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 outcomes for patients and increase the professional satisfaction and well-being of physicians and the care team members they work with. He is the father of 5 children and the husband of a family doctor/mother who inspires him to strive to be the best version of himself.

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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, supervising mental health students, and teaching culturally informed behavioral science to family medicine residents. In addition to his clinical experience, Dr. Barenboim has been a consultant in health equity, cultural competence, and integrated care for several national and international companies.

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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 clinician well-being.

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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 Iraq and Afghanistan, including serving as Brigade Surgeon for the 420th Engineer Brigade in Sharana, Afghanistan. He holds a Commission as Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corps.

Jason T. Siegel (PhD) is a Professor of Social Psychology at Claremont Graduate University, where he is the director of the Depression and Persuasion Research Lab. Dr. Siegel's scholarship examines the intersection between message features and the cognitive profile of people with depression to develop messages to maximize help-seeking among this population. He also investigates message approaches for increasing the social support received by people with depression. Dr. Siegel has been the principal investigator or co-investigator for over $25 million of grants and contracts. He is currently working on a federally funded grant to increase help-seeking among military members. HCA Healthcare also sponsors Dr. Siegel to conduct research to improve the well-being of their medical residents. He has served or is currently serving on editorial boards of journals, including Health Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Health Communication. Dr. Siegel is co-editor of Wiley’s Handbook of Mental Health Communication and co-editing a special issue for Stigma and Health on unintended effects of anti-stigma campaigns.

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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 (TIPC) with Lodestar, and then earn her certification as an Advanced Deep Dive Coach with Bev Aron.

Arpita helps powerful women learn how to stay ahead of their emotions so that they show up calm, collected and in control, ready to lead and execute with poise. In her one to one and group coaching programs, she provides clients the unique tools they need to optimize how they show up each day in order to accomplish more, while being happier doing so.

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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 of wellness and helping healthcare professionals create satisfying careers. Dr. Bybee is a prolific speaker and has delivered numerous presentations nationally on improving the lives of healthcare workers including stress management, team-based strategies for professional fulfillment, creating a career you love, mindset, resilience, and work-related distress which have positively impacted thousands of people. Her signature workshop 'Transform Your Day' helps attendees go from overwhelmed and frazzled to present and empowered. Additionally, Dr. Bybee writes a newsletter called ‘Humans Leading’ and hosts a podcast of the same name which both help hundreds of high achievers live less stressed, more satisfying lives.

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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 reviewed publications, and his research instruments and well-being interventions have been translated and used in over 30countries.A perpetually recovering father of four, he enjoys running, using hand tools on wood, pickleball with friends, and hearing particularly good explanations of extremely complicated topics.

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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 medicine, Dr. DeChant became CEO of the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, where he led a transformation based on the theme of “Returning Joy to Patient Care.” After four years the group achieved recognition as the highest performing among 170 medical groups across the State of California two years in a row, while improving physician satisfaction from
the 45th to 87th percentile on AMGA’s Provider Satisfaction Survey. He received his MD from the Oregon Health Sciences University and his MBA from the University of Colorado-Denver. Co-author of the book, “Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine”, Paul speaks internationally, and blogs regularly at www.pauldechantmd.com

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