In season 6 Episode 6 I am delighted to welcome Graham Walker, MD to the podcast. Dr Walker is an emergency physician by clinical background who practices in San Francisco, completing his medical school training at Stanford University School of Medicine. He also majored in social policy as an undergraduate and has had a life long interest in software development and digital technology. Today he combines these interests and skills in his clinical and non-clinical roles. Graham is the co-director ...
Dec 24, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 10
I'm delighted to be back with S6 E9 and to welcome Associate Professor Vikram Palit to the podcast. Vikram is a Paediatric Respiratory Physician by clinical background and a Senior Lecturer in Health Systems science. He has held senior leadership roles across academia, clinical medicine and health services in Australia and the United Kingdom. He is also the founder and CEO of ConsultMed https://www.consultmed.co/about-us/ Consultmed brings together his passion for healthcare and embracing techno...
Oct 26, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 6Ep. 9
In S6 E8 I am delighted to welcome Associate Professor Bhavesh Patel to the podcast. Dr Patel is a senior paediatric surgeon at The Queensland Children's hospital with over two decades of experience in paediatric and neonatal, colorectal and urological surgery. He is the Queensland State-wide Clinical Lead for Surgical Quality Improvement through his appointment at Clinical Excellence Queensland. As an Associate Professor he teaches students at several medical schools, and provides state-wide ed...
Aug 28, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Season 6Ep. 8
In S6 E 7 I am delighted to welcome Dr Max Mollenkopf to the podcast. Max is a General Practitioner and practice owner based in NSW, Australia. He has worked in a variety of acute, subacute and governance roles in both public and private systems across Australia and New Zealand and has a deep understanding of the interfaces of healthcare, health administration and provision of health services. As a practising GP, Max enjoys providing quality and collaborative healthcare for his local community w...
Jul 26, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Interrupting the program as usual to bring you this short teaser episode about an upcoming conference I am very excited about, The Creative Careers in Medicine Conference 2025. This year's conference is taking place August 23rd and 24th in Melbourne. In this conversation I chat with CCIM founder Dr Amandeep Hansra about the event. Regular listeners will recall Dr Hansra first guested on the podcast back in 2021 and Season 2. At that time the CCIM community had 16 K members, today that number has...
Jul 06, 2025•16 min•Season 6Ep. 6
In S6 E5 I am delighted to welcome Dr Colin West MD PhD to the podcast. Dr West is a practising physician, educator, biostatistician and he is globally renowned for his research in professional and organisational wellbeing in healthcare. He has been deeply embedded in research work in this area with colleagues at Mayo Clinic for over two decades to advance and inform healthcare organisational and clinician wellbeing leadership, strategy and evidence-informed system and work unit interventions to...
Jun 28, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Season 6Ep. 5
In a special cross over episode the Mind Full Medic podcast is delighted to bring you this episode of the Heartline: Changemaking in Healthcare podcast with Dr Andrea Austin. I have the opportunity to flip the mic on Dr Austin, Emergency Physician and FACEP based in San Diego California, educator, simulationist, podcast host and well known to regular listeners as favourite "Frentor" of the Mind Full Medic. In this conversation we explore the fascinating world of changemaking in healthcare. As we...
Jun 07, 2025•59 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Season 6 Episode 3 returns with a Special Sponsor episode to align with The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW-ACT's May appeal. I'm delighted to have the opportunity to sit down with GP, writer and author Dr Sonia Henry.Dr Henry is also a councillor for the MBA NSW-ACT. She has been published in The Australian , RM Williams Magazine , The Sydney Morning Herald , Kevin MD , Australian Medical Students Association Magazine , The ANZ Journal of Surgery and on a variety of other platforms. Her m...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 3
In S6 E2 I am delighted to welcome Dr Joshua D Hartzell MD MS-HPEd FACP FIDSA to the podcast. Dr Hartzell is an Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine Physician and a retired Army Colonel who has spent 25 years in military medicine. He is also the author of a fantastic new book : A Prescription for Caring in Healthcare Leadership: Building a Culture of Compassion and Excellence. Throughout his career Dr Hartzell has held numerous leadership positions including being Program Director for the I...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 34 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 6 Episode 1 of the podcast. This season we will explore the overarching theme of hope as something we intentionally co-create through great strategy and action. I am incredibly honoured to be joined but not one but two "giants" in healthcare clinical leadership, Dr Don Berwick President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at at the Institute for Health Improvement and also special guest co-host Professor Catherine Crock Chair and Founder of the Hush Foundation. ( More complete bios in e...
