Steering Committee Member

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Residency Wellness
USC/LA General Medical Center, Keck School of Medicine

Dr. Fishel is an integrative clinical and health psychologist and the GME Director of Residency Wellness for USC/LA General at the University of Southern California. She is the former co-founder and CO-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, is the co-director of the LEAPS integrative medicine leadership yearly intensive for trainees, 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.