What if your child’s prescription had a one in three chance of containing an error?

That is the reality in the United States today, and most parents have no idea.

In this powerful episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. Jena Quinn, PharmD, BCPPS and Lyle Mioduszewski, RN, the co-founders of Perfecting Peds. Together, they are on a mission to fix one of healthcare’s most overlooked problems: pediatric medication management.

Jena and Lyle share the alarming truth that there are only 1,700 board-certified pediatric pharmacists in the entire country. This shortage means that most children’s prescriptions are filled without the specialist oversight that could catch dosing errors, dangerous drug interactions, or outdated treatment plans. The result is that kids are often treated like “small adults” in a system that was never designed for them.

In this episode, you will learn:

* Why innovation in pediatrics has lagged behind Medicare Advantage and senior care

* How Perfecting Peds embeds pediatric pharmacists directly into care teams to improve safety and outcomes

* The statistic from a national study that validated their mission

* The role of technology in closing the gap and scaling expertise to more children

* Patient stories, including how one child went from 100 seizures a day to seizure-free in six months

* How a single hospital’s belief in their vision helped them prove their impact and grow

This is not just a discussion about a startup. It is a front-row look at how proximity, listening, and relentless focus on the patient can spark change where the system has been silent for decades.

If you are a parent, a healthcare professional, or someone who believes innovation should reach every corner of care, not just the most profitable ones, this episode will challenge and inspire you.

📌 Learn more about Perfecting Peds:

Website: https://perfectingpeds.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/perfectingpeds

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perfectingpeds

#Pediatrics #HealthcareInnovation #Pharmacy #MedicationSafety #AdvancingHealthcareInnovation

The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

This might be the most hopeful conversation of the year.

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Sarah Elizabeth Ippel, the visionary Founder and Executive Director of the Academy for Global Citizenship and the Cultivate Collective.

At just 23 years old, Sarah Elizabeth biked to the Chicago Board of Education with a 400-page proposal and a vision that many called unrealistic. She wasn’t looking to improve the system—she came to reimagine it from the ground up.

What emerged is the Academy for Global Citizenship, a public K through 8 school on the Southwest side of Chicago that doesn’t just teach students—it nourishes them. Students harvest vegetables in school gardens, eat farm-to-table meals, practice mindfulness, and learn core subjects through the lens of climate justice, global citizenship, and regenerative design.

But her work extends far beyond the school walls.

Sarah Elizabeth also founded Cultivate Collective, a six-acre net-positive community campus that integrates early childhood education, pediatric care, green job training, behavioral health, urban agriculture, teaching kitchens, and food access. Every element is built on a single foundational truth: community is medicine.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Michael and Sarah Elizabeth explore:

0:00 - The origin story: a bike helmet, a bold charter, and a vision

6:18 - Lessons from visiting over 100 schools around the world

10:34 - How trust was earned long before any data proved it

16:16 - A story of an AGC graduate now shaping global finance

21:01 - What it feels like to walk into Cultivate Collective for the first time

25:54 - Partnering with experts across health, food, and education

29:30 - Why AGC chose open-source innovation over replication

35:23 - The rituals Sarah Elizabeth uses to stay grounded through adversity

37:26 - How listeners can experience the work firsthand or support its growth

Viewers will hear how:

* Sarah Elizabeth built an ecosystem of trust in a place where trust doesn’t come easy

* She scaled a model that blends education, health, food, and economic opportunity

* Public schools can lead innovation and treat equity as infrastructure

* Culture, love, and audacity can be designed into the very architecture of a community

Michael Stamatinos, known for drawing out the heart behind innovation, guides this conversation with curiosity, depth, and clarity. Whether you work in healthcare, education, economic development, or policy...or simply believe we’re capable of better systems, this story is an invitation to rethink what’s possible.

To learn more or get involved:

Academy for Global Citizenship – https://agcchicago.org

Cultivate Collective – https://cultivate-collective.org

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The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Rachel Kern, Senior Vice President at First Trust Capital Partners, for a candid and compelling conversation that explores the real dynamics of venture capital, healthcare innovation, and what it takes to build companies that endure.

