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Dr. Tim Cunningham featured on MAG's Top Docs Show, talks about COVID-19, “interprofessionalism,” wellness and resiliency, and the state of Georgia’s health care workforce

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September 22, 2020- Listen to Tim Cunningham, DrPH., FAAN, RN talk about COVID-19, “interprofessionalism,” wellness and resiliency, and the state of Georgia’s health care workforce.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-medical-association-of-49463353/

Dr. Cunningham is an emergency/trauma nurse and the head of nursing education and professional development at Emory. His doctoral research focused on caregiver wellbeing in humanitarian settings – and that work has “inspired a career of research on resilience and compassion for nurses and physicians.” He has worked at the UVA Health System, the Children’s National Medical Center, and New York Presbyterian/Cornell in both adult and pediatric emergency. It is also worth noting that Dr. Cunningham has worked as a clinician in post-earthquake Haiti, Sierra Leone, during the Ebola outbreak (Partners in Health), and caring for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.