
Kelee® Medicine Workshop
The Importance of Being Centered for Self-Care and Reducing Burnout
Saturday, May 20th, 2023

Kelee meditation can improve your experience as a healthcare provider including:
- Patient Care Challenges
- Administrative Burdens
- Work-Life Balance
Future Workshops: Fall 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:
1) Describe detachment from compartments with understanding the application to medicine and patient care.
2) Develop self-understanding of the importance of being centered via one-pointed stillness of mind to reduce burnout.
3) Apply Kelee meditation to improve patient experience.
4) Distinguish the difference between self-compassion and empathy.
5) Describe the Anatomy of the Kelee.
6) Describe the Basic Principles of the Kelee.
7) Practice Kelee meditation.
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Future workshops in Fall 2023! Check back.
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
1) Application to Patient Care – Sanjeev Bhavnani, MD
2) Application to Self-Care – Ankita Kadakia, MD
3) Application to Cancer Survivorship – 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; D’Arcy Harley, MSW; Ankita Kadakia, MD; Daniel Lee, MD; Adrianne Padilla, PA-C, MS; Louis Sands, MBA; Frank A. Silva, MPH; Ron W. Rathbun; Amy M. Sitapati, MD; Nikki Walsh, MBA
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
UCSD Volunteer Faculty
Infectious Disease Physician
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
D’Arcy Harley, MSW
Board Member
Kelee Foundation
Ankita Kadakia, MD
UCSD Volunteer Faculty
Infectious Disease Physician
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
Freeman Louis Sands Jr., MBA
Lecturer
UC San Diego Rady School of Management
Monique (Nikki) Walsh, MBA
Marketing & Grants
Kelee Foundation
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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 continuing 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, depending on the nature of relationship and the role of the person: 1) divesting the financial relationship, 2) altering the individual’s control over content, and/or 3) validating the planning decisions and/or content through independent peer review. All relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the activity and mitigation strategies and necessary steps for implementation are communicated to individuals prior to them assuming their role in the activity. 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. All relevant financial relationships and the nature of those relationships are noted below. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
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.
AAPA: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society.
Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME. For the purpose of relicensure, the California Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing education for pharmacists coursework which meets the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and is accepted as continuing education by the Medical Board of California.
Psychologists: The California Board of Psychology recognizes and accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for license renewal. Psychologists outside of California should check with their state and local boards to ensure that ACCME accredited activities are acceptable for renewal.
Cultural & Linguistic Competency and Implicit Bias:
Continuing medical education (CME) providers are required by state Assembly Bills 1195 and 241, and the standards created by the California Medical Association (CMA), to include components that address cultural and linguistic competency and implicit bias in CME activities. The planners and presenters of this activity has been asked to provide meaningful consideration of these standards in the selection and presentation of content. Additional information and resources are available on the UC San Diego CME website.