Rachel brings a rare blend of academic curiosity, operational insight, and straight-shooting practicality to the world of healthcare investing. With a background in history, international relations, and economics, Rachel approaches venture capital as a long game rooted in pattern recognition, strategic empathy, and the ability to distinguish signal from noise in a sector full of hype.

This episode goes beyond the pitch decks and capital raises. Together, Michael and Rachel explore the hard truths no one talks about; the founders who aren't the right fit to scale their own companies, the innovations that die not because they're wrong but because the system refuses to adapt, and the deeply human side of being a venture investor in a field where decisions have real-world consequences for patients and providers alike.

Topics covered include:

* How studying history gave Rachel an edge in identifying market patterns and avoiding strategic pitfalls

* The red flags investors spot in the first five minutes of a pitch—and the constructive friction that makes founders worth backing

* The emotional and professional complexity of navigating founder transitions

* Why great companies sometimes fail simply because they’re too early for the system they’re trying to change

* The difference between performative lists and real structural progress for women in venture capital

* The evolving role of investors in supporting lonely, overwhelmed founders through the "Death Valley" stage of early growth

* The importance of community and interconnectivity across portfolio companies

* Rachel’s long-term investment theses on Medicaid innovation, consumer-centric models of care, and value-based infrastructure

* Her take on AI in healthcare...what’s real, what’s noise, and where the industry should proceed with caution

What she would tell her 20-year-old self about curiosity, failure, and building a career that aligns with purpose

Rachel also opens up about her own mentors, her dream side hustle curating music for television, and what she wants her legacy in venture capital to be; less about deals, and more about the founders she’s empowered to create real impact in healthcare.

This episode is required listening for healthcare founders, early-stage investors, operators navigating transformation, and anyone who wants an unfiltered look at how decisions are really made behind closed doors.

To learn more about Rachel and First Trust Capital Partners, visit:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-kern-3530a526

First Trust Capital Partners: https://www.ftcp.com

The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

On this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos welcomes Dr. Navin Goyal, MD, a trained anesthesiologist who left the comfort of clinical medicine to become an entrepreneur, founder, and investor who is helping shape the future of healthcare innovation through purpose-driven capital.

Dr. Goyal is the co-founder of LOUD Capital, an alternative investment firm that blends traditional venture capital with a human-centered, values-first approach. The firm backs people, not just business plans, and is known for supporting mission-driven founders who often operate outside of the spotlight but are solving real-world problems at scale.

In this episode, Dr. Goyal shares the story of how he transitioned from the OR to the boardroom, what it took to walk away from a stable career, and why that choice was never about escape, it was about alignment. He talks openly about the uncertainty, the fear, and the excitement that come with building something from scratch, especially as a clinician with no formal business background.

Michael and Navin explore the deeper emotional and strategic dimensions of early-stage investing, including the power of belief, the importance of surrounding founders with the right operational support, and the role values play when companies face tough quarters. Dr. Goyal unpacks how he thinks about pattern recognition, why he avoids chasing hype, and how being based in the Midwest has helped him uncover overlooked but exceptional founders.

The conversation also dives into Dr. Goyal’s identity as an underdog. He explains what fuels him, why he believes people with good hearts should reach positions of influence, and what still feels unfinished in his journey. Along the way, he shares hard-earned lessons from failed partnerships, fundraising setbacks, and the inner work required to keep showing up with integrity.

Whether you're a founder, a physician exploring new paths, or someone who cares about building systems that work for people, this episode offers a blueprint for what it looks like to lead with clarity, invest with empathy, and build something that lasts.

What to expect:

* Why leaving medicine was an act of alignment, not rebellion

* How LOUD Capital redefines value creation by supporting founders beyond the check

* The underestimated role of emotional support and belief in early-stage investing

* Lessons from setbacks, stalled relationships, and capital-raising challenges

* Why more physicians should become investors

* What drives Dr. Goyal’s work, and what he hopes to leave behind

To learn more about Dr. Navin Goyal and the work happening at LOUD Capital, visit www.loud.vc. There, you'll find insights into how the firm is backing early-stage companies that blend profit with purpose, along with resources for founders, investors, and future leaders who believe business can be a force for good.

