Continuing conversations from the fall semester, the WVU Health Sciences Chancellor’s Office well-being seminar series will resume Tuesday, Feb. 28 at noon via Zoom with a discussion led by Dr. Clay Marsh focusing on vulnerability and shame. Registration for the virtual event is now open.
Providing “The Essentials,” the series is geared toward WVU faculty and staff and is designed to enable our community to navigate life, create purpose, make connections and increase overall well-being.
This session will include a brief presentation followed by a discussion centered on Brené Brown’s New York Times bestseller “Daring Greatly.” In the book, Brown explores how vulnerability can transform our lives. Brown’s TED Talks titled “The Power of Vulnerability” and “Listening to Shame” will also be discussed.
Marsh will be joined by Gina Baugh, Pharm.D., and Renée Nicholson, M.F.A.
Marsh is chancellor and executive dean for WVU Health Sciences and chief health officer for WVU Medicine. He leads the academic health sciences center of WVU including five schools — Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health — and numerous allied health programs and clinical operations around the state. He is focused on finding statewide solutions for health and well-being, while addressing the most vexing health challenges in West Virginia and throughout the world.
Baugh is a clinical professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and the director of introductory pharmacy practice experiences at the WVU School of Pharmacy and the director of interprofessional education for WVU Health Sciences. Baugh is actively involved in experiential learning at both a local and national level. She has held multiple leadership positions in the Experiential Education Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
Nicholson splits her artistic pursuits between writing and dance with scholarship in narrative medicine. She is director of the Humanities Center and an associate professor for the multi- and interdisciplinary studies programs at WVU. Her books include two collections of poetry, a memoir-in-essays and the anthology “Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine.”
Previous sessions are available on YouTube:
