Book Dr. Lau for a speaking engagement or podcast

You are part of a healthcare group or medical educational establishment or you have a podcast for clinicians. You are interested in training your students, colleagues or audience in inner practices that make them healthier, happier and more engaged.

You want to help move them beyond the superficial elements of patient satisfaction to a place where they can show up for their patients with authenticity and true compassion.

"Dr. Lau's Grand Rounds was incredibly impactful for faculty, housestaff, staff, and students alike. She integrated her own teachings rooted in Eastern philosophies with evidence-based strategies to reframe finding meaning, joy, and purpose in our daily work while caring for both our patients and ourselves. Because of her deep expertise as both an emergency medicine physician and Zen priest, her message was received and resonated in a manner that other talks on similar subject matter simply can not."

Selin Tuysuzoglu Sagalowsky, MD, MPH
Vice Chair for Education, Scholarship, and Academic Development
Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program
Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine 
NYU Grossman School of Medicine 

*****

"In the context of this pandemic, the chaotic state of the world, and the enormous pressures on our surgical trainees, our faculty have found the sessions that Dr. Wendy Lau provides to be incredibly helpful. The content is directed at specific aspects of our contextual differences, filled with logic and warmth, and overwhelmingly valuable.
Some comments from our residents include: 
-'I thought both sessions were great. We need time to decompress and to focus on the present by meditating but then it was really nice to be able to share things that we are too busy to share or we suppress.'
-'I enjoyed the sitting practice and unified us as a group. I think the council format for discussion is necessary.'
-'Helpful sharing session allowing team to vent/decompress . Perhaps more time dedicated to this portion to allow responses/reactions to people’s comments.'
-'Enjoyed both practices. Thought they were conducted well.'
-'Believe these to be valuable sessions. Looking forward to the next one.'
-'As we move through 2020, a moment to sit amongst our colleagues, to focus on our breath, calm our spinning minds and open our hearts is welcomed and necessary . Thank you'"


Travis Tollefson MD, MPH - UC Davis Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery - Director, Division of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery

*****

"We were thrilled to have Dr. Wendy Lau lead a session on "Wellbeing during the Pandemic and Beyond" at our Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) virtual network meeting.  She met with us before the lecture to understand the specific challenges of our global audience of over 300 people from 10 countries. Participants not only felt heard and their feelings validated, but because of the unique integration of guided meditation, were able to come away with some practical tools to deal with future stress.  Dr. Lau's passion for helping health care workers shines brightly, and her work and healing messages are incredibly important and needed."

Amy Benson, MD - Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation Malawi

*****

"Besides the very well done meditation session and discussion about various aspects of burnout, the one part of Wendy's talk that really affected me was her guided meditation on self compassion and self forgiveness. It's a lot less often discussed, but incredibly important when it comes to us dealing with all that we face in the ED. I think it also really helps normalize a lot of the feelings that end up getting us even more down. It was a truly impactful experience and I highly recommend it."

Andrew Grock, MD - Harbor-UCLA Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

*****

"Dr. Lau was an extraordinary resource for our global health group reaching providers from 10 countries and 5 continents during a virtual network meeting in November 2020. She effortlessly guided us through helpful meditation, self-reflection and team building exercises with compassion and cultural competence. Following the workshop our team provided glowing reviews as her support and gentle coaching was culturally cross cutting and so needed in this extraordinary time."

Sarah Perry, MD, MPH - Pediatrician, Texas Children's Global Health Service Corps, Baylor Clinic, Mbabane, Swaziland

*****

"I asked Wendy to lead a session on Resiliency with the staff of the hospital system where I work, which is located 30 minutes north of New York City.   We have navigated some incredibly challenging times amidst the pandemic, with a range of experiences that have left many of us searching for deeper resources on how to continue as effective caregivers.  Wendy’s lived experience as a ED doctor along with her compassionate understanding of ethical and moral challenges within the medical setting, allow her to talk with integrity and insight to the clinical audience.  She guided us through reflections and brief meditations amidst her didactic, and created space for us to discover resources within ourselves and within our very community.  It was positively transformative, and exactly what was needed.  I am most appreciative of her work, and look forward to the next opportunity to have her again!"


Mary Remington, Director, Spiritual Care Department, Good Samaritan Hospital

*****

"My emergency medicine residency program had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Lau to speak. Her personal experience in medicine made the discussion she led on grief pertinent, profound, and was able to hit at the heart of concepts that our residents and attending physicians encounter on a daily basis. Especially for an emergency medicine program amidst a global pandemic, the lessons on disenfranchised grief, compassion for our own limitations, and methods to recognize and honor the suffering of our patients, provided an invaluable practical application to the way our residents think of their practice of medicine."

Michael Tetwiler, MD, MPH - Harbor-UCLA, Emergency Medicine Resident (Class of 2021)

Partial List of Previous Speaking Engagements

GRAND ROUNDS

  • William Osler Health System, Emergency Services Department - June 2024

  • NYU Emergency Medicine Residency - June 2024

  • SUNY Downstate Kings County Emergency Medicine Residency - May 2024

  • Kings County/SUNY Downstate Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds 

  • The Brooklyn Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Department Grand rounds

  • Newark Beth Israel Emergency Medicine resident and attending physicians Grand Rounds and small group discussion

  • Brookdale Hospital Emergency Medicine Department Grand rounds

  • Harbor-UCLA Emergency Medicine Department Grand rounds

PODCASTS: 

  • EM Cast podcast

  • Bon Secours Charity Health System all staff COVID townhall 

CONFERENCES AND OTHER TALKS

Speaking engagement inquiry form

Speaking to clinicians in Japan in March 2023 with translator Kimiko Bokura