Health UnaBASHEd : Inside Mayo Clinic's Discovery Oasis with Steven Lester MD, Medical Director

Recorded live from BIO 2026 in San Diego, Gil sits down with Dr. Steven Lester, cardiologist, Professor of Medicine, and Medical Director of Mayo Clinic's Discovery Oasis, to unpack one of healthcare's boldest innovation bets. Lester explains how 120 acres on Mayo's Phoenix campus are becoming a biotechnology innovation hub designed to pull commercializable know-how out of one of medicine's most storied institutions — and why most healthcare innovation fails not at the idea stage, but at the friction between pilot and scale. The conversation ranges from the "great unscaling" of medicine to Lester's personal stewardship philosophy, forged through an unlikely cross-border citizenship story.