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"Enabled by a generous gift from South Dakota businessman and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford, the Institute for Empathy and Compassion at UC San Diego will explore the neurobiology of compassion, transform medical education and address the epidemic of physician burnou"

"Due to the current situation with the coronavirus (COVID-19) evolving rapidly across the United States, our Center, The Sanford Institute, and the Compassion Institute  will work together to provide daily streams and recordings of mindfulness and compassion sessions to provide resources and online support to those affected."

"San Diego philanthropist Denny Sanford made a major gift to UC San Diego for research into the biology of compassion, the university said on July 22, adding that such research could help train future generations of physicians."

"In this podcast, IFM's Director of Medical Education, Dan Lukaczer, ND, interviews researcher, educator, and clinician David Rakel, MD, on the power of empathy, compassion, the placebo effect, and the patient story. In particular, they explore how empathy and sympathy can lead to burnout, while compassion can be restorative." shared by Vicky Newman

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: Our Mission To put compassion at the heart of healthcare through programs, education and advocacy. Our Vision: A world where all who seek and provide healthcare experience compassion.

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: "Enhancing the experience of caregiving by teaching mindfulness and compassion" Zen Caregiving Project is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California with over 30 years of experience in practicing and teaching mindfulness-based, compassionate caregiving. We offer courses, workshops, and training for professional, family, clinical, and volunteer caregivers. Through our work, we provide a context for public discussion of caregiving, loss, and death.

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Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: This is a touching personal narrative that helps us understand the origins of Dr. Meier's compassion.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PHD: Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN: Nursing professor, President, Mind & Life Institute Congressman Tim Ryan: Mindfulness advocate, 2020 Presidential candidate Kristin Neff, PhD: Author, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself Bobby Mukkamala, MD: Member, AMA Board of Trustees Ron Epstein, MD: Author, Attending: Mindfulness, Medicine and Humanity And many others!

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: Virtual Conference - On Demand - June 16 - November 17, 2020 A wide range of topics will be covered, but all relate to how compassionate care can support goals like workforce well-being, patient experience, safety, quality and innovation, as well as additional content to support caregivers and leaders during this challenging time.

"Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Articles referenced: Systems entrepreneurship: a conceptual substantiation of a novel entrepreneurial "species" https://link.springer.com/article/10.... Your 'Surge Capacity' Is Depleted - It's Why You Feel Awful https://elemental.medium.com/your-sur... The Role Of Empathy and Compassion In Preventing Burnout https://medium.com/thrive-global/the-..."

Recommended by Erin Raskin: Free Online Event - March 25-26, 2020

"The unhealthy effects of the good life"

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: BJ Miller, MD @ UCSF Palliative Medicine - one of the foremost experts and innovators in the field. "You don't have to spend much time there (Zen Hospice) to realize that the most crucial, and distinctive, piece of the operation is its staff of volunteers. Freed of most medical duties by the nursing staff, the volunteers act almost as existential nurses. They sit with residents and chat, offering their full attention, unencumbered by the turmoil a family member might feel. The volunteers are ordinary people: retired Macy's executives, social workers, bakers, underemployed millennials or kibitzing empty-nesters. Many are practicing Buddhists. Many are not. (Miller isn't.) But Buddhism informs their training. There's an emphasis on accepting suffering, on not getting tripped up by one's own discomfort around it. "You train people not to run away from hard things, not to run away from the suffering of others," Miller explained.

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: "The Human Connection of Palliative Care: Ten Steps for What To Say and Do"

"Dedicated defender of the beauty of humanity, the senses and of a life well lived to the end, palliative care physician and activist BJ Miller brings his expansive vision to bear on the state of the end of life experience. BJ shares his take on the current situation and offers possible routes for how we might close the gap between intention and action in our search for generative solutions that reshape how we think about illness, dying and caregiving."

BJ Miller, MD reminds us to consider the fullest view of what it means to be human - from the messy, uncomfortable issues that arise around dying to the delight of being alive in our bodies - as a path to understanding the possibilities available to open to design for the end of life experience.

"Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty focused on symptom management, quality of life, and relief of distress for patients who are living with serious illness and their families. The UCSF Interprofessional Palliative Care Continuing Education Course (Practice-PC) was created in 2015 to address a workforce shortage that is a key limiting factor in the dissemination of palliative care."

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: "Most people who need palliative care are not dying. They are living, and often for a very long time with serious illnesses.... They have a tremendous burden of suffering and caregiver distress, but they are not dying. Palliative care was an answer to that gap. It was recognizing that living with a serious illness nowadays is almost always a chronic disease. No matter how long people have to live, they deserve the same attention to quality of life, treatment of symptoms, management of depression, support for their families, and support for social issues like financing and housing. It should be based on need, not prognosis." -- Diane Meier, MD