Conversations with the executives, founders, and operators who have dedicated their careers to building in healthcare.
Lifers is a podcast about the people who have decided to stick with healthcare. Not because it’s easy, but because it is worth fixing.
Each episode is a candid conversation with leaders across the industry about how they think, what they’ve learned, and what it actually takes to navigate a system that doesn’t always make sense. From hiring and building in healthcare, to function-specific playbooks and the realities of policy and innovation.
No sound bites; just real dialogue with leaders who’ve been in the room.
UCSF’s Dr. Bob Wachter, author of The Digital Doctor, joins Christina Farr to explain his shift from health tech skeptic to AI optimist — the high-stakes reality of autonomous AI, the incumbency advantage of companies like Epic, and why the primary care crisis makes AI a necessity.
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This week on Lifers, Niyum Gandhi, CFO of Mass General Brigham, and Mike Desjadon, CEO of Anomaly, discuss the financial pressures facing health systems today.
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Dr. Kameron Matthews (Chief Health Officer, Impact Care) and Shelli Pavone (President & Co-Founder, Inlightened) join Chrissy Farr to tackle healthcare's biggest challenges: the Medicaid crisis, state licensing chaos, the death of primary care, and why Silicon Valley keeps getting it wrong.
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This week on Lifers, Christina Farr sat down with Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Health Plan. Sachin makes a compelling case for "radical common sense" in healthcare—the idea that we've normalized dysfunction for so long that simple, patient-centered solutions now feel revolutionary.
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This week on Lifers, Christina Farr sat down with Mike Desjadon, CEO of Anomaly and Warris Bokhari CEO of Claimable. They discuss automating patient appeals, the challenges of the current payment model, and their approach to working directly with patients.
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In this episode of Lifers, Christina Farr engages in an insightful conversation with V, CEO of Sword Health.
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Michelle Carnahan spent 26 years at Eli Lilly watching the GLP-1 breakthrough before co-founding Arbiter, which raised $52M at a $400M valuation. She joins Chrissy Farr on the GLP-1 revolution and using AI-powered care orchestration to fix healthcare’s fragmentation crisis.
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In this episode of the Second Opinion, Christina Farr interviews Dickon Waterfield, president of Lantern to discuss the intricacies of U.S. healthcare costs, particularly the disparity between Medicare and commercial prices.
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In this episode of Second Opinion, Christina Farr and Lifeforce CEO Dugal Bain-Kim dive into the billion-dollar longevity economy, examining why health optimization became a status symbol and how personal data drives better health decisions than population-level advice.
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This week on Second Opinion, Christina Far interviews Courtney Bragg, CEO and co-founder of Fabric Health, about their innovative approach to delivering healthcare services in laundromats.
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This week on Second Opinion podcast, Christina Farr and Ash Zenooz interview Eric Jon Larsen about the the potential and challenges of AI in healthcare and various industries, debating its role, accuracy, impact on jobs, and future implications for human society.
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This week on Second Opinion, Christina Farr and Luba Greenwood discuss the acquisition of 23andMe by Regeneron, the involvement of Hims and Hers in the GLP-1 market, and two significant IPOs in the digital health sector.
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