Tara Bamat is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an Attending Physician in the Division of General Pediatrics and the Justin Michael Ingerman Center for Palliative Care with a clinical focus of caring for children with medical complexity and life-limiting illnesses and their families. She graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Neuroscience and Behavior, attended the Perelman School of Medicine, and completed her residency, chief residency, and fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at CHOP. She has served as an Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Program since 2015. In this role, Dr. Bamat re-designed and scaled the program’s Wellbeing initiatives by building a program to identify systems drivers of burnout and creating a longitudinal curriculum for residents focused on trauma-informed and emotionally intelligence-based leadership development.  In 2023 she was appointed Associate Designated Institutional Official of Trainee Wellbeing where she continues her work focused on creating systems, program, and individual level burnout interventions for fellow and resident trainees throughout the institution. She is also the Director of Operations for CHOP’s VitalTALK communication program, teaching residents, fellows, APPs, and faculty throughout the hospital foundational communication skills. With her colleague and dear friend, Dr. Nicole Washington, she co-created a novel training program focused on identifying and addressing microaggressions in the clinical learning environment as a means to create a culture of active allyship and they are no co-facilitating a new faculty development program, Human-Centered and Emotionally Agile Leadership (HEAL).  She has been recognized as a humanistic and effective teacher with multiple awards including four David Cornfeld Bedside Teaching Awards, the Joanne Decker MD Memorial Work/Life Mentor Award, the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Award for Humanism, and the Penn School of Medicine’s Blockley-Osler Award. She is now a certified trauma-informed coach through the TELEOS Coaching Development Program with a focus in helping healthcare providers realign with meaning in their work and operationalize their ability to recover from the vicarious trauma inherent to their jobs.