Schedule and Speakers: Well-Being in Healthcare Summit

Chantal Brazeau has over 25 years of experience in the field of health professional well-being. As Chief Wellness Officer for Rutgers Health, she works with school, university, and health system leadership to foster a culture of professional well-being and provide strategic planning and vision for initiatives that support the well-being of multi-professional faculty, providers, and learners in the academic and clinical environments. She is also the Assistant Dean for Faculty Vitality at New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS, Chief Executive Officer, and the Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Distinguished Chair, Mount Sinai Health System, is a nationally recognized leader in academic medicine and health policy. 

Dr. Carr leads as a physician-scientist. He completed his residency in emergency medicine, as well as fellowships in trauma and surgical critical care and in health policy research. In addition to clinical practice, he maintained a decades long funded research portfolio, and served in multiple policy roles within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is a renowned physician, mentor, and delivery system strategist. His focus is on harnessing expertise and using data in order to build high functioning teams in order to improve health care delivery. 

Dr. Carr is advancing Mount Sinai’s capacity to conduct groundbreaking research, pioneer innovative care, and provide a world-leading education to future health care leaders. He guides Mount Sinai’s strategy, operations, and business development, including the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing, Mount Sinai’s nationally and regionally ranked hospitals, and more than 400 ambulatory locations and physician practices.

Dr. Carr previously held faculty roles at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and graduated from the Temple University School of Medicine.

Suzanne Crincoli’s experience includes hospital and corporate healthcare administration and a clinical career in emergency nursing spanning nearly two decades. Previously, she served as the Vice President of Clinical Quality for a large healthcare organization focused on creating nursing efficiency models to advance nursing practice.

As a nurse scientist, her research focuses on understanding the effect of acute and chronic fatigue on healthcare providers and shift workers, as well as factors influencing differential organizational support for nursing practice within acute care hospitals affecting nurse and patient safety. Her research has shown that nurses who are acutely and chronically fatigued during their work shifts, especially at night, miss high-priority nursing care, such as adequate surveillance and timely medication administration.

Recently, her research has expanded to include all first responders working abnormal shifts. Her body of research seeks to build awareness and interventions to mitigate the risk of occupational fatigue on negative nurse and patient outcomes. In addition, one of the primary aims of her work is to understand the effect of chronotype, which refers to individual preferences regarding sleep and waking times. Chronotype is a behavioral manifestation of underlying circadian rhythms and has been increasingly recognized as significantly contributing to shift work maladaptation, resulting in adverse health and safety outcomes.

Dr. LaShauna Dean (She/Her) is an Associate Professor, Licensed Professional Counselor, and experienced DEI consultant with more than 17 years in the mental health field and 12 years as an educator. She holds a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision and is also a Nationally Certified Counselor and Approved Clinical Supervisor.

Blending academic expertise with practical, real-world experience, Dr. Dean designs and delivers high-energy, interactive trainings that address complex topics such as implicit bias, microaggressions, cultural humility, cross-cultural communication, trauma, substance use, and mental health in schools. Her dynamic facilitation style ensures participants stay engaged, whether in person or virtually, while walking away with actionable strategies that create lasting impact.
 

Daniel Goleman

Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist and the bestselling author of the paradigm-shifting Emotional Intelligence. Ranked as one of the most influential business thinkers by Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, Goleman has transformed the way the world thinks about intelligence, relationships, leadership, and high performance in business and beyond.

In his presentations, he rejects IQ as the sole measure of one’s abilities and explains that by teaching people to tune in to their emotions with intelligence and expand their circles of caring, we can transform societies and organizations from the inside out and make a positive difference in our world.

Vicente Gracias is Senior Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs at Rutgers Health and Vice President for Health Affairs at Rutgers University. Dr. Gracias leads the growth and evolution of the Rutgers Health clinical enterprise and clinical learning environment. He works closely with the deans, faculty leaders, and health system partners to encourage collaboration, advance excellence, and provide strategic direction. He is also the chief academic officer for RWJBarnabas Health and a professor of surgery.

Dr. Xi (Sisi) Hu is a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy and a Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, focusing on labor issues. She specializes in modeling disruption and labor market risks and is passionate about healthcare worker wellbeing. She’s also a co-founder and the Chief Wellbeing Economist of Atalan, a mission-driven startup using machine learning to predict and prevent healthcare worker burnout and turnover.

Yoona Kang is the Director of the Compassion and Well-being Lab and an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Prevention Science at Rutgers University-Camden. Her research focuses on understanding the nature and consequences of compassion. She develops theory-driven, evidence-based compassion interventions designed to optimally grow and spread compassion through social networks. Her recent work explores mobile apps and digital tools for compassion-based intervention, using a microdosing approach to support scalable improvements in well-being.

Dr. Kang takes a multimethod approach that integrates experimental and behavioral paradigms, computational neuroimaging, ecological momentary assessment, social network analysis, and natural language processing. She applies these methods to interconnected dimensions of wellness, including physical activity, sleep, alcohol use, social connection, and loneliness.

She received a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Yale University and served as a postdoctoral fellow and research director at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.

Dr. Mazzarelli currently serves as Co-President and CEO of Cooper University Health Care.  Cooper is a $2.5B Academic Health System with over 130 ambulatory locations and a 1200+ physician multi-specialty practice plan representing over 95 different specialties that is the faculty practice plan for Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.
 
Dr. Mazzarelli received his medical degree from Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, his law degree from University of Pennsylvania Law School and his master's in bioethics from University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He trained in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital, where he also served as chief resident and medical director. 
 
Dr. Mazzarelli continues to practice emergency medicine and is the co-author of two best-selling books Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference, and Wonder Drug: 7 Scientifically Proven Ways That Serving Others Is the Best Medicine for Yourself.

Dr. Tina Shah is a pulmonary and critical care physician and candidate for US Congress for New Jersey's 7th District. She is a national expert in workforce burnout, AI, and health policy, and recently was the chief clinical officer of Abridge, an ambient AI company valued at 5.3B. She has served in three White House Administrations, as the National Director of Wellbeing in the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, and as Senior Advisor to the US Surgeon General where she created nation’s strategy to address the great resignation and burnout in healthcare.

Tina has been been featured at the National Academy of Medicine, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Harvard and CBS and NBC news. She received her MD from Thomas Jefferson University, her MPH from Harvard, and practices at RWJBH Rahway and Newark Beth Israel. Tina's favorite activities include pondering a society where going to work helps us thrive, playing volleyball, and changing hearts and minds.

As the Associate Vice President for Student Health and Wellness at Rutgers Health, Noa'a Shimoni works closely with the student health services across Rutgers. She is passionate about student well-being and leads multiple projects to build student mental health resources across the university. Her work centers on advancing a wellness community and utilizing informatics to prioritize student population health.

As the Senior Director for the Promotion of Well-being at Rutgers Health, Reka Somodi works collaboratively to provide vision and strategic planning for programs that foster community well-being across Rutgers Health. Through her prior academic and clinical experience, she has developed a passion for student, clinician, and community wellness.