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Leadership Insights from a Lung Transplant Pulmonologist

Written by Andrew L. Brewer, MS, NBHWC | Oct 17, 2024 12:05:43 PM

How is conflict helpful with business operations and clinical care? What is this lagging indicator of quality care? How is AI impacting the practice of medicine? What are the key traits for leadership in health care system? What happens when you self diagnose your cancer with a 10-20% chance of survival?

Get answers to these questions and much more as we sit down with David Zaas, MD, MBA, Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Immunologic Diseases, and President of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist sits down to share his insights and story.

 

In this episode Dr. Zaas talks about:

  • The talent recruitment competition landscape
  • Working as a physician scientist in an academic setting with trainees
  • Exposure to science and medicine as a teen volunteer
  • How publishing research expands leadership
  • Risk taking and career growth opportunities for success
  • Healthy conflict between business operations and clinical
  • Revenue as a lagging indicator of quality care
  • The importance of academic research in developing innovative therapies
  • The importance of trust and research integrity in the community
  • Advances in lung transplantation : ex-vivo profusion techniques and organ Immuno-suppression therapeutics
  • AI and the pace of information discovery
  • Advice for aspiring medical professionals
  • Advances in medical education and training
  • The art in practice of medicine
  • Public Health and personalized medicine
  • Pandemic decision making
  • Retail healthcare competition

Listen to this episode of the Healthcare Insights in Northwest North Carolina podcast below or search for Healthcare Insights in Northwest North Carolina" wherever you listen to podcasts.