Robert Wicks

Robert Wicks is a professor at Loyola University Maryland and the author of Bounce: Living the Resilient Life (Oxford). In 1994, he was responsible for the psychological debriefing of relief workers evacuated from Rwanda during their civil war. In 2006, he delivered a presentation on self-care at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and Walter Reed Army Hospital to health care professionals responsible for Iraqi war veterans with multiple amputations and severe head injuries. Wicks is author of numerous books including The Resilient Clinician (OUP, 2008), Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being (OUP, 2006),Prayerfulness, and the acclaimed best seller, Riding the Dragon: 10 Lessons for Inner Strength in Challenging Times (Sorin Books, 2003). He lives with his wife Michaele in Ellicott City, Maryland.