Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande
Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande
Podcast Description
Join Dr. Reena Pande, physician executive, entrepreneur, and Partner leading Oxeon’s Clinician Executive search & leadership practice, as she explores what makes exceptional healthcare leadership. Each episode features candid conversations with clinician executives and industry leaders who share their journeys, challenges, and insights on driving innovation in healthcare. Whether you're a clinician looking to expand your leadership impact or an executive seeking to better integrate clinical voices, this podcast delivers the perfect prescription for today's healthcare leadership challenges.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on healthcare leadership, innovation, and the unique intersections of business and clinical practices. Episodes cover topics such as the roles of clinician executives, transitions from clinical practice to entrepreneurship, and leadership in healthcare tech. Examples include discussions with leaders about leveraging clinical skills in business, driving growth in digital health, and cultivating authenticity in leadership.
Join Dr. Reena Pande, physician executive, entrepreneur, and Partner leading Oxeon’s Clinician Executive search & leadership practice, as she explores what makes exceptional healthcare leadership. Each episode features candid conversations with clinician executives and industry leaders who share their journeys, challenges, and insights on driving innovation in healthcare. Whether you’re a clinician looking to expand your leadership impact or an executive seeking to better integrate clinical voices, this podcast delivers the perfect prescription for today’s healthcare leadership challenges.
Psychologist-turned-operator Dana Udall (CCO, Nourish) joins Oxeon’s Dr. Reena Pande to demystify how clinician leaders scale distributed care, align clinical quality with business outcomes, and bring an intentional, ACT-informed leadership style to cross-functional teams. She urges clinicians to help inform and govern the next wave of AI-enabled care delivery.
Key Topics & Takeaways
From practice to platform: A packed waiting room revealed the limits of 1:1 care and pushed Dana toward scalable, data-driven models (Ginger/Headspace → Included Health → Nourish).
Intentional > “pure authentic”: Drawing on Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dana favors intentional responses over impulsive “authenticity,” fostering relationships while advancing goals.
Operating at scale in distributed telehealth:
Design intentional touchpoints from recruiting to QA.
Build data infrastructure to see quality and act early.
Treat culture (leader vulnerability, whole-self norms) as a competitive moat.
Break clinical silos with the “first-team” mindset: Clinical execs must speak Product, Commercial, Finance and be healthcare executives who happen to be clinicians.
Personal story, public leadership: In sharing her eating-disorder recovery, Dana aimed to reduce shame and inform her work at the mental–physical health intersection (e.g., food relationship + metabolic goals).
Career navigation for clinician leaders:
“Always take the call.” Have many conversations with companies, founders, VCs.
Evaluate mission integrity, leadership chemistry, true clinical quality, traction/runway, and your stage/risk tolerance.
The future of AI in care delivery: Beyond scribes, AI will influence treatment decisions. Clinicians, ethicists, and legal partners must co-design guardrails to keep patient safety central.
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