Jun 26, 2024
In this podcast episode, John Inadomi, MD,
chair of the department of internal medicine at University of Utah
Health, discusses the value of mentorship, qualities a leader
should possess and more.
• Intro :59
• Welcome to this episode of Gut Talk
1:23
• The interview/about Inadomi
1:30
• Tell us about your family and where you grew up.
2:59
• Inadomi on the impact World War II had on his
family. 3:47
• Chey and Inadomi on the ways immigrants approached
being American post-World War II.
4:33
• How did you end up in medicine after receiving a
mechanical engineering degree from MIT?
6:32
• How did you go from bionics to polyps/GI?
8:00
• What did you learn from your experiences playing
water polo in college? 10:31
• How did you end up at the University of New Mexico?
13:00
• What did Amnon Sonnenberg, MD, MSc, teach you?
16:04
• How do you view and embrace change?
18:27
• When did you catch the bug of wanting to lead
faculty? […] Did you have mentorship specifically on health system
leadership? 24:30
• How have you learned these leadership
characteristics and skills that are not an inherent part of
physician training? Do you think there is going to be a change in
leadership development moving forward?
29:59
• For people thinking about advancement opportunities
in leadership, what is the mindset you have to develop as a
successful division chief or a successful department chair?
33:55
• What do you think are the biggest challenges facing
academic gastroenterology or academic internal medicine? […] How
can we physicians be aware of and mitigate these challenges?
38:36
• How are academic medical centers going to survive?
41:39
• Do you see the loss of physician autonomy and
burnout getting better? 43:29
• What has been your favorite golf course that you
have played on? 46:36
• Thank you, John 47:48
• Thanks for listening
48:14
John M. Inadomi, MD, is the Jon M. Huntsman
presidential endowed chair, and the chair of the department of
internal medicine at University of Utah Health.
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Disclosures: Berry and Chey report no relevant
financial disclosures. Inadomi reports grant support from Exact
Sciences.