Heidi Allespach, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, Medicine & Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. For over 20 years, Dr. Allespach has specialized in the training of family medicine, internal medicine & surgery residents & fellows, practicing physicians, medical students & counselors. She has developed a targeted cognitive-behavioral stress management (STM) model for physicians to utilize in a time-limited (3-visit) medical setting. She has also tailored this model specifically for use in nonpharmacologic pain management (NPM) & integrates the patient's spiritual beliefs into these frameworks when appropriate. Her main specialty areas within behavioral medicine are physician wellness, chronic pain, addiction, & teaching office-based cognitive behavioral stress management interventions. She has published numerous articles on physician wellness, difficult patients, chronic pain and addiction, among others, & has lectured extensively on those topics at many national conferences. Dr Allespach developed teaching models (including “The CALMER Approach” "Rule of Six 2s" and "The 7 Cs", as well as others), specifically for physicians to use when working with challenging Dr-Pt encounters. The term she coined, “reality vertigo,” to describe a common state patients undergo when first diagnosed with chronic pain (or other chronic or life-threatening illnesses) has been widely used in the medical setting. She has also lectured both nationally and internationally on the topic of Motivational Interviewing. Dr Allespach was the lead author of a medical textbook, “Management of the Addicted Patient in Primary Care” (Pomm & Pomm, 2007). Dr Allespach is also the Associate Director of UM/Jackson’s “Multispecialty Learning Communities” through the Office of Graduate Medical Education & is specifically in charge of developing and coordinating the physician wellness curriculum for approximately 200 interns each year.