Meet Our Team

Our team is dedicated to enhancing the well-being and resilience of all members of the Mount Sinai Health System. This includes medical and graduate students, graduate medical trainees, post-doctoral trainees, and faculty. We firmly believe that your professional fulfillment, personal well-being, and the meaning you derive from your work and education are essential. They enable us to provide the highest quality care, conduct world-class research, and train tomorrow’s health care leaders.  

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Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH
Dean for Well-Being and Resilience
Chief Wellness Officer

 



 

 

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Lauren Peccoralo, MD, MPH
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Well-Being and Development
Associate Chief Wellness Officer

 

 

 

 

 

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Ki Goosens, PhD
Director of Mentorship Enrichment Office of Faculty Development

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Corinne Johnson, MPH, CAPM
Administrative Manager Office of Faculty Development and Office of Well-Being and Resilience

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saadia Akhtar, MD
Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education Well-Being and Resilience

 

 

 

 

 

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Basil Hanss, PhD
Associate Dean for Graduate School Well-Being and Resilience

 

 

 

 

 

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Eleonore De Guillebon, MD
Associate Researcher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jacqueline G. Hargrove, PhD
Assistant Director, Child Complex Trauma Program at the Center for Complex Trauma
Interim Director of Medical Student Well-Being
Faculty Advisor, PEERS Program
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Cara Faherty, MPH
Program Manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Maggie Maxwell
Communications Specialist

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sakshi Dua, MD
Associate Dean for GME Well-Being and Resilience

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Christie Mulholland, MD
Faculty Well-Being Champion Program Director



 

 

 

 

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Neomi Shah, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Faculty Career Advancement

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Samantha Gordon
Administrative Assistant, Office of Well-Being and Resilience

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Message from the Chief Wellness Officer

Our Office of Well-Being and Resilience is dedicated to the health and well-being of students, graduate medical trainees, researchers, and faculty across the Mount Sinai Health System. Additionally, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, our work increasingly extended to reach other staff across the system and we continue to partner beyond the School of Medicine. It is a privilege for our team to be charged with this important work. Though challenges are many, we are heartened by the potential of our collaborations across Mount Sinai. In partnership with many other groups within the Mount Sinai Health System, we will continue to address a variety of new and ongoing efforts to meet your needs.

We want to hear from you in order to learn what is needed to enhance professional fulfillment and meaning in work. To ensure that your voice is heard, one of our main responsibilities is to distribute online well-being surveys on an ongoing basis and meet regularly with Mount Sinai students, trainees, faculty, and staff. Your confidential survey responses help us understand levels and drivers of well-being across the system. The surveys help us gauge our strengths, recognize our shortcomings and enable the identification of opportunities to improve resources and create new initiatives.

Within the model that we have adopted based on what we believe to be the major components or contributors to your professional fulfillment, you will note that the elements are differentially sized to reflect what we believe to be the relative impact of these “drivers” on our ability to optimize fulfillment.

One important feature of our model is the recognition that it is not incumbent on you as an individual to “get yourself well.” While we do encourage the development of your own individual resilience skills, we also recognize that much of what drives your well-being is located at the system-level. To help accomplish this, we have a growing cohort of well-being champions across the system who function as “local change agents,” utilizing the data we gather and the guidance we provide to amplify their effectiveness in advancing the well-being priorities within their own settings.

While our focus is on the system, we serve an important role in raising awareness, de-stigmatizing, and connecting you with the necessary support services to meet your well-being and mental health needs. We are invested not only in your professional growth but also in your mental and physical health. We hope to help you feel empowered not only to dedicate yourself to your work but also to take good care of your minds, bodies, and spirits. Well-being is a shared responsibility—we will continue to advocate for a system that enables you to flourish and feel invigorated, engaged, and excited about your work at Mount Sinai. We are here to help you along the way.