Dr. Jess Morgan is a paediatrician, educator, and mental health advocate whose unconventional career path illustrates that professional identity doesn’t need to follow a linear trajectory. After over a decade as a clinical paediatrician in the NHS, she left medicine in 2019 to retrain as a primary teacher. She has significant expertise in physician wellbeing, drawing on her lived experience of burnout and mental illness and has become a leading voice on the topic. She is a TEDx speaker, facilitator and writer and offers a unique, joined-up perspective to her work with families, health professionals and teachers to better support children and young people to thrive.