Welcome to the Well-Being Hub for Veterinary Pathologists
This page is dedicated to supporting mental, emotional, and physical health. It includes resources, tips, and strategies to help navigate the pressures of work while maintaining balance and resilience. ACVP is here to support your journey to optimal well-being, whether you’re seeking ways to reduce stress, improve work-life balance, or connect with peers.
As veterinary pathologists, diagnosing and understanding animal diseases can be mentally and emotionally taxing. ACVP recognizes the challenges pathologists face, from long hours and complex cases to the emotional weight of working with animals and their primary care veterinarians. Well-being is just as important as the care you provide.
Past Webinars
Turning a Passion for Pathology into Purposeful Development
All pathologists begin with a passion for the profession and a commitment to scientific development. This program will focus on how to harness the themes that drive each person individually into purposeful work, goals, and directed professional development that goes well beyond any technical discipline. Discussed is what it means to work with purpose, how to develop short, intermediate, and visionary long-term goals, and provide some ideas on how to maintain a development mindset through every career stage.
The Missing Link: Veterinary Wellbeing & Oppression
This webinar is brought to you by the ACVP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.This session explores how one’s well-being is directly impacted by discrimination and oppression, followed by an overview of ways veterinary medicine can promote self and community-care while taking these factors into consideration.
Blood Sugar: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Jenni Berman is a certified physician assistant who specializes in nutritional meal plans and exercise for weight loss, metabolic dysfunction, food sensitivities and autoimmune diseases. Her presentation will focus on identifying insulin resistance symptoms, distinguishing the diagnostic ranges for insulin resistance versus Diabetes Mellitus (Type II), and understanding the co-morbidities associated with insulin resistance.
Elevated Cortisol: How It Impacts Us and What We Can Do About It
This is a wellness-focused webinar discussing cortisol and its impact on our blood sugar, weight, and gut health by Mrs. Jenni Berman. Mrs. Berman is a certified Physician Assistant, Personal Trainer, and Nutrition Specialist who is passionate about treating individuals from the inside out. This presentation will have a functional medicine approach where participants will identify causes of elevated cortisol, learn the effects of elevated cortisol, and discover ways to improve cortisol levels.
Coping More Effectively: What’s In Your Control?
These days, we’re under enormous pressure to respond quickly, work efficiently, and communicate calmly and clearly. But it’s easy for us to lose our composure and react unproductively when a colleague or situation at work or in life stresses us out. When we’re under pressure or in conflict with someone, is there a way to get calm and clear-headed in the moment? Yes! Drawing on current neuroscience research, Leadership Coach Deb Elbaum shares concrete and easy-to-apply strategies in this interactive webinar to help you more quickly navigate stress, bounce back from overwhelm, and feel calmer and more effective.
Following Through on Self Care
Dr. Laurie Stange, PhD, LMFT – if working with wonderful people – professional people with good insight, above average social support, and the financial means that should allow for self-care, why is it then, that this population who have been dealt a ‘good hand’, struggle so much with engaging in healthy behaviors? In this session, strategies are shared for identifying the “homeostatic thoughts” that prevent us from living out some of our most deeply held values that likely include self-care.
