Clinician Well-being: Creating Psychologically Safe Workplaces

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of AffinityCE and Psych Hub. AffinityCE is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Physicians completing this course receive 0.50 continuing education credits.

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)

AffinityCE is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education (CPE). The cost to participate is included in the registration. Participant CE records will be electronically communicated to CPE Monitor. This knowledge-based CPE activity will provide 0.50 contact hours for participants.
UANs for pharmacists and technicians: 0829-9999-24-132-H04-P 0829-9999-24-132-H04-T To claim these CMEs, log into https://psychhub.cds.affinityced.com/#mod24-6

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

Nurse CE is provided for this program through collaboration between Psych Hub and AffinityCE. AffinityCE is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC). Nurses completing this course receive 0.50 continuing education credits.

Jeffrey Ring, PhD

Jeffrey Ring is a health psychologist, leadership coach and educator and advocate for health justice and equity. For 20 years he served at the Director of Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Medicine at the Family Medicine Residency Program at White Memorial in East Los Angeles. He is the first author of the book, Curriculum for Culturally Responsive Health Care: The Step-by-Step Guide for Cultural Competency Training. In 2023 he was awarded the Susan McDaniel Distinguished Career Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

Thekla Brumder Ross, PsyD

Thekla Brumder Ross, PsyD is an imperfect human, a mother, a partner, a sister, a daughter, a cousin, a friend, a neighbor, and a citizen of the world. Professionally, Thekla is a clinical psychologist, a certified ambassador of compassion, a national leader of addiction medicine, a workforce wellbeing consultant and she strengthens human resources for abortion providers. In her 14 years at Kaiser Permanente, Thekla led large-scale dissemination, implementation, and sustainability of evidence-based practices and policies in addiction medicine, SBIRT and primary care behavioral health integration. Notably, she developed the national harm reduction strategy for KP and acted as a subject matter expert in patient activation, SBIRT, provider wellbeing & mental health scholar education. She has passionately contributed as an interventionist and co-author in several large-scale NIH studies. As a communication coach, Thekla has worked with medical students in the Foundations of Doctoring program at The University of Colorado. She taught self-compassion with medical students as part of the Colorado Permanente Longitudinal Clerkship program. Since 2009, she had the privilege of leading Provider Share Workshops in collaboration with Planned Parenthood Federation and The University of Michigan, both domestically and internationally. Thekla has served as a member of the PPFA Abortion School Faculty since 2016 and served as a consultant to the Consortium of Abortion Providers. Thekla received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Colorado College and master’s and Doctorate degrees from the California School of Professional Psychology. Upon completion of her PsyD, she attended University of Massachusetts Medical School for Integrated Behavioral Health Consultation and Management; UC San Diego School of Medicine for Self-Compassion in Healthcare Leadership training; and the Center for Compassion and Altruism at Stanford University School of Medicine for a Certification of Applied Compassion. Today you can find Thekla providing strategic consultation to NIAAA, Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Addiction and Mental Health Research, Psych Hub, Medical College of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood and many more.

Pari Thibodeau, PhD, LCSW, MSW

Pari Thibodeau is an integrated healthcare scholar with priorities rooted in both the clinical and research work. Pari studied at Elon University (BA in Human Service Studies), Washington University in St. Louis (MSW), and the University of Denver (PhD). She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Colorado. In her clinical experience, she worked in a variety of inpatient and outpatient health and mental health settings serving individuals coping with chronic illness, end of life, trauma, depression, anxiety, and more. In her research, she studies the wellbeing of the healthcare workforce, specifically focusing on the experiences of moral injury and mental health faced by healthcare workers. Her research extends across the interdisciplinary healthcare teams, with emphasis on healthcare social work experiences of workforce wellbeing. She approaches her research from a systems lens, considering the interaction of each healthcare worker within the context in which they work and live in. Pari is an educator and teaches clinical social work skills and social work in healthcare courses at the graduate level.