# #125 – Transformational Leadership with Adrian Moran, MD, MBA Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/anesthesia-guidebook-1367573/125-transformational-leadership-with-adrian-moran-md-mba Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/anesthesia-guidebook-1367573/125-transformational-leadership-with-adrian-moran-md-mba.md Podcast: [Anesthesia Guidebook](https://stenobird.com/podcast/anesthesia-guidebook-1367573) Published: 2025-11-19T01:23:10+00:00 Episode link: https://anesthesiaguidebook.com/episode125/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode125 Audio file: https://media.blubrry.com/anesthesiaguidebook/content.blubrry.com/anesthesiaguidebook/_125-Transformational_Leadership_with_Adrian_Moran_MD_MBA.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/anesthesia-guidebook-1367573/episodes/125-transformational-leadership-with-adrian-moran-md-mba Duration seconds: 3753 ## Resource Adrian Moran, MD, MBA currently serves as the Chief Medical and Transformation Officer of MaineHealth, a not-for-profit, integrated health system with over 2000 providers and 23,000 care team members serving patients across Maine and New Hampshire. Dr Moran joined me to talk about his views on transformational leadership and his professional journey from a pediatric cardiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital to executive organizational leadership roles. I’m excited to share his story with you because we don’t talk enough about how to transition from being specialized clinicians to working in healthcare leadership. I asked Dr Moran to join me for this interview given his unique vantage point and journey to executive leadership. MaineHealth’s flagship level 1 trauma center, Maine Medical Center, is where I serve as the Director supporting the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. Over the last decade, I’ve watched Dr Moran move from his clinical role as a pediatric cardiologist to MaineHealth board member to Associate Chief Medical Officer. I then saw him leave MaineHealth to take on a system level CMO role for a large health system in Wisconsin and then back to MaineHealth as the Chief Medical and Transformation Officer. Over the years, I’ve seen his leadership style in action and recently heard him describe how the principles of high reliability organizing and servant leadership inform his work, which are ideas we’ve talked about here on the podcast over the last year or so. In this conversation, we talk about: the challenges facing healthcare organizations today and what leaders can do to be effective in supporting their teams what transformational leadership looks like the value of gaining practical experie… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/anesthesia-guidebook-1367573/episodes/125-transformational-leadership-with-adrian-moran-md-mba/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/anesthesia-guidebook-1367573/125-transformational-leadership-with-adrian-moran-md-mba.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.