Office of Well-Being

Dr. Lee Biddison

Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Lee Daugherty Biddison is associate professor of medicine in the Johns Hopkins Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and chief wellness officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is associate faculty in the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and a contributing scholar in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Dr. Daugherty Biddison’s research interests include hospital operations, patient safety, critical care disaster response and physician well-being.

In addition to her research responsibilities, Dr. Daugherty Biddison serves as vice chair for clinical affairs for the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She chairs the department’s Clinical Directors Council and co-chairs the Clinical Affairs Planning and Strategy team. She also serves as a member of The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Credentials Committee. Immediately prior to becoming chief wellness officer, she served on the Dean’s Task Force on Joy in Medicine. As part of that work, she co-chaired the Working Group on Culture and Work-Life Balance and served as lead author of the summary report of the task force. She currently represents Johns Hopkins on the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience.

Dr. Daugherty Biddison completed her undergraduate studies in journalism at Washington and Lee University, magna cum laude, and received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, cum laude. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha honor societies. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania and her pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins, where she also earned her master’s degree in public health.

Dr. Carolyn Cumpsty Fowler

Senior Associate Faculty,  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Assistant Professor (Adjunct),  Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

As Executive Director for nursing well-being for JHHS, Dr. Fowler provides strategic leadership for system- and entity-level initiatives to foster a positive practice environment that supports inter-professional well-being and professional fulfillment.

Following training in nursing, midwifery and community health, Dr. Fowler worked clinically and in research while earning a PhD from the University of Cape Town for which she received the Faculty of Health Sciences doctoral research prize. In 1991, she returned to the USA for a postdoctoral fellowship in health policy and management as well as an MPH at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Fowler is a member of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society and the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Over the course of her career, Carolyn has held several roles and faculty positions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, as well as at the Baltimore County Department of Health. From 2012-2017, Dr. Fowler provided consultation and evaluation expertise to the Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) Department of Nursing, before joining JHH full-time as director of the Center for the Practice of Collaborative Leadership. In this position, Carolyn was responsible for the strategic design of programs that supported nursing teams from the front line to the boardroom regarding trust building, question-thinking, personal mastery, shifting from a focus on weaknesses to identifying and strategically leveraging strengths, and building a listening culture.

In April 2020, Carolyn was deployed to the Office of Well-Being, and facilitated well-being focused crisis leadership training with 1700 leaders across the health system. From November 2020, she served as Interim Senior Director for Nursing Well-Being before being appointed to the role in March 2021.

Dr. Fowler is a RISE peer-responder and holds certifications as a Community Resiliency Model (CRM®) teacher; and in advanced positive psychology and brain-based coaching. She is Nationally Board Certified in Health and Wellness Coaching, and is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation.

Dr. Richard Safeer

Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Richard Safeer is the chief medical director of employee health and well-being for Johns Hopkins Medicine. In this role, he leads the Healthy at Hopkins employee health and well-being strategy. He currently sees patients in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Division of Pediatric Cardiology. In addition, he teaches in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Safeer completed his bachelor’s degree in nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University before graduating from medical school at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his residency in family medicine at Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and completed a faculty development fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is certified in clinical lipidology by the National Lipid Association.

Prior to arriving at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Safeer practiced family medicine in Northern Virginia. He was on faculty at The George Washington University, where he served as residency director of the family medicine training program. He was the medical director of an occupational health center in Baltimore and wellness director for the Mid-Atlantic region of the center’s parent company, just before starting at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Baltimore, Maryland, as the medical director of preventive medicine. He currently serves on the board of directors for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He has achieved fellowship status in the American Academy of Family Medicine, the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.