Take Me to Hoag

In this episode, Hoag Board Chair Robert Brunswick sits down with Kathy Azeez-Narain, Hoag’s Chief Digital and Customer Innovation Officer, to explore how digital innovation and AI are reshaping the patient experience. From improving access to care to ensuring safety in high-stakes environments, Kathy shares how her team is building solutions that put patients first — including a new approach desi...

When a physician becomes a patient, the experience can change everything. In this episode, Dr. Allyson Brooks, Executive Medical Director of Hoag's Women’s Health Institute, shares her deeply personal journey of receiving cancer treatment at Hoag — the same health system where she has spent years building programs designed to care for women in life’s most defining moments. From the shock of diagno...

What draws nationally recognized leaders in digestive health and cancer care away from top academic medical centers? In Episode 2 of Take Me to Hoag, Board Chair Robert Brunswick sits down with Dr. Kenneth Chang, executive medical director of digestive health, and Dr. Steven Grossman, executive medical director of cancer, to explore why they chose Hoag and what they’ve been able to build since arr...

In our debut episode, host and Hoag Hospital Board Chair Robert Brunswick sits down with Hoag President and CEO Robert Braithwaite to explore what truly sets Hoag apart in a landscape increasingly dominated by “big healthcare.” From his early days as a Hoag intern to leading one of California’s most respected nonprofit health systems, Braithwaite shares how Hoag’s secret sauce comes down to three...