Rasu Shrestha MD: Sharp Index Leader of the Year 2020
Rasu Shrestha, MD, MBA is the Sharp Index Physician Burnout Leader of the Year for 2020. When you meet him, you realize that he is patient focused and a fierce advocate for patients and physicians. He works as the chief strategy officer of Atrium health, and believes in the power of empathy. He shared his view of the importance of physician and clinician mental health:
Clinician burnout is real. It’s critical for leadership to call it out and acknowledge it. Only then can be address it, and put in the measures to not just deal with the issues, but to creatively reduce and prevent factors that contribute to burnout.
I am a firm believer that you cannot yoga your way out of burnout. While it is critical to focus on clinician wellness, I spend a good bit of my energy in trying to address the factors that contribute to the burnout in the first place. These include optimizing workflow challenges, reducing administrative burden, and formulating creative care models that emphasize care-team coordination and person-centered care.
Additionally, it’s important for clinicians to be self-aware and mindful. I find new strength every time I think about our mission to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing for all. I am at one with this mission, and that provides me the resilience and vigor needed to work with my teammates to truly address the core issues of clinician burnout head-on.
It has been said that you should allow your passion to become your purpose, and if you play it right, it could one day even become your profession. It's fascinating to see our clinicians are singularly focused on living out their passion to serve their patients. Aligning the passion, the purpose and the profession hence is critical. We should be intentional in truly understanding what drives and motivates that individual clinician, and use that drive as a catalyst for change.
-Rasu Shrestha, MD MBA
Dr. Shrestha has shared the caveat: leaders must take the first steps to improve physician lives. He shared the importance of seeing coworkers as teammates and investing in individuals. He leads with empathy, and we are proud to have him as the Sharp Index Leader of the year for 2020.
Please visit all of our nominees and winners for the Sharp Index Awards 2020. We are accepting nominations all year for 2021.
David Lareau of Medicomp Systems opened the video with a description of how important relevant data is to patients and clinicians. Our partner for the Sharp Index 2020 awards, Medicomp Systems, has been working in the health data space for decades. They enhance clinical decision-making, regulatory compliance and patient outcomes by delivering not just data – but actionable, relevant information at the clinicians’ fingertips. Patented technology filters incoming healthcare information, maps it to clinical concepts and presents it to clinicians based on relevancy at the point of care.
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