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Rural hospitals in the U.S. have been closing at a steady pace for over 50 years, and the country now has one of the lowest rates of acute hospital beds per capita among OECD nations. A five-year, $50 billion federal program aims to slow the bleeding, but it may only be a stopgap.
Dr. Tim Ferris, Vice President of the Health Care Practice at InterSystems and former National Director of Transformation for the NHS in England, joins host John Marchica to unpack the Rural Health Transformation Program, why value-based care models built for large health systems don't translate to rural America, and what lessons the U.S. can borrow from his time inside the NHS.
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🎙 ABOUT DR. TIM FERRIS
Dr. Tim Ferris joined InterSystems in February 2026 as Vice President, Healthcare Practice. He brings decades of experience directing large-scale health care technology transformations and leading major physician organizations to drive better patient outcomes and enterprise efficiency.Prior to joining InterSystems, Dr. Ferris served as President of Health care at Red Cell Partners, a technology incubator and investment firm. Previously, he was the National Director of Transformation at England’s National Health Service (NHS), as well as CEO and Chair of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization and Senior Vice President for Population Health at Mass General Brigham.
A recognized leader in health IT, Dr. Ferris’ advisory roles include multiple committees at the National Academy of Medicine and the health policy advisory board at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Ferris trained in medicine and public health at Harvard University and continues to lecture at Harvard Business School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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U.S. health care spending keeps rising, quality scores keep climbing, and yet the care most Americans receive has barely improved. The measurement systems designed to drive better outcomes may be making things worse.
Dr. Michael Chernew, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and former Chair of MedPAC, joins host John Marchica to examine why decades of quality measurement have failed to move the needle on actual care quality, and whether value-based payment models can survive the incentive distortions they were built to fix.
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🎙 ABOUT DR. MICHAEL CHERNEW
Michael Chernew, PhD, is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and Director of the Health care Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on improving the health care system through novel benefit designs, Medicare Advantage, alternative payment models, low-value care, and rising health care spending. Dr. Chernew currently chairs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), having previously served as vice chair (2012–2014) and member (2008–2012), and has thrice served on CMS technical advisory panels (2000, 2004, 2010) reviewing Medicare trust fund financial assumptions. Additionally, he is a member of the CBO’s Panel of Health Advisors, Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Health Connector Board, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a senior Visiting Fellow at MITRE, and co-editor of the American Journal of Managed Care. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in economics from Stanford University, and was awarded both the John D. Thompson Prize (1998) and the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award (1999).🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
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Value-based care has been the defining promise of health care reform for two decades. Yet new evidence still takes an average of 17 years to reach standard clinical practice, payers and providers remain structurally misaligned, and most VBC models still prioritize payment mechanics over actual patient outcomes.
Don Calcagno, Founder of ValuesEdge and former Chief Population Health Officer at Advocate Health, joins host John Marchica to talk about why value-based care is still in the early innings despite years of promise, and how closing the structural gap between payers and providers is the real unlock that the industry keeps avoiding.
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🎙 ABOUT DON CALCAGNO
Don has 30 years of experience across population health, managed care, operations, clinical integration, accountable care, laboratory sciences, process improvement, analytics and research. He started his career at Lutheran General Hospital in 1992, with a brief stint at AT&T. He serves on the boards of the Devoted Health joint venture and Medicare Shared Savings ACO. Don also leads the Leadership Institute’s Value-Based Care/Population Health forum. A former lab tech, he is a senior operating fellow of the Health Management Academy and a past fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.Calcagno earned his Bachelor of Science in medical technology from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. He also has a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Primary care physicians are burning out, and patients are paying the price. With the average primary care visit lasting just 15 minutes, the volume-based treadmill is pushing doctors out of the profession and leaving patients without meaningful, preventive care.
Larry Kutscher, CEO of MDVIP, joins host John Marchica to make the case for a fundamentally different model. They dig into why membership medicine may be the structural fix that value-based care never delivered, and how reducing patient panels from thousands to hundreds could be the key to restoring both physician fulfillment and long-term patient outcomes.
