Across UW Medicine, we have formed committees to help us hear the voices of our employees across the diverse work we do. These committees also serve to provide a global awareness to representatives of what is happening in our system, which allows us to share challenges and best practices with each other. I want to thank everyone who participates in our well-being committees for their time and energy in working to improve the work environment for all.
If you are interested in getting involved in well-being work for your area, please feel reach out uwm-wellbeing@uw.edu.
Steering Committee
The UW Medicine Well-Being Steering Committee brings together leaders from UW Medicine who guide and intersect with well-being work to discuss concerns, needs, and opportunities to build system-level shared awareness. Collectively, the committee weighs options, makes recommendations for UW Medicine’s well-being initiatives, such as grants and surveys, and helps view all UW Medicine initiatives through a lens of well-being impacts. Across UW Medicine, the work within the School of Medicine shared services, and our hospitals and clinics are inherently different. The committee looks at common themes impacting well-being with an awareness that different workflows and cultures will necessitate specific local-level implementation. The committee is responsible for developing a strategic plan to guide and focus the next three years of work. The committee meets every other month and representatives of various roles and entities serve by appointment.
Roster
| Cindy Hamra | Associate Dean for GME |
| Gabe Sarah | Associate Dean for Student Affairs |
| Marie Cockerham | UWMC Staff Lead |
| Kelly Paananen | HMC Staff Lead and HMC APPs |
| Andrea Kalus | UWMC Faculty P2P Lead |
| Shelley Wiechman | HMC Faculty P2P Lead |
| Laurie Soine | APP Representative |
| Carolyn Houk | UW Primary Care Representative |
| Steve Marty | School of Medicine HR |
| Nicki McCraw | Hospitals and Clinics HR |
| Ana Anderson | Shared Services Representative |
| Trish Kritek | Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs |
| Margo Cousins | Director, Research and Graduate Education |
| Hunter Wessells | UWP President |
| Anneliese Schleyer | UW Medicine CMO |
| Paula Houston | Chief Equity Officer |
| Melanie DeBond | Communication Teams Representative |
| Mike Leu/ Amy Starosta | IT/ EMR Well-Being |
| Dave Lu – Emergency Medicine | Rotating Clinical Department Lead |
| Thelma Escobar – Biochemistry | Rotating Biomedical Department Lead |
| Allison Osenar | Senior Director, UW Medicine Patient Experience |
Departmental Well-Being Leads
Each of departments within the School of Medicine has appointed a Well-Being Lead to serve as a point person to help coordinate efforts on behalf of their department. Leads from biomedical research departments and clinical departments meet separately four times a year and jointly twice a year to surface and discuss issues related to well-being. Significantly, the leads support the Well-Being Survey data analysis for their department along with the important triangulation with qualitative feedback. Leads then work with their broader department and the chair to develop well-being priorities and action plans.
Roster
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | Deepak Sharma |
| Biochemistry | Thelma Escobar |
| Bioethics and Humanities | Niambi Kanye |
| Bioengineering | Ruth Woods |
| Biological Structure | Kate Mulligan |
| Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education | Peter Tarczy-Hornoch |
| Comparative Medicine | Paul Park and Patrick Cory |
| Dermatology | Michi Shinohara |
| Emergency Medicine | Dave Lu |
| Family Medicine | Iman Majd and London Breedlove |
| Genome Sciences | Bill Noble |
| Global Health | Bryan Weiner |
| Health Metrics Sciences | Ali Mokdad |
| Immunology | Sally Dee |
| Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | Melissa Upton |
| Medicine | Cynthia Ko |
| Microbiology | Dima Young |
| Neurological Surgery | Christine MacDonald |
| Neurology | Catherine Otten and Nate Watson |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | Lauren Owens |
| Ophthalmology | Shu Feng and Whitney Lomazow |
| Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine | Daphne Beingessner |
| Otolaryngology | Julianna Bonilla-Velez |
| Pediatrics | Richard Shugerman |
| Pharmacology | Sandra Bajjalieh |
| Physiology and Biophysics | Sharona Gordon |
| Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Michelle Lynch and Mollie Forrester |
| Radiation Oncology | Kristi Hendrickson |
| Radiology | Betty Lanman and Katy Menzimer |
| Rehabilitation Medicine | Ny-Ying Lam and Shelley Wiechman |
| Surgery | Lorrie Langdale |
| Urology | TBD |
UW Medicine Council on Faculty Well-Being
The council is composed of faculty representatives with diverse identities, roles, specialties, and clinical practice sites. The council makes recommendations to the UW Medicine Well-being Steering Committee on priorities, initiatives, and strategies to promote faculty thriving and professional fulfillment. Organizational leaders will be invited to participate when needed to advance initiatives. The Council meets once a month.
This council is open to all faculty, and does not require members to be on the faculty senate to join.
Roster
| Shelley Wiechman, PhD, ABPP | HMC (Psychology) |
| Andrea Kalus, MD | Roosevelt Clinic (Dermatology) |
| Lauren Owens, MD | Roosevelt Clinic, UWMC-ML (OB/GYN) |
| Dave Lu, MD | HMC, UWMC-NW (Emergency Medicine) |
| Lia Barros, DMP | UWMC-ML (Pulmonary) |
| Jennifer Best, MD | HMC (Hospital Medicine, GIMC) |
| Santiago Neme, MD | HMC (Clinic, Infectious Disease), UWMC-ML (Leadership) |
| Jai Hira, MD | Meridian Clinic (UWMC-NW, Neurology) |
| Rebekah Kooy, PA | Meridian Clinic Surgery Center (General Surgery) |
| Stephanie Binick, DnP | Primary Care at Ballard (Family Medicine) |
| Leah Marcotte, MD | Roosevelt Clinic (Internal Medicine) |
| Nick Meo, MD | HMC (Hospital Medicine) |
| Kate Bennett, MD | HMC Adult/Geriatric Medicine |
| Heidi Combs, MD | HMC Psychiatry |
| Mara Heheman, MD | Roos Urology |
| Elizabeth Kaplan, MD | UWMC-ML (Hospitalist) |
| Anne Browning, PhD | SoM Faculty, UW Medicine Well-Being |
| Kaylan Banda, MD | FHCC (Oncology) |