On Wednesday December 20th, at Warrior Ice Arena, NESN’s pre and post-game show host, Sophia Jurksztowicz will moderate a panel discussion titled “Stress and Burnout” with Bruins Head Coach Jim Montgomery. Coach Montgomery will be joined by experts, Fairlee C. Fabrett, PhD, and Susan M. Szulewski, MD, from McLean Hospital and Gregory Fricchione, MD, from Mass General Hospital. This dynamic discussion will provide insights and helpful ways to manage stress and techniques to avoid burnout. Space is limited to 125 people and is first come first serve. If you are interested in this unique experience, click on the link below and complete the attached form.

  • Where: Warrior Ice Arena, Level 3 , 90 Guest Street, Brighton, MA 02135
    • When: December 20, 2023
    • Time: 6:30-7:30pm
    • Included: Food, Open Bar (Beer and Wine) , Photos and Q&A
    • Not Included: Parking will be $15.00
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Moderator

Sophia Jurksztowicz, NESN
Sophia Jurksztowicz is host of NESN’s pre and postgame show during Bruins telecasts. She has been with NESN since 2019, when she started as rinkside reporter. Since 2007, Sophia has worked with various sports broadcasting companies, including theScore, Rogers Sportsnet, CBC News Network and Hockey Night in Canada. As a broadcaster, journalist and producer at Rogers Sportsnet, Sophia was a social media expert for Hockey Night in Canada. In 2019, Jurksztowicz served as a reporter for CBC’s national coverage in Canada for the FINA World Aquatics Championships in South Korea. Previously, Sophia was a sports reporter for CITY TV working as a sports reporter and host for the 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. news. And at theScore Television Network, Sophia worked as a sports reporter doing field and studio work covering the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Panelists

Jim Montgomery, Head Coach Boston Bruins
Jim Montgomery is in his second season behind the Boston bench, having been named the 29th head coach in team history on July 1, 2022. He joined the Bruins organization following two seasons as an assistant coach with the St. Louis Blues from 2020-2022.

In his first season at the Boston helm, he led the club to the best single-season record in NHL history with a 65-12-5 record, 135 points and .823 win percentage and also led the league with a +128 goal differential. He was named as the winner of the 2022-23 Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s Coach of the Year and he became the fifth winner of that award in Bruins history.

He began his NHL coaching career when he was named as the head coach of the Dallas Stars in May, 2018 and in 2018-19, he led the Stars to their first playoff berth in three years. He compiled a 60-43-10 record and .575 win percentage in 113 games behind the Dallas bench and he enters this season with a total NHL record of 125-55-15 and .679 win percentage in 195 career games coached.

The native of Montreal began his coaching career as an assistant coach with both Notre Dame University in 2005-06 and RPI for four seasons from 2006-2010. He was named the head coach in Dubuque of the USHL in 2010 and won Clark Cup championships in two of his three seasons with the Fighting Saints with a .698 win percentage in that span.

He then moved to the University of Denver as head coach for five seasons from 2013-2018 with a 125-57-26 record in 208 games behind that bench. He guided the team to appearances in the NCAA Frozen Four in 2016 and won the title in 2017. He was also the NCAA Coach of the Year in that championship season.

Montgomery played four seasons of college hockey at the University of Maine, concluding his college career as the school’s all-time leading scorer with 103-198=301 totals in 170 games. He earned Hockey East championships in 1992 and 1993 and won the 1993 NCAA title while taking the tournament Most Valuable Player honors. He is one of three Black Bears in team history to have his number retired.

He played professionally for 12 seasons over four leagues in addition to stints in Germany and Russia. He had nine goals and 25 assists for 34 points in 122 NHL games with St. Louis, Montreal, Philadelphia, San Jose and Dallas. He also had 165-328=493 totals in 451 career AHL contests. He retired as a player after the 2004-05 season.

Fairlee C. Fabrett, PhD
Fairlee C. Fabrett, PhD, is a highly-skilled psychologist with expertise in cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy. She has spoken at national and international conferences and programs about work/life balance, managing stress and burnout, as well as coping with inter-personal challenges. At McLean, she is the director of training and staff development the hopsital’s child and adolescent division.

As a native of Mexico, Dr. Fabrett has lived experience balancing the expectations placed by her culture and those imposed by her adopted country and culture. She strives to use her own acculturation story as a basis for understanding the stories and experiences of the trainees and patients she works with. Dr. Fabrett believes that race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and the breadth of experiences constitutive of identity are vital elements when providing treatment, creating training programs, and establishing supervision practices.

Susan M. Szulewski, MD, Chief Medical Officer, McLean; VP Medical Affairs Mass General Brigham Behavioral & Mental Health
Susan M. Szulewski, MD, is the chief medical officer of McLean Hospital and vice president of Medical Affairs for Mass General Brigham Behavioral and Mental Health. She is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. 

Dr. Szulewski completed her psychiatry residency at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University General Psychiatry Training Program.

Dr. Szulewski actively participates in the training of psychiatry residents, psychology interns, and medical students. Her clinical interests include emergency psychiatry, diagnostic assessments, and acute care stabilization. She is a gifted speaker, who is often called upon to discuss physician burnout.

Gregory Fricchone M.D. 
Gregory Fricchione, MD, is Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and of the Chester Pierce Division of Global Psychiatry and Co-Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health in the Department of Neurology at Mass General Hospital and the Mind Body Medical Institute Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He specializes in neuropsychiatry and psychosomatic medicine and for over 40 years has helped care for patients with severe medical, neurological and surgical illnesses. He has published more than 250 publications and has authored or co-authored 6 books including the 2011 Compassion and Healing in Medicine: On the Nature and Uses of Attachment Solutions for Separation Challenges (Johns Hopkins University Press) and the 2016 The Science of Stress (University of Chicago Press). He is the medical editor of the Harvard Medical School 2020 and 2024 Stress Management Special Health Reports. His research interests include study of the catatonic syndrome, the neurophysiology of stress and resilience and how the comparative neurology of brain evolution illuminates our concepts of health and illness and medical caregiving.

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