, Thom Mayer: - Thom Mayer, MD, is medical director for the National Football League Players Association, the founder of Best Practices Inc., the CEO of Survival Skills Solutions, a national speaker for Huron Consulting, a clinical professor of emergency medicine at George Washington University, and a senior lecturing fellow at Duke University. He is a widely sought-after speaker on burnout, resiliency, crisis management, healthcare patient experience, leadership and management, and emergency and disaster medicine.