Bill talks with Chad Kugler about the world behind the curtains of the medical device industry.  He is undoubtedly an expert of swimming with sharks and finds joy in navigating that journey. Chad Kugler, President and CEO of Seigla Medical, is an engineer turned serial entrepreneur with significant experience inventing technologies including sixty-eight granted patents, developing new markets, and managing companies.  He was a key architect for market development that included a global...

Bill chats with Dr. Emmanouil (Manos) Brilakis about his career, perspectives on working hard and his own challenges with burnout. Emmanouil Brilakis MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI is Director of the Center for Complex Coronary Interventions at the Minneapolis Heart Institute and Chairman of the Center for Coronary Artery Disease at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation.

Dr. Yonatan (Yoni) Buber joins the podcast to discuss how his upbringing in Israel and training internationally have contrasted from the US but also the lessons that have benefited his current clinical role in the Adult Congenital Heart Disease service at UW Medicine Heart Institute. With current events in Israel, we couldn't avoid the topic.  Dr. Buber vulnerably navigates his emotions while offering his methods for coping with this stress as a clinician.

Bill sits down with Dr. Joe Park, current PGY3 Medical Resident and Cardiology Fellow applicant. They discuss his reflections in his application season for his fit both professionally and personally to programs while also aligning the "why" of his medical career to his decision in the pursuit of joy.

Bill talks with Dr. Bobby Yeh about the challenges of applying the highest standard of scientific evaluation to impact clinical outcomes in the best interest of the patient. Dr. Yeh is the Founding Director of the Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Section Chief of Interventional Cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Katz-Silver Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. 

Bill talks with Ramin Mousavi, President and CEO of Cathworks, about his career building high-performing teams that design, develop and launch breakthrough and transformational innovative products and programs.    He's held leadership roles in fast-growing startups and market-leading large medical device, aerospace, and technology companies and shares perspectives about the impact of perseverance on innovation.

Friends and Cath Lab partners, Bill and Dr. Jamie McCabe discuss their personal experiences through fellowship, current philosophies on fellowship training and their roles and challenges in helping prepare the next generation of interventional cardiologists at UW Medicine. Learn More: Structural Heart Fellowship https://cardiology.uw.edu/education/subspecialty-fellowships/structural-heart-valve

Bill sits down with Dr. Kalaivani "Vani" Mahadevan, an interventional cardiologist interventional cardiologist with a strong interest in high risk and CTO PCI in Portsmouth, England visiting UW in Seattle for a week of training as she navigates into the next chapter of her career.

Bill talks with Scott Kater about his journey to leadership at Phillips as the Vice President, U.S. Sales / Image Guided Therapy-Devices.

Bill talks with Dr. Rahul Bhindi about the emotions, failure and tribulations as a first year complex coronary operator.

Bill talks with Stefan Harb about careers determined early in life and those that we seem to fall into and how to navigate them.  

Bill discusses the inequalities in healthcare from Sam Conaway's perspective as President of Cardiology Sales with Boston Scientific.

Bill talks with Dr. Amir Kaki about the incentives and culture that can lead to the weaponization of peer review.

Bill talks with Dr. Ajay Kirtane about topics ranging from his recent deletion of his Twitter account to his perspectives on a journey to better.

 Bill talks with Marika Cartier, a sophomore at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.  She hoped to ask Bill some guidance as she looks to potentially pursue a career in healthcare.

Bill talks with Blake Bell, an industry veteran, about the role of industry in improving outcomes and the barriers to advancement from that perspective.

In the lead up to the annual CRF Complications Course, Bill talks with Dr. Stèphane Rinfret and Dr. Kevin Croce about advice to new operators and how to take the right risks.

Bill sits down with Dr. Alex Truesdell to talk about lessons from the Army (and Combat) for Interventional Cardiology.

Bill talks with Dr. Dan Spoon and the focus of his 2020 paper outlining the importance of mental training through medical education. https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.09.530

Bill sits down with Dr. Brett Wanamaker to talk mindsets in life and in practice.

Bill talks to Dr. Khal Alaswad about the past present and future of safe environments for learning and impacts to skill development in healthcare and beyond.

Bill sits down with Dr. Adam Greenbaum about careers defined by change that faced resistance.

Bill and Dr. Sid Schnur get to the root of things and the impacts on healthcare delivery.

Bill sits down with Dr. Robert Riley and discuss their shared journey that started in Dr. Riley's fellowship and continues as a peer and friend in the PNW.

Cody Pickett was a seemingly healthy x-UW & NFL Football Quarterback who suddenly found himself in the hospital needing an urgent open heart coronary revascularization.  He was told this was the only option.  Thankfully his network helped him find Bill and obtained a PCI.   His journey is one that highlight glaring obstacles for patients access to the best care available and the incentives for insurance companies.