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🎙 ABOUT LARRY KUTSCHER
Larry has over 30 years of executive leadership experience driving transformation and growth for industry-defining businesses with a passion for building and inspiring high-performing teams, cultivating winning organizational cultures and creating value through operational innovation. He was most recently CEO for A Place for Mom, Inc., North America’s largest senior care referral service, and currently serves as chairman of its Board of Directors. While CEO, he reshaped the company's go-to market strategy and delivered strong revenue growth by building world-class teams to meet the needs of family caregivers and community customers. Prior to that, he was CEO of TravelClick, more than doubling the travel technology provider’s revenue and earnings over eight years. Previous appointments also include CEO of Register.com, General Manager of the Small Business Group at Dun & Bradstreet and various leadership positions at American Express. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Brown University.🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
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Health care spends trillions treating disease, but far less preventing it. The gap between what we know works and what actually gets implemented may be the most expensive problem in medicine.
Dr. Barry Davis, physician, professor, and author of Preventioneers, joins host John Marchica to explore why prevention so rarely makes it from research to reality, and what it would take for health system leaders to finally close that gap. ================================================
🎙 ABOUT DR. BARRY R. DAVIS
Barry R. Davis is a physician-scientist, biostatistician, and clinical trialist whose career has centered on prevention — not only as a medical strategy, but as a societal responsibility.He is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Data Science at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, where he previously served as Chair of the Department and Director of the Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials. He also held the Guy S. Parcel Chair in Public Health. Based in Houston and the Texas Medical Center, his work has shaped national and international approaches to cardiovascular prevention.
Dr. Davis served as Principal Investigator of ALLHAT, one of the largest hypertension trials ever conducted, and led SHEP, a landmark study demonstrating the benefits of treating systolic hypertension in older adults. He also held leadership roles in the Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program (HDFP). He contributed to the early development of the SPRINT trial and later served on its Data and Safety Monitoring Committee.
In addition to directing large-scale trials, he has served on more than 150 Data and Safety Monitoring Committees and held leadership roles in national and international professional societies.
Across decades of clinical research and public health leadership, a recurring question emerged: Why does prevention so often struggle to gain traction, even when the evidence is strong?
Scientific insight alone does not guarantee action. Institutional incentives, political pressures, economic resistance, and human psychology shape whether early warnings are heeded. That inquiry ultimately led to The Preventioneers: Diseases, Disasters, and the Discoveries
That Changed Our World (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026), a narrative history exploring how individuals across disciplines recognized danger early and what allowed some to succeed where others stalled.
Today, Dr. Davis writes and speaks about prevention, leadership, and the persistent gap between knowledge and action, offering perspective on how societies can respond more effectively to emerging risks before harm becomes widespread.
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Value-based care has been the goal for decades. So why does it still feel like we're moving in slow motion? The answer may come down to data, incentives, and the willingness to cross what one industry veteran calls "the rickety bridge over a chasm of death."
David Snow, Chairman and CEO, Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA Business joins host John Marchica to discuss why technology has finally caught up to the promise of value-based care, how prospective bundles are changing the game for providers and payers, and what it will take to move American health care past the tipping point.
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🎙 ABOUT DAVID SNOW
Mr. Snow is a nationally recognized health care executive with 40 years of experience leading Fortune 50 companies, health plans, hospitals and several innovative health care start-ups. He has been featured in numerous articles and is a frequently sought after public speaker. Mr. Snow was acknowledged as one of America’s Best CEO’s by Institutional Investor in 2008, and in 2010, he was named #27 on the Harvard Business Review list of “Best Performing CEO’s in the World”. Additionally, Mr. Snow was recognized as the regional E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 along with being a national finalist, and was also named a regional finalist as the Cedar Gate CEO in 2021.Mr. Snow is currently the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA Business, a provider of technology-powered end-to-end solutions designed to enable customer success in value-based care, encompassing enterprise data management, analytics, population health, bundles and capitation payment technologies, along with other managed services.
Prior to Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA Business, Mr. Snow was the Chairman & CEO of Medco Health Solutions, a Fortune 34 company. Mr. Snow took Medco public in 2003 and grew it from $30 billion to $72 billion in revenue over a 9 year period. Before Medco, Mr. Snow held positions including President and COO of Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, EVP of Oxford Health Plans and President of HMO New Jersey for US Health care. Earlier in his career, Mr. Snow founded his first company, Managed Health care Systems (later renamed AmeriChoice), which was later sold to United Health care.
