DGTL Voices with Ed Marx

35:54

Surgery Without an Incision (ft. Gianluca Torregrossa)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/10/01

A week in the hospital used to be standard after heart bypass surgery. Dr. Gianluca Torregrossa sends his patients home in a day or two, and they are back at work within a week. One of them played 36 holes of golf two weeks out and sent a photo.He does the operation robotically, without cutting the chest open. Surgeons tried this in the early 2000s and abandoned it as too difficult and too expensive. He picked it up anyway and has now done more than 100, including the first ever performed on a

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29:33

One Hundred Percent Gut (ft. Sabré Cook)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/09/24

Sabré Cook is a professional racing driver and a mechanical engineer. She was the first woman to compete in the Porsche Carrera Cup North America, won a world karting championship at 13, and worked as a suspension composite design engineer for the Renault F1 team while racing in W Series.Edward Marx steps outside healthcare for this one. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Sabré tells him about growing up at a go-kart track in Grand Junction, winning that first championship with her dad as her

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33:02

Nobody Asks About Ibuprofen (ft. Joel Selanikio)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/09/17

Dr. Joel Selanikio is a practicing pediatrician, a former CDC epidemiologist, and a TED speaker who keynotes for health system boards and C-suites.Twenty years ago you needed a physician's judgment to get ibuprofen. Joel points out that the entire purpose of over-the-counter drugs was to eliminate a doctor visit, and that in thousands of conversations nobody has ever asked him whether Advil is going to replace doctors. Everyone asks about AI. In this episode of DGTL Voices, he tells Ed why he

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24:58

The CEO Swap (ft. Gil Peri)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/09/10

Gil Peri is the CEO of Children's Wisconsin, the only children's health system in the state. It is independent, so he reports directly to the board, and he is the third CEO it has had in 45 years.In this episode of DGTL Voices, Gil tells Edward Marx about the CEO swap he runs every month, where he takes over a frontline manager's job for the day and hands her the health system. He explains why he went into pediatrics after what happened to his younger brother in college, what a CEO once told him

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25:01

Everybody Is a Caregiver (ft. Toby Cosgrove)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/09/03

Dr. Toby Cosgrove is the former President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, where he now serves as Executive Advisor. A cardiac surgeon and inventor, he is a member of the Cleveland Medical Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Business Hall of Fame, and has addressed the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Senate HELP Committee.In this episode of DGTL Voices, Toby tells Edward Marx about nearly flunking out of Williams College before anyone discovered he was dyslexic, running a hundred-bed casualty staging

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25:20

The Executive Longevity Plan (ft. Tony Medrano)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/08/27

Tony Medrano is the CEO and Co-Founder of LongevityPlan.AI, a platform that uses AI, lab results, genetic testing, biomarkers, health records, and wearable data to help personalize longevity and peptide plans.His interest in health optimization began after accepting a challenge to complete an Ironman with only 90 days to prepare. Six weeks before the race, he was hit by a car and separated his shoulder—but still finished the race with one functioning arm. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Tony tells

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27:06

Waiting for the Wrong Bed (ft. Alan Portela)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/08/24

Alan Portela is the CEO and Co-Founder of DEPTH Health. Before this he spent 12 years running AirStrip, deployed in 750 US hospitals, and has advised Masimo, Bain Capital, and Apollo Hospitals.Touring hospitals after the pandemic, a Vanderbilt physician took him past the emergency department waiting room and into the hallway where admitted patients board. Portela treated it like a traffic jam and asked where the accident was. It was triage. Most boarding patients score ESI 3, and roughly half are

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37:16

Even If They Feel Ready, They're Not (ft. Hooman...

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/08/20

Dr. Hooman Rashidi is Associate Dean of AI in Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and Executive Director of CPACE. Before Pitt, he founded Cleveland Clinic's Center for AI and Data Science and directed AI at UC Davis Medical Center. Ed asks him whether medical staff are prepared for AI. His answer is that even the ones who feel ready are not, because people bundle every kind of AI together and the newer generative tools don't behave like the predictive models the field has been using for

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30:52

Don’t Rush Anywhere Ever (ft. Diane Sliwka)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/08/13

Dr. Diane Sliwka is a hospitalist physician, professor, and Chief Physician Experience Officer at UCSF Health. Her work focuses on improving the healthcare experience by helping clinicians communicate more effectively, find greater professional fulfillment, and deliver better care without sacrificing their own well-being.She believes healthcare leaders must do more than measure burnout. They must listen to the people on the front lines and act on what they hear. That philosophy helped UCSF earn the

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32:16

The Next Right Action (ft. John Erwin)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/08/06

John Erwin is the CEO and Founder of Carenet Health, a health engagement and virtual care company serving more than 400 healthcare organizations across telehealth, patient access, and clinical navigation.He describes Carenet's job as walking alongside the patient and making sure they take the next right action. Whether they need the ER or don't. Whether they picked up the prescription. The parts of care that happen outside the clinic, where most of a patient's health actually gets decided. In this

