MEET THE COACHES

Medical Specialty: Infectious Diseases

Focus: Indian Professional/General

Each woman physician, resident, and student deserves to experience coaching. Empowered women physicians foster healing, for themselves and for their communities. The effects of coaching and empowering of women physicians ripple out to everyone. It’s actually just wrong that women physicians aren’t all feeling their empowerment, and I feel called to let them know they are, inherently, powerful and inspiring.

Medical Specialty: OB/GYN

Focus: Burnout, transition, career, & communication

I am retired from OB/GYN practice now after years of feeling isolated and burned out. I know that a physician coach would have made a huge difference in my career fulfillment and longevity. Women physicians are the most resilient people I know. They are brilliant and hard workers. However, 40% are part-time or have left practice altogether by 6 years out of residency. This is crazy! Coaching has been shown to decrease burnout and increase fulfillment and it is an honor to be in the position to support women in medicine. As a co-founder of Physician Coaching Alliance and Physician Coach Support, I am in the physician coaching space and find it deeply satisfying.

Medical Specialty: Psychiatry

Focus: Career transitions, leadership

Early in her career, Dr. Tracy Asamoah experienced how the lack of formal mentoring, leadership development, and working in a professional landscape not designed to support her career success created a series of obstacles. Hoping to help other women physicians avoid some of the roadblocks that she encountered, Dr. Asamoah embarked on her journey as a Career and Leadership Coach. Dr. Asamoah’s dedication to helping women physicians and other professionals navigate career transitions and develop as emerging leaders grew from her desire to see women professional grow and thrive.

Dr. Tracy Asamoah is an ACC level, ICF-credentialed Career and Leadership Coach, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and writer. Based in Austin, TX, she received her initial leadership coach certification through Coach Approach Ministries. She followed up with additional training in the Brain=Body program focusing on embodied awareness and Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence. Dr. Asamoah’s medical training began at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by residency and fellowship at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, specializing in general psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry. With over two decades of experience, Dr. Asamoah honed her skills in various clinical settings, including inpatient psychiatric facilities, residential treatment centers, and community-based outpatient clinics.

Dr. Asamoah’s commitment to professional development extends to her collaboration with organizations such as the American Medical Women’s Association, Physician Coaching Alliance, StrongLead consulting firm, RechargedMD, Spiro Coaching Institute and the Academy of Creative Coaching. Through these partnerships, she not only shares her coaching expertise but also contributes to teaching and mentoring aspiring professionals.

Her passion for knowledge dissemination extends beyond coaching, as Dr. Asamoah frequently engages in speaking engagements and writing on topics related to coaching and mental health. Her insights and experiences have made a lasting impact on the medical community.

When she’s not immersed in her professional pursuits, Dr. Asamoah enjoys hanging out with her husband, two daughters, and their pet bunny, Mylo, traveling and interior design.

Medical Specialty(ies): Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine

Coaching Focus: Mindfulness/Meditation Sessions, Art, Writing, & Creativity Workshops

For many years I lived a life that wasn’t right for me because I thought happiness would come from getting the approval of others. Realizing this path of inauthenticity only led to emptiness, I left my clinical practice in 2014 to follow my heart. I became a certified life coach, yoga-meditation teacher, and professional artist, and have been coaching women as my professional focus ever since.. In my coaching practice, my aim is to help women physicians find their way to their own path of authenticity so they can have the fulfillment each human deserves.

Medical Specialty: Anesthesiology (Pediatric Cardiac)

Focus: Work-life Integration, Transition, and Leadership

I’ve combined an academic career and parenthood (I have 3 daughters) and know well the personal and professional challenges that exist for women physicians. Coaching has been the most satisfying endeavor of my career (and I loved peds cardiac a lot!) It helped me survive and thrive after burnout, reframing my mindset and realizing that the issues I faced in medicine were systemic, not personal, and that I could be part of positive change for others. Coaching lets us integrate and develop our potential in both our personal and professional lives. I especially like coaching women at times of personal and/or professional transition. Though we usually don’t give ourselves enough credit, we are all leaders, and the intentional development of a leadership identity is another of my coaching interests. I’m also certified in Mindfulness Meditation and Trauma informed Coaching. In addition to AMWA, I’m a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Professional Development, Physician Well-being and Mentoring Committees and serve as an Advisory Board member, coach, and Well-being Chair for the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia’s Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI).

