
Rob Saper
Chair of the Department of Wellness and Preventive Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, integrative medicine physician and researcher focused on yoga for chronic pain and wellness-centered leadership.
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Aug 12, 2026
REPLAY: The Importance of Disconnection
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Rob SaperGUEST
And then I went on to Boston University, where I developed a program with colleagues called Integrative Medicine and Health Disparities, where we really learned how to try to deliver these kind of holistic approaches to a very diverse group of patients.

Rob SaperGUEST
I was fortunate to come to Cleveland Clinic four years ago now and have this role.

Rob SaperGUEST
I was at Harvard doing my third year of rotations, and we all know how hard those are, going from one field to another field to another field with a new knowledge base, new people, and as a medical student, you're lowest on the pecking order.

Rob SaperGUEST
And by the end of that year, I was really burned out and down and really questioning whether I was in the right place doing the right thing.
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Kevin HopkinsHOST
So is there one type of disconnection that might be more important, more restorative than the others? And how do we figure out how much of each type we need?