All Episodes - Impact Unfiltered

Ep24. President Buu Nygren: Treaty-Scale Healthcare and Navajo Sovereignty

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, recorded at the Self-Governance Conference, host Stuart sits down with Dr.Buu Nygren, President of the Navajo Nation, joined at the conference by Sherylene Yazzie, Director of Health for the Navajo Nation.

Special Series Part 3 of 3: Saving rural access. With Philippe Pucheu

Special Series, Part 3 of 3: Philippe Pucheu on the $50 Billion Chance to Save Rural Access

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this third and final part of a special conversation, guest host Stuart Gilly interviews host Philippe Pucheu, who has spent nearly two decades on the front lines of rural healthcare, and the discussion pulls back from the mechanics of 340B to the bigger picture: the future of rural and tribal care.

Special Series Part 2 of 3: Who qualifies. With Philippe Pucheu

Special Series, Part 2 of 3: Patient, Provider, Pharmacy: Philippe Pucheu on 340B Eligibility

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. This is the second part of a special three-part conversation, with guest host Stuart Gilly interviewing host Philippe Pucheu, and it gets practical, opening with a story that sounds almost impossible: a tribe in the South with no pharmacy, no pharmacist, and no way to fill a single prescription that still cut its drug spend by more than half.

Special Series Part 1 of 3: What is 340B? With Philippe Pucheu

Special Series, Part 1 of 3: What Is 340B and Why It Matters? Philippe Pucheu on Rural and Tribal Care

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this special episode, the first of a three-part conversation, the tables turn as guest host Stuart Gilly interviews the show's own host, Philippe Pucheu, a doctor of pharmacy and founder and CEO of PBM Solutions who has spent his career on the front lines of drug pricing and access. Stuart opens with the question that anchors the whole series: what exactly is 340B, and why does it matter?

Ep28. Making Patient Access Easier Through Smarter Technology with Kayce Degenhardt

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. Host Stuart sits down with Kayce Degenhardt, Vice President of Clinical Applications at Inova Health System, who oversees roughly 600 applications and a team of about 210 supporting five hospitals and around 300 clinics in the DC area. A former interventional radiology technologist turned health IT leader, Kayce traces her mission back to her mother's cancer journey and a three-week wait for an MRI stuck in a queue.

Ep27. Building High-Trust Teams: Victor Bycroft on Critical Access Hospital Leadership

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Philippe sits down with Victor Bycroft, a nurse of about 30 years who has spent more than two decades as a chief nursing officer and chief nurse executive, most of it in critical access and rural hospitals.

Ep26. Beyond the Four Walls: Dr. Lisa Birdsall Fort on the Future of Remote Healthcare

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Philippe sits down with Dr. Lisa Birdsall Fort, an emergency physician and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at Ochsner Health, where she also leads virtual care transformation across a 40-plus hospital system. Dr. Fort shares her path from a rural South Louisiana healthcare family, through a pivotal Hurricane Katrina experience as a medical student, into the emerging world of clinical informatics.

Ep25. Sovereignty and Healing as One: Sherylene Yazzie’s Vision

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, recorded at the Self-Governance Conference as a companion to the episode with Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, host Stewart sits down with Sherylene Yazzie, Executive Director of the Navajo Department of Health for the great Navajo Nation.

Ep23. Building the Future of Tribal Public Health with Geoff Strommer

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Stewart sits down at the Self-Governance Conference with Geoff Strommer — an Indian law attorney with 35 years representing tribes, tribal governments, and tribal organizations on self-governance work spanning legislation, litigation, and negotiation.

Ep22. Strength Through Adversity Richard Peterson on Tribal Leadership

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Stuart sits down at the Self-Governance Conference with Richard Peterson — President of the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, serving his sixth term as leader of the oldest federally recognized tribe in Alaska, with just under 39,000 citizens.