Faculty Health in Academic Medicine

Foreword. James Willerson, MD, President, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center
Preface. Ken Shine, M.D., Executive Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs and Interim Chancellor for the University of Texas System
Introduction


The Context of Concern for Faculty Health. Thelma Jean Goodrich, PhD, Thomas R. Cole, PhD and Ellen R. Gritz, PhD

Examination of Faculty Health

Epidemiology. Daria Boccher-Lattimore, DrPH


Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout in Physicians: The Epidemic Within. Eugene Boisaubin, MD


Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health: Lessons from the University of Ottawa. Mamta Gautam,

Personal and Social Dimensions

The Architecture of Alignment: Leadership and the Psychological Health of Faculty. Susan McDaniel, PhD, Stephen P. Bogdewic, PhD, Richard Holloway, PhD and Jeri Hepworth, PhD


The Career Management Life Cycle: A Model for Supporting and Sustaining Faculty Vitality and Wellness. Thomas Viggiano, MD and Henry W. Strobel, PhD


Faculty Resilience and Career Development: Strategies for Strengthening Academic Medicine. Janet Bickel, MA


Diverse Academic Faculty: A Precious Resource for Innovative Institutions. Elise Cook, MD and Harry Gibbs, MD

Perspectives from the Humanities and Interpretive Social Science

Organizational Culture and its Consequences. Kevin Grigsby, DSW


The Ethics of Self-Care. Craig Irvine, PhD


Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic Diagnosis and Treatment. Thomas R. Cole, PhD and Nathan Carlin, MDiv


Retaining and Reclaiming the Call of Medicine. Henry W. Strobel, PhD

Supports and Interventions

A Model for Designing and Developing a Faculty Health Program: The M. D. Anderson Experience. EllenR. Gritz, PhD, Janis Apted, MLS, Walter Baile, MD, Kathleen Sazama, MD, JD and Georgia Thomas, MD


Fostering Faculty Well-Being through Personal, Community, and Cultural Formation at an Academic Medical Center: Indiana University School of

From the reviews:

From the reviews:

"Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success begins by documenting startling levels of burnout in academic medical centers. ... psychologists figure prominently in this volume should make it interesting for other psychologists in academic medical centers. ... it also suggests the prominent role that psychology can play in helping to improve the quality of care, and the quality of life, for both patients and faculty in America's academic medical centers." (Scott Temple, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 54 (33), August, 2009) "Provides useful and instructive clarification of the often bewildering array of variables and factors that impinges on the wellness of faculty. ... Readers will find a variety of stimulating ideas about interventions that can be combined and integrated into more comprehensive well programs. ...Faculty Health in Academic Medicine provides a useful foundation for a new field of study into faculty wellness." (Larry D. Gruppen, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 302 (12), September, 2009)