Catherine Florio Pipas - A Doctors Dozen: Twelve Strategies for Personal Health and a Culture of Wellness

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Catherine Florio Pipas is a professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouths Geisel School of Medicine. Over the past twenty-five years she has maintained a family medicine clinical practice. During that time her leadership roles have included assistant dean, vice chair, chief clinical officer, director of the Office of Community-Based Education and Research, and founding director of Dartmouths Regional Primary Care Center. She has been recognized for excellence in education, research, and clinical care with awards that include 2017 and 2018 NH Top Doctor, Dartmouth Master Educator, Clinical Teacher of the Year, Humanism in Medicine, and AOA Honor Society.

She received her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College and completed residency at Medical University of South Carolina. She earned a Faculty Development Fellowship at UNCChapel Hill and an MPH at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Dr. Pipas contributes to the development of undergraduates, medical students, nurses, residents, and faculty across the institution and regionally. She teaches Experiential Public Health and The Culture, Science, and Practice of Wellness at Dartmouth College; directs Dartmouths Leadership Curriculum; and teaches Applied Leadership for the Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. She codirects a longitudinal medical school course, Patients and Populations: Improving Health and Healthcare, and provides training in wellness and resilience to promote individual and system-wide improvement that bridges interprofessionals, organizations, and global communities.

She collaborates nationally and internationally to advance her vision for healthy individuals contributing to healthy communities. She serves on the board of directors for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and on the board of trustees for Kimball Union Academy and the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Faculty and Academic Societies. She is a former president of the New Hampshire Academy of Science and a founding faculty member for STFMs Medical Student Educators Development Institute. She has served on the NH Board of Medicine and contributed to the STFM Leading Change course and the AAMC National LEAD certificate program. She teaches, consults, and collaborates with individuals and organizations, including prehealth, health-care, and public-health professionals. Her areas of interest and expertise include personal health and wellness, personal and professional leadership development, team and systems improvement, community engagement, public health, and population health.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am most grateful to all my patients, mentors, and mentees for committing to my health, their health, and the health of our community. I wish to celebrate:

My mother, who loves all for their strengths and accepts without judging.

My father, whose strength of mind and body taught me that to struggle was to build character.

My brothers, who have always protected, guided, and inspired me.

My extended family, who have shared their learnings on lifes journey.

My husband, who represents the best choice I have made in my life and who, purposefully, chose me.

Stephanie, my insightful eighteen-year-old, who smells all the roses and continually keeps a clean slate.

Victoria, my mature twenty-one-year-old, who loves to learn and keeps her Nikes on, ready to just do it.

Evelyn Rosario, my childhood friend and mentor, who was born knowing all that I learned in five decades.

Linda Patchet, for reminding me to breathe before, during, and after budget meetings and for introducing me and our team to the Word of the Year.

Pam Gile, who left me her appreciation for every second, of every moment, of every day.

Members of my Team, who keep their integrity and their commitments to themselves and one another.

Kathryn Patton, Kristin Knutzen and Jason Beaton, who helped design and disseminate www.myphit.org.

Deborah Heimann, Jenny Blue, and Drs. Stanley Kozakowski, Joseph Scherger, and Robert Santulli, who inspired me by generously reading and providing invaluable feedback on life and every word of this book.

Phyllis Deutsch, Richard Pult, Susan Abel, and Susan Silver, my editors, who believed in my message and compelled me to write succinctly.

The entire UPNE team for your time, expertise, and commitment to authors and readers; your work lives on forever.

You, my reader, for committing to your own health and to the health of others.

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