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In the Press. On the Podcast. At the Podium.

Conference stages, podcast guest seats, contributing bylines, and recognition. The 2026 record so far, plus selected highlights from prior years.

2026 Speaking Podcasts Press & Awards #TacoThursday

2026 Speaking & Events

On the Stage This Year

Dr. Sarah Matt at Weill Cornell Medicine, April 2026
Weill Cornell Medicine · April 2026 Keynote: The Patient We Never Designed For
Sarah Matt at WCM podium
Sarah Matt fielding audience questions

ACHE Congress on Healthcare Leadership · Houston

Healthcare AI Governance & Executive Leadership

Conference · March 2–5, 2026 · Completed

American College of Healthcare Executives flagship Congress. Strategic AI governance for health system C-suites: why most clinical AI rollouts fail at the deployment layer, and the structural changes that prevent it.

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Cornell · Public & Ecosystem Health

Borderless Care Delivery in a Constrained System

Lecture · April 7, 2026 · Completed

Invited lecture for Cornell's Department of Public and Ecosystem Health. The structural failure modes of US healthcare access, and the digital architecture required to design around them. Hosted by Gen Meredith and Anita Ching-Evans.

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SUNY Upstate Medical University · Grand Rounds

Seeing the Bigger Picture: AI, Clinical Reality, and System Design

Grand Rounds · April 8, 2026 · Completed

Department of Ophthalmology Grand Rounds. The clinical-to-system translation problem: why AI tools that work in the demo fail at deployment, and what physician-led governance actually requires.

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Art of Leadership Gala · Central New York

Keynote: From the Bedside to the Boardroom

Keynote · April 17, 2026 · Completed

Community keynote at the Central New York Art of Leadership Gala. Physician leadership, system change, and why the most credentialed pipeline in healthcare is the most under-developed for executive transition.

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Weill Cornell Medicine · WCM Future of Medicine

Keynote: The Patient We Never Designed For

Conference Keynote · Weill Cornell Medicine · April 2026 · Completed

Conference keynote on the gap between the patient health systems are designed to serve and the patient who actually walks in. The room kept running long after the formal session ended: a rural physician, a resident, and an administrator each surfacing the same architectural question from a different angle. Are we building this for the right people?

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Stony Brook University · Stony Brook AI Summit

Panel: Healthcare AI Implementation

Panel · Stony Brook AI Summit · April 2026 · Completed

Panel discussion at the Stony Brook AI Summit on healthcare AI implementation: where the technology is real, where the rollout falls apart, and what physician-executives need to press vendors on before the contract is signed.

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AMIA Annual Symposium · Denver

Clinical Informatics & AI Implementation

Conference · May 18–21, 2026 · Upcoming

American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. Speaking on the gap between AI model performance and clinical implementation, and what informatics leaders need to demand from vendors before signing.

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HIMSS NE · Regional Conference

Healthcare Transformation: From Pilot to Production

Conference · June 4, 2026 · Upcoming

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society regional conference. The implementation gap between AI proof-of-concept and enterprise deployment, framed for system CIOs and clinical informatics leaders.

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Plug and Play Health Conference

Founder Reality Check: What Hospitals Actually Buy

Conference · September 2, 2026 · Upcoming

Plug and Play Tech Center health summit. Live workshop for digital health founders on the gap between product-market fit and hospital adoption fit, including the contractual and clinical alignment work most pitch decks ignore.

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Podcasts

On the Mic

Sarah's hosted show on Medical Economics leads the section. Guest appearances follow. For The Clinical Realist (her own show), see /podcast.

Vital Signs with Dr. Sarah Matt, a Medical Economics podcast
Hosted by Sarah · Medical Economics

Vital Signs with Dr. Sarah Matt

Latest episode: The Questions You Should Be Asking About AI Scribing Tools

New Episode · April 20, 2026

Sarah's hosted show on Medical Economics. The newest episode walks practice leaders through the diligence questions every clinician should ask before adopting an AI scribing tool: workflow fit, liability, data handling, and how to read past the vendor pitch.

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Guest Appearances

The KevinMD Podcast · Kevin Pho, MD

Why Fee-for-Service Reform Is Needed

Podcast · January 22, 2026

Conversation with Kevin Pho, MD, on the structural failure points in fee-for-service medicine, and the reform pathway that physicians, payers, and policy makers can actually align on.

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DeviceTalks Weekly · Kayleen Brown

Talking Revolution with Sarah Matt, MD (with Ray Cohen)

Podcast · December 15, 2025

Co-episode with medtech veteran Ray Cohen on building and exiting medical device companies, surgical innovation, and what The Borderless Healthcare Revolution means for device strategy.

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Parallax Podcast · Dr. Ankur Kalra

Ep 148: Breaking Down Healthcare Borders — Five Pillars to Revolutionary Access

Podcast · December 8, 2025

Radcliffe Cardiology's flagship show. Long-form conversation on the Five Pillars framework and what it takes to redesign access at the system level, with a cardiology-adjacent clinical audience.

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MM+M Podcast · Medical Marketing & Media

The Borderless Healthcare Revolution — Book Launch Interview

Podcast · December 3, 2025

Approximately 30 minutes with reporter Heerea Rikhraj on the book launch, the health-tech landscape, and the operational realities behind the rhetoric of healthcare transformation.

