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Discover the latest best practices on how to prevent executive burnout & stress. Learn from experts, executives, celebrities, authors, & medical icons (some affiliated with Yale & Harvard Medical Schools, & Silver Hill Hospital.) Based on what you’ve learned, leave with an executive burnout & stress prevention strategic action plan.
Event Co-Hosts
Martha R. A. Fields
President & CEO, OKI ME, LLC & Author
Former VP Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital
Andrew Gerber, M.D.
President & Medical Director, Silver Hill Hospital
Keynote Speakers
Nile Rodgers
International Songwriter, Producer, Artist, & 2023 Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement/Special Merit Award Recipient, Six Time Grammy
Winner, & Rock and Roll / Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee.
Nile wrote classics like “We Are Family” and wrote and produced timeless music for icons including Diana Ross, David Bowie, Madonna, and many more including most recently for Daft Punk and Beyoncé. A mega-savvy entrepreneur, he co-founded the Hipgnosis Song Fund, A FTSE 250 company on the London Stock Market with a net asset value of $2.7 billion. As a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, he turned his life around by
seeking treatment at Silver Hill Hospital.
Jonny Podell
From Making Million Dollar Music Deals on Park Avenue to living on park benches, hear from Jonny Podell, super successful music agent to the stars, about what he learned from crashing then recovering
from burnout and stress.
Opening Remarks
Petra Pilgrim, M.D.
Director of Steward Program, Silver Hill Hospital
Panelists: Best Practices to Prevent Burnout & Stress
Michael Holmes
Chief Operating Officer, Yale New Haven Hospital
Michael Groat, PhD
Chief Clinical Officer, Silver Hill Hospital

Elizabeth Ortiz- Schwartz, M.D., DFAPA
Attending Psychiatrist, Silver Hill Hospital

Venessa M. Brito, M.D., M.Sc, FACP
Executive Director of Health & Wellness
Asst.Prof. Albert School of Medicine, Brown University
Panelists: Preventing Burnout by Changing Jobs & Balancing Work/Life
Myranne Janoff
Managing Partner, Zurick Davis
Jacqueline Nelson
Director Diversity & Inclusion, St. Lukes School

Dr. Laurence Stybel, Ed.D
President, Stybel Peabody Associates
Work Rejuvenation Break Techniques: Meditation & Nutrition Assessment
Tanvi Gandhi, N.D.
Naturopathic Physician, & Licensed Acupuncturist in CT and NY.

Sam Strasfeld
Nutrition Nerd, Personal Trainer, & Kaizen Coach
Award Recipients
Dale Shadbegian
CEO, Cape & Plymouth Business Media
Cape Cod Executive on Effectively Balancing Work/Life in a Top Vacation Destination
General David Ohle
Retired U.S. Army

Immacula Cann, DNP, RN-BC
Chief Nursing Officer, Silver Hill Hospital

Stephen N. Xenakis, M.D.
Brigadier General, Retired U.S. Army

Lamond Daniels, LCSW
MPA Chief of Community Services, Norwalk, Connecticut
Lessons from the “Blue Zones” (Five Places People Live the Longest & Healthiest)
Martha R. A. Fields shares purpose, stress, and burnout lessons from her 8th book and experiences growing up in Okinawa, Japan, the #1 place in the world with more healthy people +110 years of age.










