How can healthcare leaders help their teams and patients navigate some of life’s most challenging moments? Trauma-informed care offers a strategic framework for providing sensitive, empowering, and healing care to survivors of various forms of trauma. This growing healthcare movement has practical applications to support patient care, health professional well-being, and operational strategy.

This session will translate trauma-informed principles into practical leadership strategies for navigating high-stress interactions, supporting a robust well-being strategy, and building resilient healthcare organizations.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to distinguish between stress, burnout, moral injury, and trauma in our current healthcare environment
• Specific strategies for trauma-informed leadership that promote health professional well-being, foster psychological safety, and nurture organizational resilience
• Pathways for transforming our workplaces into trauma-informed, resilience-oriented systems of healthcare

Presenter:

• Sadie Elisseou, MD; Internal Medicine Physician, Mass General Brigham; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Founder and CEO, Trauma-Informed Practices, LLC

Join us for our final Schwartz Compassion in Action webinar of 2026, featuring a special fireside chat between Beverley H. (Bev) Johnson, FAAN, founder, president and CEO of the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care, and Michael Gustafson, MD, MBA, CEO of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare.

Bev is the 2026 Schwartz Compassion Champion, which recognizes visionary leaders who have made significant contributions to advancing compassion in healthcare and fostering cultures of compassionate care.

A nationally recognized pioneer, she founded the Institute nearly 35 years ago and has helped establish the principles, tools, and resources that guide patient- and family-centered care, inspiring generations of healthcare leaders to embrace patients and families as essential partners in improving care.

In this special conversation, Bev and Michael will explore:

• A legacy of leadership: Bev’s remarkable career and the evolution of patient- and family-centered care.
• The power of partnership: How engaging patients and families improves healthcare delivery and improving systems of care.
• Building compassionate cultures: Lessons in leadership and innovation from healthcare organizations around the world.
• Looking to the future: Emerging opportunities and challenges, including the impact of artificial intelligence on human-centered care.

Join us for an inspiring conversation offering practical insights and a vision for making compassion a lasting priority in healthcare.