Dr. Rob Bart

I've sort of adopted a framework that's quite similar in working with, and let's just take the physician informatician team that I work with.

Many of them, there's a few new ones, but many of them were here when I got to UPMC eight and a half years ago.

And creating that framework and working with them, getting them to understand that I don't need to be involved in making every decision.

And the frequent statement I've said to them when I got here was, if you're making 100 decisions a week, there's somewhere between probably two and five that I need to be informed of, that I need to know about or be involved in making.

But there are many that you should be unable to be able to make yourself, and I need to empower you to do that.

The counter to that was, and I said this very clearly to them, I said, if you don't adopt making decisions, then I'm going to save UPMC a lot of money because you're not actually adding value and extending the opportunity that informaticians have here.

I would say that depending on the person, anywhere between six to 15 months, it took them to get comfortable and for them to realize that even if the decision was not the best decision,

that I would have their back and that we would figure out a way to mitigate and recover.

Because you and I both know that none of the decisions that we all make are 100% the best right decision at the time.

It's how you mitigate and recover from the in error decisions that actually is what gives you success.

And I will add humility.

So I think over the last couple of years, I've reinvigorated my health and fitness quite a bit.

Dropped 40 to 50 pounds in the last two years.

My goal in 2026 is to drop another 10 to 20.

Part of it is I used to ride bikes when I was much younger.

And so two years ago I started with the Peloton and then now have a gravel bike and I'm spending as much time as I can like outdoors.

And the thing I like about it is I don't listen to music when I'm riding.

I just want to be sort of lost in nature.

The truth is, not too far from where our home is, there's a really large cemetery that has a lot of paths and everything.

And it is a really good place to go spend time and to clear your head.