DGTL Voices with Ed Marx
Why Every Future Doctor Needs an Engineering Degree (ft. Lev Gonick)
06 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Healthcare providers are going to need to know how to prompt AI.
They're going to need to know how all that works because that's the future of medicine. That is a mark of great leadership. When everyone else is figuring out how to just survive, you're figuring out actually how to pivot to what comes next. We are the largest public university in the country with almost 194,000 students.
We measure our success by how they succeed, not how the institution quote unquote succeeds by being the elite. All of us as CIOs need to find mission, you know, that aligns to our personal values. Our networks, you know, as I say, you know, our net worth is really our network. It's the network of humans, people we try to hopefully support and launch on their careers going forward.
Welcome to Digital Voices, where healthcare and life science leaders explore the real work behind transformation. This podcast is about people, leadership, and the conversations that move healthcare forward. Now your host, Ed Marks. Hey, it's Ed. Welcome to another edition of Digital Voices. So excited about this episode because I have a longtime friend, Lev Gonick, joining us.
Lev, welcome to Digital Voices. And great to see you. And thanks for having me on your program. So, Lev, yeah, I was trying to think back how long we've known each other. So at the early 2000s, right? When did you get to Cleveland?
25 years ago. So we're in our quarter century of knowing each other here.
And we look just the same. We're just the most handsome man that has ever lived in our widest. I know I've told you this before, but I just want my entire audience to know. I became who I was as a CIO in large part to you. I owe a lot large to you. So I was this man, went behind the ears. No one mentored me because of how I became a CIO. And I just kind of fell into the position.
And then you were like, you had been a CIO for a while, I think someplace else, if not- In California. Yeah, I've been in California. And so I was just watching you and you were doing these cool things and I just stole from you. I was like, Oh, that's cool. I guess you should like partner with vendors that as one silly example, you know, cause a lot of people, right.
CIOs oftentimes it's adversarial, but you were like partnering and doing things and joint and, And so I was just taking notes and how you worked with your customers, how you worked with executives. I was like, I just became a sponge. And so you were informally mentoring me. And so I'm always so thankful. And so I want to share you with my audience. Like this is the...
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Chapter 2: How did Lev Gonick's upbringing influence his career choices?
Like what kind of music do you like to listen to?
I've always been a jazz guy, and so I moved between sort of the classics, you know, I'm a Thelonious Monk kind of crazy guy, and I love Miles, and I love that whole sort of early 50s, 60s genre, that period of Miles and Thelonious and many other 50s, 60s. And, you know, I love contemporary female jazz vocalists. I love Candice Springs. I was just listening to her playlist this morning.
She's out of Kansas City, and she's just one of my favorite female artists. It's a great jazz scene here in Phoenix, so I get to see a lot of great talent.
Oh, that's awesome. Next time I'm there, because I don't know if you know or not, but my dad lives in Scottsdale. He moved there in the last couple years.
No excuses, Ed. I'll take you out on the town.
Yeah, and I love female vocal jazz. So I'm a big Diana Krall fan, so I need to look up this person from Kansas City now.
Yes, so Candace is with a K. She used to say when she was young, not with a C, which everyone would kind of guess to. She's Candace Springs.
Yeah, I'm going to look her up. That's why I love asking that question is because it gives me like new ideas for music as well. What about life message or mantra? Are there words that you sort of live by that guide who you are?
Honestly, I'd lead by example. I mean, that's sort of been my mantra, trying my best. To be ready to be player coach, you know, that's kind of another really important piece of it. Try very much to build community, both at work and more broadly. That's another big part of sort of my DNA and sort of my, you know, my center and North Star.
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