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 Jordan Dale, MD, is the chief medical information officer (CMIO) and inaugural chief health AI officer of Houston Methodist, based in Houston. Q: Let’s start by learning a bit about your background. How did your career path evolve and what led you to Houston Methodist? I was an engineer by training before I went to medical school, so I think I was programmed at an early stage in my car...

Maria Toler is the founding and managing partner of SteelSky Ventures, based in Atlanta. Q: Let’s start by learning a bit about your background. How did your career path evolve and what led you to start SteelSky Ventures? A: I’m an entrepreneur to my core. I launched my first company, Collegeboxes, as a college student, and it was eventually acquired by U-Haul. That experience c...

Saurabh Chandra, MD, is the chief telehealth officer at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), based in Jackson, Mississippi. Q: Can you give us a summary of your background, and what brought you to your current position at UMMC? A: I grew up in India and attended medical school there before coming to the United States for advanced training and completed my critical care fellowship ...

Jerry Vuchak is the chief information and innovation officer of Children’s Nebraska, based in Omaha, Nebraska. Q: Tell us about your background and how you arrived at your current position? A: My journey in health care started in 1991 and my background prior to Children’s Nebraska has primarily been working in large adult academic medical centers. I was at Houston Methodist for 15 year...

Eric Spann, MD, is a family medicine physician at Baxter Health, based in Mountain View, Arkansas. Q: Dr. Spann, how do you envision AI impacting your day-to-day work, your patient interactions and what defines good medicine? A: If we thought that addressing “Dr. Google” was a big part of our daily work, this is going to be Dr. Google on steroids. Patients are now going to have a large...

Debra “Deb” Raupers, MSN, RN, is the enterprise chief nurse executive for the Guthrie Clinic, based in Sayre, Pennsylvania. Q: To start us off, can you talk us through your career progression as a nursing professional and how you came to your current role at Guthrie? A: I have been in nursing for over 30 years, and it's been a wonderful career within the Guthrie Healthcare System. I w...

Michael Ash, MD, is the president and chief operating officer for Nebraska Medicine, based in Omaha, Nebraska. Q: You’ve had quite a career—starting as an internal medicine physician, moving into health IT at Cerner (now Oracle), and serving as a chief transformation officer before stepping into your COO role. How have these experiences shaped your leadership approach? A: I've always been interes...

Mikki Clancy is the chief digital and information officer for Premier Health, based in Dayton, Ohio. Q: Let’s get this out of the way: artificial intelligence—exciting or overrated? A: I believe it's exciting, but in a different way than most people think. For me, it's one of several layers of tools that are available to us to help our staff work more efficiently. So that's exciting b...