Peter will be a Guest Speaker at the 2017 Annual Meeting of The Society for Interventional Radiology, Washington, D.C., March 7, 2017. I will be part of a 3-person panel-workshop discussion titled, “Personal Wellness for the Interventionalist.” My 50-minute presentation will be titled, “Strategies for Sustaining Personal Health and Career Resilience.”
Peter honored by Stanford Department of Radiology At the November 10, 2016 faculty meeting of the Department of Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, I was presented with a special award plaque recognizing my 22 years of clinical service to Stanford Radiology. The ceremony also acknowledged my official retirement from clinical practice. The photos, below, show a […]
Peter was Visiting Professor at Weil Cornell Medical Center, New York City, November 2, 2016. I was invited by the Department of Radiology at Weill Cornell School of Medicine to be Visiting Professor on November 2, 2016 to present Radiology Grand Rounds. The title of my presentation was, “ Balancing Life and Work: Survival Strategies for the Busy Radiologist.”
Peter was a faculty member and mentor at the 13th Annual SEAK “Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians Conference, Chicago, October 22-23, 2016. For the fourth year in a row, I was invited to participated at the Non-Clinical Careers for Physicians Conference in Chicago. I spoke with many of the 400 physician registrants and offered one-on-one career transition mentoring to over 50 […]
Q. What do I tell physicians to think about as they plan for a caree transition? A. It is important for a physician contemplating a career transition to have certain important elements of self-understanding. These five elements of self-understanding include the following: What is your Purpose? What are your Motivated Skills? What are you Passionate about with respect […]
It seems that Spring is in the air everywhere. Very unusually warm weather in the Mid West and the East coast the past several weeks. Perhaps another sign of Global Warming? Or is it more properly, Global “Warning”? I hope everyone is doing whatever is reasonable to reduce your carbon footprint on the planet. There is […]
Even if you are not a basketball fan, there is much to learn about life and professional career transitions by watching MARCH MADNESS. It seems to me that success at careers/career transitions and success at college basketball share some important commonalities:
The sun is definitely sitting much lower in the sky these days, and on this Saturday afternoon at 4 PM, everything takes on a golden hue. That tells me we have moved into Autumn. Several of the deciduous trees on my block are beginning to turn a variety of lovely reds and yellows. The nights […]
What follows below is my musing at year end about the past 12 months of my life. My first year of “retirement”, and what lessons I have learned. I hope you find it meaningful and thought-provoking. AN OLD DOC’S REFLECTIONS ON RETIREMENT It is odd the way my first year of retirement has unfolded. A […]
I would like to share with you the personal story of one of my coaching clients. This story provides an excellent lesson about the financial challenges of making career transitions to a non-clinical career. It’s a lesson from which everyone can benefit. Dr. X came to seek CPPR coaching several years ago in an advanced […]
Whether you are a football fan or not, yesterday’s Superbowl game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle SeaHawks was both exciting and entertaining! Talk about a game that went right down to the wire! It’s a shame that one team had to lose. Then again, there’s always something to learn from such a […]
I just returned from an excellent four-day Advanced Coaching Seminar at the Hudson Institute. It was a great opportunity to recharge my batteries and learn new things to improve my coaching work. Santa Barbara was warm and luscious. I was particularly impressed with the lectures by the author, coach and seminar leader, Richard Leider of the […]