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ForwardSymposium Session: Burnout and the Brain: Nutrition and Lifestyle Tools for Resilience
Burnout is no longer a buzzword—it’s a professional crisis affecting nearly 40% of dietitians1, while 45% of U.S. physicians reported burnout symptoms in 2023. growing proportion of physicians2. Chronic stress impairs brain function, decision-making, and emotional regulation – factors that directly influence team communication, clinical judgement, and patient safety. In the face of rising demands, how can members of the healthcare team protect their cognitive performance and strengthen collaborative care? This dynamic session blends cutting-edge science with real-world strategies to help healthcare team members build cognitive resilience and support sustainable mental well-being.
This interprofessional session brings together registered dietitians and physicians to explore the science of brain resilience and its implications for sustainable, team-based practice. Maggie Moon, MS, RD, will review emerging research on nutrition and lifestyle behaviors that support brain performance and resilience in healthcare professionals.t. Patricia Bannan, MS, RDN, will present case-based examples illustrating how personalized wellness systems—grounded in nutrition, play, and rest—can help high-performing individuals recover from burnout and reclaim clarity, energy, and joy.
Participants will examine how clinician resilience influences interprofessional communication, shared decision-making, and coordinated patient care. By integrating science-backed strategies for cognitive health with practical applications across disciplines, this session promotes a collaborative approach to sustaining provider well-being – recognizing that resilient clinicians are essential to effective team-based, patient-centered care.
1. Alhaj OA, et al. Prevalence of emotional burnout among dietitians and nutritionists: a systematic review, meta-analysis, meta-regression and a call for action. BMC Psychol. 2024;12:775.
2. Shanafelt TD, et al. Changes in burnout and satisfaction with work-life integration in physicians and the U.S. working population from 2011 to 2023. Mayo Clin Proc. 2025.
This is not a webinar or course for purchase - this is a module for credit claiming for our 2026 Spring Symposium attendees and cannot be purchased or taken by non-attendees. These sessions are exclusive to our Symposium; however, the topics may be revisited in the future in the form of a webinar or self-study course.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will be better able to:
- Describe the effects of burnout and chronic stress on brain function, including cognition, mood regulation, and clinical decision-making, and examine how these may influence patient safety and team communication.
- Identify evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle strategies that support cognitive resilience in healthcare professionals and evaluate how these strategies may reduce the risk of burnout.
- Collaborate with members of the healthcare team to apply brain health–focused tools that enhance emotional well-being, communication, and coordinate decision–making in support of patient-centered team-based care.
Additional Information
Maggie Moon, MS, RD, is an award-winning brain health nutrition expert and best-selling author who promotes person-first diet and lifestyle medicine for cognitive and mental health. She’s the lead author of the neurology chapter in “Krause’s Nutrition,” and the author of a new book, “The MIND Diet - 2nd Edition.” Maggie is a medical reviewer for VeryWellHealth and Health, serves on the ICAA Culinary, Nutrition & Hospitality Network Advisory Board, and works as a strategic advisor to global brands, commodities, government agencies, non-profits, and late-stage start-ups. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Columbia University Teachers College.
Patricia Bannan, MS, RDN, is a nationally recognized registered dietitian nutritionist, holistic wellness coach, and author of the award-winning book From Burnout to Balance. Drawing from her own experience overcoming burnout, Patricia has become a leading voice in helping high-performing professionals reclaim clarity, energy, and joy. With more than 2,000 media appearances—including The TODAY Show, ABC News, and CNN—and contributions to Oprah Magazine, Time, and People, she inspires millions to prioritize well-being through evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle strategies.
In 2024, Patricia founded Wellness Intelligence™, a transformative approach designed to help career-driven women restore balance and prevent burnout. Through executive nutrition coaching, corporate wellness programs, and dynamic presentations, she merges cutting-edge science with personalized systems for sustainable success. Patricia holds a master’s in nutrition communication from Tufts University and completed her dietetic training at the National Institutes of Health.
Disclosures:
Maggie Moon, MS, RD, faculty for this educational event, is a consultant for Centrum. All relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
Patricia Bannan, MS, RDN, and the planners of this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Dietitians:
This activity will also award 1.5 CDR CPEU credits for dietetics. Completion of this RD/DTR profession specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60-minute hour = 1 CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.
Physicians:
Great Valley Publishing designates this live material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Interprofessional:
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.5 IPCE credits for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.