Laura McPeake, MD, MSc.

Laura McPeake, MD, MSc is an associate professor of emergency medicine. She is the Director for Physician Well-being and Organizational Culture for the Department of Emergency Medicine at UVM after serving in a similar role at Warren Alpert School of Brown University until 2020. She attended medical school at SUNY Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn and did her emergency medicine residency at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI. She worked in community emergency medicine in Urbana, IL for 2 years before returning to an academic position at Brown where she developed her work in physician wellness. She has worked nationally within multiple emergency medicine national organizations to forward wellness initiatives on a national and practice group policy level. She completed Master’s Degree in Social and Behavioral Health Sciences at Brown School of Public Health as part of a faculty development grant through the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown to evaluate and implement and evaluate physician wellness programs. Her interest in physician wellness came from over 30 years of experience practicing and teaching meditation. She is particularly interested in applying empathy training and mindfulness/self-awareness techniques as an antidote for burnout and dissatisfaction in emergency medicine and as way to be more present for patients and colleagues. She presents locally and nationally on the topic of physician and emergency medicine wellness including lectures and workshops. She has also taught in the medical school in the preclinical years as both a small group leader and clinical mentor in order