He is on the Board for Teladoc, Inc., which is publicly traded on the NYSE. Mr. Snow is also on the Boards of Premise Health and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Mr. Snow holds a Bachelors Degree from Bates College, and a Masters Degree in Health care Administration from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He and his family reside in Darien, Connecticut.
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Pediatric care is one of the most fragmented and underfunded corners of the American health system. Parents are left as de facto care coordinators, specialists work in silos, and children with complex needs fall through the cracks. What would it look like to actually fix that?
Danish Qureshi, Founder and CEO, Zarminali Pediatrics joins host John Marchica to discuss the personal experience that sparked a new model for pediatric care, why fragmentation in pediatrics is a problem the system has ignored for too long, and what it takes to build an integrated multi-specialty practice designed around children and families.
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🎙 ABOUT DANISH QURESHI
Having personally dealt with the struggles of finding comprehensive pediatric care for a child with an autoimmune disorder, and the overwhelming stress that can place on a family left having to coordinate their own care, Danish is committed to the mission of changing the way that pediatric care is delivered across the country.Prior to Zarminali, Danish was the Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of LifeStance Health (NASDAQ: LFST). Founded with the mission of increasing access to trusted, affordable, and personalized mental health care, LifeStance has grown into the nation’s largest provider of virtual and in-person outpatient mental health care, with approximately 7,000 clinicians and more than 550 centers across 33 states. Danish oversaw all operations nationwide of LifeStance-supported practices as well as the shared services teams including marketing, customer care, real estate, credentialing, integrations, and payor contracting. Prior to the role of President and COO, Danish served as the Chief Growth Officer of LifeStance, overseeing all growth initiatives, including de novo site openings and the expansion of LifeStance’s existing footprint into new markets, clinician recruiting, and patient marketing nationwide.
Prior to LifeStance, Danish was the former SVP of Strategic Initiatives at Accelecare Wound Centers, Inc., and COO of the post-acute division, Accelecare Wound Professionals, LLC. During his tenure, the post-acute division launched and grew into a nationwide network of 400 skilled nursing facilities under contract, with physicians employed across 22 states. Prior to Accelecare, Danish worked at Nautic Partners, a Providence, RI-based mid-market private equity firm, with a focus on health care services. He began his career as a management consultant with Bain & Company.
Danish holds a BA from Northwestern University.
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On Chicago's West Side, a 100-year-old safety net hospital serves a community where the average life expectancy is 20 years shorter than it is just seven minutes away. Loretto Hospital collects 32 cents on the dollar, runs on 84% Medicaid, and still finds ways to innovate, collaborate, and show up for people that the rest of the system has left behind.
Tesa Anewishki, CEO, Loretto Hospital joins host John Marchica to discuss what it really takes to lead a safety net hospital, how community-rooted care models are closing the gap on health disparities, and why collaboration beats competition when people's lives are on the line.
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🎙 ABOUT TESA ANEWISHKI
Tesa Anewishki is the first African and Native American woman to serve as president and chief executive officer in the hospital’s 100-year history. Loretto is an acute care, safety net hospital that provides access to essential medical services to the Austin Community and adjacent west side neighborhoods. She governs operations for 20 primary care and specialty clinics and leads more than 500 team members.An equity advocate and patient ambassador, Tesa knows that accessibility to high-quality healthcare is more than an individual’s right – but what is, humane and just! Tesa seeks to address the death gap through transformative investment in communities of color that have often been overlooked and underserved. She is a catalyst for creative and innovative solutions that address the political and social determinants of health that contribute to the decrease in life expectancy.
Tesa started working at Loretto Hospital in 2010 as the director of marketing and foundation administrator directing media, public relations, advertising, and community and clinical outreach. Later, she became the chief development officer and executive director, securing more than $36 million dollars in grant funding and donations. A seasoned strategist, she began her career working in advertising and brand management for national consumer products and media firms, including American Urban Radio Networks, GeoSegment Marketing for General Mill,s and Proctor & Gardner Advertising. She later joined the iconic Johnson Publishing Company as the marketing director of JET Magazine, with responsibility for the strategic planning, management, budget, execution, and evaluation of nationwide marketing programs and merchandising activities for advertisers.
