Wellness and Mindfulness Lecturer & Author
Recently retired professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist, mindfulness expert, and # 1 best selling author of GAIN Without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals.
AWARD WINNER: IPPY (Health/Medicine)
#1 New Release (Medicine/Psychology)
This proven path toward personal resilience can be implemented by anyone, anywhere, in just a few minutes a day. Increased resilience could save your practice, your patients, your marriage – or even your life. GAIN Without Pain is a four-step process toward happiness. GAIN is an acronym for Gratitude, Acceptance, Intention, and Nonjudgment.
"GAIN Without Pain offers a clear path for self-care that incorporates the most recent science with a heart-centered approach. The GAIN approach offers one the ability to reconnect with why they became a healer and more importantly how to be happy while being a healer.”
James Robert Doty MD
New York Times bestselling author
Listen to Dr. Hammer in various podcasts, talk-shows, and videos discussing more about the GAIN method and how it can help you!
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- Now more than ever before, health care professionals are experiencing high levels of stress.
- Each year, 400 U.S physicians commit suicide – the highest suicide rate of any profession.
- Up to 30% of new nursing graduates leave the profession within two years.
Greg Hammer, MD is a recently retired professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine, pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist, mindfulness expert, and the author of GAIN without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals.
Dr. Hammer has served as the Chair of the Physician Wellness Task Force for the California Society of Anesthesiologists and as a member of the Stanford WellMD initiative. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer on wellness at institutions worldwide and has taught the GAIN method to medical students, residents, fellows, and staff at Stanford University and elsewhere. Though now retired, from clinical practice, Dr. Hammer continues to be very active as a consultant and speaker around the world.
His book, GAIN Without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals focuses on the four pillars of Dr. Hammer’s meditation methodology: Gratitude, Acceptance, Intention, and Non-Judgment to promote overall well-being and harmony between the mind and body. Dr. Hammer has established himself as a guiding light for numerous physicians facing burnout in their respective fields. The GAIN method has been known to strengthen mental strength and resilience regardless of their profession.
