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.