Steering Committee Member

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Residency Wellness
USC Keck School of Medicine

Dr. Fishel is an integrative clinical and health psychologist and the GME Director of Residency Wellness for LAC+USC and Keck Medical Center at the University of Southern California. She is the former co-founder and Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt Medical School. She also co-developed the Distressed Physician Course at Vanderbilt University which incorporates emotional intelligence, narrative medicine and mindfulness and taught a trauma psychotherapy course in the School of Social Work at USC. She is a consultant for integrative health centers and the VA system, developed integrative nature-based retreats for individuals living with chronic pain, and currently teaches in the USC’s master’s program on chronic pain. Dr. Fishel has a unique clinical practice where she incorporates self-compassion, creative arts, mindfulness, movement, depth psychology, spirituality, body-centered practices and the healing medicine of community, music, and the natural world. The guiding principles in her work are authenticity, meaning, and connection and she encourages a deepening relationship with the innate gifts of one’s own soul.