Designing for Health: Stephen B. Williams, MD, MBA, MS, FACS, FACHE | Urologist, Urologic Oncologist, and Associate Chief Medical Officer at the University of Texas Medical Branch |

Designing for Health: Edmund Siy and Alex Krinsky | Chief Information & Technology Officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health and Senior Director, Healthcare Business Development at CLEAR |

I’m joined by Edmund Siy, CITO of Bon Secours Mercy Health, and Alex Krinsky from CLEAR to explore why identity management has quietly become foundational to both security and experience. We dig into why healthcare made this more difficult than it needed to be, what happens when you get it wrong, and how newer approaches like biometric identity aim to reduce friction without sacrificing security. If you’re a health system or physician leader, this isn’t just an IT issue. It’s a workflow, safety, and burnout issue hiding in plain sight.

Designing for Health: Stephanie Carreiro, MD | Emergency Medicine Physician and Medical Toxicologist at UMass Medical School |

In this episode of Designing for Health, Craig Joseph sits down with Dr. Stephanie Carreiro, an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist at UMass Medical School, to explore how digital health tools can be thoughtfully designed to support people with substance use disorder. Dr. Carreiro shares her journey into toxicology and addiction research, and explains how wearable sensors, mobile apps, and digital biomarkers can detect stress, craving, withdrawal, and other physiologic signals related to substance use. The conversation covers everything from wearable design pitfalls and privacy concerns to the idea of “digital dosing,” peer recovery coaches as key users of health data, and why empowerment not enforcement must be at the center of addiction technology.

Designing for Health: Dione Rogers, RN | Chief Nursing Informatics Officer and digital transformation leader |

In this episode, Craig Joseph is joined by Dione Rogers, a registered nurse turned Chief Nursing Informatics Officer and digital transformation leader, Dione shares her unconventional career journey from a teenage nurse who didn’t want to work with computers to becoming a nationally recognized leader in nursing informatics. Through deeply human stories and practical examples, she explains how data, design, and frontline engagement can dramatically improve patient care, staff experience, and digital transformation outcomes.

Designing for Health: Shan Liu, MD | Emergency Medicine Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Author |

In this episode, Dr. Craig Joseph sits down with Dr. Shan Liu, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and coauthor of a children’s book written with her daughter. The conversation spans Dr. Liu’s path into emergency medicine, the origin story behind her family’s deep connection to the invention of the modern respirator mask, and how the COVID-19 pandemic inspired a book about history, science, and Asian American identity. The discussion also dives into safety culture in emergency departments, leadership and communication as “soft skills that aren’t actually soft,” and how implementation science shapes real-world healthcare outcomes.

Designing for Health: Stephen B. Williams, MD, MBA, MS, FACS, FACHE | Urologist, Urologic Oncologist, and Associate Chief Medical Officer at the University of Texas Medical Branch |

In this episode of Designing for Health, Nordic’s Chief Medical officer Dr. Craig Joseph sits down with Dr. Stephen B. Williams. Urologist, urologic oncologist, and Associate Chief Medical Officer at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), to explore the evolving role of physicians in healthcare leadership.