Dr. Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at University of California, Berkeley
I had the absolute honor and privilege to interview Dr. Christina Maslach on Hope for Healthcare Podcast! Dr. Maslach is a true legend when it comes to researching and understanding burnout from a global perspective, especially in healthcare today. She has been teaching how to resolve burnout for over 40+ years!
Please listen to this episode and learn how as a healthcare leader, stakeholder, or individual, you can make a difference starting today by creating a better job-person match.
Title: “How to successfully promote healthcare engagement – lessons learned from a global burnout expert, Dr. Christina Maslach”
Topics of Discussion:
- What exactly is burnout, and why is it important especially in healthcare today?
- Why is the relationship between people and their jobs a better way to understand burnout?
- What are the critical mismatches between people and their jobs, and what would better matches look like?
- How do we create better matches between healthcare workers and their jobs?
- As a Global Burnout Expert, what are top lessons you have learned about resolving burnout during the past several decades of your research?
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Dr. Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at University of California, Berkeley
Recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award
Christina Maslach is a Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a core researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College (1967), and her Ph.D. from Stanford University (1971), and has been on the Berkeley faculty since then.
Professor Maslach is the pioneer of research on the definition, predictors and measurement of job burnout. This work is the basis for the 2019 decision by the World Health Organization (WHO), to include burnout as an occupational phenomenon, with health consequences, in the ICD-11. She created the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), the most widely used instrument for measuring job burnout, and has written numerous articles and books, including The Truth About Burnout. Several of her articles have received awards for their significance and high impact, including her longitudinal research on early burnout predictors, which was honored in 2012 as one of the 50 most outstanding articles published by the top 300 management journals in the world. Recently, she received the 2017 Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award, as well as several lifetime career achievement awards. In 2020, she received the award for Scientific Reviewing, for her work on burnout, from the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, she was named by Business Insider as one of the top 100 people transforming business.
Her latest book, The Burnout Challenge, was named by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the top ten books in business/economics for Fall 2022.
In addition to her research achievements, Professor Maslach is recognized as an outstanding teacher, having received a national award as Professor of the Year (1997), and both the Distinguished Teaching Award (1987) and the Berkeley Citation (2009) from UC-Berkeley. She is also an accomplished administrator, having served as the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Instructional Technology, and as the Chair of the Academic Senate (twice) at UC-Berkeley. She has also served twice as the president of the Western Psychological Association, most recently in 2020 when WPA celebrated its 100th anniversary. Currently, she is involved in a project on Berkeley women faculty, in which she is interviewing those who joined the faculty in the 1970s, after the historic low point of women faculty in the late 1960s.
Dr. Katie Cole
Affectionately called “The Healer’s Healer,” Dr. Katie Cole is an award-winning psychiatrist and consultant who works with physicians and organizations to reinvigorate their passion for medicine, create healthier work/life balance, and prevent costly burnout.