Description
September 15, 2026 | 1-2pm | Virtual via Zoom | $15 (or FREE to CCSME members [members, use your coupon code] – Become a member HERE)
Part 4 in CCSME’s series “From Policy to Practice: The Leadership in Action Series (Operationalizing Culture, Safety, and Sustainability in Healthcare)”. Join us for the rest of the series:
• June 26: Advancing Policy and Practice in Behavioral Healthcare: Designing Systems That Support Shared Decision-Making
• July 21: Leading Under Pressure: How Leadership Behavior Shapes System Performance
• August 18: Culture Repair: Rebuilding Trust, Safety, and Accountability
Description:
Burnout interventions often focus on individual resilience while overlooking the operational realities contributing to chronic stress and workforce exhaustion. This session introduces principles of lifestyle medicine and stress management through a healthcare leadership lens, emphasizing sustainable practices that support leader wellbeing, workforce performance, and long-term organizational health. Participants will explore evidence-informed approaches to stress regulation, recovery, and sustainable leadership in high-demand environments.
Objectives:
1. Describe the relationship between chronic stress, workforce wellbeing, and organizational performance in healthcare settings.
2. Identify evidence-informed lifestyle medicine and stress management strategies that support leadership sustainability and workforce health.
3. Incorporate practical approaches to stress regulation and recovery into leadership practices and workplace culture initiatives.
Presenter:
Cristina Oliveri, MHA, is a healthcare leader with 15+ years of experience across Federally Qualified Health Centers, hospital systems, and community-based organizations. She is currently serving as Chief Operating Officer of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Maine, overseeing primary care, laboratory, dental, behavioral health, quality, compliance, and risk programs. Her work centers on leadership psychology within complex healthcare systems specifically how power, chronic stress, trauma history, and role ambiguity shape organizational culture. She is particularly interested in how reform efforts succeed or fail based on leadership behavior, nervous system activation, and the degree of psychological safety present within teams. In addition to systems reform, she incorporates evidence-informed lifestyle medicine and stress regulation principles as part of leadership sustainability. Organizational resilience requires leaders who understand both structural design and physiological stress response.
Contact hours:
1 contact hours for physicians. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
1 contact hours for nurses. CCSME is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Provider #4002961
1 contact hour for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals
1 category I contact hour for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contact hours for Alcohol and Drug Counselors. This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider. NAADAC Provider #324712. CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
1 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
