Clinical Changemakers
Episodes
The Ethics of AI in Healthcare: Beyond the Stochastic Parrot | Dr. Jessica Morley (Yale Digital Ethics Centre)
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"AI has the potential to re-ontologize healthcare—to completely redesign what we consider to be a disease, what we consider to be a disability, and ...
How Systems Thinking Can Fix Healthcare's Organizational Chaos | Dr Sharen Paine
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We want a two-way flow of communication so that we have a better understanding through the levels of an organisation up through those levels of what'...
AI's Jagged Frontier and Why Human Judgement Still Matters | Dr Graham Walker (Kaiser Permanente)
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think judgment, I've been honing in on that word more frequently recently because I feel like the judgment piece is the piece that feels particular...
The Rise, Fall, and AI-Powered Rebirth of Evidence-Based Medicine | Dr. Richard Lehman & Dr. Raj Mehta
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“You know, what if they were to actually put it’s [AI] mind to a science of practical compassion for everybody?… if the right machines were to c...
Scaling Evidence-Based Medicine Across 630,000 sq Miles | Dr Raj Srivastava (Chief Clinical Programs Officer, Intermountain Health)
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"When the frontline feels we're actually offering, 'what do you need? What are the resources we can help?' We'll co-create. Of course, they don't have...
How One Doctor's Career Pivot Inspired 25,000 Others to Rethink Medicine | Dr. Amandeep Hansra (Founder, Investor & Chief Clinical Adviser)
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"At the end of the day, we don't really invest as much into products as we do into people. It's the people behind the products that are going to make ...
A Philosopher-Physician's Fight To Reclaim Medicine's Soul | Dr. Vikas Saini (President of Lown Institute)
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The enterprise of medicine has both scientific and moral dimensions, and they're inextricably balanced"Dr Vikas Saini is a Cardiologist and President...
Goal-Oriented Healthcare: Breaking Free from the Problem-Focused Paradigm | Dr. James Mold (University of Oklahoma)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The way to prevent cascades is to keep your eye on the goal, to understand what you're trying to accomplish and not to go down rabbit holes chasing a...
Networks, Culture & Safety: How to Build Effective Healthcare Organizations | Prof. Ingrid Nembhard (Wharton School)
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We need to pay more attention to the networks that operate between people and the networks that operate between organisations.”Professor Ingrid Nem...
Liberate Health Data and Escape the EHR Trap | Dr Sidharth Ramesh (Medblocks Founder)
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Epic charges researchers to access the data that the same Institute has spent thousands of hours storing. They're not a good custodian of data... the...
From Evidence to Exit: Building Credible Health Tech | Dr Saira Ghafur (Co-Founder of Provea Health & Lead for Digital Health at Imperial College)
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The market was flooded with all these new tools and technologies that people were using, but no real evidence base behind them. Now we’re in this...
Customer Obsession in Healthcare: Primary Care Redefined | Dr Raj Behal (Amazon One Medical)
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think of quality as what is the patient's ‘job to be done’. What are they trying to get out of this encounter or from their help? What are they...
The Economic Imperative: Why Health Equity Matters for Everyone | Prof. Bola Owolabi (NHS England Director)
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The greatest legacy we can leave as this generation of leaders is to make meaningful progress in narrowing those health inequalities between communit...
Money, Power, Health: How Corporations Shape Our Health | Dr. Nason Maani (Commercial Determinants Researcher)
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The health impact of corporate power isn't just about products—it's about how commercial interests shape the entire landscape of health policy and ...
Science Communication: Why the Basics Matter in an Age of Sound Bites | Dr Aaron Carroll (CEO of Academy Health)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I'd rather have people understand why they should believe something, not just that they should." — Dr Aaron CarrollListen now on Apple, Spotify, Yo...
Leading New York State & Bridging the Private Sector | Dr Nirav R. Shah (Senior Scholar at Stanford)
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"There is a lot of mistrust between the two, the private sector thinks about government bureaucrats who've done the same way for 20 years...the public...
The Intersection of Invention, Innovation & Business | Dr Josh Makower (Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Leader of Bio-design)
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“You can be successful as an innovator, even as a physician or any other background you have, as long as you follow the process and really focus on ...
Moral Injury & the Musical Chairs of Housing | Dr Margot Kushel (Director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative)
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"There is a very evidence-based way to house people for people who are experiencing homelessness, it has been around a long time, it's been testing em...
Exploring AI, ChatGPT and Clinical Informatics | Professor Nigam Shah (Founder, Chief Data Scientist for Stanford Health Care)
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Even though you trained them for something silly, like to predict the new word, new capabilities emerged, as in, now they can answer, which is someth...
Leading a Nation through a Global Pandemic | Sir Ashley Bloomfield (Former Director General Of Health)
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"One of the conclusions I've drawn from COVID...in a sense, was that our communications approach was our most important public health intervention" —...
Power, Managers & the Science of Teams | Professor Sara Singer (Director of the HELIO Labs at Stanford Medicine)
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"You have to be somewhat more strategic, you have to identify your sources of power and use those sources of power to influence the people you want to...
Venture Capital in Silicon Valley - From Clinician to Investor | Dr Oliver Keown (Director at Intuitive Ventures)
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"In times of hesitancy in the market, leaders lean in, they assert themselves, they flex and they find an opportunity” — Dr Oliver Keown, managing...
Trust, Strategy and Resilience & Moving Healthcare Forward | Dr Thomas H. Lee (Harvard Professor, Chief Medical Officer at Press Ganey)
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"There's good news, we're actually seeing signs of a virtuous cycle, we're seeing [workforce] pride in organizations and that leads to people working ...
Upstream Doctors & Social Interventions Research | Dr Laura Gottlieb (Director of Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network)
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We think as healthcare institutions as just healthcare institutions...actually healthcare institutions are just big businesses that happen to do heal...
Digital Health and Career Reflections at Microsoft | Dr. Simon Kos (Former Chief Medical Officer)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"If we had a multitiered, multilayered approach to clinical leadership where we don't just provide about patient care, but we think about improving t...
Journey to Zero - How to Lead the Climate Revolution in Healthcare | Dr Nick Watts (Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Don't let the fact that you don't know the last step, stop you from acting today.” — Dr Nick Watts, Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS.Listen on A...
Leadership by Design at the Mayo Clinic | Dr. Stephen Swensen (Former Director for Leadership and Organization Development)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Culture is absolutely the mortar between the bricks and the primary value of Mayo Clinic that everyone knows. From the environmental services folks...
Demystifying Organizational Behavior in Healthcare | Professor Amy Edmondson (Harvard Professor of Leadership and Management)
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Psychological safety is at the very heart of this discussion... a belief that it is safe for interpersonal risk...in my research I have found this no...
Complex Systems & the Quality Improvement Toolbox | Dr Kedar Mate (President & CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement)
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"When you face those problems, you have a couple of choices, right? You can say, these problems are too big for me and I can't solve them. Or you can ...
Introduction Episode - A Call To Action For Transforming Healthcare
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Listen now on Substack, Apple, Spotify, or where ever you get your podcasts.So it sounds to me like we have 21st-century problems with 20th-century ap...