This week on Lifers, Christina Farr is joined by Dr. Zeke Emanuel and Dr. John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, who are longtime friends on opposite sides of the biggest question in health AI: should it ever practice medicine without a human in the loop?
Christina Farr sits down with Kimberly Powell, VP of Healthcare at NVIDIA, an 18-year veteran who built the company's healthcare business from a single cold call in 2008. They dig into the physician replacement debate ("the task is not the job"), why AI agents made the last six months a turning poin
Christina Farr and Stephanie Davis dig into what is really driving digital health with Rock Health Advisory CEO Megan Zweig and Aidoc CFO Arvind Kadaba: $7.4B in H1 2026 funding, mega deals absorbing 45% of all capital, and what counts as a differentiator once “AI-enabled” means nothing.
Dr. Zeyad Baker, a pediatrician who scaled a 24-hour primary care practice, sold it to Optum, and spent five years as their tri-state market CEO, joins Christina Farr to argue that the scarcest resource in healthcare is not data or technology but the doctor-patient relationship itself.
Matthew Rothstein, VP of Engineering at Akido, joins Christina Farr to talk about what changes when a technology company becomes a health system.
Mark Bertolini, CEO of Oscar Health, joins Chrissy to unpack healthcare’s broken employer-sponsored system, the future of portable coverage, ICHRA, and the personal story that shaped his push for hospice reform at Aetna.
Lauren Makler, Co-Founder & CEO of Cofertility, joins Christina Farr to ask why having a baby with medical help now costs as much as a house, and what a fairer system would look like.
Christina Farr and Stephanie Davis are joined by Bridge CEO Keaton Bedell and Butterfly Network CEO Joe DeVivo to debate whether full-body scanning is actually good for you — and how Butterfly’s technology ended up inside Midjourney’s new ultrasound scanner.
Amit Phull, Chief Clinical Experience Officer at Doximity and a practicing emergency medicine physician, joins Christina Farr to talk about how the company reached 85% of US physicians and what it plans to do with that reach in the AI era.
Christina Farr talks with Smart Health Network CEO Paul Meyer, Delaware’s first Surgeon General Dr. Neil Hockstein, and prior authorization manager Aretha Rochester about why prior auth reform keeps failing — and Delaware’s plan to build a shared, Visa-style prior auth utility.
Yusuf Sherwani, MD, Co-Founder and CEO of Pelago, joins Chrissy to talk about why substance use disorder is one of the most stigmatized and least-treated chronic conditions in healthcare, despite touching roughly one in five people.
Aartik Sarma, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF, joins Christina Farr for a short special edition on Intercept, a new $500 million initiative from a coalition of tech companies including Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic aimed at finally cracking the common cold and flu.