Medical Specialty: Family Medicine

Focus: Academic Medicine – trainees and faculty

Tonya L Caylor, MD, FAAFP is a family physician and an academic physician coach in Anchorage, Alaska with 24 years of clinical and academic practice. She is a certified coach who has earned her ICF credential with additional training in Trauma Mitigation. She owns and runs Joy in Family Medicine Coaching Services®, which partners with family medicine residency programs to help residents and faculty to enjoy all of life and thrive in their chosen careers.

Medical Specialty: Consulting, Training, Facilitation

Focus: Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching for Physicians

Dr. Denee Choice, MD, MMM is a double board-certified MD, a seasoned health and wellness industry executive, program design consultant for healthcare organizations, author, speaker, and certified professional coach. Denee helps busy, successful, executives and physician leaders curate their ideal career and personal life without overwork, over-stress, or burnout through 1:1 and group coaching.

“I want to ease the path to leadership for women physicians. I believe all women physicians are leaders but many don’t take on formal leadership roles because either (1) they don’t resonate with the stereotypical masculine leadership style, or (2) have been passed over for formal leadership opportunities, often for less qualified male colleagues. I love to help emerging leaders find their voice of influence, and help seasoned leaders amplify their impact.”

Medical Specialties: Emergency Medicine (primary), Integrative Medicine

Focus: Physician Burnout/Moral Injury

Nothing is more important to me than helping my peers. Over the course of time working in busy ERs for  more than 15 years, I eventually found myself feeling stuck and not enjoying medicine. I even started having psychosomatic hives while at work at one point. I harshly criticized myself anytime there was a bad outcome and obsessively thought about what I might have missed during my shifts. My marriage nearly imploded at one point, and I struggled with feeling like I had so many responsibilities but was failing at them all. Then I found coaching, and it’s made such a huge difference for me that I knew I had to share this with others. To me, making the healer a priority makes the most sense. Teaching our fellow women physicians/residents/medical students to put their own oxygen mask on first is paramount. And it’s not because we aren’t resilient. It’s the opposite, in my opinion. Few can do what we do. So why would high powered business executives and professional athletes be the only ones to benefit from mindset coaching? There is no one that deserves these tools more than the smart, altruistic, wonderful women physicians/residents/medical students who keep showing up despite it all to help others. They’re my people, and I have a passion for working with them. My clients prefer to talk with someone who has been there. And I’ve been there. I see myself in them. I surely wish I had coaching earlier in my career. I see now the thought errors I had, and I’d love to use my experiences to help others. It serves a purpose in that way. We study 10s of 1000s of hours on how to care for others, but now it is time to learn how to care care of ourselves.

Medical Specialty: General Pediatrics, Early Childhood

Focus: General, Leadership Development

Elaine Donoghue is an academic general pediatrician who graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at Emory University.  She has been practicing and teaching pediatrics for over 30 years and served as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and DIO at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania.

Elaine has a long-standing interest in early childhood that began while she was providing child protection and foster care consultation in New Jersey in the 1990s.   She has served in leadership positions in American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) early childhood entities from 2005-2018 and was lead author of the AAP policy statement in Quality Early Childhood Education in 2017.  Her experiences with children with special health care needs led her to co-author Managing Chronic Health Needs in Child Care and Schools with Dr. Colleen Kraft.    She served on the Executive Committees of both the NJ and PA chapters of the AAP.  She was a CATCH facilitator (small grants given through the AAP) in NJ for 5 years and a CATCH co-facilitator for Florida for two years.  Elaine loves to start new programs and loves to distribute seed money to others who share that passion.

Elaine served as a coach for a USF medical student program for 4 years, which greatly influenced her approach to leadership development.  She moved to Gainesville, Florida in early 2019 and is currently running a leadership development course for residents and fellows.  She has also coached early career pediatricians through the AAP YPLA program.  She became an ICF certified coach in 2022.

Elaine and her husband, who is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, have raised two daughters from prenatal ultrasound to college graduation and recent motherhood themselves!  She would be delighted to share pictures of her new grandchildren in Mexico and Atlanta. When not doing these other endeavors, Elaine likes to kayak, read and travel.

Medical Specialty(ies): OB/GYN, Lifestyle Medicine

Coaching Focus:  Women’s Leadership and well being

After 28 years of clinical practice, I now help clients to improve their lifestyle and feel better about themselves through coaching. Building awareness and self-confidence that we, as women, are enough and can build this workforce of healthcare. We need the executive presence of women physicians. Now is the time to give you support in your journey.

