Mr. Thoman leads the Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s Office of Well-being (EmWELL), advancing a systemwide strategy grounded in three pillars: fostering a culture of wellness, improving the nature of work and supporting personal resilience. The Office of Well-being supports the “Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff” initiative, empowering teams to eliminate low-value administrative tasks, and developed system-level dashboards integrating engagement, wellbeing and operational data to drive targeted improvements. His work has addressed systemic drivers of burnout, strengthened employee engagement and embedded wellbeing into the culture of one of the nation’s top-ranked academic medical centers. Nationally, Mr. Thoman serves as co-chair of the American Nurses Association’s “Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation” initiative, influencing strategies to improve nurse wellbeing across the U.S. His prior leadership roles at Houston-based MD Anderson Cancer Center and NASA’s Johnson Space Center inform his high-reliability, evidence-based approach to workforce wellness. By positioning wellbeing as a strategic imperative, Mr. Thoman directly links staff health to patient care quality, organizational performance and long-term system sustainability.
