Workplace Mental Health

Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Director of Psychiatry at Lyra Health. Dr. Das studied Chemistry and Statistics at Stanford University, completed her Masters in Public Health at Dartmouth College, and her MD/PhD in Community Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a focus on behavioral change in healthcare systems. She has 20 years of experience in healthcare quality and addiction research.

Dr. Das has received several prestigious fellowships and awards including the ASAM Young Investigator Award, SAMHSA/APA Substance Abuse Fellowship, George Ginsberg MD Fellowship, Association of Women Psychiatrists Leadership Fellowship, and the APA Resident Recognition Award. She has been a leader in the Northern California Psychiatric Society since 2012 and is now President. Prior to Lyra, Dr. Das was Director of Addiction Treatment Services at the Palo Alto VA. In addition to her work at Lyra, Dr. Das practices at Stanford School of Medicine where she is a Clinical Assistant Professor.

As the Director of Provider Wellbeing for Christiana Care Health System in Newark, DE, Dr Farley’s focus is on optimizing the experience of providing care for clinicians. She oversees internal initiatives designed to address institutional and individual sources of provider stress and burnout, while fostering overall provider wellbeing, joy, and meaning in work.

Dr Farley completed residency training in emergency medicine in 2005 and fellowship training in administration in 2006. She has previously served as the Assistant Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and was instrumental in establishing the institution’s first freestanding emergency department in 2013, subsequently serving as the medical director for 3 years. In 2014, she developed “Care for the Caregiver” --one of the nation’s earliest and largest peer support programs for health care providers.

Dr Farley is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. She has held several leadership positions within the American College of Emergency Physicians on the state and national level. She has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and has been the principal or co-investigator in 10 grant-funded studies. Dr Farley continues to practice and teach emergency medicine in one of the busiest emergency departments in the country, and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in health care delivery science at Dartmouth College.

Julie Goldstein Grumet, PhD is the Director of the Zero Suicide Institute at EDC. The Zero Suicide Institute provides expert consultation and guidance to health and behavioral health care organizations implementing the Zero Suicide framework for safer suicide care. Zero Suicide focuses on error reduction and patient safety through a robust, comprehensive, bundled approach to suicide care in health and behavioral health systems. Dr. Goldstein Grumet also serves as Director of Health and Behavioral Health Initiatives at the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), a federally funded resource center devoted to advancing the U.S. National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. Both the Zero Suicide Institute and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center are part of the Education Development Center (EDC), a global nonprofit that advances lasting solutions to improve education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity. Her areas of expertise include behavioral health innovation, community and clinical suicide prevention, youth suicide prevention, and school-based mental health prevention and intervention. Dr. Goldstein Grumet received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from The George Washington University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in school mental health at The University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Center for Mental Health Assistance.

Kathleen Herath oversees Nationwide’s Wellbeing and Safety activities for its 30,000 associates across the country. In this role, she is responsible for developing the company’s Integrated Health and Productivity strategy, Occupational Health Services and on-site clinics, Substance Free Workplace, and Associate Safety.

She has 35 years of professional experience in the health care industry. The My Health program at Nationwide has been awarded numerous honors including the IBI Health Innovation Award, the American Heart Association’s Platinum Fit Friendly Employer Award and the prestigious C. Everett Koop National Health Award. In 2014, Nationwide was the first company in the country to receive the US Healthiest Health Lead Gold Medal for improving health outcomes. In 2018, the program won both Top Training Magazine’s Best Practice Award and Optum Health’s Spirit of Innovation Award.

Kathleen has become a frequently requested speaker within the health and productivity industry and has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars on various industry-related topics. She is active in community and national non-profit organizations including Ronald McDonald House Board of Directors and the Great Rivers Strategy Committee for the America Heart Association. She is a past Board Member and President for Equitas Health.