Medical Specialty(ies): Emergency Med Lifestyle Med; Trauma Informed Coaching

Coaching Areas of Focus: Pre Retirement transition; burnout; legacy; wellness; trauma informed

As a graduate of a women’s college and mother of two daughters, I am keenly aware of the advantages of having women peers and women mentors and educators. I strongly believe in that level of support and advocacy to lead ethically and powerfully. I also know that we as mothers and partners and physicians have given it our all to the point of mental, physical, and spiritual exhaustion and am offering myself as a resource to help other professional women in their journey to living a healthy and fulfilled life however they choose.

Focus: Leadership, Communucation, Resilience, Balance, Wellness, Infertility

I have been involved in AMWA ELEVATE for the past few years and have had women physicians in my coaching programs, so I am deeply committed to empowering women to live fully in their unique purpose and fulfill their life vision.

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Medical Specialty: Interventional Radiology

Focus: Leadership Development

Aneesa S. Majid, MD, MBA, FSIR, CPE is an experienced physician leader, executive coach, and entrepreneur, with nearly 20 years of clinical and business experience. Dr. Majid is a board-certified interventional radiologist, and previously was a partner in one of the longstanding IR/DR practices in Dallas, TX. While with this practice, Dr. Majid served as Chairperson of the radiology departments at Methodist Dallas and Methodist Charlton Hospitals. In 2014, she founded her own IR practice, MTVIR, PLLC, with locations in Dallas and west Texas. In 2013, Dr. Majid became a founder of ZipData, INC; a healthcare IT interoperability company currently focused on removing the e-fax from medical communication and improving data transfer. She assumed the role for CEO in September, 2020. ZipData is currently undergoing commercialization in the US market.

Dr. Majid received her medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine and completed her post-graduate training in surgery and radiology at VCU/Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Majid completed her fellowship training in vascular and interventional radiology at RUSH University Medical Center.

In 2017, Dr. Majid earned an MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management, and focuses on leadership and organizations, operations management, and marketing strategy.
Dr. Majid has held numerous positions in the field of radiology, where she has expanded on both her diagnostic and interventional skills. Additionally, Dr. Majid has spearheaded multiple consultative roles, aiding various facilities in the progression and expansion of their radiology service line offerings. She has been responsible for collaborating with hospital leadership and physicians, participated in hiring decisions, and implemented new department procedures geared toward quality assurance and improved patient care outcomes.

Dr. Majid became a certified executive coach through the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching and the Physician Coaching both part of the International Coaching Federation. Her focus is on leadership development and the effect on culture in healthcare organizations and the importance of civility and community in the workplace.

Dr. Majid has held numerous positions in the field of radiology, where she has expanded on both her diagnostic and interventional skills. Additionally, Dr. Majid has spearheaded multiple consultative roles, aiding various facilities in the progression and expansion of their radiology service line offerings. She has been responsible for collaborating with hospital leadership and physicians, participated in hiring decisions, and implemented new department procedures geared toward quality assurance and improved patient care outcomes.

Medical Specialty: Internal Medicine

Coaching Focus: Leadership, Designing your Career, Making things Easier at Work, Time Management, Work-Life Integration

Dr. Marion McCrary is a primary care internal medicine physician in North Carolina. She is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach and serves as the Associate Director of the GME Coaching program at her institution. In addition to her day jobs, she is a state and national leader with the American College of Physicians (ACP). She is also honored to be a coach and curriculum developer for the AMWA’s ELEVATE and EVOLVE leadership programs for female physicians and residents. She likes to help physicians set themselves up for success in both their careers and personal lives.

Mindy Gillis McManus Executive Coaching is about developing a creative partnership with clients capitalizing on their potential igniting creativity, leadership, passion, and drive. Mindy Gillis McManus has worked in Human Resources (HR) in Leadership and Organization Development for 13+ years in at an Academic Healthcare Organization and has a Master’s in Education with a focus on Leadership and Organization Development. Currently, she is focusing on executive coaching, strategy development, succession management, and 360-Degree/other Assessments. Through executive coaching, she has coached within many different levels of executive leadership roles for the past 8+ years. Coach and consult physician clients to improve their leadership capabilities to achieve professional and organizational goals. Excellent speaking and facilitation skills and has delivered hundreds of courses/workshops with individuals, teams, and organizations with topics around emotional intelligence, leadership effectiveness, and effective communication.

Mindy is certified in Crucial Conversations, Everything DiSC, EQI 2.0, EQI2.0 360, Change Management, and Real Colors. She has a vast array of educational leadership capabilities that include coaching, mentoring, consulting, facilitation, speaking, program design, program implementation, and organization development (OD).

