The Journey to Better

Bill sits down with Dr. Joe Park , current PGY3 Medical Resident and Cardiology Fellow applicant. They discuss his reflections in his application season for his fit both professionally and personally to programs while also aligning the "why" of his medical career to his decision in the pursuit of joy. Send us Fan Mail

Bill talks with Dr. Bobby Yeh about the challenges of applying the highest standard of scientific evaluation to impact clinical outcomes in the best interest of the patient. Dr. Yeh is the Founding Director of the Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Section Chief of Interventional Cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Katz-Silver Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medica...

Bill talks with Ramin Mousavi , President and CEO of Cathworks, about his career building high-performing teams that design, develop and launch breakthrough and transformational innovative products and programs.    He's held leadership roles in fast-growing startups and market-leading large medical device, aerospace, and technology companies and shares perspectives about the impact of perseve...

Friends and Cath Lab partners, Bill and Dr. Jamie McCabe discuss their personal experiences through fellowship, current philosophies on fellowship training and their roles and challenges in helping prepare the next generation of interventional cardiologists at UW Medicine. Learn More: Structural Heart Fellowship https://cardiology.uw.edu/education/subspecialty-fellowships/structural-heart-valve Se...

Bill sits down with Dr. Kalaivani "Vani" Mahadevan , an interventional cardiologist interventional cardiologist with a strong interest in high risk and CTO PCI in Portsmouth, England visiting UW in Seattle for a week of training as she navigates into the next chapter of her career. Send us Fan Mail

Bill talks with Scott Kater about his journey to leadership at Phillips as the Vice President, U.S. Sales / Image Guided Therapy-Devices. Send us Fan Mail

Bill talks with Dr. Rahul Bhindi about the emotions, failure and tribulations as a first year complex coronary operator. Send us Fan Mail

Bill talks with Stefan Harb about careers determined early in life and those that we seem to fall into and how to navigate them.   Send us Fan Mail

Bill discusses the inequalities in healthcare from Sam Conaway's perspective as President of Cardiology Sales with Boston Scientific. Send us Fan Mail

Bill talks with Dr. Amir Kaki about the incentives and culture that can lead to the weaponization of peer review. Send us Fan Mail

Bill talks with Dr. Ajay Kirtane about topics ranging from his recent deletion of his Twitter account to his perspectives on a journey to better. Send us Fan Mail

 Bill talks with Marika Cartier , a sophomore at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.  She hoped to ask Bill some guidance as she looks to potentially pursue a career in healthcare. Send us Fan Mail

Bill talks with Blake Bell , an industry veteran, about the role of industry in improving outcomes and the barriers to advancement from that perspective. Send us Fan Mail

In the lead up to the annual CRF Complications Course , Bill talks with Dr. Stèphane Rinfret and Dr. Kevin Croce about advice to new operators and how to take the right risks. Send us Fan Mail

Bill sits down with Dr. Alex Truesdell to talk about lessons from the Army (and Combat) for Interventional Cardiology. Send us Fan Mail

Bill talks with Dr. Dan Spoon and the focus of his 2020 paper outlining the importance of mental training through medical education. https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.09.530 Send us Fan Mail

Bill sits down with Dr. Brett Wanamaker to talk mindsets in life and in practice. Send us Fan Mail

Bill talks to Dr. Khal Alaswad about the past present and future of safe environments for learning and impacts to skill development in healthcare and beyond. Send us Fan Mail

Bill sits down with Dr. Adam Greenbaum about careers defined by change that faced resistance. Send us Fan Mail

Bill and Dr. Sid Schnur get to the root of things and the impacts on healthcare delivery. Send us Fan Mail

Bill sits down with Dr. Robert Riley and discuss their shared journey that started in Dr. Riley's fellowship and continues as a peer and friend in the PNW. Send us Fan Mail

Cody Pickett was a seemingly healthy x-UW & NFL Football Quarterback who suddenly found himself in the hospital needing an urgent open heart coronary revascularization.  He was told this was the only option.  Thankfully his network helped him find Bill and obtained a PCI.   His journey is one that highlight glaring obstacles for patients access to the best care available and the incentives for...

Dr. Paul Teirstein joined Dr. Bill Lombardi to talk him out of retirement and what retirement looks like for medical professionals in general. Send us Fan Mail

Dr. Craig Thompson joins Dr. Bill Lombardi in a conversation about careers in medicine that both saw and led many innovations in the treatment of complex coronary disease and the sacrifices it took both personally and professionally. Send us Fan Mail

Bill discusses work-life balance with his mentor and friends while on an annual fishing trip. Send us Fan Mail