Dr. Jessi Gold is a sought-after international speaker known for her mix of personal storytelling and research to make mental health topics tangible and help people feel less alone.
She is available in person and virtually for panels, lectures, and conversations on a wide variety of mental health topics.
To schedule a speaking engagement with Jessi Gold, MD, MS, please contact Emily Varga, Senior Lecture Agent, Simon and Schuster Speakers Bureau, at emily.varga@simonandschuster.com, or click here for more information.
Here are a few of her favorite topics:
- How Do You Feel? One Doctor’s Search for Humanity in Medicine
- Workplace mental health: Wellness, moral injury, and burnout, particularly among healthcare workers, university faculty, journalists, and people in the entertainment industry
- College mental health: Interventions for culture change and wellbeing on campuses; The mental health crisis on campus
- Mental health advocacy and reporting: Using writing for the popular press and other forms of media, including social media; mental health in journalism, including suicide safety guidelines
- Social media and mental health: Exploring social media’s impact on our mental health and how to mindfully use it
- Telling your own mental health story: Using vulnerability and storytelling (including her own) to change culture, decrease stigma, and normalize help seeking, especially for
- popular figures, leaders, and celebrities
- Taking care of ourselves while taking care of others: Self-care and creating a culture of caring, including how to talk to a child/friend/coworker about their mental health
- What is [insert mental health condition here] and how to manage it: Recognizing signs and symptoms and identifying coping strategies and other treatments for stress, burnout, and other mental health conditions
Dr. Gold has spoken within multiple settings, including but not limited to academic centers, hospitals, industries, advocacy organizations, journalism, and entertainment.
Some examples of previous engagements include:
- Outreach lectures to undergraduate, graduate, and faculty on mental health and coping skills, stigma, and barriers to access to care
- Wellness Connection: Virtual Health Happening | Taking Care of your Mental Health: Dedicated Resource for Employee
- Academic grand rounds (across many specialties including, OB/GYN, Surgery, and Medicine, and not just psychiatry)
- Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry: Grand Rounds- Taking Care of yourself while taking care of others
- Washington University School of Medicine | Grand Rounds – One Year Later: Mental Health in the New Normal
- Keynotes and Invited Panelists at Academic Conferences and Continuing Medical Education Events:
- Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine | Spotlight on Women in Medicine and Science
- Academic Surgical Congress | 2023 AAS Presidential Session – How Can We Help?
- 13 Annual Conference of the Institute for Public Health | Hidden Costs of Global Pandemic (Mental Health)
- Stanford CME | Physician Distress: Risk Factors and Prevention in Physician Suicide Webinar
- Invited Speaker for Advocacy Groups, Other Healthcare Professions, Hospital Associations and National Meetings
- Physician Burnout Symposium | Burnout on the Frontlines: Real Solutions for Mental, Social and Spiritual Health (Panel Conversation with Benjamin Miller, Dr. Megan Ranney and Janae Sharp)
- MedFluencers Summit on Physician Mental Health and Wellbeing with The American Medical Association President Jesse Ehrenfeld
- Chaplaincy Innovation Lab | Burnout in Healthcare Workers
- Virtual Webinars and Panel Discussions:
- International Center for Journalists: News and Mental Health with Journalists Should Know
- Virtual Event for STAT News
- Virtual Fireside Chat with the Former Editor in Chief of SELF for all of CondeNest
- Self Magazine, Checking In: Virtual Wellness Series: Coping With Re-Entering the World
- Webinar for MTVEntertainment/Comedy Central
- Briefing for SciLine, The Pandemic’s Impacts on U.S. Hospitals
- The Commonwealth Club with Lucy Kalanithi
- Mental Health Awareness Month and World Mental Health Day Events
- Mental Health Storytelling Conversations
- The Better Together Mental Health Storytelling Summit, MTV/Paramount
- USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative panel on mental health in the media
- Moderator for TV Writers on Writing Mental Health with speakers Kay Oyegun (This is Us) Rohit Kumar (13 Reasons Why), Laura Donney (WandaVision), Kit Steinkellner (Sorry for Your Loss), JHRTS and Yea! (Young Entertainment Activists)
- Panelist for Rare Beauty Mental Health Virtual Events (Ask an Expert Panel: Sharing Your Story and Destigmatizing Mental Health)