Bob Harrington Opens Season Two of Stanford Healthcare Leadership Podcast

This episode features Dr. Bob Harrington, Chair, of the Department of Medicine. 

Dr. Harrington traces his early life, his journey through medical school, and his work at Duke University, Stanford University, and the American Heart Association.  His personal anecdotes paint a vivid (and sometimes poignant) picture of his life and his secret sauce to carving out a fulfilling career in medicine. 

"Leadership is a lifelong journey. Just the way medicine is, just the way science is." says Dr. Carolyn Meltzer describing her leadership journey. Dr. Meltzer is a radiologist and nuclear medicine expert and serves as the Dean of the USC Keck School of Medicine. The positive impact of mentors and mentoring is well known. In this podcast, Dr. Meltzer describes the concept of 'anti-mentors' and how they helped her become a better leader. 

Dr. Kim Curseen is an empowering and inspirational  leader in geriatrics and palliative care. Dr. Curseen feels that people, especially women, can be steered down that path that they are  asked to do things. As they want to be helpful, they may just step in to fill an organizational need  without ever really stopping back just consider, “Is this the way I really want my career to go?”  Sadly, they may wake up many years later filled with regret at their career trajectory and unable to take corrective action.  Join us to hear the fireworks in Dr. Curseen's views in this episode of  Stanford Medicine's #HealthcareLeadershipPodcast.

Vulnerability is a measure of courage and a primary leadership quality.  Dr. Jane deLima Thomas describes her journey and struggles and how she overcame them. 

"I don't think it's useful to have one identity for yourself. I think it's important to realize we all as human beings have multiple parts of us, and we're going to try and utilize those different parts of us in different ways, at different stages in our career," explains Dr. Ross McKinney Jr., MD, Chief Scientific Officer the Association of American Medical Colleges in this episode of our healthcare leadership podcast.  When he faced rejections and failures, his strategy was to be very practical and say "Hey, okay, I guess the thing I should do is figure out what I was good at in that, and find some way to carry it forward."  Through his very open disclosures, Ross traces his extraordinary career and his successful leadership strategies. 

"I grew up in South Central Los Angeles. The community changed quite a bit over the decades, and a month before I graduated from UC Berkeley, the Los Angeles riots happened, and I came back home."  reminisces our guest Dr. Patricia Jones, Director, Office of Special Populations, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health. In this candid conversation, Dr. Jones traces her trajectory from her humble beginnings all the way to the NIH. "Coming from a very humble background, I was working and I couldn't afford to not work and be a full-time student.I was also the caregiver of my mother, who was in poor health and really the head of the household at that time" she describes. Join us to learn about Dr. Jones leadership secrets.

Healthcare Leadership Podcast hosted by Dr. VJ Periyakoil (Twitter : @palliator)

This episode of the podcast stars Lloyd Minor, MD, Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine. 

Tracing his story from his childhood in Little Rock, Arkansas in the seventies, Dr. Minor reminisces about  the racial tensions of those times and how it impacted his outlook. He traces his career over the years using personal stories and anecdotes. 

 "There's a box on my desk, it's a box for business cards, and my wife gave me this box when I moved from being department chair to provost at Hopkins." says Dr. Minor.  "The box has an inscription on it attributed to Lord Chesterfield,  --'In order to discover new oceans, you have to have the courage to lose sight of the shore.'-- I refer to that quote often because I think it's so true that we have to lean into areas of discomfort, areas of uncertainty, and it's through doing that that we'll have our maximum impact."  

Listen to learn about Lloyd Minor's leadership secrets.