Vamsee K. Potluri, FACHE, chats with Ashley Vertuno, FACHE, about his path from pre‑med studies to an MHA and MBA, his volunteer work at the VA and his administrative fellowship. Hear how mentorship, attending ACHE's Congress on Healthcare Healthcare Leadership and taking tough assignments shaped his leadership.

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Before Dr. Regina Benjamin became the 18th U.S. Surgeon General, she was the only doctor in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, rebuilding the clinic she founded after two hurricanes and a fire. In this episode, host Dr. Cheryl Pegus sits down with Dr. Benjamin for a conversation spanning the gritty realities of healthcare in a town of 2,500 people to time spent in boardrooms at Kaiser Permanente and Ascension. Dr. Benjamin shares what it takes to build rural healthcare from the ground up, from a $5 envelope that captures why she does this work to her conviction that education is healthcare's highest-leverage investment in prevention.

Matthew Montoya, DrEng, researcher/faculty leader, The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, and David P. Rastall, DO, PhD, lead for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Armstrong Institute Center, The Johns Hopkins University, discuss why AI must be governed as a clinical process. You’ll learn the difference between deployment and engineering, why clinician behavior becomes part of the AI system and how to set ongoing monitoring and clinical metrics. 

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Samuel Soltis, PhD, LFACHE, retired deputy director of health services, South Carolina Department of Corrections, discusses his career in correctional healthcare. He shares practical leadership tactics, as well as how he worked to expand clinical services, recruit clinicians and improve patient dignity.

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The healthcare CFO seat has changed. Margin pressure is no longer cyclical; it is a structural crisis driven by skyrocketing medical cost trends and aggressive payer denials. Today, finance leaders must look beyond traditional P&L to own strategy, technology and operating model design.

Bridging the gap between financial oversight and health system survival, Ensemble SVP of Finance, Matt Ennen, sits down with former HCA Healthcare CFO, Bill Rutherford, for a candid conversation built for CEOs, CFOs and COOs. Two finance leaders, two vantage points, one through line: the operators pulling ahead are the ones treating execution as a system, not a slide. Learn what's changed, what's broken and the one move to make in the next 90 days.

In this episode, Thomas Lee, MD, CMO, Press Ganey, shares practical steps health systems can take to strengthen trust in their communities and explores why trust matters for patient outcomes and operational resilience.

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Vimal Ramjee, MD, FACHE, discusses how empowering clinicians to lead care redesign lowers costs, improves patient experience and strengthens workforce retention.

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In this episode, Andy Hillig, FACHE, PCC, shares advice for emerging leaders on staying adaptable, building executive presence and cultivating leadership skills.

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In this episode, Noel J. Cárdenas, FACHE, shares how mentorship, networking in ACHE, and lifelong learning helped his successful transition from the military to civilian leadership.

Join the conversation as Dr. Yuri Feskow, MD (Chief Medical Officer, Quest Diagnostics) and Nicole Antonson (Vice President, Digital Solutions & Interoperability, Quest Diagnostics) discuss the “AI Companion” approach that turns complex lab results into clear guidance patients can act on. AI is moving from novelty to baseline capability in diagnostics, from digital pathology to patient-facing tools that translate lab data into actionable next steps. Learn about AI in healthcare, diagnostic intelligence, digital pathology, clinical decision support, and why health systems should prioritize clinically driven, secure implementations.

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