Welcome to the Faculty Wellness Resources page. Please stay tuned as we begin to develop this page.
Police: 9-1-1 (emergent); 602-262-6151 (non-emergent)
24-Hour Crisis Hotline(s)
Maricopa County: 602-222-9444
National:1-800-273-8255
Text: 741-741
Sexual Assault Hotline: 480-736-4949
Substance Use/Treatment: 1-800-662-4357
Medical students, residents and physicians, are not immune to developing problematic substance use, abuse, and addiction. In fact, substance use disorders in both medical students and practicing physicians occur at roughly the same frequency (if not higher in some cases) as in the general population. Given the significant professional obligation and responsibility that medical professionals and students possess, it is of great importance to facilitate early support and therapeutic intervention.
The following resources are being presented to assist medical students in recognizing problematic coping with substance use and to facilitate early intervention strategies. We also hope these resources equip students with the necessary tools to support and promote health throughout their careers.
Banner Addiction Recovery Center
Phone: 602-839-4567
Address: 1300 North 12th Street Suite 608 - Phoenix, AZ 85006
The director is Dr. Luke Peterson, who would be happy to talk to anyone in need of help. His email address is Christopher.Peterson@bannerhealth.com
Community Bridges Professionals Medical Monitoring Program
The coordinator is Kristy Cole (Kcole2@cbridges.com)
- Independent but contracts with the State Medical Board
- Confidential
- Funded by participant fees
- For health professionals & students
Arizona Medical Association Physician’s Lounge
This is totally confidential resource that can connect providers in need of help with a peer counselor, and is not just limited to substance abuse issues
Physician Health Committee at Banner University Medical Center-Phoenix
Dr. Kam Hunter is the Chair and is always available to talk if he can be of some help. His email is Kam.Hunter@bannerhealth.com
Professionals Assisting Professionals of Arizona (PAPA)
Phone: 480-207-7869
- Through the AZ State Board of Pharmacy
- Confidential
- Non-profit
- For health professionals & students
Phone: 602-542-1882
- Through the AZ State Board of Behavioral Health Examiners
- Confidential
- Free enrollment
- For licensed health professionals
Buena Vista Impaired Physicians Program
Phone: 866-630-9392
- Independent
- Confidential
- Funded through insurance
- Specialized physician-centered program
Other Substance Use Treatment Options
(Not Physician/Health Care Professional Specific)
Detox (admission immediately/within 24 hours)
A detox only program is going to be an inpatient program that last anywhere from 3-7 days depending on how long your alcohol withdrawal symptoms last. These are in a medical setting where physicians can prescribe you comfort medications and monitor your health while you withdraw. You can present physically to either of the Banner options or call ahead to arrange admission to all three. Each detox facility will take either private insurance or AHCCCS.
Banner Scottsdale: 480-448-7500
7575 East Earl Dr.
Banner Thunderbird: 602-865-4793
5555 W. Thunderbird Rd.
Vogue Recovery Center:877-694-9291
4122 North 17th St., Building A
Inpatient/Residential Treatment (admission takes 24 hours to 1 week)
An inpatient or residential program will last anywhere from 30-90 days. In these programs, you go and live in a facility or house with a community of others who are also participating in recovery. These programs will include case management, support groups, group counseling, individual counseling, and a physical space for you to live for the duration of the program. Most inpatient programs will also allow you to detox while at their facility prior to participating in their treatment program; just call to confirm. Both Soul Surgery and Meadows take only private insurance/out of pocket payment. Destiny Sober Living takes AHCCCS.
Soul Surgery: 833-568-6619
The Meadows: 866-331-5931
Destiny Sober Living: 602-249-6674
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) (admission takes 48 hours to 1 week)
An intensive outpatient program last anywhere from 6-12 weeks and requires no time in a facility. During an IOP you will go to treatment 3x per week for 3 hours at a time. The nine hours of weekly programming include meeting with a case manager, individual therapy, group therapy, and group therapy/classes. These often follow inpatient treatment. Each of the options below take private insurance and AHCCCS. Take a look at each program’s website and what they offer differs slightly. For instance, Recovia has a co-occurring substance use/chronic pain program. These programs also offer partial telehealth or evening options.