A Chicago native, Tesa holds an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management and is a graduate of Roosevelt University with a degree in Integrated Marketing Communications. Tesa has been a community advocate and involved in community service for over 30 years. She is a current Board Member and previous Board Chair of Featherfist, one of Chicago’s largest homeless outreach agencies. She also serves on the Westside Community Stakeholders Executive Committee. She is a 2023 recipient of the 100 Westside Women of Wisdom and Inspiration Awards and received an honorary award from the Westside Chamber of Commerce for outstanding service to the community. She often volunteers her time at Claudia’s & Eddie’s Place, a recovery home, to mentor women on job readiness and career paths.
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The VA is one of the largest integrated health systems in the country, but it operates unlike anything in the private sector. What can pharmacy leaders and health system executives learn from an organization that has embedded pharmacists into clinical care for decades, given them prescriptive privileges, and built virtual urgent care teams from the ground up?
Dr. Eric Scott, Former Chief of Pharmacy, US Department of Veterans Affairs, joins Health Care Rounds to discuss what makes the VA uniquely positioned to innovate, how the evolving role of pharmacists challenges private sector norms, and what a mission-driven health system looks like from the inside.
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🎙 ABOUT DR. ERIC G. SCOTT
Eric G. Scott, PharmD, is an innovative health care leader and recently retired from VA as the founding Chief of Pharmacy at VHA VISN 2 VA Health Connect, a virtual health care center serving the Veterans of New York and New Jersey. Throughout a distinguished 28-year career in VA, Dr. Scott has specialized in bridging the gap between complex clinical services and large-scale contact center technology. As a champion of "upstream" health care, he developed the first-of-its-kind virtual urgent care Clinical Pharmacist Provider (CPP) model and has overseen clinical operations handling millions of annual contacts. His work focuses on pharmacist-led disease management, clinical quality, and the strategic modernization of federal health care infrastructure.🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
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Physician leadership can make or break a health system. What does it really take to earn doctors’ trust and move an organization forward?
Dr. Jonathan Stallkamp, Chief Medical Officer of Main Line Health, joins host John Marchica to discuss building physician engagement, developing future clinical leaders, and strengthening culture inside a complex health system.
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🎙 ABOUT JONATHAN STALLKAMP
Dr. Jonathan Stallkamp serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Main Line Health. Dr. Stallkamp, a leader focused on safe, high-quality and equitable care, joined the System in 2005.As the Chief Medical Officer for Main Line Health, Dr. Stallkamp provides executive oversight of all clinical operations, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality and patient-centered care across the System. He leads initiatives that advance clinical excellence, quality improvement, patient safety and physician engagement, while fostering collaboration among Main Line Health’s hospitals, physician practices and clinical programs. In this role, Dr. Stallkamp works to align clinical performance with organizational goals, regulatory standards and best practices that support Main Line Health’s mission to deliver superior care to the communities it serves.
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Regional health leaders are being asked to do the impossible right now: deliver on systemwide strategy while staying deeply responsive to the realities on the ground. In rural markets especially, the pressures around access, staffing, and infrastructure are forcing health systems to rethink what “care delivery” looks like in practice.
Natalie Baggio, President, Corewell Health South joins Health Care Rounds host John Marchica, CEO of Darwin Research Group, to discuss balancing local priorities with system strategy, strengthening workforce pipelines to improve retention and reduce burnout, and expanding access through partnerships and new care models.
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🎙 ABOUT NATALIE L. BAGGIO
Prior to joining Corewell Health, Baggio served in multiple health care leadership roles at Mercy Health South in St. Louis, Missouri. Natalie earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership from Greenville College, a bachelor of science in nursing from Chamberlain College of Nursing, a master of business administration from Webster University, and a doctor of nursing practice from Baylor University. Natalie is currently enrolled in the Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship Program
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Independent community health systems are under increasing pressure as health care continues to consolidate. What does it really take to remain independent while continuing to deliver high-quality care at scale?
Dr. Allen Smith, President & CEO, and Dr. Sam Ash, CIO of South Shore Health join Health Care Rounds host John Marchica, to discuss maintaining independence as a community health system, building connected infrastructure across care settings, and approaching technology adoption with discipline and purpose.
