Dr. Amy Danley
Dr. Amy Danley, associate professor in the College of Business, was among co-authors of an article in the October issue of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
She joined four physicians from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Dr. Kandi Wiens, co-director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education Program, in publishing “Burnout and Perceptions of Stigma and Help-Seeking Behavior Among Pediatric Fellows.”
Dr. Danley, who has an extensive background in statistical analysis and research studies, was brought into the project by Dr. Wiens, with whom she had worked previously. “They had already put the study together and needed a stats person,” says Dr. Danley, “so Kandi called me and asked if I would join the study.”
The study attempted to shed light on burnout among what Dr. Danley calls “a very under-researched population” — pediatric fellows. It was conducted via a 48-item inventory distributed to all 288 fellows in CHOP’s pediatric center. Responses came back from 152 and indicated that more than half met the threshold for burnout. They also experience significant workplace-based stigma around seeking help for psychological distress.
The article noted, “Fellows with burnout are more likely than their peers to perceive significant stigma around help-seeking for their distress, making them a particularly at-risk learner population.”
Dr. Danley was a WilmU adjunct for eight years before becoming a full-time faculty member in 2009. Before that, she spent more than 20 years with DuPont and AstraZeneca in the areas of marketing and data analytics.
She has been partnering on research studies for about eight years and overseeing dissertation research for more than a decade. She currently serves as Dissertation Committee chair and committee member for many DBA students.
—Bob Yearick