Marking Mental Illness Awareness Week and World Mental Health Awareness Day
Le Well marked Mental Illness Awareness Week and World Mental Health Awareness Day with two events to raise awareness, decrease stigma, and highlight resources to promote and preserve well-being.
Music Meet-Up
School of Medicine students offer music to patients hospitalized at Duke University Hospital via the Musical Rounds program
LE WELL: National Day of Encouragement in Collaboration with DPT Student Affairs
On Friday, September 12, 2025, Le Well and the DPT Student Affairs Office sponsored Day of Encouragement activities in the IPE Building. Activities included coloring and rock painting (with a goal of starting an encouraging rock garden in the Medical Center Library.
Imperfection Session: How does who you are interact with your identity as a healthcare provider?
What happens when self-concept does not fully match up to the robust image of health and wellbeing we feel obligated to portray professionally?
Update on CAPS@Le Well
"I look forward to creating a safe space for the students so that they are free to express themselves." ~ Monica Money
LE WELL: Lunar New Year in Collaboration with DukeMed Chinese
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
Le Well Welcomes Jeanine Bandini to SOM Well-Being Navigator Role
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.
Say the Hard Things: An Evening with Bestselling Author Jessica Lahey in Recognition of Suicide Prevention Month
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
LE WELL: Basics of Massage, 9/4/2024
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.