Bold Minds with Christine Winoto

In 2020, someone challenged Dion Dawson with a simple question: "What are you doing for Juneteenth?" In that moment, he made a commitment. "I'm going to feed 100 families." What began as a promise became a mission. Today, Dion is the Founder and Chief Dreamer of Dion's Chicago Dream, an organization that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables to more than 5,300 households every week across 183 ZIP c...

What does it actually take to build community as an adult, especially when you’re starting over? In this episode, I sit down with Bob Krinsky, who made a bold decision after more than 30 years in San Francisco to move to New York and begin a completely new chapter. What stands out is not just the move, but how intentional he has been about creating community from scratch. Bob shares how he went fr...

In this episode, Susan Dentzer, President and CEO of America's Physician Groups, shares a grounded perspective shaped by her work across journalism, policy, and now with physician groups accountable for both cost and quality. Susan explains why healthcare is less a “system” and more a fragmented set of incentives. We discuss why fee-for-service still dominates, what makes value-based care difficul...

A patient walks into a hospital with scans already done. And yet, they’re asked to repeat everything. Not because the system is inefficient, but because the data doesn’t mean the same thing everywhere. In this episode, we explore AI and data in cancer care with Dr. Caroline Chung, and why context is the missing piece in turning data into meaningful decisions. Caroline is Chief Data and Analytics O...

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, yet innovation in this space faces unique scientific, economic, and structural challenges. In this episode of Bold Minds, Christine Winoto speaks with Lisa Suennen, Managing Partner of the American Heart Association Venture Fund, about what it really takes to move healthcare innovation from research to real world impac...

Why do so many workplace wellbeing efforts fall flat, even when companies offer great benefits? In this conversation, Ian Shea explains why real wellbeing starts with culture, leadership, and the ability to create psychological safety at work. Ian Shea, Founder and CEO of I Am Human, talk about how his path from investment banking and tech leadership to emotional wellbeing advisory shaped the work...

Women’s heart health equity is not a slogan. It is the difference between dismissal and diagnosis, between outdated myths and modern care. In this episode, Dr. Sharonne Hayes of Mayo Clinic explains how cardiology bias and research inclusion shape outcomes, why heart failure with preserved ejection fraction awareness and first response protocols save lives, and where AI and less invasive valve pro...

Restoring trust in healthcare starts with clear, human communication. In this episode, Ross K. Goldberg, Founder and President of Kevin/Ross Public Relations, shares five decades of lessons from hospital boards, health plans, and health systems on how to make care feel navigable and trustworthy. We dig into why trust can take years to build and minutes to lose, how expectations and marketing influ...

Medication mismanagement is one of the largest hidden crises in healthcare. It leads to billions in wasted spending and avoidable hospitalizations every year. In this episode, we speak with Yoona Kim, PharmD, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Arine, a company using AI-driven medication intelligence in healthcare to ensure patients get the right therapies at the right time. Yoona shares her founder journe...

Myopia control is changing how we care for kids’ eyes. In this episode, Dr. Maria Liu, Professor of Clinical Optometry at UC Berkeley and founder of the Myopia Control Clinic, explains evidence-based myopia control strategies, including orthokeratology for pediatric myopia, and why early exams and outdoor time matter. We discuss what parents can do now, how high myopia raises risks for retinal pro...

What does it really take to implement AI in healthcare—at scale, and responsibly? Dr. Daniel Yang, Vice President of AI and Emerging Technologies at Kaiser Permanente, joins us to share his firsthand experience leading the nation’s largest clinical deployment of generative AI tools like ambient scribes. In this episode, Dr. Yang explains how Kaiser’s phased rollout combined clinician feedback, qua...

After a life‑threatening emergency and months of confusing denials, Ali Diab turned his personal crisis into a mission to fix health benefits. In this episode, he shares how that experience led to founding Collective Health and the drive to put clarity and humanity back into insurance. We discuss opaque pricing, broken incentives in the insurance industry, the promise of self‑insured employer mode...

What does it take to transform a health system from sick care to true health creation? In this episode, we sit down with Ann Somers Hogg, Director of Health Care Research at the Clayton Christensen Institute, to explore business model innovation in healthcare and the messy middle between bold ideas and sustainable systems. Ann Somers shares what makes innovation efforts succeed or stall within lar...

Healthcare innovation in cancer care often means new drugs or breakthrough therapies. But as Othman Laraki, co-founder and CEO of Color, explains, the most powerful impact comes from making proven tools work for everyone. In this episode, Othman shares his journey from Google and Twitter into healthcare, driven by his family’s history with breast cancer. He describes how Color evolved from genetic...