The Minor Consult

Lloyd Minor, MD
theminorconsult@theminorconsult.com

Booking Overview

Hosted by Stanford Medicine Dean Lloyd Minor, The Minor Consult brings high-level leaders and innovators into the conversation on what it takes to lead through disruption—especially in health and science. For PR teams, it’s a credible platform where tech, medicine, and research leaders can explain leadership decisions, risk, and responsible innovation to an audience that values evidence and public impact.

Metrics

Episodes: 58

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 141.0k subscribers

30s Ad: 27 - 33, 60s Ad: 32 - 38

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Host

Lloyd Minor, MD - Stanford School of Medicine Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, also serves as a professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford Medicine. He has led the school since 2012 and has been elected to t...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior executives, leading physicians, and top academic/research leaders known for work at the intersection of leadership, innovation, and high-impact science/health (e.g., CSO-level tech leaders, medical faculty with public-facing credibility, nationally recognized research scientists).
Required Achievements:  
Executive leadership at major technology/health organizations, Academic leadership and/or professorship at prominent institutions, National or field-level recognition (e.g., academy memberships, widely cited research, major science/medicine influence), Public-facing expertise (e.g., writing in major outlets) or leadership in translating research into practice

Recent Guest Discussions

Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD - Future Of AI, Governance/guardrails For AI, Human Judgment And Agency, AI In Health Care And Scientific Discovery

Dhruv Khullar, MD - Ai’s Impact On Clinician And Patient Experience, Administrative Burden Reduction, Risks Of Overreliance And Clinician De-skilling, Changes To Medical Education

Lucy Shapiro, PhD - Cell Biology Approaches To Fight Superbugs, Antimicrobial Resistance, Pathways To New Antibacterial/antifungal Drug Development

Recent Topics

Leadership, Innovation, Biomedicine, Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Clinical Decision Making, Responsible Innovation, Scientific Research, Risk

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Minor Consult
:

S9 Ep6: Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz on Preparing for a Future Where AI Increasingly Trains AI

April 22, 2026

Dean Lloyd Minor welcomes Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD, chief scientific officer at Microsoft, for a conversation about the rapid evolution of AI and its implications for how we think, work, and make decisions. They discuss the accelerating pace of AI advances, the need to safeguard human judgment and agency, and the growing role of these technologies in health care — from easing administrative burden to supporting complex clinical decisions. They also explore how AI is reshaping scientific discover...

S9 Ep5: Physician-Journalist Dhruv Khullar on How AI Is Rewriting the Clinician and Patient Experience

February 18, 2026

Dean Lloyd Minor welcomes Dhruv Khullar, MD, contributing writer to The New Yorker and associate professor at the Weill Cornell School of Medicine, for a conversation about AI’s evolving role in health care. They discuss its potential to enhance diagnosis, reduce administrative burden, improve the patient experience, and accelerate drug discovery, while also examining the risks of overreliance and clinician de-skilling. They also explore how AI will reshape medical education, and why communic...

S9 Ep4: Lucy Shapiro’s Big Idea: Using Cell Biology to Fight Superbugs

January 14, 2026

In this episode of the Big Idea series, Dean Lloyd Minor welcomes Lucy Shapiro, PhD, for a conversation about how her unconventional thinking unlocked new insights about how bacterial cells behave, fundamentally changing how scientists understand cells and laying the groundwork for systems biology. They explore how her research informed new approaches to treating infections and other diseases, and how these advances opened new paths for developing antibacterial and antifungal drugs to fight s...

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