Dr. Alan Herline is chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery for Memorial Healthcare System. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He then went on to complete a residency in general surgery from Vanderbilt and a fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery from the Lahey Clinic. In the episode, we discuss challenges in continuous improvement in surgery as well as the success of the Enhanced Recovery after Surgery program.

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Jim Huntzinger is the President and Founder of

Lean Frontiers, Inc., which develops knowledge and learning communities on the

Lean Enterprise for business and industry. With a background and experience in

manufacturing and operations, he has also extensively researched the history

and development of American manufacturing and also published several books on

the lean business model, manufacturing history, and economics.

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Our guest is Timothy Pehrson the President and Chief Executive

Officer of INTEGRIS Health, based in Oklahoma. He has been in that role, and at

INTEGRIS, since 2018. He came to INTEGRIS from Intermountain Healthcare in

Utah, where he had most recently served in a dual role as regional vice

president/CEO for the North Region and vice president of continuous improvement

for Intermountain Healthcare.

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John Andazola, MD, FAAFP was born and

raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico where he attended New Mexico State University.

He received his MD from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in

1997, and completed residency at the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine

Residency program in 2000. Dr Andazola went on to complete a fellowship in

Advanced Hospital Training for Family Physicians in Phoenix AZ, and a Faculty

Development Fellowship at the University of Arizona from 2001-2003. After

completion of the fellowships Dr. Andazola joined the fellowship faculty and

later became director of the fellowship. Dr. Andazola moved back to Las Cruces

in January of 2009 and became program director in May of 2009. He is very happy

to be back home! Dr. Andazola’s interests are in medical education, hospital

medicine, OB and border health. He is committed to his community and is

committed to producing well rounded Family Physicians for southern New Mexico.

Dr. Scott is associate professor of

anthropology and graduate faculty in the integrated behavioral health program

at New Mexico State University. She is also adjunct research faculty at the

Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program. She received her B.A. in

Women’s Studies from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology

from the University of Kentucky. Her research program is part of an

academic-community collaboration with a team of NMSU students and faculty and

the residency program. The program includes explorations of the culture of

medicine and medical education as well as development of curricula and tools to

improve training in health equity in health care professions. The team’s

current project is a mixed-methods evaluation of a social determinants of

health screening tool used in a primary care clinic in the U.S.-Mexico border

region. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation,

Fulbright, National Cancer Institute, the New Mexico State University College

of Arts & Sciences, the Southwest and Border Cultures Institute, and the

Loomis Foundation. Her work has been published in Collaborative

Anthropologies, Journal of Interprofessional Care, and Qualitative Health

Research among other journals.

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As founder of JFlinch, Jamie

Flinchbaugh has helped purpose-driven leaders craft effective, resilient

organizations at over three hundred companies. Leveraging more than thirty

years of experience and helping build over twenty companies, Jamie collaborates

with leaders and their teams to bridge capability, strategic, cultural, and

systems gaps so they can safely span potential pitfalls and have a purposeful

impact on their organizations.

Jamie has helped leaders across a wide spectrum of industries,

including healthcare, utilities, technology, consumer products, and

professional services, including Harley-Davidson, Intel, Mars, Amazon, Crayola,

Fidelity, and Whirlpool, among many others.

Jamie is co-author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Lean: Lessons from

the Road and is the co-host of the podcasts Lean Whiskey and Happy Heuristics.

He currently lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his wife of twenty-four

years, Jill Triani. Together, they have three children, Emma, Jack, and

Ben.

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Jonathan Brill prepares leaders to profit from radical change.

He is a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision making under

uncertainty.  His insights are based on experience. As a senior leader and

the Global Futurist at Hewlett Packard, he directed long-term strategy and

intelligence programs. He’s been a creative director at frog design and the

managing partner of innovation firms that developed over 350 products.

He is the Managing Director of Resilient Growth Partners and a

board member at Frost & Sullivan, a major market intelligence firm with

offices in 46 countries. He blows off steam as the Futurist-in-Residence at

Territory Studio, the creative visionaries behind the sci-fi tech in Stephen

Spielberg’s Ready Player One, Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner 2049, where

he creates products and better worlds for both super villains and real-life

heroes.

He advises globally on resilient growth strategy and product

innovation to clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo and the United

States government. He is an in demand thought leader, speaker and contributor

for TED, Singularity University, Korn Ferry, J.P. Morgan, Forbes and the

Harvard Business Review.  He holds a degree in industrial design from

Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab and

in management training at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Dr. Frederick Southwick is a Professor of Medicine and former Chief of

Infectious Diseases at the University of Florida. From 2010-2011 Dr. Southwick

attended the Harvard Business School as an Advanced Leadership Fellow, and

studied how business practices could be applied to improve the quality and

safety of healthcare. He also continues to practice and teach infectious

diseases.  He is an award winning teacher and the author of " Critically Ill:

A 5-point Plan to Cure Healthcare Delivery"

and most recently, April 2020, the 4th edition of Infectious Diseases: A

clinical short course. Lange Series

Margie

is Research Professor in the Department of Nursing and Executive

Director and Founder of the Institute for Excellence in Health and Social

Systems (IEHSS), in the College of Health and Human Services at the University

of New Hampshire. She is a national and international leader of designing

and implementing improvement strategies targeting the place where patients,

families and care teams meet-the clinical microsystem.

Dr.

Godfrey began her work in clinical microsystems over 25 years ago and, in 2009,

founded The Dartmouth Institute Microsystem Academy (TDIMA) at The Dartmouth

Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine

with Dartmouth colleagues, to develop new knowledge and disseminate findings.

She was Co-Director of TDIMA with Dr. Tina Foster for 11 years and a Lecturer

for nearly 20 years at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical

Practice.  

Margie’s

primary interest is engaging inter-professional health care professionals in

learning about and improving local health care delivery systems with a focus on

patients, professionals, processes and outcomes. Margie is co-author of the

best selling textbooks, Quality by Design (2007), Quality by

Design, 2nd Edition (in press) and Value By Design (2011), and the

lead author and architect of the "Clinical Microsystems: A Path to

Healthcare Excellence" series.

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As President of Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute, Dr.

Rose has been a champion of quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient

outcomes. He has published extensively about the intersection of quality

improvement and his specialty of echocardiography, as well as about the

evolution of healthcare reform.

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Arnout has been working with lean management since 1995, the last 15

years as a trainer, coach and consultant in healthcare. He is the owner of The

Lean Mentor. He helps people who want to (learn to) improve healthcare. Arnout

focuses on teaching lean leadership, as author, speaker and mentor, bringing

top performance and high levels of productivity within everyone’s reach. 

Please visit Arnout’s website at https://www.leanthinkinginhealthcare.com/

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