Sharp Index Awards 2023
Sharp Index Announces 2022 Nominees
Recognizing those who move the industry towards Healthy Healthcare
New York, NY— January 17 — The Sharp Index announced nominees for its 2022 Awards, recognizing individual contributions and team efforts to improving physician mental health. Categories range from Physician Leader of the Year to Health Equity Leader.
“When we recognize excellence in physician health, healthcare systems will naturally strive for excellence. Each person has the power to make a difference.” said Janae Sharp, Founder at Sharp Index.
This year's nominees are celebrated for work that is building communities and safe spaces for healthcare providers and workers, encouraging collaboration across delivery systems and payer-provider boundaries, and creating more equitable healthcare outcomes.
Categories include:
Health Tech Company
Innovator of the Year
Physician Wellbeing Leader
Mental Health Advocate
Healthy Health System
Media Leadership
Nurse Leader
Health Equity Leader
Themes of 2022 Nominees
Workforce and Workplace Experiences: Among this year’s nominees, the healthcare workforce crisis is seen through the eyes of the workers themselves. The New York State Nurses Association was nominated for Nurse Leadership after organizing a 2023 strike of 7,000 nurses to improve patient care and equity, strengthen staffing and patient care ratios, and improve workplace conditions for mental health. Will Patterson, CEO of CareRev, worked a trauma RN in San Francisco before founding a labor marketplace application to link facilities in need of staff with healthcare professionals. The health of our healthcare workforce is the concern of every patient, as leaders call for safe staffing and patient care.
Peer and Community Support:
Dr. Devika Bhushan, MD, FAAP has been nominated for the Physician Well-being Leader category. In fall 2022, she wrote an LA Times Op-Ed to discuss her bipolar disorder as a pediatrician and public health practitioner. She now operates a newsletter and community to destigmatize mental illness. Dr. Carol Bernstein was nominated to the Lasting Legacy category for her decades-long commitment to improving physician mental health and resilience through authorship and a call-in show on Sirius Radio’s Doctor Radio Channel. Dr. Richard Ferguson was nominated to the Health Equity Leader category after founding Black Physicians of Utah. Their organization will launch more support for Black men’s mental health in February 2023.
Collaboration:
Many of 2022’s nominees are banding together from various places in the healthcare ecosystem. Everyone has a stake in the health of our healers.
Prior winners include Jessi Gold, MD. Sachin Jain, MD MBA, Rasu Shrestha, MD MBA, Jack Turban, MD, Bridgette Duffy, MD, Lindsay Huse, MPH DNP RN PHNA-BA, Nuance Communications, Subha Airan-Javia MD FAMIA, Justin Bullock, Aiman Mukerji-Housham, and others.
The 2022 awards will be announced at HealthIMPACT East in NYC January 25-26, 2023. HealthlMPACT is a knowledge-sharing network that connects healthcare executives with the goal of improving patient experience, clinical outcomes, and operational efficiency through technology. Their #NoBS dedication to bringing healthcare decision makers together to get things done has made them a leading partner for organizations including Digital Health New York, NODEHealth, the American Telemedicine Association, The American Heart Association’s Center for Health Technology and Innovation, and MedStartr.
Sharp Index Awards
The Sharp Index Awards began in 2019 as a way of recognizing significant contributions to ameliorating the nationwide epidemic of physician burnout. Surveys have shown that nearly half of physicians experience burnout, leading to sometimes devastating outcomes for those providers, their practices, patients, and families. The Sharp Index Awards have a panel of over 100 judges who are decision makers in healthcare, physicians, patients, and experts. Finalists and winners are featured as leaders in healthcare mental health.
Founded in 2018, the Sharp Index is a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to reducing physician burnout and suicide and improving physician mental health and as a volunteer-based organization. It provides direct support through scholarships, partners with technology companies and healthcare leaders to create tools to transform healthcare systems and amplifies the voices of industry leaders. The Sharp Index communicates with mental health and burnout advocates in a video interview series on YouTube called Sharp Conversations as well as on its primary channel to hear stories about their experiences with mental health, burnout, and suicide in healthcare, as well as partnering with organizations and events.
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