You can also follow Dr. Goyal on LinkedIn for thoughtful reflections on leadership, investing, and building systems that truly serve people.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/navingoyalmd/

This is more than venture capital, it’s a movement built around people, belief, and long-term impact.

Subscribe to the AHI Show to hear more real conversations with the leaders, builders, and believers shaping the future of healthcare, on their terms.

Timestamps

00:00 – Welcome and Introduction

02:15 – The Moment That Made Leaving Medicine Inevitable

06:45 – Launching LOUD Capital and Building with Values

11:20 – Capital vs. Belief: What Founders Really Need

15:45 – Breaking the Traditional VC Mold

20:10 – Navigating Rough Quarters with Empathy

24:30 – What Setbacks Teach You That Wins Cannot

27:15 – The Underdog Lens and Leadership at Scale

29:40 – What Still Feels Unfinished

31:00 – Final Reflections and Takeaways

The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

In this powerful and wide-ranging conversation, Michael Stamatinos welcomes Dr. Trisha Henwood, Chief Clinical Officer at Jefferson Health, to the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show for a masterclass in clinical leadership, system transformation, and values-driven innovation.

With responsibility for the clinical operations of a 32-hospital system, Dr. Henwood is pioneering what clinical excellence looks like in a world shaped by complexity, constrained resources, and the need for rapid yet thoughtful change. Her leadership has been tested and proven in the most demanding environments, including Jefferson’s nationally recognized OnPoint program and her global health work responding to Ebola and COVID-19.

This episode explores how to scale innovation with intention, design sustainable systems of care, and lead teams through uncertainty with clarity, conviction, and compassion. Michael and Dr. Henwood dive deep into the operating system behind high-performing health organizations and what it takes to build a culture that thrives, even under pressure.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

* What it truly means to lead through crisis, and why composure is more effective than control

* How Jefferson Health operationalizes resiliency engineering across teams and functions

* Why understanding a problem deeply is the first step in driving sustainable innovation

* How working in resource-limited global environments shaped Dr. Henwood’s approach to care delivery in the U.S.

* What makes innovation "implementation ready" and how to recognize the right time to scale

* The importance of interdisciplinary teams, and how trust and relationship equity accelerate progress

* A thoughtful take on whether dashboards, strategic retreats, and leadership books are useful or distractions

* Practical advice Dr. Henwood gives to rising leaders, especially those feeling overwhelmed or uncertain about their path

Dr. Henwood also shares how parenting, mentorship, and years of front-line experience have shaped her ability to lead complex systems with grace and precision. This is a conversation grounded in both global perspective and deep operational expertise.

Whether you are a health system executive, policy leader, clinician, or innovator working to improve the future of care, this conversation is rich with insight and grounded wisdom.

Timestamps

0:00 – Welcome and introduction

2:40 – Early global health work and pivotal moments

5:45 – Innovating with limited resources

10:00 – Creating consistency while honoring local nuance

13:30 – Resiliency engineering at Jefferson Health

20:00 – Leading through challenge and staying composed

24:00 – Designing for sustainability and system-wide change

32:00 – Overrated or underrated: leadership tools and strategies

35:30 – The evolving role of mentorship

38:00 – Closing thoughts and where to learn more

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The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Shara Cohen, JD, CEO of Carallel, for a candid and deeply resonant conversation about a topic that is far too often overlooked: caregiving.

For more than two decades, Shara has been at the forefront of efforts to redesign how healthcare organizations support people, not just patients, but the often invisible network of caregivers who are instrumental to achieving better health outcomes. Shara brings a unique blend of operational insight and personal mission to her work. Today, she leads Carallel, a company purpose-built to support caregivers with empathy, guidance, and the tools they need to navigate the complexity of healthcare.

