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Presentation Title: Prevention of Physician Burnout and Maintenance of Physician Well-Being
Dr. Pi will review aspects of the Chinese culture that increase or reduce stress on physicians and on how supportive behaviors and mindfulness could reduce stress.
Time: Sunday Afternoon
Purpose: To improve on clinical competence and performance in preventing physician burnout and to increase adaptive coping behaviors by physicians
Objectives:
- Examine what is known about burnout in physician and risk factors for burnout
- Examine data on burnout in Chinese physicians
- Differentiate the difference between demoralization and burnout
- Identify examples of adaptive and maladaptive coping behaviors
- Identify supportive behaviors between physicians, office staff, patients, and family
- Develop and implement a professional support system
Current Positions:
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, USC Keck School of Medicine; Director Emeritus, Psychiatric Consultation and Liaison Service, LAC+USC Medical Center
Bio:
Edmond Hsin-Tung Pi, M.D. is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. He was Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs and Director of the Psychiatric Consultation and Liaison Service at Los Angeles Country (LAC)+USC Medical Center.
After completing his psychiatry residency at State University of New York at Stony Brook in NY, and chief residency at University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, KY, Professor Pi moved to Los Angeles, where he went on to hold key leadership and faculty positions at USC and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. In addition, Professor Pi was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine.
Professor Pi’s research interests center on clinical psychopharmacology, cross-cultural psychiatry and psychopharmacology, and medication-induced movement disorders. He has authored more than 150 publications in articles and book chapters, and is a member of the editorial boards of Asia-Pacific Psychiatry and the Chinese Journal of Translational Research.
In addition to his clinical duties, Professor Pi is former Medical Director of the Department of Mental Health (DMH) for the State of California. The DMH had overseen over $2 billion in annual budget for public mental health. He was the Department’s highest level psychiatrist and was responsible for ensuring the development and implementation of statewide mental health treatment services.
Professor Pi’s expertise is sought internationally; he is Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at a number of institutions in China, including Capital Medical University and Tsinghua University School of Medicine, both in Beijing, Shantou University in Guangdong. In addition, he is Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at Central South University in Hunan, China.
Among his many honors, Professor Pi has been listed among the Best Doctors in America (Psychiatry) since 1994, and America’s Top Doctors (Psychiatry) since 2001. He is also a Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine.