Physician Wellness

Strengthening the Physician Community in 2025: A Commitment to Wellness

As we reshape the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati for the realities of 21st-century medicine, we remain focused on four core strategic initiatives — with Physician Wellness and building an interconnected medical community at the heart of our mission.

In 2025, the Academy continues its leadership in addressing physician burnout and mental health challenges by collaborating with key health systems, academic institutions, and community partners through the Cincinnati Coalition for Physician Wellness. Together, we are working to build a regional framework for prevention, crisis response, education, and treatment for physicians, residents, and medical students.

What’s Ahead This Year:

🔹 Educational Programs & Events
With Cincinnati partners like Lindner Center of HOPE, we continue to elevate conversations around mental health. Earlier this year, our President, Dr. Chris Paprzycki, was featured on Local12 News, spotlighting physician mental health and Christ Hospital’s national recognition in this space.

🔹 Wellness Roundtables, Workshops & CME Events
We are expanding our calendar to include small group support sessions, interactive workshops, and expert-led webinars tackling issues from burnout to resilience and peer support.

🔹 Member-Exclusive Resources & Discounts
Access to wellness programming, counseling options, and curated content will continue to be discounted for Academy members.

🔹 Social Reconnection & Community-Building Events
We know connection matters. Look out for invitations to social gatherings designed to promote well-being, friendship, and collaborative healing.

We believe a stronger, healthier physician community benefits every patient, every system, and every neighborhood. The Academy of Medicine remains committed to creating a space where our local physicians are supported, empowered, and never alone.

Let’s continue this important work — together.

Physicians Supporting Physicians: Join Us in Leading Change

We’re incredibly proud to share that our President, Dr. Chris Paprzycki, was recently featured on @Local12News to discuss the critical importance of physician mental health. This recognition highlights a core focus of the Academy: breaking the silence around mental health and creating a more supportive culture for physicians, residents, and medical students. This is just one example of how our members are leading meaningful change in Greater Cincinnati and beyond.

At the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, we are building momentum around these issues and more — and we invite you to be a part of it.

🔗 Click here to watch the segment featuring Dr. Paprzycki.

The Cincinnati Coalition for Physician Wellness

Recognizing a strong association between physician burnout, the emergence of mental illness and physician suicide, the Cincinnati Coalition for Physician Wellness and several of its health system constituents have partnered with the Lindner Center of HOPE to establish the  Physician Mental Health Program.  For more information on joining the Coalition please contact the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati at 513-421-7010 or email academy@academyofmedicine.org

   Summary Of The CCPW

Physician Mental Health Program

This private, rapid access service for physicians in need of psychiatric evaluation is available 24/7 for crisis situations in which a physician would need hospital admission. It also offers a five-day per week outpatient diagnostic assessment and treatment provision or referral. A select group of top psychiatrists and psychologists are available on a daily basis. For more information see the website or for a confidential appointment (either self-referral or referral by a second party) call 513-536-0311.

Untreated mental illness among physicians can pose risks to the quality and safety of patient care, prescribing habits, test ordering, risk of malpractice suits, and patient adherence to treatment recommendations.