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1 I am proud and happy with the progress we've made on the professional and personal sides of these topics. We have taught our learners to develop habits and skills to keep them mentally strong and they share this knowledge to contribute to our community's wellness. And we have trained our learners to understand and care for those who suer from psychiatric disorders. My hope is that our future will aord us the opportunities to be able to conduct additional research into medications, treatments and interventions for psychiatric disorders. We always have more to learn so we have more knowledge to share. but I think you'll learn how we're positively impacting our community by shining a light on these subjects — and teaching our learners how to address them. Wellness should be an important part of all our lives — something we aspire to. Being self-aware of what we can and can't control will help promote our resilience throughout our professional lives, caring for our patients and their families. We stress to our learners to take time for themselves. We provide breaks from studying with activities like visits from therapy bunny Rosie the Rabbiter. O campus, we schedule activities like rock climbing and kayaking. We also include our faculty in workshops and research to help them prevent and manage burnout and promote well-being. At the same time, however, we also concentrate on the prevention, treatment and management of illness. This includes psychiatric disorders, involving those like depressive and anxiety disorders and schizophrenia that often start in adolescence and young adulthood, as well as conditions like Alzheimer's and other neurocognitive disorders that typically present in older individuals. We continue to do research in all these conditions, teaching our students and residents through classroom and hands-on learning. The articles in this issue of Embark provide a look at the emphasis we have put on elderly health as well as child and adolescent mental health care. We have included features on tough topics like suicide and eating disorders, Here at KU School of Medicine-Wichita, we focus on wellness and on the positive aspects of health, both mental and physical. We believe that wellness is important for our faculty, our learners and our patients. Going full circle teaching well-being Dean Garold Minns, M.D.