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Practicing Emergency Physician; Former Senior Vice President of Clinical Strategy, Sharecare; TV & Media Medical Expert
Widely renowned as an expert in making life and health better for women, Dr. Darria Long Gillespie, MD MBA is a national on-air TV health expert, author Mom Hacks, board certified emergency department physician, and a digital health executive. Given her experience, she holds a unique, multifaceted perspective of the healthcare system.
As an emergency physician, Dr. Darria understands having too much to do in the most stressful of situations—and too little time to do it. She quickly learned techniques to save time and save lives. Becoming a patient herself was a wakeup call to do the same for herself. She now brings these same high-yield strategies for wellness to her audiences, saving them time, struggle, and their sanity.
We’re burned out. We’re exhausted – and the only solutions seem to be to grit down more, “self-care” mental health soundbites, and Quiet Quitting. Those aren’t solutions. Dr. Darria Long founded The Burnout Study in Women, the first post-pandemic large-scale academic study specifically to understand the drivers of burnout – and most importantly, to find data-driven answers.
Dr. Darria is a Yale-trained emergency physician and former Harvard Medical School faculty member, national bestselling author, national TV health expert, and speaker of the TEDx “An ER Doctor on Ending the Crazy Busy”. From the ER to the TV studio, she has trained to thrive amidst chaos and stress.
In this talk, Dr. Darria combines rich and behind-the-scenes stories of balancing her role as an ER doctor, national TV health expert, and motherhood, while also suddenly managing a mysterious and life-threatening heart condition. She also shares action-oriented and fascinating data from the Burnout Study in Women and other sources.
Dr. Darria will share key concepts developed from her research:
With a combination of both tactical steps and mindset shifts, this talk lets audiences laugh, have ah-ha moments, and leave empowered by steps they can take today.
*This speech is available for general audiences or it can be tailored to women audiences
How do you move forward – and grow – when your life gets turned upside down? At times of upheaval – whether it’s health, persona, or career crises – when you want to ask, “Why me?” or “I don’t think I can handle this,” how do you move forward?
Dr. Darria Long is a Harvard and Yale-trained ER doctor, national bestselling author, national TV health expert, and founder of The National Burnout Study in Women – and had two small children when her own life was thrown upside down. She discovered that she had a massive, mysterious and life-threatening heart condition, and over 18 months, nearly went into cardiac arrest multiple times.
As an ER doctor and on-air TV personality, she had spent her life thriving in moments of uncertainty, unpredictability, and incomplete information, and yet she still wasn’t prepared for this. Overnight, life changed.
In this motivating address, Dr. Darria curates data-driven solutions and guidance, along with her experience in the ER, and stories from her journey from grim diagnosis to building life back, better.
Audiences will leave with a combination of tools and mindset shifts to not be able to just tolerate uncertainty, but to lean into it, thrive, perform at your best – and actually turn it into your advantage.
Key takeaways include a combination of both tactics and mindset shifts to help you stay calm, thrive, and make good decisions, no matter what the conditions:
Every day, we’re bombarded with “health hacks” – but what really works?
Dr. Darria is author of the actual book on this, Mom Hacks, and shares the best, most high-yield steps and decisions you can make in your life to improve your productivity, overall health, and just feel better every day, both physically and mentally.
In a world where “more self-care” actually can feel like a chore, what actually WORKS?
Constant requests, time-crunch, endless to-do’s… stress and burnout take on a different tone (and urgency) when health and lives are at stake. Yet, given changing regulations and economic landscape, doing what physicians need to do is getting even harder and at times leaving us to question WHY we are doing this at all.
In this audience-specific speech, Dr. Darria gives an evidence-based perspective on burnout from the POV of the physician.
As a Harvard and Yale-trained ER doctor, national TV health regular expert, national bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and mom to two kiddos, Dr. Darria’s life was right where she had dreamed. Then, one day when she was home alone with her young children, she nearly went into cardiac arrest in her basement, and was able to call for emergency help just in time. Instead of the year she had expected to include TV and speaking and exciting projects, she spent the next 16 months in a maze of uncertainty, fear, and SO many questions.
Interestingly, right when this began, her pastor initiated a plan that year for the church as a whole to read through the Bible. Dr. Darria shares how God can use life’s unexpected turns to direct us onto a path that we’d never expect, never know to strive toward, and that can be better than we even dreamed.
Dr. Darria Long is a Harvard and Yale-trained practicing Emergency physician, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine, and international regular TV contributor. She is the national bestselling author of Mom Hacks, TedX speaker of the widely popular “An ER doctor on ending the crazy busy,” and mom of 2. Dr. Darria founded Trueve.com to give every woman access to evidence-based and actionable health information — and the peace of mind that comes with that. The TrueveLab launched The Study of Burnout in Women, which is the first large-scale, academic study focused specifically on burnout in women since COVID.
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