This episode is an exploration of what it means to center innovation around real human experiences. It’s a look into why caregivers are not just adjunct players in the system, but rather a hidden workforce that has been overlooked, undervalued, and under-resourced for far too long. Shara argues that caregiving is not just a personal responsibility; it’s a structural force that, if activated intentionally, can move the needle on equity, access, resilience, and ultimately, performance.

Together, Michael and Shara unpack difficult truths: how healthcare often pays lip service to the role of caregivers without meaningfully supporting them, how executives themselves often hide their own caregiving struggles, and how this gap is costing the system more than it realizes...financially, emotionally, and clinically. They discuss how Carallel is building the scaffolding for a different kind of healthcare experience, one where personalized support for caregivers is not a luxury, but an essential layer of care delivery.

Key themes in this episode include:

* The emotional labor of caregiving and why it deserves recognition as a core part of care delivery

* Why patient engagement strategies fall short without addressing the ecosystem surrounding the patient

* How caregivers are the original remote patient monitors—present, attuned, and often the first to notice early signals of decline

* The cultural shift required among health plans and health systems to stop assigning responsibility to caregivers and start enabling them

* The economic rationale for investing in caregiver support—and the missed opportunity for plans and providers who fail to act

* What Shara has learned about leadership, trust, and quiet influence after two decades of impact across startups and global enterprises

Throughout the conversation, Shara’s insights reflect the lived experience of someone who has both built systems and walked beside people struggling to navigate them. Her leadership is grounded, informed by a deep personal mission, and committed to reshaping healthcare in ways that truly matter.

Whether you’re a health plan executive, clinician, caregiver, or someone trying to create change from inside the system, this conversation will challenge you to think differently about what innovation really looks like and who it’s for.

If the conversation resonated, don’t let it end here. Share the episode. Start a dialogue inside your organization. Reach out to someone you know who might be carrying the invisible load of caregiving and ask: How can I help?

Healthcare innovation begins with presence, and presence begins with listening.

To follow Carallel’s work, learn more, or get in touch with Shara and her team, visit www.carallel.com

Connect with Shara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shara-cohen/

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The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, ER physician, PhD in epidemiology, and VP of Innovation at Inflect Health, for a deep and refreshing conversation at the intersection of clinical care, technology, and entrepreneurial grit.

Dr. Tamayo-Sarver is not just a practicing emergency physician with a PhD in epidemiology. He’s also the Vice President of Innovation at Inflect Health, the innovation arm of Vituity, which supports over 700 hospitals across the United States. From clinical settings to startup boards, from patent filings to patient care, Josh is one of those few people who genuinely operates across every layer of healthcare, technical, clinical, operational, and strategic.

In this conversation, you’ll get a seat at the table with someone who’s not theorizing from the sidelines, but actively building and deploying solutions in high-stakes environments.

Highlights from this episode include:

* How a 16-year-old coding a billing tool ended up becoming one of healthcare’s most respected clinician-innovators

* What it means to live in two worlds, emergency medicine and long-horizon innovation, and how they inform each other

* The cautionary tale of a highly accurate cardiac prediction algorithm that failed because it didn’t fit physician workflow

* Why the secret to scalable innovation isn’t more tech, it’s smarter integration into natural clinical decision-making

* The inside story of building a new ambient documentation system that reached 75–80% adoption without onboarding

* How Josh thinks about partnering with startups, identifying "bleeding neck" problems, and deciding when to build vs. buy

* Tactical advice for frontline clinicians who want to innovate but aren’t data scientists, coders, or venture-backed founders

Josh also shares the emotional story of a patient he saved as a newborn, and encountered again 10 years later. It's a powerful reminder of why the hard work of transformation is worth doing.

If you’ve ever struggled to bridge the gap between vision and execution in healthcare, this episode offers a masterclass in how to do it with empathy, rigor, and meaningful scale.

