Happiness in the Workplace

Women in Medicine Month
“Happiness in the Workplace”
Sponsored by NWH Women in Medicine Committee

Special guest: Laurie Santos, PhD, Yale University Professor

Join the Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) Women in Medicine Committee to celebrate Women in Medicine Month for a Zoom discussion on “Happiness in the Workplace” presented by special guest Dr. Laurie Santos.

Dr. Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast. Dr. Santos is an expert on the science of happiness. Her Yale course, Psychology and the Good Life, teaches students how the science of psychology can provide important hints about how to make wiser choices and live a life that’s happier and more fulfilling. Her course recently became Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years, with almost one of our four students at Yale enrolled. Her course has been featured in numerous news outlets, including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, GQ Magazine, Slate and O! Magazine. A winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching, she was recently voted as one of Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10” young minds and was named in Time Magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity.” Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, has over 100 million downloads.

Click here to listen to her podcast, especially if you haven’t heard it yet!