Helping people harness their greatness through various coaching topics:

• Leadership effectiveness
• Emotional Intelligence and interpersonal intelligence
• Communication, including holding difficult conversations
• Resiliency/Burnout
• Transitions in leadership roles
• Time and prioritization management
• Career development
• Agile/Adaptability quotient

Medical Specialty: Obstetrics & Gynecology

Focus: Leadership Development, Executive Coaching from the C-suite to Department Physician Leaders

Dr. Rachel Miller is a board-certified OB/GYN, ICF: ACC (Associate Certified Coach), and BCC: Board Certified Coach.

I’m drawn to coaching female physicians due to the unique challenges they face in a historically male-dominated medical field. My executive coaching company was born from recognizing healthcare’s need for impactful leadership. I believe that by honing leadership skills, we can enhance communication and foster innovation in medicine. Investing in women in this realm not only challenges biases but brings fresh, essential perspectives. As newer generations enter medicine, it’s vital they see strong female leaders, guiding and inspiring their paths. My commitment is deep-rooted: I aim to empower these women, believing they hold the key to reshaping healthcare for the better. Through focused mentorship, I envision a more inclusive, dynamic medical community.

Specialty: Coaching

Focus: ELEVATE 1on1, Leadership. Emotional intelligence. Embodiment

Fabienne Moore helps leaders reconnect to their motivation and confidence so that they can think more clearly and solve problems more creatively. A Neuroleadership Institute-trained coach, she combines cutting edge neuroscience with keen somatic awareness to set the stage for powerful shifts that last well beyond the coaching engagement. Grounded in the science of how adults learn, change and are motivated, she guides clients into the wisdom of their distributed nervous system, reintegrating IQ with EQ, mind with body. Tapping into this integrated intelligence generates powerful insights. And her coaching process harnesses that “Aha!” energy into high-impact action. Fabienne believes that coaching is only effective when the client owns their own insights and solutions. She holds the space for clients to reflect and make those new discoveries with warmth, incisive questions, and humor. Her clients consistently feel refreshed and inspired after a session with her.

A physician with clinical training in general surgery, Fabienne has worked in health care consulting and physician leader development for nearly two decades, as a leader (Constella Group, The Advisory Board Company) and executive (Sound Physicians). She has advised hospital and health system boards on strategy and worked with physician leaders at all career stages. She understands the unique challenges that physician leaders face—being tapped to lead based on your clinical acumen, leading a team of peers, having responsibility without authority—and has successfully supported many leaders through those challenges. A New Yorker by birth (and at heart), Fabienne now happily makes her home in Atlanta, GA.

Focus: Leadership, Career Advancement, Communication and Resilience.

As a physician, you’ve undoubtedly had ideas about what needs to change yet feel frustrated. Let’s change that! Women in medicine are key to improving our challenged healthcare system. In fact, when women lead in healthcare, everyone wins.

A PCC level, ICF-credentialed, Certified Physician Leadership Coach™ my mission is to improve healthcare through empowering women. For the last 20 years, I’ve coached hundreds of top-level female healthcare professionals to overcome barriers and be confident to take action, even in the face of resistance.

After earning a master’s degree in health sciences administration, I owned and operated a successful home infusion pharmacy where for 18 years and led interdisciplinary clinical teams. I started my private coaching practice in 2002 and for 6 years was an owner/faculty for Invite Change, a coaching school certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

My mission of empowering women includes mentoring, and I am a contributor to Medical Economics, American Association of Physician Leaders, American Collage of Health Executives and write articles for national healthcare industry publications on subjects related to resilient healthcare leadership.

A member of AMWA’s Coaching Committee, I also coach and develop curriculum for ELEVATE and EVOLVE leadership programs for female physicians.

As successful as you are, you will be surprised at the barriers that hold you back. Click HERE to take my leadership barrier survey. It takes less than 3 minutes, and you’ll get immediate, personalized feedback to handle your challenges.

Medical Specialty: Anesthesiology

Focus: General Life Coaching for High Achieving Women

I have been that woman in the high stress environment… juggling all the hats as physician, mom, spouse… Working through overcoming my perfectionism, self-doubt, and people-pleasing. Feeling like I’m on survival mode so much of the time. Feeling alone. Feeling burned out. Checking off all the boxes of what a successful and happy life should look like, and yet still feeling like something is missing. I had tried to DIY my personal development. I read the self-help books, listened to podcasts, tried meditation and yoga. I understood what I needed to do intellectually. But it wasn’t until I personally experienced coaching that I got the guidance and traction to overcome my old thought patterns and reactive habits, and my first session was exactly the shift that I needed. It forever changed the trajectory of my life and my relationships at work, at home, and with myself. The thing is, we work so hard to get where we are. Physician women, You matter. And so I help other high achieving women stress less, thrive more, and perform at the highest version of themselves so they can create a life that actually FEELS as good as it looks on paper.

