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How Surgeons Can Build Key Leadership Skills to Extend Their Influence across Health Systems
Ali Tavakkoli, MD, explores how surgeons can build on their clinical experience through mentorship and targeted leadership training to strengthen negotiation, communication, financial stewardship, and team development skills needed to guide change across complex health systems.
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What Is a Medical Breakthrough Worth if Patients Can’t Get It?
HealthSpark, Episode 31: Jeff Levin-Scherz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, explores the promise of GLP-1 medications and the challenges that determine who can benefit from them.
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Health Care Costs Are Rising Everywhere. What if the Solution Starts With Measuring What Matters to Patients?
HealthSpark, Episode 30: David Bernstein, orthopedic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Affiliate Scholar at the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative, explores how routinely tracking patient-reported outcomes and rewarding care teams for improving them could help health systems control costs while making people healthier.
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Translating Surgical Expertise into Leadership Impact
While surgeons hone critical thinking, teamwork, and calm under pressure in the OR, formal leadership training can help them channel those strengths into broader organizational impact across today’s evolving health care landscape.
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The Implementation Gap: Why Evidence May Fail Without Strong Leaders
Turning evidence into impact requires more than rigorous research—it demands leaders who design studies for real-world implementation, align stakeholders, and bridge the persistent gap between what works in theory and what transforms care in practice.
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How Do We Turn Global Unmet Need into Sustainable Patient Access?
HealthSpark, Episode 14: Tisha Boatman, Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Siemens Healthineers, explores how strategic decisions in health technology and delivery can transform markets and patient lives by expanding sustainable access to high-quality care around the world.
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Can Smarter Payment Design Turn Mental Health Care into Standard Care?
HealthSpark, Episode 13: Sandhya Rao, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and a practicing primary care physician, explores how innovative care models, thoughtful benefit design, and real-world implementation challenges intersect in the effort to expand access to high-quality and affordable mental health care.
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How Can the Lifesaving Power of Diagnostics Be More Fully Realized?
HealthSpark, Episode 12: Rushdy Ahmad, Director of the Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator at Harvard's Wyss Institute, explores how biomarker-driven diagnostics can transform critical unmet needs into groundbreaking tools that reach patients around the world.
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What if Your Country's Strongest Economic Engine is Health Care Itself?
HealthSpark, Episode 11: Dr. Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems and Director of the Health System Innovation Lab at Harvard University, examines how rapid population aging, outdated regulations, and workforce constraints are requiring countries to reimagine health as less of a budgetary burden and more as a foundation for economic growth.
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If Mental Health is "Covered", Why is Care Still So Hard to Get?
HealthSpark, Episode 10: Bill Frist, physician, former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader, and health care investment and policy leader, examines why policy promises like mental health parity can still fall short in real-world access.
