The Well-Being Connector

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 i...

Gregory Guldner, MD, MS, FACEP is the Vice President of Academic Affairs for HCA GME, a role he entered July 1, 2022, most recently serving as DIO at HCA Healthcare Riverside in Riverside CA. Before joining HCA Healthcare, Dr. Guldner served as the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, as well as an Associate Professor of both Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Loma...

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...

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....

Bryan Sexton is the Chief Wellness Officer of Duke Health Integrated Practice and Director of the Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science. After 30 years as a psychologist, psychometrician and investigator, he now works with leaders to assess and improve culture and work-force well-being. Bryan has conducted and published large studies and randomized controlled trials showing how to cause enduring improvements in the ...

Dr. Paul DeChant is a thought leader on preventing burnout by fixing the workplace drivers of burnout, not simply helping workers become more resilient. Paul advises C-level healthcare executives on managing critical problems such as financial and staffing challenges by transforming management systems and cultures to reduce the root causes of clinician burnout. Done properly, client organizations improve KPI performance while reduc...

Marion McCrary MD, FACP, FAMWA is a primary care internal medicine physician at Duke Signature Care and serves as the Associate Director of the Duke GME Professional Development Coaching program where she develops curriculum, educates, and coaches residents and fellows in a 1:1 and group setting. She is a national board-certified health and wellness coach. She is the Governor for the NC chapter of the American College of Physicians...

This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Joy & Wholeness Summit in Asheville, North Carolina.

Kristen Gradney, MHA, RDN, LDN, is the Chief Wellness Officer and Vice President of Total Rewards for LCMC Health in New Orleans, LA, with over a decade of experience leading healthcare teams and transforming care through innovative, community-based strategies. A graduate of Louisiana State University with degrees in Sociology and Nut...

This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Joy & Wholeness Summit in Asheville, North Carolina.

Dhaval Desai was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and completed his undergraduate studies at Emory University. He completed medical school at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in St. Maarten, performed his clinical years of medical school in New York City, and had the opportunity to rotate through various different co...

This episode was recorded live at the 2025 Joy & Wholeness Summit in Asheville, North Carolina.

Dr. Xi (Sisi) Hu is a Co-Founder and the Chief Wellbeing Economist of Atalan Tech, a mission-oriented startup focused on using machine learning to predict and prevent clinician burnout and turnover. She is also a Fellow of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and Research Economist at the National Bureau of Ec...

With a background in law, conflict resolution, health advocacy, and stress education, Pennie Sempell, JD, is well-equipped to address the critical issues surrounding burnout prevention in healthcare. As the CEO of StressPal, Pennie is at the forefront of innovation, developing ACCME and ANCC accredited programs that provide participants with a solid foundation of concise intervention strategies to excel in high-pressure situations ...

Advocating for yourself is a crucial skill for well-being, professional identity formation, and career advancement as women in medicine. In this episode, our guest speakers touch on their RAFFT (Resident and Faculty Females Together) program, where participants learn tangible skills for building their own self-promotion toolkit. The program involves skill breakout groups that include hands-on guidance on crafting your elevator pitc...

Arpita Gupta DePalma, MD 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 helps powerful women learn how to stay ahead of their anger 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 th...

Jenny Michel is the Director of Advanced Practice at Akron Children’s and works clinically as a nurse practitioner in the emergency department. She is currently the co-chair of the provider resilience committee, the Well-Being index APP champion, and an advocate for recognizing the importance of provider wellness and improving the health and wellness of APPs. In 2022, she participated in the Intelligence for Quality Improvement pro...

Amber Orman, MD, DipABLM is a double board-certified radiation oncologist and lifestyle medicine specialist focusing on focusing on breast cancer treatment and prevention, providing holistic care that encompasses mind and body. She is the first ever Chief Wellness Office (CWO) of AdventHealth Medical Group, working to improve the well-being of her colleagues. She is also the co-founder of the HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Lifesty...

This is Part II of a special two-part series on the Coalition for Physician Well-Being.

Note: This episode was recorded in September 2024, prior to the landfall of Hurricane Helene in the continental United States. The Coalition is dedicated to supporting the residents of western North Carolina and will produce the 2025 Joy & Wholeness Summit responsibly.

Robert M. Rodgers, MD, is a dedicated family medicine s...

This is Part I of a special two-part series on the Coalition for Physician Well-Being.

Correction: (9:07) This takes place at AdventHealth Hendersonville in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The original recording erroneously states AdventHealth Shawnee Mission.

About the Speaker
Michael Cacciatore, MD, is Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for AdventHealth. In this role, he provides leadership ...

Dr. Liz Chamberlain is a Licensed Psychologist in clinical practice for 20 years, holds a clinical appointment as Assistant Professor and a leadership position as Faculty Wellness Officer in the Department of Psychiatry, and has been with the CU Anschutz Health and Wellness Center since 2016. Dr. Chamberlain has worked in private practice, university counseling centers, community mental health/family therapy settings, has presented...