39 episodes

On Season 4, leaders from around the VUMC enterprise explore issues facing businesses across industries, and how the enterprise is experimenting with and designing solutions for problems – old and new – by supporting smart people with visionary ideas.

You’ll track how a few ideas fused and matured over decades into the engine of a global collaboration, and why progress requires bold confidence in people, taking calculated risks, and transformative optimism about what could be next.

Structured as a four-part case study, whose endings are yet unwritten, season listeners get a peek into how a storied institution thinks about change, disruption from within and around, and rallies around initiatives designed to improve complex medical, research, community and workplace challenges.

Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action Vanderbilt Health

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    • 4.9 • 108 Ratings

On Season 4, leaders from around the VUMC enterprise explore issues facing businesses across industries, and how the enterprise is experimenting with and designing solutions for problems – old and new – by supporting smart people with visionary ideas.

You’ll track how a few ideas fused and matured over decades into the engine of a global collaboration, and why progress requires bold confidence in people, taking calculated risks, and transformative optimism about what could be next.

Structured as a four-part case study, whose endings are yet unwritten, season listeners get a peek into how a storied institution thinks about change, disruption from within and around, and rallies around initiatives designed to improve complex medical, research, community and workplace challenges.

    Equity Blooms Through Hard Work: Shifting Systems Toward Inclusion

    Equity Blooms Through Hard Work: Shifting Systems Toward Inclusion

    Muscles that don’t get used, lose strength. Building a culture of belonging to foster inventive forward-looking research and robust retention requires the consistency and tenacity of a training program. Meet a nurse educator, a geriatrician, and a neurologist who are putting in the hours.

    • 37 min
    Blazing a New Pathway: A Bold Blueprint to Foster Upskilling, Reskilling and Future Colleagues

    Blazing a New Pathway: A Bold Blueprint to Foster Upskilling, Reskilling and Future Colleagues

    Companies around the U.S. and world are navigating a re-think about work and learning as shifting expectations and technological leaps upend the status quo. In this episode, discover how trailblazing initiatives at one of Tennessee’s largest employers are reshaping the healthcare landscape while addressing societal and economic pressures. 

    • 40 min
    Unveiling the Future: Tech, Trust, and Healthcare Transformation in Nashville

    Unveiling the Future: Tech, Trust, and Healthcare Transformation in Nashville

    Explore the dynamic intersection of consumer expectations, employer cost challenges, and scalability in healthcare. Discover how the future of healthcare could shape your world. Join us on a journey of transformative possibilities in this episode.

    • 30 min
    From an inkling to Iceland: The inventive path toward a genetic ‘Rosetta Stone’

    From an inkling to Iceland: The inventive path toward a genetic ‘Rosetta Stone’

    Transformative change takes intergenerational vision, discipline and commitment. Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s CEO and leaders in genetic research explain how ideas stemming from the 1990s sparked a new global alliance that will help write the future of medicine.

    • 36 min
    Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action Season 4

    Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action Season 4

    Flashes of ideas can turn into guiding lights. Visionaries and trailblazers shape innovations of the future through passion projects. Season 4 explores how yesterday’s passion projects are changing the world for us today–and spotlights the people and ideas poised to make seismic shifts in the future.

    • 3 min
    GenAI, You, and Medicine: A long history with new opportunities and risks

    GenAI, You, and Medicine: A long history with new opportunities and risks

    A panel of nationally recognized experts in AI, machine learning, ethics and clinical applications talk about the long history of AI in medicine, and how ChatGPT and similars are changing how they think about trust, the public, and research. 

    • 1 hr 7 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
108 Ratings

108 Ratings

hou756 ,

Well done

This is well edited and produced which makes it an easy podcast to listen to. Please highlight the outstanding work the Autonomic Center at Vanderbilt does. It is so important given the long COVID issues and letting others know what resources there are to help them

healthfanatic100 ,

great podcast!

such a great, informative podcast about problems facing our healthcare system right now. First two episodes have been great! Excited to listen to the rest once they drop

healthnut991 ,

A must listen!!

So great to hear FACTS from true EXPERTS! Digestible and informational!

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