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CareTalk: Healthcare Unfiltered · David E. Williams

Making Healthcare Access Truly Borderless

Podcast · 2024–2025

Conversation with David E. Williams (President, Health Business Group) on what borderless care means in operational terms, where the model breaks under existing regulation, and how to design around it.

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Healthcare Insights · Northwest AHEC

Ep 144: The Changing Landscape of Healthcare Delivery and the 5 Pillars of Access

Podcast · 2025

Rural-focused healthcare podcast. The Five Pillars (geography, financial, digital, knowledge/trust, cultural) framework as it applies to communities where the access gap is structural, not incidental.

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Oracle Health · Perspectives on Health & Tech

Ep 1: Women's Health, AI, and Healthcare Access

Video Series · Oracle Health

With Oracle colleagues Nasim Afsar, Christy Dueck, and Esther Gathogo on AI's role in women's health: where the technology can help and where it needs clinical guidance.

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Oracle Health · Perspectives on Health & Tech

Ep 2: Connected Healthcare — The Value of Cloud

Video Series · Oracle Health

With Dr. Michelle Flemmings on connected healthcare and the strategic value of cloud infrastructure in modern health systems. The architecture behind borderless care delivery.

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Oracle Health · Perspectives on Health & Tech

Ep 3: AI-Powered Clinical Workflows

Video Series · Oracle Health

On AI-powered clinical workflows: how artificial intelligence is changing the way clinicians practice and what health systems need to do to be ready.

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The Digital Health Roundtable

Surgical Innovation: On the Remote Frontier

Podcast · 15 min · Apple Podcasts & Spotify

15-minute interview with host Matt Cybulsky on remote robotic surgery, the future of surgical access, and what it means to perform surgery across geography.

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Oracle Perspectives on Health & Tech

Women's Health: Technology and Patient Engagement (Pt 2)

Podcast · June 3, 2024

Episode 2 of the Oracle women's health series. With Nasim Afsar (moderator), Christy Dueck, and Esther Gathogo on technology, patient engagement, and care access.

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TechTalk Healthcare · Brad Cost & Dr. Jay Greenstein

Surgical Innovation, Borderless Care & the Implementation Gap

Podcast · 2023

Conversation on surgical innovation and the gap between digital health rhetoric and what it takes to actually move a hospital system. Available on Apple Podcasts.

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Press, Awards & Editorial

Selected 2026 Recognition & Bylines

Becker's Hospital Review — 170 Women in Health IT to Know 2026

Becker's Hospital Review

170 Women in Health IT to Know · 2026

Recognition · 2026

Named to Becker's Hospital Review's 2026 list of women shaping health IT, cited as Founder and Principal of Vital Werks for work at the intersection of clinical practice, AI governance, and health system strategy.

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New York State Assembly · 13th Annual Women of Distinction Awards

2026 Women of Distinction Honoree — Healthcare Category

Award · March 21, 2026

One of five honorees recognized by Assemblyman Al Stirpe (District 127) for healthcare leadership and contribution. Award ceremony at Fayetteville Fire Department, Fayetteville, NY.

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Medical Economics · Editorial Advisory Board

Featured Contributor: What Makes a Winning Healthtech Startup

Press · March 23, 2026

Quoted contributor in the Austin Littrell feature on the five characteristics of healthtech startups that actually scale. Continuing role on the Medical Economics Editorial Advisory Board.

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MJH Life Sciences · Contributing Author

Contributing Author Agreement

Press · March 20, 2026

Contributing author agreement signed with MJH Life Sciences for editorial work across their publication portfolio. First feature in production.

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Health Affairs · Submission

Five Structural Barriers to Healthcare Access

Submitted Manuscript · March 21, 2026

Manuscript No. 2026-00398 submitted to Health Affairs. Decision pending. Identifies five structural mechanisms behind US healthcare access failure and the policy levers that move them.

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Authority Magazine · Medium

How Medical Practices Can Use Digital Transformation to Provide Better Care

Press · December 2025

Featured author interview in Authority Magazine's series on digital transformation in healthcare. Practical pathway for medical practice modernization grounded in clinical reality.

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KevinMD.com · Editorial

Physician Advocacy as a Core Clinical Skill

Press · December 2025

Byline article on KevinMD.com. Physician advocacy as a clinical, not optional, skill: how it shapes patient outcomes, system change, and the credibility of the medical voice in policy.

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#TacoThursday

#TacoThursday

Dr. Matt hosts a recurring video series on LinkedIn called #TacoThursday, where she shares bold takes on healthcare leadership, digital transformation, and patient-centered innovation — all served with a side of spicy candor. These short, punchy videos have become a cult favorite among health tech insiders, known for mixing strategy with sarcasm and a taco in hand.

#TacoThursday: GTC x Surgical Edition

#TacoThursday

GTC × Surgical Edition

Where NVIDIA's GTC conference meets the operating room. Robotics, AI, and what the surgical frontier actually looks like — taco in hand.

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#TacoThursday: Tech-Free Zone

#TacoThursday

#TacoThursday from the Tech-Free Zone

Dispatches from the analog world. What healthcare leadership looks like when you step away from the screens — and why sometimes that's exactly what the strategy needs.

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#TacoThursday: Taco Bout Full Circle

#TacoThursday

It's #TacoThursday and Taco 'Bout Full Circle...

Full circle moments in healthcare innovation. When the thing you predicted three years ago becomes the thing everyone's talking about now — and what comes next.

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