RAMS: Surviving Medical Training During the Pandemic: Being Well and Staying Well
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Al’ai Alvarez, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Director of Well-Being, Co-Lead, Human Potential Team, Fellowship Director, Stanford Emergency Medicine Wellness Fellowship
Stanford Emergency Medicine
Dr. Al'ai Alvarez MD, FACEP, FAAEM is a clinical assistant professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) and the Director of Well-Being at Stanford Emergency Medicine. He co-leads the Human Potential Team and serves as the Fellowship Director of the Stanford EM Physician Wellness. He co-chairs the Stanford WellMD Physician Wellness Forum. His work focuses on humanizing physician roles as individuals and teams through the harnessing of our individual human potential in the context of high-performance teams. This includes optimizing the interdependence between Process Improvement (Quality and Clinical Operations), Recruitment (Diversity), and Well-being (Inclusion). -
Wendy Sun, MD
Instructor, Emergency Medicine
Yale University
Dr. Wendy Sun is an Administration Fellow and Instructor of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She is passionate about patient quality and safety, physician wellness, and health innovation. Having served as a past President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Residents and Medical Students (SAEM RAMS) and the Resident Member on the SAEM Board of Directors, she continues to be invested in the advancement of emergency medicine through research, mentorship, education, and advocacy.
Dr. Sun earned her undergraduate degree at Columbia University in Biomedical Engineering. She subsequently obtained her Doctor of Medicine from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Gold Humanism and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Societies. Most recently, she completed Emergency Medicine residency at Yale - New Haven Health where she served as Chief Resident. She continues to further her education as a candidate of the MBA for Executives at the Yale School of Management. A Canadian from Toronto, she now resides in New Haven.
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Jeffrey Sakamoto, MD
Chief Resident, Stanford-Kaiser, Emergency Medicine Residency Program; RAMS Board Secretary-Treasurer; SAEM Wellness Committee Member
Dr. Jeffrey T. Sakamoto is a Chief Resident at Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency and a member of the SAEM Wellness Committee. He also serves as the RAMS Board Secretary-Treasurer. -
Jennifer Kanapicki-Comer, MD
Clinical associate professor and Associate residency program director at Stanford Emergency Medicine, Co-director of the Stanford Medical Education Scholarship Fellowship
Jennifer Kanapicki Comer, MD (@kanapicki) is a national expert on efficiency. Dr. Kanapicki Comer is a clinical associate professor and associate residency program director at Stanford Emergency Medicine. She is also the co-director of the Stanford Medical Education Scholarship Fellowship. Dr. Kanapicki Comer writes a blog series through Medutopia called the 1440 doctor. She has her own 1440 doctor website that provides resources for time management and can be found on Twitter @1440doctor. She speaks nationally on the topic of time management for physicians. While raising 3 young children and working full time, she maintains a work-life balance by working smarter and not harder. She is eager to share her time-saving tips with her colleagues so more can live a balanced life. -
Amanda J. Deutsch, MD
Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Amanda J. Deutsch, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Well-Being for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Deutsch earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard University. She subsequently completed her post-baccalaureate and did quality improvement research at Boston Children’s Hospital before starting her career as a medical student at the University of Iowa, where she is from. She completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed a track in Healthcare Leadership and Quality Improvement. She most recently completed a fellowship in Physician Wellness at Stanford Emergency Medicine. In her inaugural role as Director of Well-Being at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University she combines her interests in clinical operations, process improvements and well-being.
Dr. Deutsch chairs the #StopTheStigmaEM subcommittee and hopes to normalize conversations around mental health for emergency medicine physicians, address barriers, and foster better mental health care for emergency medicine. Her interests include focusing on gratitude and appreciation to develop a sense of community and a team that can excel for their patients without the cost of their interests, self, and career. Dr. Deutsch loves to tweak process improvements to help foster well-being.