Connect and Learn More:

Learn about Inflect Health: https://inflect.health

Learn about Vituity: https://www.vituity.com

Connect with Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-tamayo-sarver-md-phd

About the Show:

Hosted by Michael Stamatinos, The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show features intimate conversations with healthcare leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and changemakers who are rewriting the rules of what's possible. Our goal is to create a platform for real, nuanced dialogue—where stories of transformation, failure, and progress can be shared for the benefit of a wider community.

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The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

In this episode of The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos welcomes Justin Quall, founder and CEO of Oler Health, for a candid conversation about one of healthcare’s most overlooked yet mission-critical challenges: documentation overload in post-acute and long-term care.

Oler Health isn’t building flashy tech for headlines. It’s building infrastructure that works. In a fragmented, high-stakes system where clinicians are buried in PDFs and forced to choose between paperwork and patient care, Justin and his team are creating tools that restore sanity, precision, and time to the clinical workflow.

Drawing from his own experience as an EMT, Justin shares how firsthand exposure to the chaos of discharge paperwork sparked a deeper commitment to solve the real problem, not by removing humans from the loop, but by empowering them with tools that actually make their work easier and more impactful.

Throughout the conversation, Michael and Justin explore:

* Why post-acute care is quietly collapsing under the weight of unstructured data

* How Oler Health helps skilled nursing teams uncover critical insights buried in 200+ page referral packets

* The decision to bootstrap rather than raise early venture capital and what that afforded the company in terms of depth, discipline, and design

* What it really means to partner with customers instead of selling to them

* The systems-thinking mindset is required to fix deeply entrenched problems in care coordination

* Why Oler isn’t chasing AI hype but instead embracing a human-in-the-loop model that respects the clinical judgment of frontline staff

Justin also opens up about the emotional and practical realities of building a healthcare startup from scratch...the long nights, the 45,000+ pages of medical records he read himself, and the importance of actually walking through the workflows you're trying to fix.

This is not just a story about technology. It’s a story about focus, stewardship, and building infrastructure that works in the real world.

If you’re a clinician buried in paperwork, a founder looking for product-market fit, or a health system executive trying to improve outcomes while preserving margins, this conversation will resonate.

Oler Health isn’t trying to be loud. It’s trying to be useful. And in a system that rewards volume over clarity, that might be the most disruptive move of all.

Follow Justin Quall on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-quall-cfa/

www.olerhealth.com

New episodes drop weekly, featuring healthcare leaders, builders, and investors who are doing the hard, necessary work of reshaping healthcare from the inside out.

If you find this conversation valuable, consider subscribing, sharing it with your network, or forwarding it to someone who’s facing these exact challenges. Because real change doesn’t come from noise—it comes from action.

The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. William Paiva, a leader who doesn’t just talk about transforming healthcare. He builds it. Piece by piece. From the ground up.

As Executive Director of the Center for Health Systems Innovation at Oklahoma State University and Managing Partner of the Oklahoma Life Science Fund, Dr. Paiva has spent the last 25 years operating at the intersection of science, strategy, and capital. He’s one of the rare few who understands how to translate data into decisions and decisions into systems that last.

This conversation is both deeply personal and strategically rich. Dr. Paiva shares the inflection points that shaped his journey—from his family’s immigration to the U.S., to leaving a promising academic science career for business school, to becoming a champion for rural health at a time when few others were paying attention. He also opens up about the mentors who believed in him early and how he’s now paying it forward by identifying and investing in what he calls “PSM” leaders: poor, smart, and motivated individuals who just need someone to open the door.

What makes this episode different is how grounded it is in the real-world complexity of care delivery. Dr. Paiva isn’t working in the abstract. He’s embedded in the realities of rural medicine, where fragmented infrastructure, workforce shortages, and access barriers converge to form the largest health disparity in the U.S.

