STFM PODCAST - Academic Medicine Leadership Lessons

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What separates a good leader from a great one? These in-depth interviews with some of family medicine's most influential leaders provide insight into pivotal experiences that boosted leadership skills and provided unprecedented opportunities for personal growth. This series of podcasts explores the development of leadership skills, including clarity, courage, decisiveness, humility, and passion, as a means to facilitating growth during times when healthcare professionals are addressing:• Motivation and Mentorship• Burnout and Transitions• Milestones and Meaning• Barriers and BureaucracyThis series of podcasts is sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the academic home for family medicine educators. 

  1. 3d ago

    The Global Heart of Family Medicine: A Vision for WONCA with Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD

    Dr Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, President of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), shares how early passions for advocacy and patient care, along with a deep love of culture and people, shaped her path to global leadership. Grounded in the belief that health is a fundamental human right, she describes how WONCA serves as a professional home for thousands of family physicians in more than 150 countries, fostering international collaboration and shared learning. She makes a compelling case for why investing in family medicine is essential to building healthier, more equitable societies worldwide, and what that means for those shaping the next generation of family physicians.  Hosted by Omari A. Hodge, MD, FAAFP and Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, MD Copyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2026 Resources: WONCA - World Organization of Family Doctors Homepage WONCA World Conference November 2027 Polaris - North American Region Young Doctors MovementDeclaration of Alma-Ata - World Health OrganizationGuest Bio: Dr Viviana Martinez-Bianchi is a distinguished family physician and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She serves as a Professor and the Director for Community Engagement at Duke University’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. In October 2023, she was elected President-Elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and assumed the presidency on September 20, 2025, serving until November 2027. https://stfm.org/stfmpodcast102026

  2. Sep 18

    Bonus Conference Episode: The Art of Noticing Unnoticed Wisdom: Why This, Why Now, Why Me (Us)? With Gary LeRoy, MD

    Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement Closing Session - Wednesday, September 2, 2026 This presentation reflects on the evolving purpose, responsibility, and resilience of family physicians in a rapidly changing health care environment. Drawing from three decades of leadership, teaching, and historical keynote addresses, the speaker invites attendees to reconsider how physicians grow professionally while remaining grounded in the relational and moral foundations of medicine. By contrasting the non-binary curiosity and joy of childhood development with the rigid, outcome-driven mindset common in adult professional life, the presentation reframes burnout as a loss of meaning rather than a lack of effort or reward. Through storytelling, reflection, and selected excerpts from past speeches, learners are encouraged to rediscover “unnoticed wisdom,” celebrate the concept of “enough,” and intentionally remove fear, frustration, anger, threat, and terror from their lives. The presentation affirms family medicine as a countercultural force—one grounded in presence, advocacy, ethical leadership, and service that cannot be replaced by technology or commoditized models of care. Ultimately, this talk serves as a call to action for physicians to remember why they entered medicine, honor the privilege of board certification, and press the call button when society asks for a doctor—leading with courage, humility, and compassion.  Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to: Compare and contrast the differences between non-binary childhood developmental milestones and binary adult life hurdles.Better understand how not to fall out of love with the art and the science of medicine.Learn how to recognize and celebrate “enough.”Copyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2026 Speaker Bio -  Gary L. LeRoy (Lah-Roy), MD, is the senior vice president for diplomate experience at the American Board of Family Medicine—located in Lexington, KY. Dr LeRoy is a native of Dayton, OH, and graduated from Wright State University. He completed family medicine residency training in Dayton and a family medicine teaching fellowship at Michigan State University. Over the past 3 decades, Dr LeRoy has continued serving the citizens of Dayton in his urban clinical practice, while serving as associate dean of student affairs and admissions at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine for 14 years, president of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (2005–06), and president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (2020–21).  Website -  https://stfm.org/stfmpodcastCPQI26closing

  3. Sep 16

    Bonus Conference Episode: Aims before Algorithms: A Problem-Driven Approach to AI with Amelia Sattler, MD

    Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement Second Plenary Session - Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming clinical care, medical education, and research. While AI has significant potential, meaningful integration remains challenging. When AI-powered tools are developed in technology silos without close collaboration with key stakeholders, real-world impact is limited. Even the most powerful AI tools lack practical value if they aren’t conceptualized, designed and integrated to address clearly defined and meaningful problems. These challenges highlight the need for a problem-driven approach to AI development and adoption. This session presents a practical framework for advancing AI initiatives grounded in quality improvement (QI) principles. Drawing on Dr. Sattler’s experience as a clinician and improvement-focused innovator, the session uses examples across clinical care, education and research to illustrate how AI can be applied to address real-world challenges. Emphasis is placed on identifying meaningful problems as the necessary starting point for exploring AI-enabled solutions and using iterative, small-scale testing to evaluate their impact. This session also highlights the importance of collaboration among key stakeholders and technology developers to ensure that AI tools are responsive to real-world needs. Participants are encouraged to view themselves not as passive users of AI, but as active contributors to its thoughtful development and implementation. The session also addresses potential benefits, limitations, and risks of AI use.  Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to: Describe practical examples for meaningfully integrating AI into clinical practice, education and research.Apply a quality improvement-informed, problem-driven approach to advance a personal AI goal.Evaluate potential benefits, limitations and risks of AI use.Copyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2026 Speaker Bio -  Amelia Sattler, MD, is a family physician and problem-solver. Her medical training began while seated around the dinner table in rural northern California where, as a child, she was inspired by the joy that her parents experienced working as family practitioners. She ventured to Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN, where she was “raised” in a culture of medicine that prioritizes the needs of patients. She returned to California to train at Stanford's O'Connor Family Medicine Residency Program. After residency she joined Stanford Family Medicine, where she continues to see patients. Dr Sattler holds three leadership roles. She is an associate program director of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team ("HEART") and works with teams to study and implement AI technologies to solve specific, practical problems in healthcare. She is the primary care program director of integrated behavioral health and is partnering with psychiatry, social work and primary care teams to build a collaborative care model at Stanford Primary Care. She is also the associate section chief for program innovation in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health where she collaborates with providers and operational leadership to amplify the impact of their 30+ innovative primary care programs.  Website -  https://stfm.org/stfmpodcastCPQI26second

  4. Sep 14

    Bonus Conference Episode: Fireside Chat with Dr Sachin Jain

    Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement Opening Session - Monday, August 31, 2026 In this fireside chat with Dr Sachin Jain, he explores the intersection of leadership, equity, and innovation in health care delivery. This session examines how health care organizations can address disparities in access, quality, and outcomes while advancing patient-centered, community-responsive care. Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to: Describe key factors that contribute to inequities to health care access, quality and outcomes across diverse patient populations.Analyze how health care systems organizational culture and policy decisions influence disparities in care delivery and patient experience.Identify strategies that clinicians, educators and health care organizations can use to promote equitable patient centered and community responsive care.Copyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2026 Speaker Bio -  Sachin (pronounced SUCH-in) H. Jain, MD, MBA is CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan. SCAN is a nonprofit organization with annual revenues of $8B that serves nearly 500,000 people across Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington. Previously, Dr Jain was president and CEO of CareMore and Aspire Health. He also served as chief medical information & innovation officer at Merck & Co., was senior advisor to the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and was the first deputy director for policy and programs at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. He was also special assistant to the national coordinator for Health Information Technology. Dr Jain graduated from Harvard where he earned his AB, MD, and MBA degrees. He is adjunct professor at the Stanford University and a member of the boards of Omada Health, Advantage Healthcare Services, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is an advisor to LRV Ventures, Obvious Ventures, and Team8. He also serves on the editorial board of Health Affairs and the American Journal of Managed Care. He is a member of the Aspen Health Strategy Group (AHSG), an initiative of the Health, Medicine & Society Program of the Aspen Institute and elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Dr Jain is also the author of the forthcoming book, The Moral Alibi: How Healthcare Learned to Look Away—and How We See Again (themoralalibi.com).  Website -  https://stfm.org/stfmpodcastCPQI26opening

  5. Sep 1

    Equipping Residents for Cognitive Care: Screening, Prevention, and Referral with Thomas W. Bishop, PsyD

    Primary care physicians play an essential role in screening for and identifying cognitive health changes in patients. Thomas W. Bishop, PsyD, shares the importance of training residents to practice with cognitive health in mind. He shares his go-to screening tools and highlights how lifestyle factors such as physical activity and social connection are key to brain health. Dr Bishop also makes the case for an integrated team approach to navigating the complex diagnostic differences between dementia, delirium, and depression. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Eli Lilly and Company, and has been produced independently of STFM partners.  Hosted by Omari A. Hodge, MD, and Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, MD Copyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2026 Resources: A Large Health System Quality Improvement Intervention Providing Training and Tools to Improve Detection of Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care - J Am Geriatr SocKAER Framework - Gerontological Society of America (GSA)Mini-Cog - Quick Screening for Early Dementia Detection MoCA CognitionOutliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm GladwellLifeStyle Medicine and Nutritional Healing with Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH - STFM Podcast Guest Bio: Dr Thomas W. Bishop is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, Chattanooga, where he serves as an Associate Program Director and Director of Behavioral Medicine. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan. Across his career, Dr Bishop has focused on preparing family medicine learners and care teams to deliver integrated, whole-person care within primary care settings. His background includes longstanding work in behavioral medicine, psychology training within medical education, and scholarship related to cognition, learning, memory, and neurobehavioral functioning. His early academic work and professional interests included neuropsychology, and his career has continued to center on helping frontline clinicians recognize how cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and medical factors intersect in everyday patient care. Through years of practice in integrated primary care, he has helped train residents to identify concerns that may signal brain health problems, use practical screening approaches, promote prevention, engage patients and families, and connect patients with appropriate specialty evaluation and treatment when needed. Dr Bishop has taught and presented nationally on behavioral health in family medicine, communication skills, interprofessional education, physician development, and innovative approaches to residency training. In this conversation, he brings that experience to the important topic of equipping family medicine residents to address brain health through prevention, screening, and referral for appropriate specialty care. Link: https://www.stfm.org/stfmpodcast092026

