Keeping surgeons sharp
Helping surgeons take better care of themselves and their patients with the PEAK Collaborative—a pilot program helping healthcare providers perform at their best.
USC Launched 2025
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One surgeon’s experience as an athlete is informing a pilot about performance science, preparation, and recovery for healthcare providers.
As a young athlete, Dr. Graeme Rosenberg learned the basics of peak performance—coaching, rest, nutrition, and the right tools. They carried him through surgical training and help him thrive in his practice. But most surgeons don’t enter the field with performance training. So Dr. Rosenberg and the USC Keck School of Medicine partnered with us to create a new system that teaches surgeons these skills.
From the start, we designed this pilot with performance in mind—drawing on lessons from sports and military science to see how they could support clinicians under pressure. We’re learning what practical, evidence-based tools help surgeons perform at their best, from the beginning to the end of their careers. What we learn from this pilot will guide a larger program to support healthcare providers nationwide.
Meet the project team
Caroline Nguyen
Project Manager
Project team
Graeme Rosenberg, MD
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery; Director of Wellness, Department of Surgery
Keck Medicine of USC
“PEAK Collaborative is an opportunity to develop an ecosystem that explores the human side of a service in medicine. We aim to cultivate a performance mindset in clinicians that is both empowering and protective in the realities of modern health care.”
Leslie Saxon, MD
Professor of Medicine, Clinical Scholar; Executive Director, Center for Body Computing
USC Center for Body Computing
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