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🎙 ABOUT ALLEN L. SMITH, MD, MS
Allen L. Smith is President and CEO of South Shore Health. Previously Dr. Smith was President of the Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization (BWPO), a faculty practice plan for over 1,800 physicians. Earlier in his career, Dr. Smith served as Assistant Vice President for Strategy and Business Planning at Tufts Health Plan. He began his medical career as a primary care physician at North Shore Medical Center.
Dr. Smith earned his Master of Science degree in Health Administrative Medicine and Population Health from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He earned his Medical Degree at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He has a BA from Dartmouth College, graduating magna cum laude.
🎙 ABOUT SAMUEL ASH, MD, MPH
Samuel Y. Ash, MD, MPH is Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology Operations and Innovation at South Shore Health, where he also practices as a critical care physician. At Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Ash serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, blending clinical expertise with leadership in health technology. His work focuses on creating innovative solutions that enhance patient safety, improve clinician experience, and advance interoperability across care settings.
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We’re ringing in 2026 with Mark Cuban!
Prescription pricing remains one of the most opaque and frustrating parts of the health care system, leaving employers, providers, and patients struggling to understand where costs come from and who truly benefits.
Mark Cuban joins Health Care Rounds to talk about why prescription pricing became so complex, how a lack of transparency drives higher costs, and how his company Cost Plus Drugs is stripping away unnecessary layers and markups to deliver simpler, more predictable pricing built on trust.
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🎙 ABOUT MARK CUBAN
Mark Cuban is a self-made billionaire entrepreneur known for his early tech ventures like Broadcast.com, his ownership of the Dallas Mavericks, and his role as a "Shark" on ABC's Shark Tank, investing in numerous startups and expanding into media, film, and healthcare, always championing innovation and disruption.In 2019, Mark co-founded Costplusdrugs.com with the aim of lowering generic drug prices for end consumers in the U.S., starting the company after receiving an email from a radiologist named Alex Oshmyansky, who pitched the idea of an online-based pharmacy. He often refers to Cost Plus Drugs as a critique and disruptor of the US health care system, including offering transparent, direct-to-consumer pricing and reducing the role of pharmacy benefit managers.
Mark has earned a number of accolades including being named to the Texas Business Hall of Fame, the Horatio Alger Award, the SXSW Hall of Fame, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and GQ Man of the Year.
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Health systems are facing unprecedented pressure as physician burnout, workforce shortages, population growth, and rapid technology adoption collide. Leaders are being asked to improve care quality, support clinicians, and transform delivery models all at once.
Dr. Sowmya Viswanathan, Chief Physician Executive at BayCare Health System, joins Health Care Rounds podcast to discuss physician engagement and burnout, BayCare’s shift toward academic medicine, how technology and AI can restore joy in practice, and why flexible physician alignment models are critical for the future of care.
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🎙 ABOUT THE DR. SOWMYA VISWANATHAN
Dr. Sowmya Viswanathan, MD, MHCM, MBA, FACP, is the chief physician executive for BayCare Health System and president of BayCare Medical Group. BayCare is one of the nation’s top-performing academic health systems, serving West Central Florida through 16 hospitals, 400+ care centers, and a network of over 6,000 physicians. Dr. Viswanathan oversees enterprise-wide clinical operations, strategy, and innovation, driving high-quality, value-based care across hospitals, ambulatory services, graduate medical education, research and digital health.An internal medicine physician with over 20 years of clinical experience, Dr. Viswanathan has held leadership roles at major health systems including Dartmouth Hitchcock, UMass, and Tenet Health, and has taught at Harvard School of Public Health. She earned her MHCM from Harvard and is a nationally recognized speaker and mentor for emerging physician leaders. In 2025, Becker’s Hospital Review named her a “CMO to Know.”
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Primary care sits at the center of American health care, yet clinicians face mounting burnout, shrinking margins, and a system that often rewards procedures over prevention. With physician shortages growing and patient needs rising, the future of primary care is at a crossroads.
Dr. Greg Whisman, Chief Medical Officer at CareMore Health, joins Health Care Rounds to discuss the pressures driving the primary care crisis, why reimbursement and workforce models need a reset, and how team-based care, tech enablement, and value-based strategies can restore sustainability and meaning to frontline medicine.
