Dr. Arpan Waghray is a geriatric psychiatrist who serves as the CEO of Providence’s Well Being Trust. In this role, he oversees the foundation’s strategy to drive measurable improvement in the mental health and well-being of communities within the Providence footprint of Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington. Dr. Waghray has served on the Well Being Trust team since its inception in 2016 in the capacity of chief medical officer. He also serves as chief medical...

Dr. Dawn Sears is an academic professor and practicing board certified gastroenterologist/hepatologist who has focused much of her career and research into wellbeing of her colleagues. She was system-wide Chief of Wellbeing for several years and later spearheaded the Women Leaders in Medicine serving over 300 women physicians and moving the needles of engagement, retention and burnout. She has received multiple grants and awards for her work, including AMA, AMWA, TMA and a $150,000 grant from...

Kevin Hartman, MD currently serves as the ambulatory chief medical officer of Bon Secours Mercy Health. He has been with the organization since 2012. He completed medical school at the University of Cincinnati and residency in internal medicine at the University of Colorado. He is currently completing a master’s degree in healthcare management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In his role as ambulatory chief medical officer, he is focused on clinical transformation to improve ...

Hernan Barenboim, PhD, PCC, LMFT, is the Chief Wellness Officer at the KPC Group in Menifee, California. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a registered psychologist. After moving to the US, he completed a PhD in Medical Family Therapy at the University of Saint Louis and a fellowship in Medical Family Therapy at the Chicago Center for Family Health. He has more than 20 years of clinical experience, including providing psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families, supervisi...

Kelly Hines-Stellisch is a practicing nurse practitioner. She holds board certifications in family practice and emergency medicine and currently practices in both settings. She is also a part-time assistant professor at California State University, Channel Islands in the College of Nursing as a clinical instructor. She is also the owner and founder of Reviving Wellness, a small business that provides wellness coaching services to individual clinicians and organizations committed to improving ...

Gregory Guldner, MD, MS, FACEP is the Vice President of Academic Affairs for HCA GME, a role he entered July 1, 2022, most recently serving as DIO at HCA Healthcare Riverside in Riverside CA. Before joining HCA Healthcare, Dr. Guldner served as the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, as well as an Associate Professor of both Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Loma Linda University. Dr. Guldner served with the U.S. Army in Ir...

Arpita Gupta DePalma, MD, TIPC founded Thought Work, MD to help physicians and professional women learn how to identify, manage, and then let go of what is not serving them through transformational mindset coaching. She is a retired pediatrician and the co-founder of Virginia iSpine Physicians, a medical practice she opened with her husband. After completing her coach certification with The Life Coach School in 2021, she went on to become certified as a Trauma Informed Professional Coach (TIP...

Dr. Jillian Bybee is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. At Corewell Health West and Michigan State University, she serves as the Director of Wellness for Graduate Medical Education and Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship programs. Additionally, she is a mindset and leadership coach for Corewell Health West. She dedicates her work to fostering an organizational culture...

Bryan Sexton is the Chief Wellness Officer of Duke Health Integrated Practice and Director of the Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science. After 30 years as a psychologist, psychometrician and investigator, he now works with leaders to assess and improve culture and work-force well-being. Bryan has conducted and published large studies and randomized controlled trials showing how to cause enduring improvements in the well-being of our workforce. He has authored over 100 peer rev...

Dr. Paul DeChant is a thought leader on preventing burnout by fixing the workplace drivers of burnout, not simply helping workers become more resilient. Paul advises C-level healthcare executives on managing critical problems such as financial and staffing challenges by transforming management systems and cultures to reduce the root causes of clinician burnout. Done properly, client organizations improve KPI performance while reducing team member burnout. Following 25 years practicing family ...