{"podcast":{"title":"Advancing Healthcare Through Simulation","slug":"advancing-healthcare-through-simulation-7223116","podcast_index_feed_id":7223116,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/advancing-healthcare-through-simulation","website_url":"https://www.nait.ca/centre-for-advanced-medical-simulation","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/juiRoZbk4SAJxh6UWS5zZGbmE4rYsfMg23H-kal00Po/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMGIx/MDA0OWIwNmFhM2Ew/ZjdmZTQ3Mzk5YjRi/MWRkNS5qcGc.jpg","author":"NAIT - Centre for Advanced Medical Simulation","episode_count":21,"summary":"Welcome to Advancing Healthcare Through Simulation, a series exploring the critical role of simulation in shaping the future of healthcare. This series highlights NAIT's Centre for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS) as a hub for healthcare simulation, workforce development, and innovation. Through conversations with experts, industry leaders, and educators, we’ll explore how simulation is transforming patient care, medical training, and healthcare innovation. Each episode is designed to enhance awareness and understanding of CAMS while positioning it as a leader in this rapidly evolving field. Join us as we share strategic insights, compelling stories, and forward-thinking perspectives on the power of simulation in advancing healthcare. To learn more, please visit: https://www.nait.ca/centre-for-advanced-medical-simulation","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T00:18:57.109480+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advancing-healthcare-through-simulation-7223116"},"episode":{"title":"From Research to Real World: Dr. Mary Brindle on Surgical Innovation","slug":"from-research-to-real-world-dr-mary-brindle-on-surgical-innovation","published_at":"2026-04-16T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advancing-healthcare-through-simulation-7223116/from-research-to-real-world-dr-mary-brindle-on-surgical-innovation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advancing-healthcare-through-simulation-7223116","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/3c21d9de","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/3c21d9de/69666d47.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Advancing Health Care Through Simulation, Lisa George speaks with Dr. Mary Brindle, pediatric surgeon, health systems researcher, and internationally recognized leader in surgical quality improvement and innovation. Dr. Brindle shares how her clinical work and research have led her to focus on one of the most complex spaces in health care: the operating room. Surgical care is high risk, resource intensive, and deeply dependent on the interaction between people, processes, and technology. That makes it one of the most important places to study how innovation can improve outcomes. The conversation explores the origins of the Health Everywhere Hub, a province-wide initiative designed to bring together clinicians, engineers, digital health experts, community partners, and researchers to solve major health challenges in Alberta. Dr. Brindle reflects on what it was like to move beyond traditional research approaches and work in a faster, more iterative innovation model shaped by collaboration with industry and innovation partners. Lisa and Dr. Brindle also discuss the concept of the Living Lab in health care, and why testing innovation in real clinical and community settings matters so much. Rather than relying only on tightly controlled pilots, Living Labs allow teams to understand how technologies actually fit into workflows, how they are adopted by users, and where they need to change before they can succeed at scale. Other key themes in the episode include: Why collaboration across professions and sectors is essential for meaningful innovation The biggest challenges currently facing OR teams in Canada Why access, equity, communication, and evidence-based care remain core priorities How bureaucracy slows innovation when frontline voices are not fully pa…","meta_description":"In this episode of Advancing Health Care Through Simulation, Lisa George speaks with Dr. Mary Brindle, pediatric surgeon, health systems researcher, and i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1717,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/advancing-healthcare-through-simulation-7223116/episodes/from-research-to-real-world-dr-mary-brindle-on-surgical-innovation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/advancing-healthcare-through-simulation-7223116/from-research-to-real-world-dr-mary-brindle-on-surgical-innovation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}