Episodes

  • EP 136 - Victor Bilgen on Influence and Operations

    EP 136 - Victor Bilgen on Influence and Operations
    Jun 18 2026
    Organizational network analysis reveals how work really gets done: hidden influence, brokers, bottlenecks, leadership feedback loops, and the informal structures that shape performance under pressure.
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    37 mins
  • EP 135: Sarah Gebauer on Trust, Failure, and AI Governance

    EP 135: Sarah Gebauer on Trust, Failure, and AI Governance
    Jun 4 2026
    Sarah Gebauer is a physician and founder of Validara Health who works at the intersection of clinical AI evaluation and governance. We cover what it actually means to evaluate an AI product for clinical safety, how physicians can draw on skills they already have to work effectively with these systems, and where those analogies break down. The core tension running through the conversation is that we are layering systems with unknown failure modes on top of systems with known ones, and hoping the combination is better, but that's a hypothesis, not a guarantee.
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    38 mins
  • EP 134: Elvina Hewitt and Mena Ramos on Chaos, Systems, and Bears

    EP 134: Elvina Hewitt and Mena Ramos on Chaos, Systems, and Bears
    May 20 2026
    In this episode of The Emergency Mind Podcast, I’m joined by Elvina Hewitt and Mena Ramos for a wide-ranging conversation about emergency medicine, healthcare innovation, AI, entrepreneurship, and what it means to build better systems from inside the reality of clinical work. All three of us came through Brown, spent time working in emergency care, and have since moved into different but overlapping worlds of healthcare technology, startups, education, and systems change. The conversation moves from the emergency department as society’s safety net, to the personalities drawn to chaos and uncertainty, to the tension between visionary innovation and the constraints that shape real healthcare work.
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    51 mins
  • EP 133: Diane Malaspina on The Myth of Suffering at Work

    EP 133: Diane Malaspina on The Myth of Suffering at Work
    Apr 27 2026
    Psychologist, performance coach, and yoga teacher Diane Malaspina shares a strengths-based approach to stress, resilience, and optimal performance for high-pressure professions.
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    42 mins
  • Episode 132 - Aaron Clark-Ginsberg on Full Spectrum Risk Management

    Episode 132 - Aaron Clark-Ginsberg on Full Spectrum Risk Management
    Apr 13 2026
    In this episode of The Emergency Mind Podcast, Dan Dworkis speaks with Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, a social scientist at RAND Corporation, whose work spans disaster response, risk governance, and organizational performance under extreme conditions. Drawing on experience as a wildland firefighter, disaster recovery volunteer after Hurricane Katrina, and applied policy researcher, Aaron explores why some systems adapt and learn after crisis while others repeatedly fail. The conversation moves across medicine, wildfire response, infrastructure, and emerging technology to examine how risk actually behaves in the real world.
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    31 mins
  • Episode 131 - Joshua Feblowitz on Experiential Learning with Uncertainty

    Episode 131 - Joshua Feblowitz on Experiential Learning with Uncertainty
    Mar 30 2026
    In this episode of The Emergency Mind Podcast, Dan Dworkis sits down with emergency physician and medical educator Joshua Feblowitz to examine how clinicians are trained to make decisions under pressure, and where traditional medical education struggles to prepare people for real-world uncertainty. The conversation spans experiential learning, simulation, metacognition, and the everyday tradeoffs between speed, accuracy, and risk that define emergency care.
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    44 mins
  • EP 130: Patick Pollock on Rescue, Risk, and the "Non-Human" Factor

    EP 130: Patick Pollock on Rescue, Risk, and the "Non-Human" Factor
    Mar 16 2026
    In this episode of The Emergency Mind Podcast, Dan Dworkis sits down with Patrick Pollock, the world’s first Professor of Veterinary Surgery and Remote & Rural Medicine, to explore what really happens when humans, animals, and complex systems collide.
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    35 mins
  • EP 129 - Christine Stead on Systems of Innovation in ECMO

    EP 129 - Christine Stead on Systems of Innovation in ECMO
    Mar 2 2026
    ECMO does not succeed because of a single clinician, team, or device. It succeeds because of systems. In this episode of The Emergency Mind Podcast, Dan talks with Christine Stead, CEO of ELSO, about how innovation in ECMO emerges from networks of people, data, organizations, and shared purpose. From the early days of ECMO development to the global response during COVID-19, they explore how systems enable high-risk, high-complexity care to evolve under pressure.
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    42 mins