Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande

In this special live episode of Leadership Rounds in Nashville, TN, Dr. Reena Pande sat down with renowned physician, bioethicist, and healthcare policy leader Dr. Zeke Emanuel for a wide-ranging conversation on wellness culture, AI in healthcare, chronic disease management, empathy in medicine, and the future of clinician leadership. Drawing on themes from his newest book, Eat Your Ice Cream , Ze...

What does it take to move AI in healthcare from promise to real-world impact? In this episode of Leadership Rounds, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, Chief Medical Officer at Aidoc and former President of the American Medical Association, joins Dr. Reena Pande to explore the future of clinical AI.Drawing on experience across clinical practice, national policy, military leadership, and health technology, Jesse s...

In this special season recap, Dr. Reena Pande reflects on the defining lessons and leadership insights from the first year of Leadership Rounds , featuring conversations with some of healthcare’s most influential clinician leaders, operators, and policymakers. From Neel Shah of Maven to Microsoft’s Mary Presti, these candid discussions about the future of care delivery helped lay the foundation fo...

Mary Presti (Microsoft) joins Dr. Reena Pande to explore how AI is moving from pilot to enterprise-scale in healthcare and why workflow, trust, and clinician adoption will determine what succeeds. As a senior healthcare technology executive at Microsoft and former bedside nurse, Mary brings unique experience spanning clinical care, consulting, pharma, and health tech, and offers a grounded perspec...

Mandy Cohen and Oxeon’s Dr. Reena Pande unpack crisis leadership, trust-building, and why change management (not technology) will determine healthcare’s future. In this episode of Leadership Rounds, Dr. Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH—physician, operator, and former CDC Director—dives into exploring what it takes to lead through complexity and build systems that improve health at scale. Mandy traces her path...

In this episode of Leadership Rounds , Oxeon’s Dr. Reena Pande sits down with Laura Medford-Davis, MD, MS, a practicing emergency physician and Partner at McKinsey & Company, to unpack one of healthcare’s most urgent leadership challenges: the disconnect between physician leadership ambition and CEO representation. Laura shares her path from clinical training to health services research, feder...

Leadership isn’t always about becoming more confident. It’s about becoming more self-aware. In this episode of Leadership Rounds, physician executive Dr. Reena Pande sits down with Sheila Gujrathi, MD (multi-time biotech CEO, board leader, and best-selling author) for a candid conversation about leadership beyond credentials. Drawing from her book The Mirror Effect , Sheila shares her journey from...

Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande closes out the year with a powerful conversation featuring Rebecca Mitchell, MD, a product leader, global health practitioner, and now co-founder of Scrub Capital, an early-stage venture firm built around the expertise of clinician-operators. Rebecca shares her path from growing up in a rural healthcare desert to working in global health and training at UCSF,...

Psychologist-turned-operator Dana Udall (CCO, Nourish ) joins Oxeon’s Dr. Reena Pande to demystify how clinician leaders scale distributed care, align clinical quality with business outcomes, and bring an intentional, ACT-informed leadership style to cross-functional teams. She urges clinicians to help inform and govern the next wave of AI-enabled care delivery. Key Topics & Takeaways From pra...

Dr. William Shrank is CEO of Aradigm, launched in November 2024 and funded by Andreessen Horowitz, a carve-out insurance product for cell and gene therapy aimed at improving access and affordability of transformative therapies. Prior to launching Aradigm, Dr. Shrank served as Venture Partner, Bio and Health at Andreessen. Previously, Dr. Shrank served as Chief Medical Officer for Humana, where his...

Dr. Jasik is a board-certified pediatrician with a career spanning health technology startups, multidisciplinary care, education, and research. Prior roles in digital health include serving as Chief Medical Officer at Omada Health. At Verily, Carolyn supports the clinical and research teams to create and test the next generation of precision medicine solutions for chronic disease. She also holds a...

As Chief Medical Officer of OncoHealth, Dr. Norden leads clinical affairs and strategy, a cancer digital health company helping health plans, employers, oncologists, and patients navigate the physical, mental, and financial complexities of cancer. An accomplished neuro-oncologist, Dr. Norden previously served as CMO of COTA, an oncology company focused on the curation and use of real-world data an...

Dr. Feifer has dedicated his career to improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare and the health of populations served. Most recently, he served as Chief Medical Officer at InnovAge, a multi-state provider of PACE programs, serving frail dual-eligible seniors by delivering comprehensive patient-centric care, enabling them to age independently for as long as possible. Prior to joining Innov...

Dr. Liz Kwo, MD, MBA, MPH, is the Chief Commercial Officer of Everly Health, a digital health company serving millions of people annually by expanding access to virtual-first disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Before this, Dr. Kwo served as Deputy Chief Clinical Officer for Elevance. Dr. Kwo has founded several venture-backed companies throughout her career, including InfiniteMD (acquire...

Dr. Neel Shah, MD, MPP, FACOG, is Chief Medical Officer of Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, and visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School. He is also the co-founder of the March for Moms Association, a coalition of more than 20 leading organizations dedicated to increasing public and private investment in the wellbeing of mothers, and the founder of Co...

We’re thrilled to announce that Reena's podcast is relaunching under a new name: Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande! You can expect the same great host, just with a new name and fresh look. Each month, Reena will explore lessons of exceptional healthcare leaders through candid conversations with outstanding clinician executives who are catalyzing change across our industry. Stay tuned! We&...

Dr. Matt Patterson is the President of WelbeHealth, an organization that provides high quality, integrated, clinical and social care for vulnerable seniors through their PACE program. In his role as President, he oversees all operations for the business. He has long been dedicated to improving the value, accessibility, and experience of healthcare for all people and their caregivers. He’s led mark...

Erika Pabo, MD MBA is a physician, executive leader, and entrepreneur with deep experience building, operating, and transforming businesses across the value-based healthcare ecosystem. She currently serves as Chief Transformation Officer & Operations Leader for Humana’s Primary Care Organization, the largest senior focused primary care business in the country that operates in market as Centerw...

For this next episode of #ConversationsWithClinicians, I really wanted to highlight a duo, a great clinician executive alongside their non-clinician partner-in-crime, to shine a spotlight on how a partnership across disciplines can flourish and thrive and be a cornerstone for a company’s success. Today's guests are Ami Parekh, MD JD, Chief Health Officer at Included Health and Robin Glass, Pre...

Dr. Minal Patel is the currently the founder and CEO of Abacus Insights. After beginning his career as a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, he served as consultant at McKinsey, and held several roles at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey including Chief Strategy Officer. His former company Care Management International was acquired by iHealth Technologies. In this fun and wid...

This Virtual Roundtable hosted live on May 14, 2024 highlighted the experiences of three clinician CEOs leading early stage, venture-backed healthcare companies: - Jess Gaulton, MD, CEO of FamilyWell Health - Nicki Tessler, PsyD, MBA, CEO of BeMe Health - Rachel McCrickard, LMFT, CEO of Motivo Health In this episode, we explore lessons learned at the intersection of business and clinical disciplin...