Clinicians in Crisis: Healthcare Workers Are Suffering; TV Stories Can Help

TV can play a role in telling stories that support our healthcare workers

Join us for an online discussion presented by Hollywood, Health & Society in collaboration with the CAA Foundation, Full Story Initiative, ALL IN for Healthcare, and the Writers Guild of America West. 

PHIL MATTINGLY (moderator)—Since January 2021, Phil Mattingly has been CNN’s senior White House correspondent covering the Biden Administration. He joined CNN in December 2015 as a New York-based correspondent. Previously, Mattingly worked at Bloomberg Television in Washington, D.C., where he served as a national political correspondent and as the network’s White House correspondent. 
Prior to joining Bloomberg Television, Mattingly was a print reporter with Bloomberg News, also based in Washington. An award-winning journalist, Mattingly has also covered Congress, economics and finance policy, the Justice Department and Washington’s lobbying industry. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.

DAVID SCHULNER—David Schulner is the creator and showrunner/executive producer of NBC’s hit medical series New Amsterdam, now in its fourth season. He started his television career on Once and Again, and wrote for shows such as Desperate Housewives, Everwood and Tell Me You Love Me. He served as co-executive producer on the shows Kings, Trauma and The Event, and created and exec-produced the medical drama Do No Harm, a modern take on the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story. He also was executive producer and showrunner for the fantasy drama Emerald City.

NATHALIE DOUGÉ, M.D.—Dr. Nathalie Dougé is a board-certified internist affiliated with Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y. She’s among the featured medical staff in the National Geographic documentary The First Wave (Hulu), directed by Matthew Heineman, which chronicles the first several months of the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on patients and healthcare workers at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. She received her medical degree from Penn State University College of Medicine, and completed her residency training at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, N.Y.

EMILY BOUCHER, R.N.—Emily Boucher is a registered nurse in Johnston Memorial Hospital’s COVID-19 intensive care unit in Abingdon, Virginia. She became the first person to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the 21 counties served by her hospital’s parent company, Ballad Health. Boucher graduated with a B.S. in psychology from Columbia International University in South Carolina in 2007. While working as a case manager for people with disabilities, she decided to follow her passions for science and serving others in the field of nursing. She obtained her B.S. in nursing from Lander University in 2016, and a master’s in nursing from Duke University in 2021. She is a 2018 recipient of the DAISY award for compassionate care.

J. COREY FEIST—J. Corey Feist is a healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience, and the co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. He recently served as the chief executive officer of the University of Virginia Physicians Group, the medical group practice of UVA Health comprised of more than 1,200 physicians and advanced practice providers. Feist also holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the UVA Darden School of Business where he recently taught a course titled “Managing in a Pandemic: The Challenge of COVID-19.″