UB Medicine Podcast
Listen to the podcast where transformation meets innovation in health care. Broadcasting from the heart of downtown Buffalo, NY, this exciting series dives deep into the evolving landscape of health and wellness in Western New York.
Episode 23 – Who Takes Care of the Caregivers? Understanding Compassion Fatigue
Health care professionals dedicate their careers to caring for patients and families, often working in high-pressure environments where exposure to stress, trauma and suffering is a daily reality. While compassion is at the heart of health care, the emotional demands of continually caring for others can lead to compassion fatigue, affecting personal well-being, professional satisfaction and patient care.
In this episode of the UB Medicine Podcast, Allison Brashear, MD, PhD, speaks with Chandra M. Grabill, PhD, and Graham Skelhorne-Gross, MD, PhD, about the causes and warning signs of compassion fatigue, its impact on health care professionals and strategies for building resilience and fostering healthier workplace cultures. Together, they explore how individuals and organizations can better support the well-being of those who care for others.
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Each episode of UB Medicine features candid, insightful conversations with the region’s most respected doctors, medical pioneers and wellness advocates who are redefining what it means to be healthy in today’s world.
Covering a range of themes, episodes of the UB Medicine podcast bring you stories that inspire, inform and empower. Whether you’re a health care professional or someone just looking to live better, this podcast offers real talk, expert opinions, a few surprises, and a local lens on the national health conversation.
Visionary leader Allison Brashear, MD, MBA, hosts the UB Medicine podcast. She is an internationally recognized neurologist, accomplished researcher and health science administrator. Brashear was appointed vice president for health sciences at the University at Buffalo and dean of the Jacobs School in December 2021.
She also leads the strategic integration of interprofessional education and practice, health sciences collaborative research, and clinical programs across the university’s health science schools — the Jacobs school, dental medicine, nursing, pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, public health and health professions — as well as programs among our hospital and clinical affiliates.
Brashear is an internationally renowned researcher in movement disorders and an expert in ATP1A3-related diseases, a spectrum of rare neurologic disorders. Additionally, she is a powerful advocate for promoting diverse leaders in medicine and a lifelong champion of advancing women’s leadership in medicine.
She is committed to educating the next generation of medical doctors and research scientists, exploring areas of clinically impactful and cutting-edge discovery science, conducting impactful research, and cultivating relationships through community involvement.