Topics explored in this episode include:

* Why rural health isn’t just a geography, it’s a perspective

* The systems-level blind spots most founders and investors still have when trying to serve non-urban populations

* How his team reduced no-show rates by 10% using nothing more than transportation subsidies and why that small shift created a significant revenue bump for clinics

* Why building rural primary care and subspecialty capacity without adding more humans is a strategic imperative

* How leveraging 63 million patient records led to an AI-driven breakthrough in diagnosing diabetic retinopathy without an ophthalmologist

* The difference between work-life balance and what he calls “integration with intent”

* A preview of his forthcoming book, My Life in the Middle Seat, a personal and professional manifesto for those looking to lead from the center

This episode is for anyone who wants to understand how real healthcare transformation actually happens, not in boardrooms or pitch decks, but in the daily, iterative work of showing up, building trust, and solving for constraints that most overlook.

Dr. Paiva offers a rare combination of operational wisdom, systems thinking, and mission clarity. Whether you’re a healthcare executive, a founder, an investor, or someone trying to design better systems, this is the kind of conversation that recalibrates your perspective.

Subscribe for weekly episodes with leaders who are advancing healthcare through access, equity, and conviction, not noise.

Follow William: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-paiva-8999106/

The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

Find out more about how we are building bridges within healthcare. Join our group, Advancing Healthcare Innovation Forum on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7056196/

In this episode of the Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show, host Michael Stamatinos sits down with Dr. Orsula Knowlton, PharmD, MBA, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of GalenusRx, and one of the most influential voices in healthcare innovation and medication risk management.

Dr. Knowlton brings over two decades of executive leadership, entrepreneurial insight, and clinical expertise to this powerful conversation. From co-founding Tabula Rasa HealthCare and helping capture nearly 40% of the PACE market to now pioneering advanced clinical decision support at GalenusRx, she’s on a mission to reimagine how medication risk is managed and how pharmacists contribute to care delivery at scale.

Together, we explore a wide range of timely and timeless topics—from her personal journey shaped by caregiving and cultural values to the systemic blind spots that persist in healthcare. This episode isn’t about hype. It’s about what works, what’s broken, and how we fix it.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

* How a caregiver's experience at home sparked a lifelong mission in medication safety

* Why adverse drug events are one of the least addressed but most damaging challenges in healthcare

* How GalenusRx is using personalized analytics and pharmacogenomics to make medication safer

* Why the traditional approach to drug interactions is fundamentally outdated

* How Dr. Knowlton’s leadership at Tabula Rasa shaped what’s now being built at GalenusRx

* The evolving role of pharmacists as trusted clinicians, not just dispensers

* How to respond when you're five years ahead of market readiness

Timestamps:

00:00 – Welcome and episode overview

03:30 – A personal story that shaped her career in pharmacy

07:40 – How GalenusRx works, explained simply

10:38 – The problem with legacy drug safety systems

16:55 – The future role of pharmacists in healthcare

22:55 – Lessons from Tabula Rasa

26:01 – How to adapt when the market isn’t ready

31:51 – Finding purpose on the hard days

34:58 – Supporting and amplifying women in leadership

36:18 – Designing with both patients and clinicians in mind

38:00 – Closing thoughts and staying connected

Why This Episode Matters:

Medication safety is one of the most overlooked drivers of cost and harm in healthcare. This episode takes you beyond the headlines into the realities of what needs to change, who’s doing the work, and how we build systems that patients and clinicians can trust. Dr. Knowlton shares not just the “what,” but the “how”—including hard-earned lessons on scaling, leading, and staying grounded in purpose.

Resources Mentioned:

GalenusRx: https://www.galenusrx.com

Connect with Dr. Knowlton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orsula-v-knowlton/

About the Show:

The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show features bold conversations with leaders who are reshaping healthcare from the inside out. Hosted by Michael Stamatinos, each episode explores the people, platforms, and principles behind healthcare transformation.

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The Advancing Healthcare Innovation Show started with the idea of wanting to highlight stories of what healthcare innovation truly looks like in action. Our mission, highlight real people who are really innovating within healthcare. Guests include healthcare entrepreneurs, providers, payers, and professionals from the investment community. We showcase little wins as well as valuable lessons learned from setbacks through these interviews. The real innovators in healthcare are often the ones in the trenches doing the work with razor-sharp focus. We find these innovators and bring their stories to light.

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