What does the process of innovation in healthcare look like? Our guest Christian Terwiesch is the Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Professor in Wharton's Operations and Information Management department, co-director of Penn's Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and also holds a faculty appointment In Penn's Perelman School of Medicine. His research on Operations Management and on Innovation Management appears in many of the leading academic journals ranging from Management Science to The New England Journal of Medicine. He is an award winning teacher with extensive experience in MBA teaching and executive education.

With host Meryl Cohen, they discuss how innovation goes from idea to implementation, including how clinicians factor into the results. They also discuss how divergent thinking fuels innovation that saves patients' lives. They talk about how to avoid exploitation in the research process, and how failure is a requirement in innovation. They also talk about technology and AI shaping the future, and how we can prepare for the ways in which medicine will change. Anyone looking to understand the future of medicine must listen to this one!