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Wellness

Creating and sustaining a healthy community at EVMS that educates, motivates and empowers all institutional members to engage in wellness and fulfillment.

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Wellness starts here

EVMS Wellness promotes and guides opportunities for the EVMS community to engage in healthy behaviors through strategies that:

Cultivate and support a culture of organizational well-being
Develop individuals' strengths through practices that result in sustained vitality
Encourage and facilitate individual well-being and resilience
Build on individuals' potential, strengths, vitality and adaptability

Elements of wellness

Emotional wellness

Acknowledging your feelings and building resilience in the face of stress and challenges

Environmental wellness

Preserving an interest in making a positive impact on nature and your environment

Financial wellness

Managing expenses to minimize stress

Intellectual wellness

Pursuing a desire to learn and a curiosity to understand new ideas and experiences

Occupational wellness

Learning new skills, addressing challenges and allowing for work-life balance to gain fulfillment from your career

Physical wellness

Developing healthy physical activity and eating habits for personal health

Social wellness

Building relationships, connecting with others and creating time for leisure activities with friends

Spiritual wellness

Making time to explore purpose, inner peace, mindfulness and connectedness

Find out what personal wellness resources are available to you using Health Advocate.

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Meet our team

Serina Neumann, PhD

Serina Neumann, PhD, serves as EVMS' Wellness Officer, in addition to roles as a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a clinical psychologist. As Wellness Officer, she develops and coordinates institution-wide wellness activities focused on the unique needs of faculty, learners and staff, while leading the Institutional Wellness Committee as its chair. In addition, she serves as Director of the Behavioral Medicine Program; Co-Director of the Clinical Psychology Internship; Co-Director of the Brain Stimulation Program; and Chair of the Phoenix Committee.

Matthew Schenk

Matthew Schenk is EVMS Wellness' Co-chair and the Executive Director of Human Resources. Mr. Schenk oversees all areas of Human Resources for the institution and has worked at EVMS since 2005. As co-chair of the Institutional Wellness Committee, he leads efforts surrounding wellness-focused activities, employee benefits and Human Resources' Wellness Works initiative.

Caring for ME - Caring for You: Strategies to Pursue Personal Health and Create a Culture of Wellness
Noon to 2 p.m. Oct. 3, 2019
Facilitator: Catherine Pipas, MD, Dartmouth School of Medicine
Managing Conflict and Professional Boundaries
Noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 4, 2020
Facilitator: Serina Neumann, PhD, Professor, EVMS Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Recognizing Distress in Self and Others
Noon to 1 p.m. May 5, 2020
Facilitator: Serina Neumann, PhD, Professor, EVMS Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Eastern Virginia Medical School
Wellness
P.O. Box 1980
Norfolk, VA 23501