What happens when a health system stops trying to recruit its way out of a workforce challenge, and instead redesigns the pipeline itself?

In this episode of Bright Spots in Healthcare, Eric Glazer sits down with Dr. Lindsay Mazotti, Chief Medical Officer of Medical Science and Education at Sutter Health, for a candid, system-level conversation about rethinking how physicians are trained, supported, and developed for the future of care.

Rather than focusing on workforce shortages as a policy or awareness problem, this conversation explores what happens after the reality is already clear—when leaders choose to redesign foundational systems instead of managing around constraints.

Dr. Mazotti shares how Sutter is treating graduate medical education as strategic infrastructure, not an academic side function, and what it takes to build a physician pipeline that can scale, adapt, and endure.

Using examples from rural training pathways, academic partnerships, research translation, and digital transformation, the discussion surfaces how education becomes the load-bearing structure that allows health systems to absorb change without breaking.

This episode is designed for health system leaders who are no longer asking whether change is needed, but are grappling with how to build systems that can carry what's coming next.

• Why physician shortages can't be solved through recruiting alone

• How Sutter is redesigning the physician pipeline end to end

• What changes when graduate medical education is treated as core infrastructure

• How training clinicians for place shapes rural and underserved care delivery

• Why education is the missing link between research, digital innovation, and day-to-day care

• Where clinician training determines adoption—or abandonment—of new technologies

• The leadership tradeoffs that come with moving from individual patient care to system-level impact

• What leaders must unlearn when building durable, long-term capability

About Dr. Lindsay Mazotti:
Dr. Lindsay Mazotti leads system-wide initiatives at Sutter Health that advance medical education, research, and innovation in support of the organization's mission to deliver exceptional, patient-centered care to more than 3 million patients across 22 counties in Northern California. In her role, she focuses on strategically integrating medical education into the health system's infrastructure to align with long-term priorities, including Sutter's Destination 2030 initiative. Dr. Mazotti oversees undergraduate and graduate medical education across the system—spanning clinical rotations, scholarships, residency and fellowship programs, and academic partnerships—while working closely with aligned medical groups representing more than 14,000 physicians to develop and support physician educators. Her work centers on building innovative training pathways that address physician workforce needs, align with evolving care delivery models, and strengthen long-term system capability, with the goal of quadrupling Sutter's GME footprint by 2030 to become the largest community-based GME program in California.

Learn more about Dr. Mazotti - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-mazotti

Partner with Bright Spots Ventures: If you are interested in speaking with the Bright Spots Ventures team to brainstorm how we can help you grow your business via content and relationships, email hkrish@brightspotsventures.com.

About Bright Spots Ventures:

Bright Spots Ventures is a healthcare strategy and engagement company that creates content, communities, and connections to accelerate innovation. We help healthcare leaders discover what's working, and how to scale it. By bringing together health plan, hospital, and solution leaders, we facilitate the exchange of ideas that lead to measurable impact. Through our podcast, executive councils, private events, and go-to-market strategy work, we surface and amplify the "bright spots" in healthcare—proven innovations others can learn from and replicate. At our core, we exist to create trusted relationships that make real progress possible. Visit our website at www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Visit our website: www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Follow Bright Spots in Healthcare: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shared-purpose-connect/

In Part Two of this special ViVE series, the conversation moves from why ViVE exists to how leaders and solution partners actually extract value from it.

Eric Glazer continues the discussion with Rich Scarfo, President of HLTH/ViVE, and Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, focusing on how different audiences experience ViVE and what separates attendees who walk away with clarity and momentum from those who don't.

Rich and Russ share practical perspectives on how senior healthcare leaders should navigate ViVE, how to balance content sessions with curated meetings, and what intentional preparation looks like before, during, and after the event. They also discuss what "showing up the right way" means for solution partners, what makes a partner conversation valuable from an executive standpoint, and how to build trust that extends beyond the conference.

If you're attending ViVE 2026, or deciding how to approach large industry convenings more strategically, this episode offers concrete guidance on how to turn time spent onsite into outcomes that last well beyond the event.

Resources:

Take a look at what's in store at ViVE 2026, taking place Feb. 22-25 in Los Angeles - https://hlth.com/events/vive

Attend ViVE using discount code V26BSV for $250 off the General Attendee ticket - https://hlth.com/events/vive/register

About Rich Scrafo and Russ Branzell:

Rich Scarfo - https://hyve.group/about/meet-our-leaders


Russ Branzell - https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-branzell-2888aa108

Partner with Bright Spots Ventures:
If you are interested in speaking with the Bright Spots Ventures team to brainstorm how we can help you grow your business via content and relationships, email hkrish@brightspotsventures.com

About Bright Spots Ventures:

Bright Spots Ventures is a healthcare strategy and engagement company that creates content, communities, and connections to accelerate innovation. We help healthcare leaders discover what's working, and how to scale it. By bringing together health plan, hospital, and solution leaders, we facilitate the exchange of ideas that lead to measurable impact. Through our podcast, executive councils, private events, and go-to-market strategy work, we surface and amplify the "bright spots" in healthcare—proven innovations others can learn from and replicate. At our core, we exist to create trusted relationships that make real progress possible. Visit our website at www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Visit our website: www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Follow Bright Spots in Healthcare: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shared-purpose-connect/

ViVE was created to break the mold of healthcare conferences — fewer distractions, more meaningful conversations, and content leaders can act on.

In this first episode of a special two-part series, Eric Glazer sits down with Rich Scarfo, President of HLTH/ViVE, and Russ Branzell, President & CEO of CHIME, to unpack the origin of ViVE, the CHIME + HLTH partnership, and what senior leaders can expect in 2026.

Together, they explore why executives needed a new kind of platform, what problems they're trying to solve when they come to ViVE, and how topics like cybersecurity, cost pressure, operational performance, and real-world AI will show up in this year's programming. They also get into how ViVE approaches content design, moving beyond big ideas to practical context and decision-support leaders can use when they get home.

If you're a healthcare decision-maker evaluating which events matter in 2026, or how to make sense of a fast-changing landscape, this conversation offers clarity straight from the architects of ViVE.

Stay tuned for Part Two, where the conversation shifts to how leaders and solution partners get real outcomes from ViVE — from navigating the environment to turning connections into next steps.

Resources:

Take a look at what's in store at ViVE 2026, taking place Feb. 22-25 in Los Angeles - https://hlth.com/events/vive/

Attend ViVE using discount code V26BSV for $250 off the General Attendee ticket - https://hlth.com/events/vive/register/

About Rich Scrafo and Russ Branzell:

Rich Scarfo - https://hyve.group/about/meet-our-leaders

Russ Branzell - https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-branzell-2888aa108

Partner with Bright Spots Ventures:
If you are interested in speaking with the Bright Spots Ventures team to brainstorm how we can help you grow your business via content and relationships, email hkrish@brightspotsventures.com

About Bright Spots Ventures:

Bright Spots Ventures is a healthcare strategy and engagement company that creates content, communities, and connections to accelerate innovation. We help healthcare leaders discover what's working, and how to scale it. By bringing together health plan, hospital, and solution leaders, we facilitate the exchange of ideas that lead to measurable impact. Through our podcast, executive councils, private events, and go-to-market strategy work, we surface and amplify the "bright spots" in healthcare—proven innovations others can learn from and replicate. At our core, we exist to create trusted relationships that make real progress possible. Visit our website at www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Visit our website: www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com.

Follow Bright Spots in Healthcare: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shared-purpose-connect/