Mar 02, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Season 6Ep. 1
In S5 E 16 I am delighted to welcome Mr Bob Chapman to the podcast. Mr Chapman "The People's CEO" is Chairman and CEO of St. Louis, MO-based Barry-Wehmiller, a $3.6B global capital equipment and engineering solutions company with more than 12,000 team members. Mr Chapman became the senior executive of Barry- Wehmiller in 1975 at age 30 when the 90-year-old business had $20 million in revenue, outdated technology and a very weak financial position. As you will hear in this conversation despite th...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 5Ep. 16
In S 5 E 15 I am delighted to welcome Fiona McCarthy to the podcast. Fiona is an occupational therapist by background specialising in workplace injury management and return to work. After her career in Occupational Therapy, Fiona became interested in primary prevention of workplace injury. She pursued post-graduate studies in Ergonomics , Safety and Health and Latrobe University. Since then, Fiona has worked in Safety and Wellbeing roles in Government, Higher Education and Health and Aged Care. ...
Dec 07, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 5Ep. 15
In S5 E14 I am delighted to welcome Pedja Stojicic , MD, MPH to the podcast. Dr Stojicic is an instructor for the DrPH Program at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health teaching two courses - Enabling Teams and Enabling Large System Change. Pedja is passionate about enabling health leaders to use community organizing practices to advocate for equitable health and well-being. He currently serves as an executive lead for People, Power, Health https://www.peoplepowerhealth.org/ . In the past, he...
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Welcome to milestone episode 75! Thank you to past guests for generously contributing their time, expertise and wisdom to the podcast and inspiring me and many listeners. Thank you to everyone listening for continuing to support and grow this podcast and platform. Five years on this passion project still brings me joy and energy. I can't think of a more fitting guest and topic to celebrate #75 than Dr Andrew Wines current president of podcast sponsor The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW-ACT...
Nov 10, 2024•43 min•Season 5Ep. 13
In S5 E12 I am delighted to introduce Dr Josh Case to the podcast. Josh is a medical doctor, software developer, startup founder and author. He is passionate about making the world's healthcare systems safer and more efficient by applying new and existing technology and by building the capability for individual clinicians to make change. In this conversation Josh describes his early experiences of combining his dual skills as clinician and software developer to create tech solutions to improve t...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 5Ep. 12
In S 5 E 11 I am delighted welcome Dr Bethan Richards to the podcast. Dr Richards is a Staff Specialist Rheumatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and Deputy Director of the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health. In 2019, following her return from Stanford, Bethan had the honour of being appointed Chief Medical Wellness Officer in Sydney Local Health District – an Australian first. She is also the District’s inaugural MDOK Centre Director. Throughout her career, Dr Richards has had ex...
Sep 04, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 11
S5 E 10 Welcome to our first podcast bookclub! In this episode I am delighted to re-joined by two friends of the podcast and previous guests Dr Jonathan Fisher and Dr Anna Baverstock. If you haven't had a chance to listen to my conversations with Anna and Jonathan, press pause and listen here: Deep Listening, brave conversations and the goal of connection with Dr Anna Baverstock https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/14939038-deep-listening-brave-conversations-and-the-goal-of-connection-with-dr-anna...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 10
"The intersection of medicine, business and courageous creativity is where I've spent most of my career" Wendy Dean MD In S5 E9 I am delighted to introduce another "heavy hitter" in healthcare thought leadership and transformational practice, Wendy Dean MD, president and co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare. Dr Dean is an alum of Smith College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She trained in surgery and psychiatry at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. After practicing for ...
Aug 14, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 9
In S5 E8 I am delighted to welcome Dr Jess Morgan to the podcast. Dr Morgan is a UK based paediatrician who spent 11 years as a junior doctor in the NHS. In 2019, after experiencing burnout and mental illness, she left medicine altogether. Jess threw herself into a new career as a primary teacher, completing her PGCE during the Covid pandemic and then teaching her own class. More recently, she decided to return to medicine and is still navigating this journey. Jess has developed a passion for pr...