  6. Aug 1

    Training for the Future: AI Ethics and the Human Side of Clinical AI with May Lin, DO and Brent Sugimoto, MD, MPH

    Can artificial intelligence restore humanity to my patient interactions? In this episode, Dr May Lin and Dr Brent Sugimoto explore how ambient scribing and smarter administrative tools free physicians to be truly present with their patients, allowing technology to become a bridge in patient care rather than a barrier. Our guests also tackle the ethical and policy dimensions of how AI affects family medicine in both the exam room and the classroom. They identify the current moment as an opportunity for residency programs to shape how AI is used in family medicine, emphasizing that if today’s residents are not trained to use AI tools ethically and wisely, their future patients may miss out on the benefits of technology-assisted care. Hosted by Omari A. Hodge, MD, FAAFP and Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, MD Copyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2026 Resources: Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian MerchantArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Primary Care Curriculum (AiMPC) CourseEthical Use of AI in the Family Medicine Clinic - STFM WebinarAn Opportunity to Thrive - AI in Family Medicine - STFM PodcastAI Deep Dive Summer Series Episode 1: Integrating AI into Family Medicine Curriculum Design - STFM PodcastAI Deep Dive Summer Series Episode 2: The Promises and Pitfalls of AI in Residency Assessment - STFM Podcast Guest Bio: May Lin, DO Dr Lin is board certified in Family Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM). She practices at Amazon/One Medical where she also serves as the Director of Academic Development. A graduate of Harvard Medical School's Executive Education Course on AI in Healthcare, Dr. Lin serves on the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine’s (AACOM) Technology Task Force, Touro University's AI Task Force, and the American Osteopathic Information Association’s (AOiA) national steering committee. As an Osteopathic Health Policy Fellow, Dr. Lin blends policy interest with leadership experience in healthcare technology and medical education. Dr. Lin is passionate about advancing medical innovation giving patients increased access, decrease cost and improved quality in high touch, technology forward medical care. Integrating primary care, medical innovation, healthcare technology, and healthcare policy are key attributes to supporting primary care and elevating our next generation for sustainable primary care practice and delivery. Brent Sugimoto, MD, MPH Dr Sugumoto is program director of the LifeLong Medical Care Family Medicine Residency Program and a Family Physician who specializes in HIV medicine. He currently serves as co-chair of the AAFP/Rock Health “Advancing AI and Digital Health for Primary Care Initiative.” Brent ventured into artificial intelligence after the birth of his first child—when parenthood made him rethink the boundaries of his professional and personal lives—and co-founded a startup called Decoded Health, which leveraged technology from DARPA to build tools to make primary care sustainable. Since then, Brent has worked to increase family medicine’s engagement in AI/ML as a potentially transformative and disruptive technology through physician education and policy work within the specialty. Brent is excited to be a member of this task force, as he believes health technology literacy will be a critical competency for future family physicians. He uses ambient scribing with moderate success in his own practice. Link: https://www.stfm.org/stfmpodcast082026

  7. Jul 1

    The Promises and Pitfalls of AI in Residency Assessment with John Hayes, DO, and Karim Hanna, MD

