Bob Harrington Opens Season Two of Stanford Healthcare Leadership Podcast

This episode features Dr. Bob Harrington, Chair, of the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Harrington traces his early life, his journey through medical school, and his work at Duke University, Stanford University, and the American Heart Association. His personal anecdotes paint a vivid (and sometimes poignant) picture of his life and his secret sauce to carving out a fulfilling career in medicine.

"Leadership is a lifelong journey. Just the way medicine is, just the way science is." says Dr. Carolyn Meltzer describing her leadership journey. Dr. Meltzer is a radiologist and nuclear medicine expert and serves as the Dean of the USC Keck School of Medicine. The positive impact of mentors and mentoring is well known. In this podcast, Dr. Meltzer describes the concept of 'anti-mentors' and how they helped her become a better leader.

Dr. Kim Curseen is an empowering and inspirational leader in geriatrics and palliative care. Dr. Curseen feels that people, especially women, can be steered down that path that they are asked to do things. As they want to be helpful, they may just step in to fill an organizational need without ever really stopping back just consider, “Is this the way I really want my career to go?” Sadly, they may wake up many years later filled with regret at their career trajectory and unable to take corrective action. Join us to hear the fireworks in Dr. Curseen's views in this episode of Stanford Medicine's #HealthcareLeadershipPodcast.