Dr. Rob Bart

And as a physician, you also then get to directly treat patients.

And when he when he sort of framed that, I didn't realize it at the moment.

But once I was maybe halfway through medical school, it made me realize like that was a pivotal conversation.

Gentleman's name was Dr. John Hardman.

And, you know, he had been a family friend for a while.

So it just that really changed what I decided to do.

It turns out that I did write some sort of paper, whatever you want to call it, in sixth grade, where I sort of clearly articulated that I wanted to go into medicine, into health care.

And then, like most, when I became a teenager and in college, I sort of fought against that, which is how I, which is why I navigated to, well, I'll just do biomedical research.

I won't be a physician.

And then that conversation brought me back into full on into health care.

Yeah, so clinically I'm trained as a pediatric intensivist, which means I work in an ICU in children's hospitals, which means I live in a world where I'm surrounded by technology.

And being surrounded by technology and being a high-end user of it, I've had a few opportunities.

And one of the clear ones was when I was working at Children's Hospital Los Angeles,

around the late 90s, early 2000s, it was one of the first pediatric facilities in the country to contemplate implementing an enterprise electronic health record.

And through that experience, my division chief, Dr. Wetzel, he said, hey, you should be our representative to work on this.

And so I got very much into the details with that.

And out of that experience grew an opportunity where I became a chief medical officer for Cerner themselves later on in the early 2000s.

But I was able to do that essentially three weeks a month.

And one week a month, I was still on the faculty at USC delivering care in the pediatric ICU at CHLA.

And it worked very well because the things I learned at Cerner, I could bring back and really move our EHR implementation forward.