Recovia: 480-771-0378
Continuum: 855-574-6260
Choice Recovery: 480-527-0337
ASU Downtown
ASU fitness center and the COM-P are working together to provide a fitness option for COM-P students and Faculty. Any COM-P student or faculty can sign-up with the ASU fitness center in downtown for $100.00 a semester (roughly $20 a month). This membership gets you access to the following:
-All ASU gym/fitness facilities (Downtown, Tempe, West Campus)
-All fitness classes at ASU fitness centers
-All equipment
-Ability to register for intermural sports at ASU (extra $25 fee if you sign up for intermural sports)
To get this discount, all COM-P student and faculty must register with the ASU downtown fitness center.
Address: 330 1st Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85003
YMCA
University of Arizona College of Medicine
students, faculty, and staff pay no joining fee and
receive 20% off published rates
• Access to all 15 YMCA facilities throughout
Arizona with a valley-wide membership
• Special member rates on swim lessons, sports
programs, childcare, camps and more
• Unlimited free group fitness classes
• Free on-site child supervision while you work out
• No contract membership
• Family memberships get exclusive access to family
benefit program ($700 value)
• Through Nationwide Membership, you can access
participating Ys throughout the country when you
travel
HOW TO ENROLL
1. Visit the Lincoln Family Downtown YMCA.
2. Show your University of Arizona College of
Medicine badge.
3. Eligible participant pays no joining fee and receive
20% off published rates.
4. Eligible participant must be primary contact on the
YMCA membership.
www.VirtualDoctorsLounge.org or call 646-809-0957
ArMA and CCA established a peer to peer program that provides direct peer support to distressed physicians. CCA set up and maintains a peer support network that includes training volunteer physicians, connecting physicians in need of support with an appropriate peer, as well as providing expert consultation, support, case management, and referral for physicians in need of additional services. Peer support services are offered to all physicians in the state of Arizona. Peer services are confidential, and are offered free of charge.
Goals of the Virtual Doctors’ Lounge:
• Reduce barriers to care by providing a platform that is confidential and comfortable for physicians to access, without perceived stigma.
• Connect physician participants to trained peer coaches
• Provide customized referrals for psychological support
• Provide referrals to other Arizona resources, as needed
• Increase psychological wellbeing
• Support peak performance for individual physicians
The program is informal, confidential, and does not establish a patient-physician relationship. No notes are taken and no reporting is made to state agencies or employers. If a physician is in need of crisis support, CCA can address the issue directly through their professional staff or refer to an Arizona resource as appropriate.
Physician Support Line: 1 (888) 409-0141
Session 1:
Title: Operationalizing Wellness and Mental Health: Faculty Well-being
- Speaker(s): Daniel Drane, EdD; Michelle Melton, PsyD; Celine McNelis-Kline, EdD
- Date Recorded: 9/15/2021
- Learning Objectives:
- 1. Access your current state of well-being and implement specific tools to improve your personal mental health and wellness.
- 2. Evaluate your work and home environments to determine where well-being habits can be achieved, incorporated, and improved.
- 3. Apply what you have learned to modify personal environments and cultures to be more wellness and mental health centric for everyone.
- Link: https://arizona.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1e21efd3-b0dd-4476-8188-ae40013ce1b0
Session 2:
Title: Creating a Culture of Wellness and Wellbeing
- Speaker(s): Elizabeth Lawrence, MD
- Date Recorded: 12/14/2021
- Learning Objectives:
- 1. Describe multiple tools to use to promote cultural changes to create a culture of well-being.
- 2. Discuss the available evidence to support the use of these tools.
- 3. Practice the use of 3-4 of these tools.
- Link: https://arizona.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6a1ba96f-743b-4858-b2c3-ae40014a8d0a
Session 3:
Title: Moving out of Exhaustion and Fatigue Through Strength Based Approaches
- Speaker(s): Teri Pipe, PhD
- Date Recorded: 2/16/2022
- Learning Objectives:
- 1. Participants will describe interplay between individual, organizational and societal well-being efforts within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2. Participants will have the opportunity to use evidence-based self-reflection experiential learning to explore experiences of making meaning, progressing toward moral resiliency, and navigating life-work integration.
