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92 - A Sequence of Controlled Falling - Yakov Gradinar, CP

June 08, 2026

Yakov Gradinar, CP, is the Chief Medical Officer of the Protez Foundation, a nonprofit organization that flies Ukrainian war amputees to the United States to receive custom prosthetics, rehabilitation, and counseling services. He trained as an orthopedic trauma surgeon in Ukraine before immigrating to the United States, where he retrained as a prosthetist. When the war in Ukraine escalated in 2022, he left a stable career to launch the Protez Foundation out of his garage — and has since grown...

91 - Dr. Kit Delgado - Systems, Behavior, & Innovation

May 30, 2026

In this episode of the PennHealthX Podcast, Ziad Hassan and Habib Akouri sit down with Dr. Mucio Kit Delgado to explore his work at the intersection of emergency medicine, behavioral science, and health system innovation. Dr. Delgado is an emergency and addiction medicine physician-scientist at Penn Medicine, where he serves as Executive Director of Transformation Science & Behavioral Insights and Faculty Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit. He also holds roles as an Associate Profes...

90 - Building the Doctor's Second Brain - Dr. Dereck Paul

May 20, 2026

Dr. Dereck Paul, MD, is the co-founder and CEO of Glass Health, an AI platform helping clinicians with clinical decision-making, documentation, and workflow optimization. Dr. Paul’s path into healthcare innovation began long before residency — from studying music composition to applying to Y Combinator before even starting medical school.In this episode, Dr. Paul reflects on the pivotal decisions that shaped his career, including balancing startup ambitions with clinical training and ultimate...