Office for Well-Being

Meditation Mondays
Mondays, 8-8:30am on Zoom
Join Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, Director of the Office for Well-Being for a guided meditation session on Monday mornings. Register and receive Zoom link

Midweek Meditations
Wednesdays, 8-8:30am on Zoom
Join a different guest meditation leader every week for a guided meditation session on Wednesday mornings.  
Register and receive Zoom link

TEDxMGH January - Life is not always as it seems: Confronting Intimate Partner Violence
For Dr. Erin Bradley shares her story of intimate partner violence, how she tried to balance her core belief that her role as a physician is to heal the broken and the personal nightmare she was living, how she navigated living a double life, and how she got back to a place of joy. Click here for her inspiring story

Are you interested in giving a TEDxMGH talk? Click here to submit your story!

Fun Fridays offer a refreshing mid-day break from work to indulge in physical, mental, or creative activity.

Upcoming Fun Friday Sessions:

Winter Hiking in New England
Friday, December 20th

Past session recordings:

Writing Flash Essays
Friday, October 4th | not recorded 

Slow Flow Yoga for Stretching and Flexibility
Friday, October 18th | not recorded
 
Painting Demonstration
Friday, November 1st | not recorded

Eight Active Ingredients of Tai Chi©
Friday, November 15th | Watch webinar

Writing for Joy
Friday, December 6th | not recorded

Visit the Fun Fridays MS Stream channel to watch former sessions.

Do you have a teachable talent you would like to share? Click here to submit your Fun Friday idea! 

Lifestyle Group Coaching Workshops for Wellness
Information about 2023-24 cohorts coming soon. 

Work together along with facilitator Dr. Beth Frates, lifestyle medicine pioneer and seasoned coach, to identify ways that you can enhance your health and happiness without adding extra time to your schedule. With registration, you’ll receive an e-book of Paving the path to wellness workbook: A guide to thriving with a healthy body, peaceful mind, and joyful heart. This workshop series will have limited spots available.

Facilitator: Elizabeth “Beth” Frates, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, is the Director of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness in the MGH Department of Surgery and the Director of Wellness Programming at Spaulding’s Stroke Institute for Research and Recovery. She is a lifestyle medicine coach and President-Elect of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Frates is the author of Paving the path to wellness workbook: A guide to thriving with a healthy body, peaceful mind, and joyful heart.

The application period has ended for the September 2023 - February 2024 Cycle of the Well-Being Education Grants. The next application period will open in January for the March - August 2024 Cycle. 

These grants (up to $750 per year) will help defray the cost of professional training or continuing education around resilience and well-being. The grant is open to clinicians and investigators who have  identified a program of interest between September 1, 2023 and February 29, 2024. 

Eligibility: Graduate students, post-docs, residents, fellows, and faculty, whether clinicians or investigators. Primary appointment at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Click here for more information

The MGH Wellness Champions were asked to list the three words that represent key values and goals for well-being in our institution. This Word Cloud presents their vision.






Participating faculty and staff in the MGH Wellness Champions program, by department:

Anesthesia

• Seun Johnson-Akeju, MD

Dermatology

• Evelyn Lilly, MD

Emergency Medicine

• Kimo Takayesu, MD

Medicine

• Kerri Palamara-McGrath, MD

Molecular Biology

• Caryn Oppenheim

Neurology

• Reiner See, MD

Neurosurgery

• Brian V. Nahed, MD, MSc

Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Lori R. Berkowitz, MD

Ophthalmology

• Neena Haider, PhD

Orthopedics

• Gleeson Rebello, MD, MBBS

Otolaryngology

• Mark Varvares, MD

Pathology

• David M. Langenau, PhD
• Dennis Sgroi, MD

Pediatrics

• Susan Hata, MD
• Robert M. Meyer, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

• Cheri Blauwet, MD
• Ariana Vora, MD

Psychiatry

• John Herman, MD
• Jeff Huffman, MD

Radiation Oncology

• Jennifer Wo, MD

Radiology

• Connie Chang, MD

Surgery

• Beth Frates, MD
• Antonia (Apple) Stephen, MD

Urology

• Michael Blute, MD
• Jonathan Modest

Check out this inspiring talk on Well-Being!
As part of the Quality, Humanism and Professionalism series, Dr. Shannon Scott-Vernaglia gave a phenomenal presentation on health and well-being for the MGH Department of Otolaryngology Grand Rounds.
Watch the recording

Check out "Stories that Heal: Supporting Each Other Through the Darkness of Depression"
Drs. Shannon Scott-Vernaglia and Megan Fix confront the sensitive topic of depression, prevalent in healthcare providers but most often left unaddressed, by sharing their own stories. They encourage storytelling as a healing act and a way to decrease the stigma of seeking help and demonstrate how each of us in academic medicine can support one another and change the norm of silence around mental health issues.  Watch the recording or listen to podcast.