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Gail Gazelle, MD, MCC, a globally recognized leader in physician Coaching, is a part-time Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Master Certified Coach for physicians and physician leaders. Dr. Gazelle began her career as a Hospice physician then pivoted to another vulnerable population: physicians in today’s complex healthcare system. Over the past decade, Dr. Gazelle has coached over 500 physician leaders and physicians. 

Dr. Gazelle combines cutting edge research in neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness with evidence-based coaching approaches, providing the widest possible strategies to help clients advance their leadership and achieve their goals. She coaches on such issues as aligning personal values with organizational mission, strategic planning, managing up and down, emerging leadership skills, authentic leadership, conflict management, and building resilience. 

In her role at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Gazelle teaches a cutting-edge resilience curriculum to Brigham and Women’s Hospital Internal Medicine residents. A mindfulness practitioner and educator, she is also a certified mindfulness Meditation teacher. A dynamic and engaging speaker, Dr. Gazelle provides keynotes, workshops, and retreats for medical groups across the globe. 

Dr. Gazelle is the author of the 2020 Everyday Resilience. A Practical Guide to Build Inner Strength and Weather Life’s Challenges and her new upcoming book, 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout. Her coaching has been featured in American College of Physicians Leadership Academy, and  Harvard Institute of Coaching webinars, and The Physician Leadership Journal. Her 2015 article Physician Burnout: Coaching a Way Outwas one of the first articles on coaching in a medical journal. Her articles have been published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Originally Published on https://www.theworthyphysician.com/blog

Sapna Shah-Haque Internal Medicine Physician

Dr. Sapna Shah-Haque, MD is a board certified Internal Medicine physician. She was born and raised in Kansas, and attended medical school at the University of Kansas [KU] School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at KU-Wichita as well. After experiencing burnout herself, and watching other physician colleagues burn out, it became a passion of hers to look into different aspects of burnout. While the system does need to change, as it is broken, this podcast is a way to reach physicians and possibly shed light on what is not an isolated situation.