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AANS Spotlight — Opening Ceremonies: Physician, Steel Thyself: Maintaining Resilience Across a Neurosurgical Career

By April 13, 2019July 15th, 2024AANS Spotlight, Health

Save-the-date for the 2019 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting opening ceremonies, which is occurring on Sunday, April 14 at 4:45 pm in Hall H of the San Diego Convention Center. It’s an event you will not want to miss, featuring a series of dynamic speakers, including:

Wayne M. Sotile, PhD, the founder of The Sotile Center for Resilience and the Center for Physician Resilience. As an international thought leader on physician behavior and resilience for high performers, he consults widely with medical group practices, health care systems and corporations interested in learning evidence-based strategies for deepening collaboration and promoting team engagement, while coping with change. He has authored or co-authored nine books, and he has published widely in the peer-reviewed medical literature.

Zubin Damania, MD, is an internist and founder of Turntable Health, an innovative health care clinic that was part of an ambitious urban revitalization movement in Las Vegas. During his decade-long career as a hospitalist at Stanford, Dr. Damania began a shadow career under the pseudonym ZDoggMD, performing stand-up comedy and creating parody videos for medical audiences worldwide. He subsequently founded ZDoggMD Industries, the digital production studio behind the Internet’s #1 medical news and entertainment show, Incident Report LIVE. Reaching millions of viewers weekly, Dr. Damania leads a passionate tribe of health care professionals towards a vision of Health 3.0.

Audience members
will learn what approaches, perspectives and practices can sustain the
fortitude necessary for a long and successful career in neurosurgery.

In the video below, AANS President Shelly D. Timmons, MD, PhD, FAANS, FACS, takes a moment to provide an overview of the 2019 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting opening ceremonies.

Click here to check out the rest of the exciting and innovative meeting program. 

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