Beth Lown, MD
Chief Medical Officer, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Beth Lown is the Chief Medical Officer of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, a non-profit organization dedicated to sustaining compassion through its programs, education, and advocacy so that all who seek and provide healthcare experience compassion.
As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Lown leads the Schwartz Center’s thought leadership and content development. With her team and collaborators, she creates, implements, improves, and evaluates new initiatives, courses and programs, convenes conferences, and does research on compassion-related topics and measures. She works with national organizations to advocate for resources to support the mental health and wellbeing of the healthcare workforce. She consults and speaks locally, nationally, and internationally about compassion, wellbeing, and social support, and has taught communication and relational skills to health professionals across the continuum of learning for decades.
Her current focus is on supporting healthcare leaders by developing actionable frameworks and programs to enable leadership teams to foster and sustain cultures of compassion and wellbeing in their organizations.
In addition to her work with the Schwartz Center, Dr. Lown is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.