Office Initiatives
Wellness Champions Committee
Our mission is to create an open dialogue and forum with departmental wellness representatives and the Office of Faculty Wellness to discuss wellness successes, challenges, and opportunities with the Office of Faculty Wellness, share information with the departments and divisions about Office of Faculty Wellness initiatives, data, and advocacy efforts, as well as provide a ground level faculty voice to the administration about how to better support faculty.
Chair: Susan Matulevicius, M.D., M.S.C.S.
Project Manager: Julian Longoria
EMR Physician Optimization Committee
In partnership with the Medical Informatics leadership, this group meets monthly with identified divisional medical informatics officers (DMIOs) to discuss ways to optimize the EMR, learn and share tools that may enhance local EMR workflow, connect DMIOs with EPIC analysts and managers to develop division specific EMR tools and priorities, create open lines of communication between medical informatics leadership and end-users, and allow local DMIOs to transmit information and ideas back to their local divisions and clinics.
Chairs: Ling Chu, M.D. and Susan Matulevicius, M.D., M.S.C.S.
Project Manager: Julian Longoria
UT System Task Force of Physician Burnout
Biannual meeting with the Vice Chancellor of Health Administration and the 11 University of Texas Health System campuses to share ongoing wellness-oriented work on all campuses, create shared metrics to evaluate professional fulfillment and burnout, advocate for change in leave policies, access to mental health services on a system level, and endorse the importance of faculty engagement and wellness at a system level.
Chairs: Jonathan Cheng, M.D., Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, UT Southwestern jonathan.cheng@utsouthwestern.edu and Ann Killary, Ph.D., Professor, Translational Molecular Pathology at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, MD Anderson akillary@mdanderson.org
Administrative representative: Susan Matulevicius, M.D., Associate Professor susan.matulevicius@utsouthwestern.edu
Faculty representative: Rina Sanghavi, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UT Southwestern Rinarani.Sanghavi@UTSouthwestern.edu
