Mickey Trockel is the Director of Evidence Based Innovation for the Stanford University School of Medicine WellMD Center.  His development of novel measurement tools has led to growing focus on professional fulfillment as a foundational aim of efforts to promote physician well-being. His scholarship also identifies interpersonal interactions at work as a modifiable core determinate of an organizational culture that cultivates wellness.

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Dr. Trockel serves as the chair of the Physician Wellness Academic Consortium Scientific Board, which is a group of academic medical centers working together to improve physician wellbeing. The consortium sites have adopted the physician wellness assessment system Dr. Trockel and his colleagues have developed, which offers longitudinal data for benchmarking and natural experiment based program evaluation. His previous research included focus on college student health, and evaluation of the efficacy of a national evidence based psychotherapy dissemination effort.  His more recent scholarship has focused on physician wellbeing.  He is particularly interested in developing and demonstrating efficacy of interventions designed to promote healthy workplace social culture—which includes a culture of vulnerability and support to mitigate the stress inherent in clinical practice.