In this episode of Vision to Value, Dr. Umbereen Nehal speaks with Dr. Matt Mazurek, anesthesiologist, physician executive, educator, thought leader, and co-editor of the book, Systems Thinking for Physician Leaders, to be published in 2026.

The conversation focuses on physician leadership beyond individual excellence, examining how clinicians lead in system-level roles within matrixed organizations at a time of rapid change. This episode explores how systems thinking helps physician leaders understand culture, influence, power, and behavior for more effective leadership.

Referenced in the episode:

Whole system quality

⁠Change management models in healthcare⁠

Kotter's 8-Step Change Model in healthcare

Books by Matt Mazurek, MD, MBA, MHA, CPE, FAAPL, FACHE, FASA published by the American Association for Physician Leadership

Physicians and Professional Behavior Management Strategies: A Leadership Roadmap and Guide with Case Studies

Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, and Discrimination in Healthcare: History, Analysis, and Solutions with Case Studies

We close out 2024 as both a celebratory time of the new year and a solemn time to mourn a great man and patriotic American, former President Jimmy Carter, who passed this week, and we hope is reunited with his beloved wife, Rosalynn.

I asked a Yale Law School student, Colin Dunkley, to join me today to reflect on the following quote from late President Carter, spoken in 1979 but could describe today:

"The gap between our citizens and our government has never been so wide. The people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers; clear leadership, not false claims and evasiveness and politics as usual.”

Given Yale has been the cradle of the nation’s leadership, from Supreme Court Justices, a former Presidents, and an incoming Vice President, I wanted to talk a bright young mind who might be a future leader for our nation. Colin shares his advice on how 20-somethings today can show leadership for policy and social impact, what role he sees for AI in the law, and how employers can recruit and retain the best and brightest young minds to their companies.

Colin Dunkley a second-year law student, or L2, at Yale, is the brother of a classmate I met at Harvard Law School’s Program in Negotiation class. Colin grew up in Florida, served as a tutor in chemistry and math, was a senior research specialist at Princeton and now is studying law.

Listen to healthcare executive Dominick Bizzarro speak on healthcare innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth mindset. He discusses how he considers the "buy versus build" decision, offers advice for healthcare entrepreneurs, and outlines where AI can make a difference including in low-access populations. This is Part 2 of a longer podcast initially recored in early 2023.

Themes of today's episode include healthcare innovation, patient navigation, digital health, quality of life measures, and data-driven human-centered design for diversity of human needs and user profiles in healthcare, specifically from the regional health plan and community health perspective. We discuss how to how to get started without letting perfectionism hold you back and how to "move fast and *not* break things" in healthcare. We consider several perspectives on healthcare data with a particular focus on the emerging field of patient-reported outcome measures. 

This is part one of a two part series. 

Today's guest is Dominick Bizarro. Please read his bio below:

As Chief Growth Officer, Dominick charts the course for MVP's major strategic initiatives to ensure MVP is positioned to serve its communities in the long-term. He previously served as MVP’s Chief of Innovation.

Dominick has three decades of experience in leveraging health information technology and best-in-class business strategies to drive growth in large company transformation, start-up and turnaround situations. He served as the President and Chief Operating Officer for Hudson Headwaters Health Network. As Managing Director, Business Development at InterSystems Corporation, he was a key driver of the global growth of their top-rated HealthShare product, an interoperability platform used to create unified health records. Dominick was the first employee and CEO at Hixny, a leading health information exchange in NY. During this time, he also served on the Board of Directors for the NY eHealth Collaborative. Earlier in his career, he worked alongside other management-owners and built a health technology, analytics, and services company, Health Solutions. He has served as a Business Development and Product Development leader in companies large and small.

A pharmacist by training, Dominick received his pharmacy degree from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and his MBA in Health Systems from Union Graduate College, now Clarkson University. He currently serves on the Hixny Board of Directors and the Hudson Valley Community College Foundation Board of Trustees. He has also served on the Board at Ellis Medicine, Albany Can Code, the Fingerlakes Health Systems Agency, as well as several other health care and health technology advisory committees.

If you had superpowers, how would you use them? Those with neurodiversity, as well as any kind of diversity, often have unique ability see new perspespectives needed for solving some of the toughest problems. Harvard Business Review considers it a competitive advantage for businesses: https://hbr.org/2017/05/neurodiversity-as-a-competitive-advantage

In today's episode, we hear from MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer, Dr. Michellana Jester, on best practices for building a culture of trust, resilience, and productivity for hybrid work and the Future of Work. To mark the end of 2021 and the start of 2022 we discuss the values, ethics, and mental models needed for leaders and managers to execute via high-functioning teams while showing compassion and humanism. 

For more information on Dr. Michellana Jester, please see:

The MIT Sloan School of Management faculty page with her published works, here: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/michellana-jester

The description of her professional and educational experience, here: https://gbsn.org/profile/michellana-jester/

Her LinkedIn page here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellanajester/

Dr. Mark Monane is a seasoned and senior physician executive, with extensive experience ranging from Wall Street analyst to Chief Medical Officer in biotechnology to faculty at Harvard Medical School.

More information on Dr. Monane can be found at:

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

https://pagingdrcoach.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/69319373/admin/

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