Seminar Series
Title
Workplace Mental Health & Well-Being in Health Professionals: The Development and Testing of a New Instrument
Speaker
Dr. Neil J. MacKinnon, BSc (Pharm), MSc (Pharm), PhD, FCSHP, FNAP, FASHP
Time and Date
12 – 1 pm, March 19, 2025
Location
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Bio
Dr. Neil MacKinnon is President of Central Michigan University, a public research university of 14,500 students. He also holds a tenured faculty appointment as Professor in the College of Medicine.
Prior to his current position, he was Provost at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. He was Dean of the James L Winkle College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati. He was Director of the State Office of Rural Health for Arizona and a Professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. He was a Professor at the Dalhousie University College of Pharmacy for 12 years, with cross-appointments to the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology and the School of Health Administration. He has maintained his appointment as an adjunct faculty of CH&E for the past 25 years.
A pharmacist, Neil has practiced in the hospital and community pharmacy settings. In 2010, he co-authored a national bestselling book in Canada with a family physician called Take As Directed. In 2018, he was inducted into the National Academies of Practice in the USA.
As a university president, Neil maintains an active research program in health policy with over 200 publications and 350 presentations to date. He is working on his fourth book, with the topic being work-life balance.
Neil was born in New Glasgow and grew up in Truro and Bridgewater. He and his wife Leanne have three daughters who all attend the University of Georgia. He is a Dal alum, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy in 1993.
Synopsis
This research seminar will review the development and testing of the Augusta Scale, a new instrument to measure workplace mental health and well-being. The seminar will review the psychometric properties of the instrument, as well as the results of testing it among nearly 600 health professionals in Georgia, a national survey of health professional student preceptors in the USA, and a survey of the members of the National Academies of Practice. In addition to sharing the results specific to workplace mental health and well-being, the results related to loneliness, quality of life, and burnout will be shared.