- 3. Participants will explore realistic ways of addressing prolonged exhaustion and suffering.
- Link: https://arizona.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=bd279d22-ce46-4dcd-a550-ae40014f8adf
Session 4:
Title: Compounding Stress on Repeat: Navigating Our Current Reality
- Speaker(s): Daniel Drane, EdD; Michelle Melton, PsyD; Donna Johnson, PhD
- Date Recorded: 06/23/2002
- Learning Objectives:
- 1. Understand the impact of current stressors on individuals, communities, and systems, including increased mental health symptoms, such as substance use, suicidal ideation, and anxiety/depression.
- 2. Reflect and validate personal experiences of our faculty and medical trainees.
- 3. Understand the expression of symptoms and need for support around anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and substance use; analyze the availability of support and needed resources; and, evaluate ways of intervening in ourselves and with others.
- Link: https://arizona.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=120e3e4e-7e31-410e-9e17-aee5012aa864
*LinkedIn Learning Modules:
- Coaching and Managing a Healthy Workplace.
- Anxiety, Stress and Other Uncomfortable Emotions in the Workplace.
- Mindfulness, Positivity and Gratitude for Improved Performance.
- The Impact of Self-Awareness, Emotional Intelligence and Vulnerability.
- Building Resilience.
- Physical Well-Being.
*Currently, the LinkedIn Learning Modules are only available to faculty employed with UArizona.
- Daniel Drane, EdD, chair, Faculty Wellness Subcommittee, program director, Wellness, and assistant professor, Internal Medicine, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Guadalupe Federico Martinez, PhD, assistant dean, Faculty Affairs and Career Development, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Jonathan Snyder, MBA, program coordinator, Faculty Development, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Alan Molk, MD, assistant professor, Emergency Medicine, Banner – UMC Phoenix.
- Mohammad Islam, MD, assistant professor, OB/GYN, Banner – UMC Phoenix.
- Leslee Kelly, MD, assistant professor, Child Health, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Jennifer Hartmark-Hill, MD, associate professor, Family Medicine, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Mohan Belthur, MD, associate professor, Child Health, Phoenix Children's Hospital.
- Kelley Saunders, MD, assistant professor, OB/GYN, Banner – UMC Phoenix.
- Arie Zakaryan, PhD, assistant professor, Child Health, Phoenix Children's Hospital.
- Diane Hindman, PharmD, assistant professor, Child Health, Phoenix Children's Hospital.
- Dennis Friedman, DO, assistant professor, Psychiatry Banner – UMC Phoenix.
- Melisa Celaya, PhD, assistant professor, Internal Medicine, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Lara Yoblonski, MD, assistant professor, Child Health, Phoenix Children's Hospital.
- Farshad Fani Marvasti, MD, associate professor, Family Medicine, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Roxana Ursea, MD, associate professor, Ophthalmology, Phoenix VA.
- Joyce Lee-Iannotti, MD, assistant professor, Neurology, Banner – UMC Phoenix.
- Jonathan Cartsonis, MD, associate professor, Family Medicine, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Lisa Shah-Patel, MD, associate professor, Radiology, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Angela Veesenmeyer, MD, clinical associate professor, Child Health, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Randa Jarrar, MD, clinical associate professor, Child Health, College of Medicine – Phoenix.
Learn how our clinical partners are supporting their physicians and staff.
- Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix:
- Cultivating Happiness in Medicine.
- Banner – UMC Phoenix Wellness Center.
- Banner Physician Support Line.
- ECHO – Banner Employee Wellness Program:
- Phone: 888-294-4010
- Phoenix Children's Hospital:
- COVID-19 Resources Center and FAQs.
- "Vitality” – PCH employee well-being program.
- Phoenix VA Health Care System:
- Make the Connection – The featured VA health resource.
- Wellness and Healthy – Living Nutrition and Food.
- The VA Public Health Site.
- HonorHealth:
- HonorHealth Healthy Living – Resources to improve your health and quality of life.
- St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center:
- St. Joseph Health – Wellness initiatives.