Safety, Health, and Wellness

Strategic Initiatives

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Safety, Health, and Wellness

Improve safety, health, and wellness by promoting these values in the Katz culture, policies, and operations, ensuring they are integrated into all activities.
Key Objectives:
  • Enable and support a culture and infrastructure that prioritizes safety, health, and wellness.
  • Bolster high-impact support functions for faculty, staff, and students.
Supporting Tactics
  1. Appoint/charge a senior leader to promote safety, health, and wellness initiatives and be accountable for advancing these initiatives.
  2. Improve satisfaction with safety and security across our campuses.
  3. Identify and enhance high-impact support functions for students, faculty, and staff (e.g., counseling, childcare, facilities).
  4. Implement formalized measurement and accountability mechanisms (i.e., annual engagement survey).

Working Group Members
 

Group Champions

  
Dione Cash, MD  Associate Dean, Student Support 
Naomi Rosenberg, MD  Program Director, Narrative Medicine Certificate Program 
Joe Rudy  Assistant Dean, Administration and Education 

Members

Dianne Butera  Director of Student Services 
Mark Denys, RN  Associate Vice Provost for Health and Well-Being, Temple University 
Ashley Garay  Student, Class of 2027 
Christopher Goodwin, MD  Physician, Occupational Medicine  
Shelia Pierson  Student, Class of 2027 
Steve Szybowski  Senior Director, Space, Planning and Management 
Denise Wilhelm  Deputy Director of Operations, Campus Safety Services 
Ellen Gluzman, MD  Director, Medical Student Education, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Temple University Hospital
Jessica Kovach, MD  Chair and Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences