Episode 451: WDx #41: Burnout, Existential Dread, and Everything in Between

For this episode of WDx, Sharmin and Kaylin are joined by Dr Alice Mao to discuss what they have learned about burnout so far and how their perspectives have changed over time.

 

Alice Mao’s Bio:

Dr. Alice Mao is an internal medicine and geriatric medicine physician who is passionate about social equity, community empowerment, and innovations in primary care. She was born in China and grew up in Canada and the US. She completed medical school at UCSF, internal medicine residency at the University of Washington, and geriatric medicine fellowship at Stanford. She is currently the Lead Geriatrician at Asian Health Services, where she is helping build a new geriatric clinic and a new Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) to better serve high frailty seniors in the community.  Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, giving her cat cheek scratches, and resurrecting her childhood dreams of learning how to freestyle dance.