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"Tips and Tricks for Building a Rewarding and Resilient Career in Medicine" (Orange County)

OJECTIVES
• Gap analysis: discover your current practice and life “highs and lows”
• Learn tips on how to optimize all facets of your life
• Create new patterns and habits of thought that will make your practice and your life more rewarding and resilient

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Lawson is a fellow physician who knows the current problems, struggles, and frustrations that only a 20-year veteran of a high volume, high pressure regional trauma & medical center, emergency department can know. Combining his past experience with his present practice of medicine and coaching, he is uniquely qualified to help you through any situation you might be facing.

Dr. Lawson is a Stanford trained, board certified emergency physician, and a professionally trained, certified, and accredited physician coach, consultant, quality assurance & risk management director, and recognized speaker who combines his rare and unique expertise with his passion for coaching.

Dr. Lawson specializes in coaching physician clients and their teams, and he continues to have tremendous success developing healthcare teams through implementation of strategies to enhance communication, reducing conflict, and risk reduction.


BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
As a scholarship athlete at Stanford University, he was known as a team and community leader, spearheading drunk driving prevention program while winning 2 NCAA Water Polo National Championships, and as a McClellan Scholar and William C. Davis Prize winner, Dr. Lawson graduated with AOA honors while creating and founding several key medical school educational programs. He co-founded and directed the S.M.I.L.E. educational program and helped direct the Stadium Medicine Program while a resident at Stanford University Hospital.

Currently Dr. Lawson is 20-year veteran, partner and full time practicing Emergency Physician at the high volume Mission Hospital Regional Trauma & Medical Center. He is the acting Director of Quality Assurance & Quality Improvement for the Emergency Department at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center. He is a member of the physician wellness committee and Quality & Research Committee.
Dr. Lawson holds numerous coaching certifications, and he is an active physician and healthcare professional coach with special training & emphasis in physician coaching.
Dr. Lawson is active in his community as a leader in men’s growth and development, marriage mentoring and education, teaching courses on intimacy in marriage, as well as founder and author of several different types of curricula.

If you were to ask Dr. Lawson what his single greatest accomplishment & life experience has been and continues to be, he would immediately answer: His 20 years of marriage to the woman of his dreams, and his three kids. He would also share that a few of his unique attributes are lifelong learner, quirky humor, and inspiration.

DATE

Monday, May 21, 2018

TIME

6:00 p.m. - Dinner

6:30 p.m. - Program

COST
Free to OCMA or CAP members
Free to non-physician guests of OCMA or CAP members

$50 per person for non-member physicians
$25 per person for non-physician guests of non-member physicians

Parking is complimentary

REGISTER
You may register for this event here.
RSVP required

Questions?
Holly Appelbaum
Director, Physician Relations
949.398.8100 X 106
*This fee can be applied to physician’s membership dues if he/she joins OCMA/CMA

 

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