
Kelee® Medicine Workshop
The Importance of Being Centered for Self-Care and Reducing Burnout
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Kelee meditation can improve your experience as a healthcare provider including:
- Patient Care Challenges
- Administrative Burdens
- Work-Life Balance
Future Workshop Dates:
February 25th & May 20th, 2023
Activity Description:
The Kelee Medicine Webinar is a program designed for healthcare providers interested in reducing burnout, improving mental strength and self-compassion, and improving patient care and patient experience. Dr. Daniel Lee, Dr. Amy M. Sitapati, and our faculty will lead participants in lecture, panel discussion, and direct experience of Kelee meditation in small group sessions. Through the practice of Kelee meditation, healthcare providers will build self-compassion, mental strength, and detachment to reduce burnout, improve provider stillness of mind and patient experience of health.
Target Audience:
This course is designed for healthcare providers of all specialties and background, including primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, residents, students, and other healthcare providers wishing to improve self-understanding, self-compassion, and detachment from compartments so that they have an improved experience in the healthcare workplace.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of the activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe detachment from compartments with understanding the application to medicine and patient care.
- Develop self-understanding of the importance of being centered via one-pointed stillness of mind to reduce burnout.
- Apply Kelee meditation to improve patient experience.
- Distinguish the difference between self-compassion and empathy.
- Describe the Anatomy of the Kelee.
- Describe the Basic Principles of the Kelee.
- Practice Kelee meditation.
Location:
Live Internet Activity
Registration Information:
Workshop Fee: $100
Staff Discounted Fee: $50
If you have other considerations, please contact Nikki Walsh, nwalsh@thekelee.org.
The last day to register for the workshop is Wednesday, October 19th, midnight (Pacific).
Cancellation Policy: A full refund will be allowed if requested by Friday, October 21st, 2022, midnight (Pacific). No refunds will be allowed after this date. In the unlikely event that this program is cancelled, the Kelee Foundation is responsible only for a full refund of the registration fee. To request a refund, email nwalsh@thekelee.org.
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You may register for the upcoming workshop here:
Workshop Date: October 22, 2022
Program Agenda

8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Opening Welcome from Kelee Foundation
Nikki Walsh, MBA
8:45 – 10:00 a.m.
Keynote Talk: How to Find your Center with Kelee Meditation
Daniel Lee, MD
10:00 – 10:10 a.m.
Break
10:10 – 11:40 a.m.
Clinician Panel: Healthcare Provider Application of Kelee Medicine
Sanjeev Bhavnani, MD
Ankita Kadakia, MD
Amy M. Sitapati, MD
11:40 – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch
12:30 – 1:50 p.m.
Breakout Sessions: Small Groups to Perform Kelee Meditation with Q&A
Sanjeev Bhavnani, MD, Ankita Kadakia, MD, Daniel Lee, MD, Ron W. Rathbun, Frank A. Silva, MPH, Amy Sitapati, MD
1:50 – 2:00 p.m.
Break
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Conversation on “The Essence of Empathy and Compassion as it Relates to the Practice of Medicine”
Ron W. Rathbun and Daniel Lee, MD
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Nikki Walsh, MBA
Workshop questions? Contact Workshop Coordinator: Nikki Walsh, nwalsh@thekelee.org
Planning Team
Course Directors
Amy M. Sitapati, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Div. General Internal Medicine and Div. Biomedical Informatics
Chief Medical Information Officer, Population Health
Primary Care Internist, La Jolla Internal Medicine
UC San Diego Health
Daniel Lee, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Owen Clinic
Clinical Director, Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC) HIV Learning Network
Director, Owen Lipid/Lipodystrophy Clinic
UC San Diego Health
Planning Committee
Sanjeev Bhavnani, MD
Division of Cardiology
Scripps Clinic
Ankita Kadakia, MD
Deputy Public Health Officer, Public Health Services
County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency
Daniel Lee, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Owen Clinic
Clinical Director, Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC) HIV Learning Network
Director, Owen Lipid/Lipodystrophy Clinic
UC San Diego Health
Moira Mar-Tang, MPH, CHES®
Program Manager, Pacific AIDS Education and
Training Center (PAETC)
Owen Clinic
UC San Diego Health
Ron W. Rathbun
Founder of the Kelee® and Kelee Meditation
President and Founder of Kelee Foundation
Freeman Louis Sands Jr., MBA
Lecturer
UC San Diego Rady School of Management
Frank A. Silva, MPH
Associate Vice Chancellor
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
UC San Diego
Amy M. Sitapati, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Div. General Internal Medicine and Div. Biomedical Informatics
Chief Medical Information Officer, Population Health
Primary Care Internist, La Jolla Internal Medicine
UC San Diego Health
Monique (Nikki) Walsh, MBA
Marketing & Grants
Kelee Foundation
Course Faculty
UC San Diego Faculty:
Daniel Lee, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Owen Clinic
Clinical Director, Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC) HIV Learning Network
Director, Owen Lipid/Lipodystrophy Clinic
UC San Diego Health
Frank A. Silva, MPH
Associate Vice Chancellor
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
UC San Diego
Amy M. Sitapati, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Div. General Internal Medicine and Div. Biomedical Informatics
Chief Medical Information Officer, Population Health
Primary Care Internist, La Jolla Internal Medicine
UC San Diego Health
Visiting Faculty:
Sanjeev Bhavnani, MD
Division of Cardiology
Scripps Clinic
Ankita Kadakia, MD
Deputy Public Health Officer, Public Health Services
County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency
Adrianne Padilla, PA-C, MS
Senior District Manager, Oncology
Janssen Biotech, Inc.
Ron W. Rathbun
Founder of the Kelee® and Kelee Meditation
President and Founder of Kelee Foundation
Disclosure Statement:
It is the policy of University of California San Diego Continuing Medical Education to ensure that the content of accredited continuing education and related materials is accurate, balanced, objective, and scientifically justified. Education must be free of the influence or control of ineligible companies, and protect learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. All persons in a position to control the content of accredited education must disclose all financial relationships held with ineligible companies, prior to assuming a role in the activity. Those relationships deemed relevant to the education, are mitigated prior to the activity through one of the following strategies: 1) divesting the financial relationship, 2) altering the individual’s control over content, and/or 3) validating the content through independent peer review. Persons who refuse or fail to disclose are disqualified from participating in the activity. Activities are evaluated by participants and peer reviewers to determine if the content was free of bias and met acceptable scientific standards. This information is considered in future activity planning.
Accreditation Statement:
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement:
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine designates this Live Internet Activity for a maximum of 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Cultural and Linguistic Competency:
This activity is in compliance with California Assembly Bill 1195 which requires continuing medical education activities with patient care components to include curriculum in the subjects of cultural and linguistic competency. Cultural competency is defined as a set of integrated attitudes, knowledge, and skills that enables health care professionals or organizations to care effectively for patients from diverse cultures, groups, and communities. Linguistic competency is defined as the ability of a physician or surgeon to provide patients who do not speak English or who have limited ability to speak English, direct communication in the patient’s primary language. Cultural and linguistic competency was incorporated into the planning of this activity. Additional resources can be found on the UC San Diego CME website (cme.ucsd.edu).