Keeping Your Sanity: Strategies for Addressing the Challenges of a Demanding Career

Sunday, March 5, 2023

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Location:Phoenix Convention Center, 222C

CE: 1.5 Credits

Coordinator(s)

Jennifer Montgomery, MD, PhD

Staff, Interventional Radiology
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR

Associate Professor
Emory School of Medicine

Disclosure(s): Boston Scientific: Advisory Committee or Review Panel Member (Ongoing); CARESTREAM: Research Grant Recipient (Ongoing); Cook Inc: Consultant (Ongoing); Medtronic: Research Grant Recipient (Ongoing); TVIR: Co Editor (Ongoing)

Disclosure(s):

Jennifer Montgomery, MD, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR: Boston Scientific: Advisory Committee or Review Panel Member (Ongoing); CARESTREAM: Research Grant Recipient (Ongoing); Cook Inc: Consultant (Ongoing); Medtronic: Research Grant Recipient (Ongoing); TVIR: Co Editor (Ongoing)

This session will explore challenges faced both personally and professionally in an effort to promote individual growth and success. Discussions will examine strategies to improve work/life balance, how to obtain the most of a mentor/mentee relationship, managing the personal toll of complications, and making the best of a difficult workplace.

Learning Objectives:

Identify priorities to help attain an improved work/life balance while continuing to grow as a physician
Understand strategies to confront and manage the personal impact following adverse events
Implement tactics to enhance relationships with mentors, mentees and other colleagues

Presentations:

1:00 PM – 1:18 PM

Attaining a work/life balance - is it possible?
Speaker: Jennifer Montgomery, MD, PhD – The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
1:18 PM – 1:36 PM

How to learn from and move beyond adverse events
Speaker: Janice Newsome, MD, FSIR – Emory School of Medicine
1:36 PM – 1:54 PM

Every job has its downside - how to make the best of it
Speaker: Sonali Mehandru, MD – New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System
1:54 PM – 2:12 PM

Getting the most out of a mentor/mentee relationship
Speaker: Ryan Schenning, MD (he/him/his) – Oregon Health and Science University
2:12 PM – 2:30 PM

Q & A