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Contemplative Medicine Conversations – Reclaiming the Heart in Medicine
Wednesday April 27th, 2022 // 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm ET
“Ultimately, the secret of quality is love. You have to love your patient, you have to love your profession…. If you have love, you can then work backward to monitor and improve the system.”
– Avedis Donabedian, founder of the study of quality in health care and medical outcomes research
Building on our experience and expertise in contemplative education, in July 2021, we launched the Contemplative Medicine Fellowship—a program specifically developed for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants who want to transform their role as clinicians and lead change in the culture of care.
Join us for a free online event with Fellowship faculty member Diane E. Meier, MD, Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, a national organization devoted to increasing access to quality health care in the United States for people living with serious illness. She is widely regarded as a preeminent change agent, and under her leadership, the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals tripled since 2002.
Dr. Meier and Fellowship Guiding Teachers Sensei Koshin and Sensei Chodo will explore the primacy of human connection and love in medicine and their impact on patient outcomes, clinician well-being, and the well-being of all members of the health care team, interpersonal relationships and relationships with our own minds.
They will discuss the challenges of honoring the clinician-patient relationship—the heart of quality of care—and how a contemplative discipline fosters and sustains meaningful connections, resulting in patients who feel compassionately cared for while promoting resilience and new meaning for clinicians.
As we walk together through these uncertain times, this webinar will be engaging and appropriate for anyone wishing to explore a contemplative approach to medicine and caring for self and others, shifting from emotional exhaustion to resourced compassion. It will also provide an opportunity to ask questions about the next Contemplative Medicine Fellowship beginning in July 2022.
DIANE E. MEIER, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor, Center to Advance Palliative Care
Co-director, Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center
Professor, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Diane E. Meier, FACP, FAAHPM, is Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, a national organization devoted to increasing access to quality health care in the United States for people living with serious illness. Under her leadership the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals tripled since 2002.
Widely regarded as a preeminent change agent, Dr. Meier has received numerous awards that recognize and celebrate her achievements. In September 2008, Dr. Meier was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (MacArthur Genius Award). She was named one of “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better in the United States” by HealthLeaders Media in 2010, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. In 2017 she received both the Gustav O. Lienhard Award of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Hospital Association’s HRET TRUST Award. Dr. Meier served as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in Washington, DC, in 2009–10, working on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) and at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Meier has published more than two hundred works in peer-reviewed medical literature. Her most recent book, Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Reform, was published by Humana in 2014. She has appeared in the media numerous times, including the PBS NewsHour Brief But Spectacular and the New York Times Magazine.
