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Preventing Burnout in Healthcare for Translators and Interpreters

March 25 / 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT

Explore research-backed strategies to manage stress, prevent burnout, and build a resilient, high-performance culture that improves both personal well-being and patient safety.

This webinar offers a comprehensive and transformative learning experience on stress, burnout, and their impact on patient safety, tailored specifically for medical professionals. You’ll discover scientifically backed strategies to manage stress, prevent burnout, and foster a healthy, high-performance culture.

The speakers will present the results of their groundbreaking research on health care workers’ mental health, compassion fatigue, work engagement, absenteeism, presenteeism, turnover intentions, and patient safety culture. They will also share insights on building a resilient work environment that enhances your performance and promotes psychological safety among colleagues.

Designed for medical professionals at all levels, this webinar focuses on improving both personal well-being and the quality of support you offer to colleagues and patients. By the end, you’ll have the knowledge, practical skills, and confidence to sustain high performance, support colleagues, prevent burnout, and cultivate a thriving, psychologically safe work culture in health care.

By attending this webinar, you will:

  1. Correlate between medical team burnout and patient safety concerns.
  2. Implement strategies to manage stress, prevent burnout, and maintain a healthy, high-performance culture.
  3. Learn about the latest research conducted by our team on burnout in critical care and pharmacist and review the data analysis.
  4. Discover how to update and manage our work environment to make it safer and better for our teammates to prevent work burnout.

About the Presenter

Sam Pournezhad, PharmD, has a doctor of pharmacy degree and completed a general residency, specializing in critical care at Grady Memorial Hospital. He currently practices at the Neurosurgery and Neurocritical Care Unit at Grady Hospital, a level one trauma center and comprehensive stroke and neuroscience center in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition, he practices in the emergency room at Grady Hospital and Emory Hospital System. Apart from his bedside experience, he is also an assistant professor of clinical science at the Touro University School of Pharmacy and Medical School, as well as at Mercer University. He has over four years of experience in critical care and annually works on two to three projects with Grady and Touro University. In addition to his professional hospital and university work, he is a health influencer on YouTube, podcast channels, and X. He is also chair of the outreach program of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Southeast Chapter, which covers seven states of the national SCCM chapter on the East coast.

Ehsan Etezad, PhD Candidate, is a behavioral scientist and consultant specializing in helping organizations create healthy, high-performing workplaces. As a PhD candidate in Organizational Psychology, he focuses on developing strategies to foster psychologically safe environments that enhance both well-being and professional excellence. Ehsan partners with leading associations, research institutions, and private organizations to improve workplace health, safety, and performance. His mission is to transform work cultures into thriving ecosystems through actionable insights and innovative practices.

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Details

Date:
March 25
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT
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Presenter(s): Ehsan Etezad and Sam Pournezhad
Duration: 60 minutes
Presenting Language(s): English
Level: All levels
ATA CEPs: 1

Code of Conduct

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