About Us

At End Burnout Group (EBG), we believe that ending clinician burnout isn’t about resilience—it’s about removing the root causes. Founded by healthcare professionals and policy advocates, our mission is simple but urgent: end clinician burnout by eliminating burdens unrelated to providing safe and effective patient care.

Burnout among clinicians—physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals—has reached crisis levels, affecting over half of healthcare providers nationwide. The result: emotional exhaustion, moral injury, decreased patient safety, and a shrinking workforce. We exist to change that.

Our Approach

EBG unites clinicians, patients, payers, administrators, technologists, and policymakers to confront and end the systemic, regulatory, and operational causes of burnout.
Our collaborative working groups—focused on technology, standards, regulation, and payer practices—develop actionable solutions to fix the broken systems behind burnout, not just manage its symptoms.

We focus on four key domains:

Digital Transition Gaps: Poorly designed electronic health records and inefficient data use.
Regulatory Overload: Conflicting rules and administrative hurdles like prior authorization.
Organizational Inefficiency: Outdated workflows, insufficient training, and cognitive overload.
Systemic Burdens: Debt, harassment, lack of autonomy, and inequity in healthcare systems.

Our Vision

A healthcare system where clinicians are empowered to practice medicine autonomously, joyfully, and effectively—free from unnecessary administrative burdens—so patients receive the best care possible.

Our Values

Professional Autonomy and Accountability
Transparency and Respect
Innovation and Equity
Clarity of Purpose
Trust and Collaboration
Focus on Improving Patient Outcomes

What Makes EBG Different

We’re not another wellness program—we’re a movement for structural reform.
Our work drives legislative advocacy, standard-setting, and cross-sector collaboration to modernize healthcare technology, streamline regulation, and restore the clinician-patient relationship to the center of care.

Join the Movement

If you believe in a future where clinicians thrive and patients benefit from a system built on health—not bureaucracy—join us. Together, we can end burnout for good

Team

Dr. Mani Berenji, MD, MPH,

Mani Berenji, MD, MPH, is a double board-certified physician in Occupational & Environmental Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and is board-eligible in Clinical Informatics. He serves as an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UC Irvine in the Division of Environmental & Occupational Health. He also leads Academic and Community Partnerships at the UC Center for Climate Health & Equity. Dr. Berenji is Chief of Occupational and Environmental Health at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System, where he cares for VA employees and veterans with environmental exposures.

Rich Foreman

Rich is currently the COO for IGH Naturals. Previously, as founding CTO, Rich led the team that developed the CordicoShield / CordicoFire Wellness App. Cordico was honored with the Sacramento Innovation Award in 2021. After achieving a 7 digit ARR, Cordico was acquired by Lexipol in 2020. Rich has a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington, an MPA from Troy State University and was an officer in the U.S. Navy. Rich co-authored his book, "Tap into the Mobile Economy." Rich's blog was listed in Top 20 Marketing Mobile Blogs of 2014. He has been featured on KCRA3, NEWS10, 1170 Tech AM PowerDrive, Business Radio Money 105.5, SiliconIndia, the Sacramento Business Journal, and the Sacramento Bee. Rich is also the Founding Director of the Sacramento Chapter of Startup Grind and served a term as Utility Commissioner for the City of Folsom. Rich is a regular contributor to TechWire.net and StartupSac.com. Rich was the Co-founder of Apptology which was named Small Business of the Year in 2014 by the Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber.

Dr. Michele Kowalski-McGraw, MD, MPH

Michele Kowalski-McGraw, MD, MPH, FACOEM, is an Occupational Medicine physician dedicated to preventing illness and promoting the health of diverse working populations. With extensive experience across healthcare, service, manufacturing, distribution, and technology sectors, she champions an integrated, coordinated approach to managing illness and injury. She is energized by the power of health informatics to improve care delivery, streamline processes, and enhance patient outcomes. Her passion for the environment’s impact on health drives her to research and tailor solutions that promote wellness and prevent occupational hazards.

Dr. Larry Ozeran, MD, FAMIA

Larry Ozeran, MD, FAMIA has over 20 years experience with information technology and software development, patient care delivery, healthcare leadership, and health policy. Dr. Ozeran leverages his uncommonly holistic understanding of the dysfunctional American healthcare system to work toward solving its greatest challenges. As a strategic consultant, he advises healthcare, government, and startup clients on strategy, policy and innovation.

Dr. Richard Schreiber

Dr. Richard Schreiber recently retired as Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center in Camp Hill, PA. and a Professor of Medicine at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Previously he was Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Geisinger Health System. He is immediate past-Chair of American Medical Informatics Association’s Clinical Information Systems Working Group. He is an informaticist, internist and hospitalist, geriatrician, educator, and researcher. He is board certified in Clinical Informatics, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). He received the AMDIS Special Recognition in Applied Clinical Informatics award in 2014. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His clinical informatics research focuses on EHR transitions, clinical decision support, CPOE, drug-drug interaction alerting, documentation improvement, problem list curation, and CDS anomalies.