Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas is Vice Chair of Integration and Innovation at Northwestern Medicine, Executive Treasurer of the American Urological Association, and a former CEO of one of the largest private urology groups in the country. She earned her MD at Northwestern, completed her residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and her MBA at MIT Sloan. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Jennifer talks with Ed about the spinal meningitis diagnosis at age three that pointed her toward medicine, what cha...
Jun 18, 2026•27 min•Ep. 317
Ansh Singhal is 18 years old, a senior at Coppell High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and the founder and CEO of A1 Media, a digital marketing agency he's been growing for two and a half years. His client roster already includes Adidas and Paiwan Football, who recently flew him to Japan to lead marketing for an international tournament. He's headed to SMU's Cox School of Business in the fall. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Ansh sits down with Ed for one of the show's occasional non-healt...
Jun 11, 2026•23 min•Ep. 316
Dr. Lev Gonick is the Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University, where he leads technology infrastructure, AI innovation, and smart city architecture for the nation's largest public university. An academic and technology pioneer for more than three decades, Lev has been a sitting CIO for 25 years, with prior leadership at Case Western Reserve University and co-founding regional digital equity initiatives like DigitalC. In this bonus episode of DGTL Voices, Lev tells Ed abo...
Jun 06, 2026•30 min•Ep. 315
Dr. Rob Bart is the Chief Medical Information Officer at UPMC, where he is leading one of the largest EHR consolidations in the country- bringing the entire health system onto a single Epic instance. A pediatric intensivist by training, Rob has been a pioneer in the CMIO role for more than two decades, with prior leadership at Cerner and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Rob tells Ed about growing up in Hawaii (his high school classmate happened to...
Jun 04, 2026•28 min•Ep. 314
Israel Krush is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hyro, the responsible AI agent platform used by dozens of the largest US health systems to safely automate millions of patient interactions. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Israel tells Ed how mandatory military service at 18 reshaped his sense of responsibility, why his parents' insistence on eight extracurriculars was unintentional CEO training, and how Hyro shifted from a general AI agent company to an all-in healthcare bet. Along the way: the case fo...
May 28, 2026•27 min•Ep. 313
Craig Scharton is the founding site director of Connect Labs Charlotte at The Pearl, an innovation district bringing together Wake Forest School of Medicine, IRCAD's surgical training facility, Siemens Healthineers, and Atrium Advocate Health in one collaborative space. In this episode, Craig tells Ed about getting cancer at 23 and again at 35, the five ideals that guide his life (love, truth, beauty, wisdom, peace), and why he believes Charlotte can become the most supportive place in the count...
May 21, 2026•28 min•Ep. 312
Dr. Luis Garcia is the President of Rush Medical Group in Chicago, leading 1,000 physicians and 500 APPs across the Rush footprint. He grew up in a poor neighborhood in Mexico City where his father started a medical practice in his grandmother's kitchen that eventually became a hospital. He applied to all 220 surgery residency programs in the US as a foreign medical graduate, got two interviews, and flew to Fargo, North Dakota in the middle of a blizzard because he refused to do a phone intervie...
May 14, 2026•31 min•Ep. 311
Phoebe Yang is the daughter of a single-parent Chinese immigrant father who raised three daughters in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She went to law school intending to become a law professor, until her father was diagnosed with late-stage colorectal cancer and given four months to live. That moment changed everything. From there, Phoebe built a career that spans AOL Time Warner (launching their China office), Discovery (turning around Discovery Health and doing early deals with Amazon, Google, and Micro...
May 07, 2026•37 min•Ep. 310
Dr. Avonia Richardson-Miller is Senior Vice President at Hackensack Meridian Health. She grew up working the land on a family farm in North Carolina, earned a BS in Chemistry from Howard University, became a research chemist, an entrepreneur, an adjunct professor, and then found her way into healthcare leadership. Nine years ago, she underwent open heart surgery that changed everything. In this episode, Avonia talks about why faith isn't passive, why she chooses joy as an active daily decision, ...
Apr 30, 2026•25 min•Ep. 309
Dr. Jenna Taglienti is the Psychiatry Residency Training Director at Mather Hospital, part of Northwell Health. The day before Thanksgiving, she went to the hospital thinking she had a kidney stone. A CT scan caught a tumor in her right lower lung. She's a lifelong non-smoker, a mother of three, and a physician who spent years putting everyone else first. After four rounds of chemo and a JAMA essay that resonated with thousands of healthcare professionals, Jenna is sharing what she learned: you ...
Apr 28, 2026•29 min•Ep. 308