    How is artificial intelligence reshaping the way we train and assess the next generation of family physicians? In this episode, Dr John Hayes and Dr Karim Hanna explore the promises and pitfalls of AI in residency assessment, from automating milestone tracking and grading robust essay exams to getting started with your first automated workflow. They also discuss how when AI takes on more of the data analysis and synthesis tasks, faculty will need to increase their coaching skills. On the other side, our guests offer an honest look at the risks of over-reliance on technology, cautioning educators to guard against "un-skilling" learners who may already lean too heavily on AI for clinical reasoning. Learn how to incorporate AI as a powerful supplemental tool while preserving the human connection that lies at the heart of family medicine.  Hosted by Omari A. Hodge, MD, FAAFP and Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, MD Copyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2026 Resources: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Primary Care Curriculum (AiMPC) CourseEthical Use of AI in the Family Medicine Clinic - STFM WebinarAn Opportunity to Thrive - AI in Family Medicine - STFM PodcastAI Deep Dive Summer Series Episode 1: Integrating AI into Family Medicine Curriculum Design - STFM PodcastLearning after Training: The Master Adaptive Learner - STFM PodcastSTFM Competency-based Medical Education ToolkitSTFM Collaborative List - Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education CollaborativeJohn Hayes DO Prior to his current roles, Dr Hayes served as a Family Medicine Clerkship Director, where he led a major curriculum modernization effort that enhanced the clerkship experience for medical students. Dr Hayes is now pioneering the integration of Artificial Intelligence in medical assessments, specifically in Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs). Additionally, he is developing a summative clinical reasoning examination designed to move away from traditional multiple-choice testing and into essay prompts with AI assisted grading. He is also exploring the use of ambient AI to enhance residency education and improve communication skills for both residents and faculty, aiming to foster a collaborative learning environment. He definitely used AI to help generate this blurb. Karim Hanna, MD Dr Karim Hanna is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and the founding Program Director for the USF TGH Family Medicine Residency. His work integrates primary care education and AI advancements. Dr Hanna's interests in health tech spurred his writing of a blog - MedEd+AI - with a focus on AI's role in medical education and clinical implications. His scholarly work includes research on LLMs for clinical applications and improving education through AI.

  8. Jun 1

    Integrating AI Into Family Medicine Curriculum Design with Linda Chang, PharmD, MPH, and Rika Bajra, MD

    Learning the “basics” of AI begins with understanding how AI can help lighten the load family medicine educators carry every day in the clinic and classroom. In the first episode of our AI Deep Dive Summer Series, Drs Linda Chang and Rika Bajra discuss how AI has already affected medical education, from curriculum design and competency-based education to formative assessment and personalized learning. They show how AI literacy allows educators to reclaim time to focus on the human-centered aspects of patient care and medical education. And if you feel like it’s too late to start learning about AI, they offer practical tips for both using and teaching AI in medical education.  Hosted by Omari A. Hodge, MD, FAAFP and Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, MD Copyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2026 Resources: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Primary Care Curriculum (AiMPC) CourseEthical Use of AI in the Family Medicine Clinic - STFM WebinarAn Opportunity to Thrive - AI in Family Medicine - STFM PodcastEstablishing a National Framework for Family Medicine AI Centers of Excellence - Fam Med. Linda Chang, PharmD, MPH Dr Chang is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine Rockford, with a background as a board-certified clinical pharmacist, a degree in Public Health, and ongoing studies toward a Master’s in Health Professions Education. She spent 17 years as faculty in the Family Medicine Residency Program and currently serves as the Pharmacology Theme Director at the College of Medicine, where she teaches evidence-based medicine and public health. Her work reflects an interdisciplinary approach to medical education that integrates clinical practice, public health, and emerging technologies. As co-director of the AI in Medicine theme at UIC, Dr Chang has co-led the development and implementation of a longitudinal, integrated AI in Medicine curriculum, a fourth-year elective course, and an AI in Medicine scholarly concentration program.   Rika Bajra, MD Dr Bajra is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford School of Medicine, where she practices as a family physician and teaches medical students as the Associate Director of the Clerkship in Family and Community Medicine. In her roles as Telehealth Co-Director and Telemedicine Education Curriculum Lead, she is focused on integrating technology tools into clinical practices and medical education through a primary care lens. She has previously developed telemedicine curricula with the STFM Telemedicine Task Force and received an Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) grant to create a longitudinal telemedicine curriculum. Currently, Dr Bajra is exploring the integration of artificial intelligence into the Family Medicine curriculum and its application in reducing faculty burden in Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) assessments. In her personal life, she lives with her husband and three boys and enjoys hiking and traveling. Link: https://www.stfm.org/stfmpodcast062026

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What separates a good leader from a great one? These in-depth interviews with some of family medicine's most influential leaders provide insight into pivotal experiences that boosted leadership skills and provided unprecedented opportunities for personal growth. This series of podcasts explores the development of leadership skills, including clarity, courage, decisiveness, humility, and passion, as a means to facilitating growth during times when healthcare professionals are addressing:• Motivation and Mentorship• Burnout and Transitions• Milestones and Meaning• Barriers and BureaucracyThis series of podcasts is sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the academic home for family medicine educators. 

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