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Turn on the Lights Podcast — 135 episodes

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The Future of Medicine with AI: Dr. Bob Wachter on Opportunity and Risk

2

Why Public Health Matters Most When You Don’t See It with Dr. Rochelle Walensky

3

Why Public Health Still Matters More Than Ever with Dr. Tom Frieden

4

Why Better Questions Lead to Better Care with Hugo Campos

5

How Maryland Is Testing a Different Way to Pay for Health Care with Dr. Meena Seshamani

6

Why Public Health Keeps Getting Ignored Until It’s Too Late with Michelle Williams & Linda Marsa

7

The Real Reason Training Alone Cannot Fix Patient Safety with Professor Charles Vincent

8

How Stories Can Help People Rethink Health Care Reform with Shantanu Rai

9

Who Sets the Table for Quality Measurement in U.S. Health Care? with Brenna Rabel & Michelle Schreiber

10

AI, Interoperability, and the Next Era of Quality Measurement with Jeff Geppert

11

The Hidden Math Of Aging That Is Bankrupting Middle-Class Families with Dr. Joanne Lynn

12

The Cost Shifting Cycle Behind Your Rising Premiums with Chris Van Gorder

13

Disrupting the Aging Services Model Through Community-Based Care with Marta Corvêlo

14

Why The US Pays More For The Same Medications Than Everyone Else with Dr. Jerry Avorn

15

The Power of Everyday Mindfulness: Healing, Community, and Public Health Impact with Brother Phap Luu

16

Beyond Compliance: Vivek Garg on Patient-Centered Quality and Real-Time Improvement

17

Medicaid Work Requirements and the Unraveling of Health Coverage with Ben Sommers

18

Who Guards Healthcare AI? Inside CHAI’s Push for Trust and Transparency with Dr. Brian Anderson

19

From Chaos to Care: Dr. Gary Kaplan on Leading with Quality

20

Patient Safety in the Age of AI: Risks, Rewards, and Reality live at the IHI Forum

21

The Cost of Not Listening: How Medical Silencing Harms Patients with Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan

22

From Bankruptcy to Rescue: Dr. Gregg Meyer on the Emergency that Transformed Massachusetts Healthcare

23

Medicaid: What’s at Risk, and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever with Cindy Mann

24

Relearning Trust: How Science, Communication, and Preparedness Must Evolve with Dr. Michael Osterholm

25

Healing Those Who Served: Dr. David Shulkin on the VA’s Legacy and the Future of American Health Care.

26

Information Sickness: How Our Media Environment Is Harming Public Health with Joshua Sharfstein & Joanne Kenen

27

From Patient to Advocate: Rosie Bartel on Transforming Pain into Change

28

Upstream Medicine: Healing Through Trust, Dignity, and Context - with Dr. Sandeep Kapoor

29

Regulation, consternation, Food and Drug Administration - with Robert Califf

30

The chronic impact of health care corporatization on clinicians and patients - with Peter Grinspoon

31

The economics of medication - with Vinay Patel

32

The story of the NHS and what we can learn from it - with Bob Klaber

33

Housing, homelessness, and health - with Rosanne Haggerty

34

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Optimism, Concern, and the Future of Health Care with Don Berwick & Kedar Mate

35

Safety x AI - with Jason Adelman

36

Madd love: Reducing recidivism rates in young adults - with Gregg Croteau

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It shouldn't take a crisis to make us talk about public health - with Howard Koh

38

Inequities, inequalities, and truth to power - with Steven Woolf

39

Graduate medical education and social contracts - with Tom Nasca

40

Home-based care to tackle maternal health inequities and improve outcomes - with Rebekah Gee

41

Humans in health care - with Tom Fisher

42

The story of palliative care, on the big screen - with Jessica Zitter

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Kindness and what matters to you - with Maureen Bisognano

44

The human impact of today's politics on the oldest public hospital in America - with Eric Wei

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The connection between meaning and purpose to reduce staff burnout - with Steve Swensen

46

Health Care AI at Speed – Recorded at IHI Leadership Alliance Spring Meeting 2025 with Brett Moran, Charles Binkley & Lucas Zier

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Upstream and downstream determinants of health and the water we drink - with Cydian Kauffman

48

Join the patient revolution - with Victor M. Montori

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Imagine a public health system built on mutual aid, participation, and dignity with Eric Reinhart

50

Has healthcare fully realized the potential of AI? with Eric Horvitz

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Democratizing Expertise with Sanjeev Arora

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Keeping Patients over Profits with Dhruv Khullar

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Demystifying Dental Health with Melissa Burroughs

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Catholic Health Care with Patricia Gabow

55

Movement Building and Large Scale Change with Joe McCannon

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Rational Public Policy with Mike Chernew

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The Evolution of Palliative Care with Christine Cassel

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Think Tanks and Their Role in Health Care Policy with Andrea Ducas

59

Anyone Can Choose Leadership with Dennis Wagner and John Scanlon

60

The Economics and Ills of U.S. Health Care and Health Insurance with Zack Cooper

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Continuous Learning for Better Care with Daniel Hyman and Peter Margolis

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Approaching Systems Change with Dan Heath

63

The Past, Present, and Future of Health Plan Innovation with Liz Fowler

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Turn off the lights with Jeff Thompson at the IHI Forum

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There is no quality without equity with Thea James and Bisola Ojikutu

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Building an Age Friendly Movement with Terry Fulmer and Faith Mitchell

