Victoria Grady is an expert in principles and practices of management, organizational change, organizational behavior, and groups and teams. She is working on a sponsored research project, which is the result of an interdisciplinary grant with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to develop a tool to predict physician burnout related to the enormous amount of industry change. Victoria is also writing up a case study related to work with the FAA to establish an agency protocol for implementing organizational change based on a mandate from Congress in 2017. Grady has been featured in FierceHealthcare, Health Leaders Media, and Washington Business Journal.
Healthcare professionals experience high rates of anxiety and burnout, a growing public health concern, particularly in light of projected physician shortages and the COVID-19 pandemic. New research finds that primary care physicians experience more burnout and anxiety than other healthcare professionals, and this could get worse if it's not proactively addressed.
Victoria Grady, an associate professor of management and organizational behavior in the School of Business at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., discussed how employers can help support their returning workers manage change.
This research indicates how much burden primary care physicians are carrying through all these different transformations required by healthcare, even to just remain in business. We are seeing a significant level of stress for these physicians.