Clinical Changemakers

"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 we organise care. But we need to decide what good healthcare actually means before we AI-ify everything." — Dr Jessica Morley In this episode of Clinical Changemakers, Dr Jessica Morley , an AI ethics expert and researcher from Yale Digital Ethics...

"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's actually happening and we can make decisions closer to the ground." — Dr. Sharen Paine In this episode of Clinical Changemakers, Dr. Sharen Paine , a systems thinking expert with a doctorate in business administration focusing on cybernetics, explo...

"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 particularly like human in this decision. " — Dr Graham Walker In this episode of Clinical Changemakers, Dr Graham Walker , an ER doctor and AI healthcare leader, discusses his role at Kaiser Permanente and the challenges and successes of integrating AI into h...

“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 come along and help us do it, that's going to be a fabulous thing.” Dr Richard Lehman is a retired GP from Oxfordshire who had a "ringside seat" to the birth of evidence-based medicine, previously held academic positions at Oxford and Yale, later becoming P...

"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 the control of the resources or some decisions, but that's what executives can do." Dr. Raj Srivastava is a pediatrician, health system leader, and implementation science researcher, serving as Chief Clinical Programs Officer at Intermountain Health...

"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 the product successful" Dr. Amandeep Hansra is a general practitioner turned health tech entrepreneur, advisor, and investor, founder of the Creative Careers in Medicine community (with over 25,000 members), co-founder of Australian Medical Angels an...

"The enterprise of medicine has both scientific and moral dimensions, and they're inextricably balanced" Dr Vikas Saini is a Cardiologist and President of the Lown Institute , where he leads a non-partisan think tank advocating bold ideas for a just and caring system for health. With a unique background combining philosophy and medicine, Dr. Saini has spent decades examining the intersection of et...

"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 abnormalities, but rather to be focused on the outcome that you're looking for." Dr James W. Mold is a family medicine physician, geriatrician, researcher and academic with a Master of Public Health degree and is Professor Emeritus at the University o...

"We need to pay more attention to the networks that operate between people and the networks that operate between organisations.” Professor Ingrid Nembhard is an Organisational Behaviour expert in healthcare systems, based at the Wharton Schoo l of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on how characteristics of health care organisations, their leaders, and staff contribute to their a...

"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... they're literally locking your data away and holding it for ransom." — Dr. Sidharth Ramesh Listen now on Apple , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Dr Sidharth Ramesh is a medical doctor, clinical informatics expert, YouTube educator,...

“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 space where we need evidence. — Dr Saira Ghafur Listen now on Apple , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Dr Saira Ghafur is a medical doctor specialising in respiratory medicine, an academic and expert in digital health at Imperial Col...

"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 trying to achieve? Making quality about that." — Dr Raj Behal. Listen now on Apple , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Dr. Raj Behal is a medical doctor and Chief Quality Officer at Amazon One Medical . With a background in internal m...

"The greatest legacy we can leave as this generation of leaders is to make meaningful progress in narrowing those health inequalities between communities." — Prof Bola Owolabi. Episode Overview In this episode, Professor Bola Owolabi , GP and National Director for Healthcare Inequalities at NHS England, shares her insights on health inequalities in England, how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed pre-ex...

"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 research." — Dr Nason Maani Listen now on Apple, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. Dr Nason Maani , lecturer in Inequalities and Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh , author of " The Commercial Determinants of Health ,...

"I'd rather have people understand why they should believe something, not just that they should." — Dr Aaron Carroll Listen now on Apple , Spotify , YouTube and or wherever you get your podcasts. Dr Aaron Carroll, pediatrician, professor, president and CEO of Academy Health , and renowned science communicator, discusses the art and science of effective communication in healthcare. Learn how he dev...

"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 sector talks about the private sector... who just want to make money at any cost... and they're both wrong." - Dr Nirav Shah, Senior Scholar at Stanford. In this episode, Dr Nirav Shah reflects on his early journey into healthcare, in particular how...

“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 the needs. That's the key.” — Dr Josh Makower, Director and Co-Founder of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. Listen on Apple , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, Dr Joshua Makower discusses his newest medical device app...

"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 empirically, it's called housing first" — Dr Margot Kushel , Director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Listen on Apple , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, Dr Margot Kushel explores the moral injury of...

"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 something they weren't trained for" — Professor Nigam Shah , Chief Data Scientist for Stanford Health Care. Listen on Apple , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, Professor Nigam Shah shares his early experiences with AI, called 'a...

"One of the conclusions I've drawn from COVID...in a sense, was that our communications approach was our most important public health intervention" — Sir Ashley Bloomfield, Former Director General Of Health, New Zealand. Listen on Apple , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, Sir Ashley Bloomfield reflects on his humble upbringing and how he approached being a generalist an...

"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 enact whatever it is you are asking of them" — Professor Sara Singer , Director of the HELIO Labs at Stanford Medicine. Listen on Apple , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, Professor Sara Singer reflects on her early exper...

"In times of hesitancy in the market, leaders lean in, they assert themselves, they flex and they find an opportunity” — Dr Oliver Keown , managing director of Intuitive Ventures. Listen on Apple , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, Dr. Oliver Keown discusses his career journey from a doctor in the UK's National Health Service, to a venture capitalist as Managing Directo...

"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 together better, making the care better, which means the patients are more grateful, which makes people feel even more pride". — Dr. Thomas H. Lee , Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief Medical Officer at Press Ganey. Listen on A...

"We think as healthcare institutions as just healthcare institutions...actually healthcare institutions are just big businesses that happen to do healthcare, this idea is that there is a whole array of other activities besides healthcare, that have an enormous impact on our local communities" — Dr. Laura Gottlieb, Family Physician and Director of SIREN. In this episode, Dr Laura Gottlieb explores...

"If we had a multitiered, multilayered approach to clinical leadership where we don't just provide about patient care, but we think about improving the processes and tools...and leave a legacy over time then I think we'd have greater success in driving digital change in health" — Dr Simon Kos, Healthcare Executive at Microsoft. In this episode, Dr Simon Kos explores his journey into digital health...