--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: The Biggest Moments From the TIME100 Health Leadership Forum image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1f351bf996c8b69/6998c9a9a97fc0219ea74a86/Health-Leadership-Forumn-2025-005.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 10, 2025 # The Biggest Moments From the TIME100 Health Leadership Forum by [Chantelle Lee](/author/chantelle-lee/) and [Charlotte Hu](/author/charlotte-hu/)  Alex Aronson Health experts, advocates, and industry leaders gathered for an evening of conversation at the second annual TIME100 Health Leadership Forum in New York City on Sept. 9. The evening featured three panel discussions, delving into the need to support and protect health care professionals’ mental health, reimagining how innovation and a new approach to primary care could help people live longer at lower costs, and bridging gaps in women’s health. Three experts joined TIME deputy editor Kelly Conniff on stage for the first panel to discuss burnout among health care workers: Todd Maron, chief legal and impact officer of FIGS, which sponsored the event; Farida Labaran, a registered nurse and mental health advocate; and Corey Feist, co-founder and chief executive officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. The panelists cited multiple causes for provider burnout, including the overwhelming administrative burden placed on health care workers and workplace violence. “It’s really so many branches, but for us here, we’re tackling a few at a time,” Labaran said. “All of these are part of this tree, and it goes deep and it goes wide.” The panelists stressed the importance of people coming together to better support health care workers, such as the need for Congress to reauthorize a landmark law that expired last year: the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, which included several measures meant to improve health workers’ mental health and well-being. **Read More:** [_‘Protecting the People That Protect the Rest of Us’: Experts Discuss Solutions for a Stronger Health Workforce_](https://time.com/collections/time100-leadership-forums-2025/7314676/health-protecting-providers/ "undefined") The second panel, moderated by TIME senior health correspondent Alice Park, focused on the skyrocketing costs associated with the transformative but complex care required for people to live longer with illness or even be cured altogether. It featured actor Selma Blair, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018, in dialogue with Blood Cancer United CEO Dr. E. Anders Kolb and Amazon One Medical CMO Andrew Diamond. Amazon One Medical and Blood Cancer United are also sponsors of the TIME100 Health Leadership Forum. Panelists discussed frustrations with seeking and accessing treatments as well as the financial burdens that can come with care for chronic conditions. “In the beginning, my entire life was searching for a cure of what ailed me,” Blair said. “Doctors didn’t take me seriously as a young girl. I couldn’t get a diagnosis for so many years, because there’s so many variables.” But the panelists also offered solutions, like bolstering primary care networks to deburden specialists and offer patients more direct care, educating providers on how to identify malignant symptoms earlier, especially for at-risk populations, and encouraging patients toward more preventative interventions to reduce personal and system burdens. **Read More:** [_How Innovations in Health Tech and Reimagining Primary Care Can Help People Live Well, Longer_](https://time.com/collections/time100-leadership-forums-2025/7314680/reimagining-health-care-living-longer/ "undefined") The event concluded with a panel on women’s health, moderated by TIME senior correspondent Charlotte Alter. Alter was joined on stage by Kalahn Taylor-Clark, head of social impact and sustainability at the biopharmaceutical company Merck, which also sponsored the event; Dr. Shelley Hwang, professor of surgery at Duke Cancer Institute who was on the [TIME100 Health 2025 list](https://time.com/collections/time100-health-2025/7279630/shelley-hwang/ "undefined"); and Dr. Jennifer Ashton, an ob-gyn, obesity medicine physician, and founder of the women-focused wellness company [Ajenda](https://www.instagram.com/p/C4p6Id8L28J/?hl=en "undefined"). The experts discussed recent policy changes affecting women’s health access and research, including the Trump Administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion and rollbacks to the Affordable Care Act, as well as federally promoted vaccine skepticism. They also talked about the rise in medical and science misinformation. When Alter asked Hwang how she approaches patients who visit her and cite information from the internet, Hwang replied that health care providers in those situations should be able to combine humility along with their training and experience. “I don’t think that I would ever recommend that the patients go to Dr. Google instead of coming to a licensed physician, but I think we have to have a fair amount of humility about what people don’t know and what patients are interested in hearing about,” Hwang said. “I think that’s really the best way to meet patients halfway.” **Read More:** [_Why Everyone Should Care About Women’s Health_](https://time.com/collections/time100-leadership-forums-2025/ "undefined") _The TIME100 Health Leadership Forum was presented by Merck, Amazon One Medical, Blood Cancer United (formerly The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society), FIGS, and NMDP._ The Biggest Moments From the TIME100 Health Leadership Forum ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-leadership-forums-2025/7314685/health-biggest-moments/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-leadership-forums-2025/7314685/health-biggest-moments/"},"headline":"The Biggest Moments From the TIME100 Health Leadership Forum","datePublished":"2025-09-10T03:25:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T09:45:22.533Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-leadership-forums-2025/7314685/health-biggest-moments/","keywords":["Leadership","News Desk","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1f351bf996c8b69/6998c9a9a97fc0219ea74a86/Health-Leadership-Forumn-2025-005.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chantelle Lee","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/chantelle-lee/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Hu","jobTitle":"Associate Editor","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-hu/"}],"creator":"Chantelle Lee","articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb1f351bf996c8b69/6998c9a9a97fc0219ea74a86/Health-Leadership-Forumn-2025-005.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/leadership/","name":"Leadership"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-leadership-forums-2025/7314685/health-biggest-moments/","name":"The Biggest Moments From the TIME100 Health Leadership Forum"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"‘Protecting the People That Protect the Rest of Us’: Experts Discuss Solutions for a Stronger Health Workforce","description":"At the second annual TIME100 Health Leadership Forum in New York City on Sept. 9, TIME deputy editor Kelly Conniff began a panel discussion about health care professionals’ mental health and well-being by sharing a shocking statistic: roughly half of health workers report feeling burned out. 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