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Is medical education stuck in the past? with Abraham Nussbaum

68

The importance of the "hand-off" in health care with Christopher Landrigan

69

Workforce planning, workforce wellbeing, and workforce retention with Navina Evans

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Cutting through the misinformation with Celine Gounder

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When people of the system own the system with April Kyle and Doug Eby

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Health system ownership with Hayden Rooke-Ley

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Politics, mobilization, and political force with Marshall Ganz

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What is social capital and what value does it have in health care? with Tom Lee

75

Ethical conundrums aplenty with Vardit Ravitsky

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How technology giants like Google are impacting healthcare with Michael Howell

77

Expanding the role of health systems beyond traditional hospital care with Michael Dowling

78

Can trust in health care journalism be rebuilt? with David Rousseau

79

Using information, insights (and humans) to improve outcomes with Eric Poon

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Building will and change with agency with Pedja Stojicic

81

The importance of access to information and data as a patient and caregiver with Susannah Fox

82

The transformative shift from health care in hospitals to home-based care

83

Maintaining medical care amidst bombs with Dr. Olesya Vynnyk and Dr. Miguel Cendoroglo Neto

84

Art, activism, and health care with Michelle Browder

85

Rerun: What Happened to Patient Safety with Sue Sheridan

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Rerun - Penalized for Being Sick: The Uniquely American Crisis of Medical Debt with Berneta L. Haynes

87

We need a health care system that supports healthy aging with Maria Carney and Charles Kenney

88

Patient empowerment and community engagement for better health outcomes

89

The future of medical education with Holly Humphrey

90

The importance of evidence-based medicine and health care with Dr. Rita Redberg

91

The Power of Patients and Clinicians Aligning on a Deep Issue: Prior Authorization Law Change, with Dr. Nisha Mehta and Dr. Tina Shah

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Beacons of scientific truth, with Alan Weil

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Information exchange and the role publications play in health care and medical media today, with Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, 17th Editor-in-Chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network

94

Let's talk about "hospitalists" and what the term means with its inventor Robert Wachter

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If you don't learn their story, you're cheating the patient and yourself with Dr. David Reuben

96

Taking the Policy Route to Improve Coverage and Care with Leslie Dach, Founder and chair of Protect Our Care

97

The Need for a Healthier, More Supportive Environment and System for Health Care Professionals with Eileen Barrett, J. Corey Feist, and Wendy Dean

98

Patient-Centric Care with Susan Edgman-Levitan

99

Big Data, Big Opportunity to Improve Patient Care with Dr. John Halamka, President of Mayo Clinic Platform

100

Do Health Care Systems Really Focus on Ensuring that Patients Have a Positive Experience? with Meg Gaines

101

Why Do Prescription Drugs Cost So Much with Aaron Kesselheim, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School

102

A Lesson in Preparedness: Qatar, COVID, and the FIFA World Cup

103

Is Health Care for Women and Families Still a Neglected Aspect of the US Health Care System? with Dr. Neel Shah

104

The Concerning Influence of Private Equity in the Health Care with Rosemary Batt

105

Combating Misinformation and Restoring Faith in Evidence-Based Medicine with Rich Baron

106

Building a Culture of Appreciation for the Nursing Community with Bonnie Barnes and Deb Zimmermann

107

From Theory to Practice with Vineet Arora

108

Safety net hospitals and their role in serving under-resourced communities with Fred Cerise

109

What it Means When a Health Care Provider gets Acquired by a Private Equity Firm with Zirui Song, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School

110

A Brief History of Trust and Health Care with Lewis A. Grossman

111

Transforming Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities with Mai Pham

112

An Innovative Care Management Model for a Fragmented System with Kathleen Noonan

113

Disrupting the Pharma Industry with Affordable Medication for Everyone with Dan Liljenquist

114

Investing in Local Communities to Improve Health with David Zuckerman, President and Founder of Healthcare Anchor Network

115

The Free Clinic Movement with Stephanie Willding

116

The Power of Networks for Learning, Improvement, and Large-scale Change with Helen Bevan

117

Sweden's Health System: A stark contrast to the US health system with Goran Henriks

118

Health Care's Unfortunate Role in the Global Climate Crisis with Gary Cohen

119

Health care for LGBTQ+ patients: Treat others as they would want to be treated with Kyle P. Christiason

120

Our healthcare system is confusing... Please help! with Lisa K. Fitzpatrick

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Why does medicine cost so much? with Aaron S. Kesselheim

122

Journalism and Health Care: A Relationship Worth Talking About with Noam Levey

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Reversing the Harms of Mass Incarceration with Emily Wang

124

Are Health Insurers Always the Villains? with Sachin Jain

125

An Innovative Response to Medical Debt with Allison Sesso

126

What is a Safety Net Hospital? with Elaine Batchlor

127

Some Hard Truths About US Health Care with Jason Leitch

128

Is More Care Better Care? with Vikas Saini

129

From Challenges to Triumph: Tackling Hepatitis C and Advancing Healthcare with Francis Collins

130

What Happened to Patient Safety with Sue Sheridan

131

The Poverty and Bad Health Cycle with Alister Martin

132

Penalized for Being Sick: The Uniquely American Crisis of Medical Debt with Berneta L. Haynes

133

How to Make Health Care Work for Patients with Rushika Fernandopulle

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Welcome to Turn on the Lights

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Introducing Turn on the Lights: Illuminating the Complexities of US Healthcare