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🎙 ABOUT DR. GREG WHISMAN MD, MBAChief national clinical leader for Advance Primary Care responsible for comprehensive care delivery. Leading population health innovation over CareMore's chronic and complex patients. Oversees the Medical Services Organization including the Case Management, Medical Management and Pharmacy. Develops, implements, and directs the clinical activities that impact health care quality and cost outcomes across the continuum.
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Behind every headline about rising premiums is a deeper truth: our health care system is structurally unsustainable.
In this episode of Health Care Rounds Podcast, former US Secretary of Veteran Affairs, Dr. David Shulkin, explains why real reform requires more than subsidies and payment tweaks. We cover everything from misaligned incentives to lessons from the VA’s population-based model and what it’ll take to actually fix U.S. health care.
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🎙 ABOUT THE DR. DAVID SHULKIN
The Honorable David J. Shulkin was nominated by President Trump to serve as the ninth Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) and was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 13, 2017.
Prior to his confirmation as Secretary, Dr. Shulkin served as VA’s Under Secretary for Health for 18 months, leading the Nation’s largest integrated health care system, with over 1,700 sites of care serving nearly nine million Veterans.
Before he began his service with VA, Dr. Shulkin held numerous chief executive roles at Morristown Medical Center, and the Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organization. He also served as President and CEO of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
Dr. Shulkin has held numerous physician leadership roles including Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Temple University Hospital, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital. He has also held academic positions including Chairman of Medicine and Vice Dean at Drexel University School of Medicine.
As an entrepreneur, Dr. Shulkin founded and served as Chairman and CEO of DoctorQuality, one of the first consumer-oriented sources of information on quality and safety in healthcare. A board-certified internist, Dr. Shulkin is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and he completed his internship at Yale University School of Medicine and a residency and fellowship in General Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Presbyterian Medical Center. He also received advanced training in outcomes research and economics as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Shulkin has been named as one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in the Country” by Modern Healthcare. He has also previously been named among the “One Hundred Most Influential People in American Healthcare.” He has been married to his wife, Dr. Merle Bari, for more than 30 years. They are the parents of two grown children.
🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
Health Care Rounds is a weekly podcast developed for health care leaders who are at the forefront of health care delivery and payment reform. Join Darwin Research Group founder and CEO John Marchica as he discusses the latest advancements in health care business news and policy developments.
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Specialty pharmacy plays a critical role in patient outcomes, but health systems often struggle to manage operations effectively while maintaining continuity of care.
In this episode of Health Care Rounds, host John Marchica talks with Jigar Thakkar, PharmD, CEO of Longitude Rx, about how his company is helping leading health systems reimagine specialty pharmacy through technology, data integration, and partnership.
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🎙 ABOUT JIGAR THAKKAR, PHARMD
Jigar is leading Longitude Rx, the first launched solution from Longitude Health. Previously, he built a $470 million specialty pharmacy at OU Health, served as Managing Director at FTI Consulting, and led engagements with health systems and Fortune 100 companies. He holds advanced degrees from Midwestern University, Dartmouth College, and Northwestern University.
🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
Health Care Rounds is a weekly podcast developed for health care leaders who are at the forefront of health care delivery and payment reform. Join Darwin Research Group founder and CEO John Marchica as he discusses the latest advancements in health care business news and policy developments.
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Across the country, health systems are chasing the promise of value-based care, but few have figured out how to make it work.
David Carmouche, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Lumeris, joins host John Marchica to discuss what it really takes to make value-based care work at scale.
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🎙 ABOUT DAVID CARMOUCHE
David Carmouche, MD, is the Executive Vice President & Chief Clinical Transformation Officer at Lumeris. Dr. Carmouche is a visionary leader in transformational healthcare delivery, with a unique blend of provider, payer, retail, and integrated delivery network leadership experience.
Prior to joining Lumeris, Dr. Carmouche served as Walmart’s Senior Vice President of Healthcare Delivery, where he led the fleet of Walmart Health centers, Walmart Health Virtual Care, a value-based care partnership with Optum, and Walmart’s work to address Social Determinants of Health. Dr. Carmouche has also held significant leadership roles with Ochsner Health, the largest nonprofit academic healthcare system in the Gulf South, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, where he introduced the company’s first value-based care contracts. Earlier in his career, he built and led a multidisciplinary internal medicine and preventive cardiology practice.