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29:27

Millions of Faxes (ft. Kesava Dinakaran)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/07/30

Kesava Dinakaran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Luminai, an AI platform that moves manual administrative work at large health systems over to agents. Luminai has raised $60M to date and works with health systems including Cleveland Clinic.Kesava spent seven years of his childhood solving Rubik's Cubes eight hours a day, broke the world record for most cubes solved in one hour, then cycled from Turkey to China having never ridden a bike before. He skipped college entirely. In this episode of DGTL

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22:49

Innovate With Constraints (ft. C.P. Gurnani)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/07/23

C.P. Gurnani is the Founder of Aionos, an AI-enabled company he launched in April 2024 after a 44-year career in the global technology industry. He is best known for leading Tech Mahindra, and his earlier career took him through HCL under Shiv Nadar and Perot Systems under Ross Perot Sr. He continues to serve as Chair of Mahindra Holidays and founder of Mahindra University.In this second appearance on DGTL Voices, C.P. sits down with Ed for a conversation that starts with a Bollywood song about

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28:47

The Cost of Failure Has to Go to Zero (ft. Nish...

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/07/16

Nish Khandwala is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bunkerhill Health, an AI agent platform for health systems backed by Sequoia and deployed at Cleveland Clinic, Stanford, UCSF, and more than 25 other institutions. A Stanford CS grad with a Master's in AI and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Nish built Bunkerhill after a Nature-published research algorithm he helped build at Stanford sat unused on his laptop for two years, then found its real-world moment when his own father had a heart attack. In this

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28:50

A Trillion Small Problems (ft. Andrew Gostine)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/07/09

Dr. Andrew Gostine is the CEO of Artisight, a smart hospital platform now deployed in more than 470 hospitals across the country. Trained as an anesthesiologist at Georgetown, Northwestern, and Stanford, he still practices medicine while running a company of nearly 200 employees distributed across 38+ states. Artisight's platform uses computer vision, NVIDIA GPUs at the bedside, and AI to reduce falls, extend nursing capacity, and automate documentation in patient rooms and operating rooms. In this

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28:38

Feel Whole (ft. David Banks)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/07/02

David Banks is the President and CEO of AdventHealth, one of the largest faith-based health systems in the country, with 55+ hospital campuses, 2,000+ care sites, and 100,000+ team members serving communities across the nation. In this episode of DGTL Voices, David sits down with Ed for a conversation that begins with cycling and ends with the philosophy that shapes how AdventHealth approaches whole-person care. He talks about his path from sweeping the sidewalks of a small community hospital in

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29:05

Transformation Is Not Always About the Technology...

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/06/25

Dr. Ashley Beecy is the Chief AI Officer at Sutter Health, a cardiologist, and a clinical informaticist. Before joining Sutter, she spent more than a decade at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, most recently as Medical Director of AI Operations. Her path into medicine took a less common route: she started as a computer systems engineer at IBM, then spent eight years at Citi in operational risk and product management before going to medical school while still working in finance. In

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26:51

You Have to Fail to Succeed (ft. Jennifer Miles-Thomas)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/06/18

Dr. Jennifer Miles-Thomas is Vice Chair of Integration and Innovation at Northwestern Medicine, Executive Treasurer of the American Urological Association, and a former CEO of one of the largest private urology groups in the country. She earned her MD at Northwestern, completed her residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and her MBA at MIT Sloan.In this episode of DGTL Voices, Jennifer talks with Ed about the spinal meningitis diagnosis at age three that pointed her toward medicine, what changed

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23:15

1% Better Every Day (ft. Ansh Singhal)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/06/11

Ansh Singhal is 18 years old, a senior at Coppell High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and the founder and CEO of A1 Media, a digital marketing agency he's been growing for two and a half years. His client roster already includes Adidas and Paiwan Football, who recently flew him to Japan to lead marketing for an international tournament. He's headed to SMU's Cox School of Business in the fall.In this episode of DGTL Voices, Ansh sits down with Ed for one of the show's occasional

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29:42

Why Every Future Doctor Needs an Engineering Degree...

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/06/06

Dr. Lev Gonick is the Enterprise Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University, where he leads technology infrastructure, AI innovation, and smart city architecture for the nation's largest public university.An academic and technology pioneer for more than three decades, Lev has been a sitting CIO for 25 years, with prior leadership at Case Western Reserve University and co-founding regional digital equity initiatives like DigitalC. In this bonus episode of DGTL Voices, Lev tells Ed about

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28:06

AI Is a Tool, Not a Solution (ft. Rob Bart)

DGTL Voices with Ed Marx ·

2026/06/04

Dr. Rob Bart is the Chief Medical Information Officer at UPMC, where he is leading one of the largest EHR consolidations in the country- bringing the entire health system onto a single Epic instance. A pediatric intensivist by training, Rob has been a pioneer in the CMIO role for more than two decades, with prior leadership at Cerner and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. In this episode of DGTL Voices, Rob tells Ed about growing up in Hawaii (his high school classmate happened to

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