Jon A Courand, M.D.

Education

MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Residency, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston

Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard, Boston

Position

Professor of Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Graduate Medical Education 

Assistant Dean for Well-being, Office of Graduate Medical Education 

Chair, Wellness and Work Life Action Committee 

Member,  Graduate Medical Education Advisory Committee

Medical Director for Pediatric Inpatient Services, University Hospital Sky Tower.

Founding Member of the Division of Inpatient Pediatrics

Dr. Courand served as pediatric residency director for the UT Pediatric Residency Program and now serves as Vice Chair for Graduate Medical Education. He divides his time between Pediatrics and the Office of Graduate Medical Education where he oversees all resident and fellow Wellness Programs for the Institution.   He is actively involved with physician wellness on a local, state and national level.  He is actively involved with the Healer’s Art Program in the Medical School.   

Publications

Transition to Residency Risk Index - Poster and Oral Presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Acreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, San Diego March 2020.  

Transtiion to Residency Risk Index - Learn at ACGME  https://dl.acgme.org/learn/course/sponsoring-institution-idea-exchange/well-being/the-transition-to-residency-risk-index-trri?client=acgme-hub
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ACGME Wellness Manual for Resdiency during the COVID Pandemic - link   https://dl.acgme.org/learn/course/covid-19-well-being-resource-library/o..

Exercise as Medicine, San Antonio Medicine, June pg 17-18. 

GME Action Learning Project: The Wellness Bistro Promotes Engagement between Program Directors and Trainees in Development of their Wellness Curricula.  Poster - AAMC Group on Resident Affairs National Meeting in Orlando, Florida.  May, 2018

Feist, Joe Michael. Dear Doctor, Get well soon. The specter of physician burnout, depression and suicide leads to change in training future doctors. Mission 2018 Feb; 44(1) – Interviewed for Article. 

Courand JA. Approaching Wellness, understanding the challenges and finding solutions to the crisis in physician well-being. San Antonio Medicine 2017 Apr; 79(4):14-17
Presentations:

Dental Advance Keynote  Fostering Resilience in Challenging Times June 2020 

Orthopedic Grand Rounds Fostering Resilience in Challenging Times May 2020

Pediatric Grand Rounds:  Flourishing in Challenging Times, January 2018

Family Practice Grand Rounds: Transcending Burnout July 2018

Neurosurgery Grand Rounds:  Resident and Fellow Wellness, Approaches and Solutions

October 2018

Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds: Taming Burnout, October 2017