Medical Specialty(ies): Pediatrician, Lifestyle Physician

Coaching Focus: Live a life you don’t need a vacation from. Certified Life and Weight Coach, Certified Health and Well-Being Coach, Certified NLP Practitioner

Every physician needs a coach. Women in medicine have been taught to assimilate to a man’s world for far too many years. It’s now time to step into our power, recognize our strengths and mobilize them to create the practice of medicine that fuels us. I am drawn to coach women throughout the training continuum to share the tools that have been life-changing for me in my practice. My personal struggles with imposter phenomenon, self-doubt and perfectionism went unchecked for years. What I thought was not being a good enough doctor/wife/mother turned out to be burnout. Through coaching I changed my relationships with family, then my body, and then career. I now love my medical practice, as it is on my terms, and am drawn to coach other women to help them discover what is possible for their lives.

Medical Specialty: Emergency Medicine/Ultrasound

Focus: I help professional women create strategic plans to define and achieve their goals without compromising themselves or families

Medical Specialty: Pediatric Surgery

Coaching Focus: Leadership, Academic medicine, Residents, Medical students

As an academic pediatric surgeon working with women physicians, residents, and medical students the most important component of their success is self-belief.  I enjoy introducing coaching to help women in medicine understand and clear the blocks for whatever you want to accomplish. By far, this is the most rewarding thing I do.

Specialty:

Radiology

Diagnostics

Speaking Topics:

Burnout

Physician Mental Wellness

Biosketch:

Robyn Tiger is a proud “burnout thriver”! Dr. Tiger experienced many physical, emotional, and psychological symptoms, including suicidal ideation over a decade ago that were misdiagnosed. She took many pills, had lots of imaging and blood tests (all negative) and went for therapy. Then she took control of her life by learning how to successfully relieve her symptoms, which were caused by chronic stress. Dr. Tiger is deeply passionate about teaching women in medicine how you too can both prevent and relieve symptoms of chronic stress and burnout so you can  live your happiest, healthiest lives!

Medical Specialty: Otolaryngology

Focus: I coach physicians, executives and other high achievers on how to create a new life following divorce and how to parent special needs children intentionally

I am so enthusiastic about helping others through the process that is helping me become my true self!  I want to give back!

Medical Specialty: OB/GYN

Focus: General Life coaching, Physicians, Mind-Body; also am coaching in AMWA EVOLVE this year

As physicians, we inherently treat others with kindness and compassion. We are trained and further conditioned to do so. But often, we forget – or worse – never learn – how to show ourselves compassion and kindness. And our medical training omitted this essential lesson.

I am a physician coach who has experienced the power of coaching first hand. Recognizing how this modality would have served me in past chapters of my life, I have chosen to share my empathic skills and the gift of coaching with others. The essence of my work is to honor our common humanity, lead with love, and coach other physicians wherever they are along their journey in medicine – to learn to love the ordinary, welcome the extraordinary and to embrace their unique opportunity to profoundly impact this world in whatever ways they choose.

Reconnect with your own humanity, learn to cultivate kindness and self-compassion through coaching. Come join me where intellect meets intuition.

Focus: Relationships

Medical Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Focus: Burnout, Work/Life Balance, Job Satisfaction, Transitions

Dr. Wilson has been practicing Emergency Medicine since 1994, after attending Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, and completing her residency at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. She retired from clinical practice in June 2019. Wanting to maintain involvement in Medicine, Dr. Wilson became a certified physician peer coach, now providing guidance and support to healthcare professionals. Her 25 years as a hospital-based, board certified physician has afforded great insight into the challenges of medicine. Having seen the evolution of medical practice, and witnessing firsthand how these changes have impacted her colleagues, Dr. Wilson sees coaching as an important tool to address issues of job satisfaction, work/life balance, and burnout among physicians. Dr. Wilson is using “mental fitness” as the framework for her coaching, and helps her clients to shift mindset from negative to positive. She also has a special interest in Clinician Distress Syndrome (AKA Second Victim Syndrome), and offers peer support for those suffering acute, traumatic events. She can be reached at her website, SJWprofessionalcoaching.com.