helping eliminate old trauma wounds while teaching them to be trauma responsive in their own communication. She is especially skilled at training leaders on the power of perception, and how our unconscious thoughts and beliefs have an impact on the reality we create. Her trainings combine the mastery of emotional and communication intelligence, teaching leaders that by mastering our language (both internal and external) we ultimately put ourselves in the driver’s seat of our thoughts, actions, and behaviors, creating new results for ourselves that positively impacting others.

Dr. Maiysha is a graduate of Emory University, completing her medical degree at Morehouse School of Medicine, and her Family Medicine Residency at Florida Hospital. In addition to gracing the TEDx Asheville Stage in 2022, she has delivered trainings in multiple arenas including the International Conference on Physician Health, WELLMED Physician Conference in Greece, and Women in Medicine Conference.

Jill Wener, MD is a board-certified Internist, expert in physician wellness, anti-racism educator, and allyship coach. She is passionate about helping people take responsibility for their problems and teaching them practical, easy, rewarding tools to take self-improvement to the next level. Dr. Wener employs meditation, mindfulness, and the evidence-based technique of Tapping, (also known as the Emotional Freedom Technique) in the arsenal of powerful tools that help her clients manage stress, improve their physical and emotional health, and explore the ways that their mindset and self-limiting beliefs create their own reality. 

Dr. Wener has published several articles on KevinMD, led CME-accredited physician wellness programs around the country, and lectured at the national level on stress and the benefits of meditation and tapping. She has been interviewed on multiple TV and radio shows as well as podcasts.  

She is the co-creator of the CME- and SHRM-accredited Conscious Anti-Racism training program, in which she (along with her business partner Dr. Maiysha Clairborne) combines her insights on her own anti-racism journey with her mind-body expertise and her 10 years of experience practicing medicine. They have worked with clients both in healthcare and corporate, such as the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health, Atkins Global, and the National Alliance for Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. Dr. Wener is a facilitator for the ACGME’s ‘Equity Matters’ program,  the host of the Conscious Anti-Racism podcast, and the author of the best-selling Conscious Anti-Racism book with Dr. Clairborne.

For registration assistance, please contact Angelica at angelica@sccma.org