24/09/2025

Thanks to everyone that joined the Basics of Burnout with Dragonfly Mental Health!

Here is the recording of the session if you missed out or would like to send to other colleagues:

The sound quality is poor at the start but is perfect after 4 min.

Q&A was not recorded to maintain confidentiality

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Dr. Mary Huff is Co-Lead of the Dragonfly Mental Health Consulting Working Group.

Her research interests focus on the role of prion-like proteins in the stability and maintenance of long-term memory. She is also a founding member of Stowers Connections, a mental health and wellness committee at the Stowers Institute.

Dr. Huff is passionate about developing and promoting mental health and professional development programs and is currently working toward building more inclusive and supportive training environments in the biomedical sciences. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Newhouse, Kansas City’s oldest domestic violence shelter.

https://dragonflymentalhealth.org/

Basics of Burnout with Dragonfly Mental Health

Burnout is work-related feelings of exhaustion, cynicism, and lack of accomplishment and is highly prevalent in chronically high-stress jobs such as those in academia. The “Basics of Burnout” is a 1-hour seminar and facilitated discussion which defines the core components of burnout, presents evidence-based strategies to address the symptoms, and discusses how to prevent work-related stress.

The seminar includes:

Prevalence and impact of burnout in academic and employee populations
An overview of the burnout cycle and how to break it
Emphasizes what contributes to burnout and how academics can address them