Colliding Emotions in Clinical Medicine: The Dialectic of Anger and Compassion

Tina Runyan, Ph.D., ABPP

Tina Runyan, Ph.D., ABPP is a founder of Tend Health and a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Before starting Tend Health, Tina was the director of Behavioral Science for the Worcester Family Medicine Residency Program, the director of Integrated Behavioral Health for the Family Medicine department, and the director of a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical health psychology in primary care. She started her career as a psychologist in the US Air Force. Since then, Tina has been practicing, teaching, and training behavioral health providers and physicians in models of interprofessional and collaborative primary care. Tina Runyan is a nationally-recognized leader in collaborative care and a Past-President of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA). For the past several years, she has been captivated by research, writing, pilot testing, and presenting on how best to develop and implement education, training, and policies to promote clinician well-being.