Arpan & Amit Parikh: Brothers Building AI So You Never Forget What Your Doctor Said

Arpan & Amit Parikh: Brothers Building AI So You Never Forget What Your Doctor Said

What if remembering your doctor's advice wasn't your responsibility alone? Even with 13 physicians in their immediate family, brothers Amit and Arpan Parikh found navigating healthcare harder than it should have been. In this episode of Leadership Rounds, the physician brothers and co-founders behind Kin Health discuss building consumer-first healthcare experiences, founder-market fit, and why AI should work invisibly in the background to strengthen the patient-clinician relationship rather than replace it. Amit and Arpan trace their paths from clinical psychiatry to chief medical officer roles at high-growth behavioral health companies. Now, as founders of Kin Health, they dedicate their time and expertise to building and running a free patient app, developed by physicians to record medical visits, generate plain-language summaries, and help patients share and follow through on care instructions. Topics & Takeaways * * Why patients and caregivers need better tools after medical appointments * * The overlooked gap between clinical recommendations and patient recall * * What “founder-market fit” means in healthcare * * Why clinician executives are essential to AI product development * * How AI can power simpler, more human patient experiences * * The leap from CMO to founder * Why patient-facing AI should work alongside the healthcare system, not against it Chapter Markers 00:00 — Two brothers, two psychiatrists, two physician founders 01:36 — Growing up around psychiatry 07:21 — The first leap from clinical practice to healthcare entrepreneurship 13:18 — Arpan’s path through addiction psychiatry, Wharton, and value-based care 18:20 — What Kin Health is building for patients and caregivers 19:53 — The family experience that sparked the idea for Kin 22:18 — Why this AI moment made Kin possible 24:17 — Why clinician executives matter in AI product development 25:23 — Founder-market fit in healthcare 30:19 — What physician product leaders bring to AI innovation 36:38 — Bringing AI to the patients who need it most 40:49 — Building alongside the healthcare system 42:05 — What gives Amit and Arpan optimism

Zeke Emanuel: Meaning, Friendship, AI, and What Makes a Life Well Lived

In this special live episode of Leadership Rounds in Nashville, TN, Dr. Reena Pande sat down with renowned physician, bioethicist, and healthcare policy leader Dr. Zeke Emanuel for a wide-ranging conversation on wellness culture, AI in healthcare, chronic disease management, empathy in medicine, and the future of clinician leadership. Drawing on themes from his newest book, Eat Your Ice Cream, Zeke challenged today’s obsession with optimization, arguing that meaningful relationships remain among the strongest predictors of health, longevity, and happiness… not endless self-tracking and data collection. The conversation also explored how artificial intelligence may fundamentally reshape healthcare delivery and what future clinicians must learn in an increasingly digital healthcare ecosystem. Topics & Takeaways * The “wellness industrial complex” and optimization culture * Loneliness, friendship, and longevity research * Why social connection impacts physical health * AI vs. physicians in diagnosis and chronic disease management * The future of empathy in medicine * Medical education reform and clinician EQ * Chronic disease, value-based care, and healthcare innovation * What future healthcare leadership requires Chapter Markers 00:00 — Meet Dr. Zeke Emanuel 02:20 — Why he wrote Eat Your Ice Cream 07:10 — Wellness culture, optimization, and narcissism 10:04 — The science of friendship and longevity 14:29 — Why talking to strangers matters 19:06 — Exercise, VO2 max, and wellness myths 24:04 — AI’s future role in healthcare 31:11 — How medicine and medical education must evolve 36:07 — Audience Q&A: empathy, AI, and multidisciplinary care 46:14 — What future physicians will need most 50:21 — Zeke’s “wellness trifecta” for a meaningful life

Jesse M. Ehrenfeld: From the AMA to the Frontlines, Building AI Clinicians Can Trust

What does it take to move AI in healthcare from promise to real-world impact? In this episode of Leadership Rounds, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, Chief Medical Officer at Aidoc and former President of the American Medical Association, joins Dr. Reena Pande to explore the future of clinical AI.Drawing on experience across clinical practice, national policy, military leadership, and health technology, Jesse shares why he made the transition from influencing healthcare at scale to building it directly, and what it will take to deploy AI that actually improves outcomes. Topics & Takeaways * The critical distinction between clinical AI and administrative AI * Why most health systems struggle to implement AI effectively * The role of clinician leadership in product design and deployment * How leading organizations are scaling AI across entire systems * Why trust, workflow integration, and architecture (not algorithms) determine success 🔔 Subscribe to Leadership Rounds for more candid conversations with the leaders redefining healthcare. More on Jesse: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doctorjesse/ More from Reena:  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reenapande/ - Substack: https://reenapande.substack.com/ 📍 Learn more at Oxeon.com #leadershiprounds #prescribingleadership #conversationswithclinicians #clinicians #leaders #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #healthcare #healthcareexecutive #clinicianexecutive #entrepreneurship #health #innovation #healthcareinnovation #clinicianleadership #digitalhealth

Leadership Rounds: Year in Review

In this special season recap, Dr. Reena Pande reflects on the defining lessons and leadership insights from the first year of Leadership Rounds, featuring conversations with some of healthcare’s most influential clinician leaders, operators, and policymakers. From Neel Shah of Maven to Microsoft’s Mary Presti, these candid discussions about the future of care delivery helped lay the foundation for an exciting new season to come that will kick off with a series of episodes focused on the rapidly evolving world of healthcare AI.

Mary Presti: From the Bedside to Big Tech - Scaling AI That Enables Better Care

Mary Presti (Microsoft) joins Dr. Reena Pande to explore how AI is moving from pilot to enterprise-scale in healthcare and why workflow, trust, and clinician adoption will determine what succeeds. As a senior healthcare technology executive at Microsoft and former bedside nurse, Mary brings unique experience spanning clinical care, consulting, pharma, and health tech, and offers a grounded perspective on how AI is evolving from early experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment. Together, Mary and Reena explore where AI is delivering real value today and why the biggest opportunities are not in diagnostics or drug discovery, but in reducing friction across everyday clinical workflows, leading Mary to share why she believes the future of AI in healthcare depends less on technology itself and more on trust, governance, and change management. Topics & Takeaways * Why 2026 will mark the shift from AI pilots to enterprise-scale deployment * The concept of “surround care” and where AI is delivering immediate ROI * How ambient AI and copilots are reducing documentation burden * Why clinicians must play a central role in AI design and deployment * The emergence of new roles like clinician, prompt engineers, and AI governance leaders * Why trust, adoption, and workflow design (not technology) are the true bottlenecks * How AI can restore human connection in care delivery 🔔 Subscribe to Leadership Rounds for more candid conversations with the leaders redefining healthcare. More on Mary: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryvarghese More from Reena:  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reenapande/⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/reenapande/]   - Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://reenapande.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://reenapande.substack.com/]     📍 Learn more at https://www.oxeon.comOxeon.com [http://oxeon.com] #leadershiprounds #prescribingleadership #conversationswithclinicians #clinicians #leaders #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #healthcare #healthcareexecutive #clinicianexecutive #entrepreneurship #health #innovation #healthcareinnovation #clinicianleadership #digitalhealth