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 5Ep. 8
In S5 E7 I am delighted to welcome Dr Chris Edmond to the podcast. Dr Edmond is an occupational medicine physician based in Jersey. He is the Medical Director of WorkHealth (Channel Islands) Ltd, the Channel Islands’ only dedicated occupational health provider, and also holds Non-Executive Directorships at several non-profit organisations in the field of health and wellbeing in Jersey. Before qualifying in medicine in 2011, Chris worked in a variety of roles including strategy manager for a corp...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 5Ep. 7
In S 5 E 6 I am delighted to introduce Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. Dr Phuong is Founder & Director of The Water Well Project. She is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Austin Health, Cabrini Health and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also a PhD candidate studying invasive pneumococcal disease in children. Prior to medicine, Linny was a qualified pharmacist and also holds a Master of Public Health. Linny has received recognition for her work ...
May 16, 2024•59 min•Season 5Ep. 6
In S5 E5 I am delighted to welcome Professor Himanshu Tambe to the podcast. Himanshu's passion is to empower individuals and organisations to thrive through continuous education. He is currently Visiting Faculty at the Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Indian School of Business (ISB) teaching Design of Business, Organisation Design, Leadership and Workforce Analytics. He also operates an early-stage software product company focused on optimising operations. Prior to this, he held sev...
May 05, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 5
In S5 E4 I am delighted to welcome Dr Anna Baverstock to the podcast, Anna is a consultant in community child health looking after children with complex neurodisability and their families. She has been an educational supervisor and Associate DME for support and wellbeing. She was invited to be a member of the NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission in 2019 ( Mental Wellbeing Report | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk) ). Currently she is lead for senior doctor wellbeing and leader...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 5Ep. 4
In S5 E3 I am delighted to welcome Dr Resa E Lewiss and Dr Adaira Landry to the podcast to discuss their soon to be released book Microskills. About the authors : ADAIRA LANDRY, MD, MEd , www.adairalandryMD.com is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, co-founder of WritingInColor.org, and co-author of MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact. RESA E LEWISS MD www.resalewissmd.com is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Univ...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Hello and welcome back to S5 E2 with my friend, peer mentor and colleague Dr Sarah Dalton who regular listeners to the podcast will recognise. You can find a link to our previous episode together and Sarah's full bio as clinician executive leader and coach here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/10201358-lessons-in-leadership-and-coaching-conversations-with-dr-sarah-dalton.mp3?download=true In this episode Sarah turns the mic on me as we reflect together on the year and past podcast season that...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 5 of the podcast. In this first episode, It's my great pleasure to introduce Professor Jill Klein. In addition to numerous other hats and talents Jill is Professor of Marketing at Melbourne Business School and Professorial Fellow in Medical Education at Melbourne Medical School. Jill received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1990 and since then has taught at top universities and business school around the world. She joined the faculty at Kellogg...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 5Ep. 1
In the final episode of Season 4 I record a special cross over with my friend and mentor Dr Andrea Austin. For regular listeners Dr Austin will need no introduction. A fellow Emergency Physician practising in San Diego California, Andrea is also a simulator educator and director of emergency residency simulation training program, a coach, podcast host of the excellent The Revitalising Doctor podcast https://therevitalizingdoctor.buzzsprout.com and co-founder of the Revitalize Women Physician Cir...
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 15
In S4 E14, the penultimate episode for season 4, I am delighted to welcome three clinicians from North Metropolitan Health Service (NMHS) in WA to speak about their collaborative work to create and implement the multiple award-winning organisational initiative to improve Junior Medical Officer working conditions, wellbeing and experience, The JMO Manifesto. The NMHS JMO Manifesto was developed in collaboration with JMOs and DITs ( Doctors in training), Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital ( SCGH) RMO S...
Dec 26, 2023•59 min•Season 4Ep. 14
S4 E 13 continuation of this special two-part conversation from podcast sponsor The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW-ACT www.mbansw.org.au with their senior social worker Julia Kwiet and general surgeon Dr Sue Velovski. Listen to part 1 here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1091279/14033621-supporting-doctors-health-and-wellbeing-in-training-and-through-difficult-times-with-julia-kwiet-and-dr-sue-velovski-special-sponsor-episode-part-1.mp3?download=true In part two of our conversation we discuss...
Dec 14, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 13
In S4 E 12 I am delighted to bring this special two-part conversation from podcast sponsor The Medical Benevolent Association of NSW-ACT www.mbansw.org.au with their senior social worker Julia Kwiet and general surgeon Dr Sue Velovski. In part one of this conversation I hear more about Julia and Sue's professional and personal backgrounds and why and how they both came to be working and advocating in the area of doctors' health and wellbeing and collaborating together through the MBA. Julia is a...
Nov 26, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 12