Dr. Carmouche attended Tulane University and LSU Medical School in New Orleans. Board-certified in Internal Medicine, he completed his residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he later served as Chief Resident. He serves as President of the Board of the Consortium for Southeastern Healthcare Quality and on the advisory board at Stellar Health. He has served on the board of the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations.
🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
Health Care Rounds is a weekly podcast developed for health care leaders who are at the forefront of health care delivery and payment reform. Join Darwin Research Group founder and CEO John Marchica as he discusses the latest advancements in health care business news and policy developments.
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Burnout among health care workers remains a critical issue years after the height of COVID-19.
In this episode of Health Care Rounds, Dr. Adele Webb, Executive Dean of Healthcare Initiatives at Strategic Education, Inc. shares insights from a national survey of health care workers, revealing what’s really driving nursing burnout and how education can help retain talent.
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🎙 ABOUT DR. ADELE WEBB
Adele Webb earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Akron, her Master’s in Nursing from The Ohio State University, and her Ph.D. in Nursing from Wayne State University. She began her nursing career as a NICU nurse and transitioned into the emergency room in a pediatric setting.
In the early 1990s, Adele began focusing on HIV in underdeveloped countries. Over the last 25 years, Adele’s focus has been on international nurse capacity building as it relates to both communicable and non-communicable diseases. She has received extensive funding for her international work and has published her findings in several refereed journals. She has contributed to WHO guidelines, testified to the Institute of Medicine, and given testimony to the White House on nursing workforce issues.
A sought-out speaker on international nursing care issues, Adele continues to collaborate with the World Health Organization as well as the World NCD Congress. This work has resulted in Adele’s contributions to nurse capacity building in 56 countries. In recognition of her body of work, Adele has received not only the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Lifetime Achievement Award she has also received the Nicholas Andrew Cummings Award for Excellence in Interprofessional Practice from the National Academies of Practice. Adele is an International Council of Nurses Global Health Fellow, a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
Health Care Rounds is a weekly podcast developed for health care leaders who are at the forefront of health care delivery and payment reform. Join Darwin Research Group founder and CEO John Marchica as he discusses the latest advancements in health care business news and policy developments.
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What does it take to lead 100,000 health care workers through constant disruption?
In this episode of Health Care Rounds, host John Marchica sits down with John D’Angelo, MD, FACEP, President & CEO of Northwell Health, to discuss his journey from physician to chief executive. Dr. D'Angelo shares critical lessons learned from managing COVID-19 surges, his vision for maintaining organizational culture across 100,000 employees, and where he sees the greatest opportunities in healthcare delivery.
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🎙 ABOUT JOHN D’ANGELO, MD, FACEP
A physician first and foremost, Dr. John D’Angelo leads with compassion. With over 25 years of practical experience, he continues to transform health care operations with his recent appointment as president and CEO of Northwell Health, the Northeast’s largest nonprofit health system.
Dr. D’Angelo oversees a complex network of 28 hospitals and 104,000 employees, including over 1,000 outpatient facilities, 22,000 nurses and over 20,000 physicians with an operating budget of $22.6 billion. Northwell cares for more than 3 million people annually in the New York metro area, including Long Island, the Hudson Valley, western Connecticut and beyond.
His background in emergency medicine informed his leadership in Northwell’s operational response to COVID-19, expanding his role to become the chief of integrated operations for the entire health system. He also co-led an innovative, award-winning data solution, Real-Time Actionable Data, to enhance operational visibility. Previously, he oversaw all of Northwell’s emergency departments and was instrumental in the health system’s lifesaving sepsis prevention initiatives. A Long Island native, Dr. D'Angelo received his medical degree from SUNY Stony Brook and subsequently completed a residency in emergency medicine at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA. He also served as medical director to numerous EMS agencies throughout his career and served in the United States Army Reserve from 2001-2011.
🎙 ABOUT HEALTH CARE ROUNDS
Health Care Rounds is a weekly podcast developed for health care leaders who are at the forefront of health care delivery and payment reform. Join Darwin Research Group founder and CEO John Marchica as he discusses the latest advancements in health care business news and policy developments.
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