Dr. Jessi Gold Discusses “Should You Quit Your Job” at the Women In Medicine Conference In Chicago, 2023
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. Please reach out to discuss, or to request a customized topic.
But, here are a few of her favorites:
- Workplace mental health and burnout (adaptable to most workplaces, and has been discussed with everyone from the nonprofit sector to journalism, to entertainment to therapists)
- Healthcare worker mental health, moral injury, and burnout
- Taking care of others while taking care of ourselves
- Using vulnerability and storytelling (including my own) to change culture and normalize help-seeking, particularly in healthcare
- College student mental health more broadly and interventions for culture change and wellbeing on campuses
- The impact of celebrity self-disclosure and popular media portrayals of mental health on mental health help-seeking and normalization
- The impact of the pandemic on our mental health, especially in health-care workers
- Social media and mental health, in particular, the impact on clinical practice and on college students
- Tangible strategies for coping with the aftermath of the pandemic or other stressful events
- Burnout in women
- Using social media as a medical researcher or mental health advocacy
- Reporting on mental health in journalism and suicide safety guidelines
- Should you quit your job?
Keynote, Restoring Wellness, MedFluencers Event, 2023. Photo by: 4thFLR
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)
- 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)
Panel With American Medical Association President Jesse Ehrenfeld, Restoring Wellness, MedFluencers Event, 2023. Photo by: 4thFLR
