Le Well HPE Upcoming Events

What happens when self-concept does not fully match up to the robust image of health and wellbeing we feel obligated to portray professionally? 

_{"I look forward to creating a safe space for the students so that they are free to express themselves." ~ Monica Money}

Le Well was excited to kick off the Lunar New Year with a celebration replete with boba tea and dumplings along with festive decorations, music, paper-cutting and education courtesy of Joy Xiao (DKU ’23, DPT ’26), Vivian Apple (T ’26) and me

With generous support from the Duke Endowment, Le Well is working to provide identification and intervention with appropriate resources to facilitate thriving of students in SOM HPE programs. We welcome Jeanine Bandini, LCSW, to serve as Le Well’s Well-Being Navigator for the remainder of the project.

^{Scenes from the Town Hall on Well-Being}

Bestselling author Jessica Lahey spoke to a group of students, staff and faculty interested in wellbeing on September 26, 2024, toward the end of National Suicide Prevention Month.  Espousing a “deep disdain for euphemisms,” Lahey spent an hour sharing her own personal experiences – ranging from growing up in the secrecy of a family afflicted by disordered alcohol use to confronting her own alcohol use disorder to challenging implicit and explicit consider

When second-year MD program student Lindsay Riley learned that MD program administrative coordinator Kamara Carpenter not only runs a tight ship with respect to compliance, clinical education and community-building but also is a certified massage therapist with over 20 years of experience, she had an idea. Noting that she had tried in her previous institution to create a massage interest group to receive instruction from local massage therapists, Riley approached Le Well’s Dr.

“Choose happiness.” 

^{Amanda Kahn with a journal at the start of the Happiness Journal session 7/24/2024}

The Office of Le Well, led by Drs.

With instructions, encouragement, and materials generously provided by Dr.