Tina Shah, MD MPH
Introducing Tina Shah, MD, MPH. Recent Senior Advisor, Office of the Surgeon General. Dr. Shah is a practicing physician with over 10 years of healthcare experience across digital transformation, healthcare delivery and policy. She is the Principal of TNT Health Enterprises, a consulting company that advises public and private healthcare sector organizations on digital transformation, value-based care and clinician wellbeing.
Topic: “Operational Leadership, Innovative Strategies and Empowering Advocacy to Revitalize our National Healthcare System”
- As a recent advisor to the Surgeon General- would you share some of the National Strategies to Reduce Burnout that you were key in developing?
- Can you tell us more about the Surgeon General Dr. Murphy’s recent Healthcare-Worker-Burnout-Advisory?
- How does this Advisory help guide the various stakeholders in integrating Organizational Well-being?
- As Medical Director for Virtual Health and Practice Improvement at one of Georgia’s largest health systems what project did you oversee that reduced burnout and improved your financial bottom line?
- What Burnout Solutions are you focusing on with this upcoming Burnout Symposium in NY?
Tina Shah MD MPH
Dr. Shah is a physician-scientist focused on redesigning healthcare so that clinicians can provide the best possible care to their patients. She is a nationally known expert and speaker across clinician burnout, health policy and technology, and co-chairs the 2022 National Healthcare Burnout Symposium.
Dr. Shah recently served as Senior Advisor to the US Surgeon General, where she was the chief architect of the country’s first national strategy to stabilize the medical workforce and address health worker burnout. During the Obama administration, she also served as White House Fellow and Special Advisor to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. As the agency’s first Director of Clinician Wellbeing, she streamlined the electronic medical record to give physicians time back and expand access to care for veterans in primary care.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led one of the fastest implementations of telemedicine across Georgia’s largest health system, Wellstar, alongside launching new innovations with virtual neurosurgery, ED services, and cardiology to expand patient access to specialty care.
Dr. Shah is a a founding member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Clinician Wellbeing Collaborative, and received the 2018 American Medical Association Excellence in Medicine Award for her national work to address burnout. She obtained her MD from Jefferson and her MPH from Harvard. Dr. Shah is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary and critical care and continues to actively practice on the frontlines in the ICU.
Tina Shah MD MPH
Dr. Katie Cole
Affectionately called “The Healer’s Healer,” Dr. Katie Cole is an award-winning psychiatrist and consultant who works with physicians and organizations to reinvigorate their passion for medicine, create healthier work/life balance, and prevent costly burnout.