In this episode, which continues a season of shows focused on our health and wellbeing as leaders, I am talking to Dr. Arina Cadariu.
Arina is a physician, educator, and public health expert with more than 30 years of experience spanning academic medicine, high-acuity inpatient care, public health leadership, and translational systems work. She founded Health In Context as a space for scientific integrity, narrative precision, and biologically grounded education, outside the noise of clinical commodification, consumer trends, and flattening metrics.
After defecting from communist Romania in her early twenties, she rebuilt a life and career through medical education in Germany, postgraduate training at Yale, and years of leadership in teaching hospitals and health institutions across the U.S. and Europe.
She holds a Master of Public Health in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale and an MD from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.
She spent more than two decades teaching at Yale as an Assistant Clinical Professor, mentoring medical students and residents in clinical reasoning, decision-making under uncertainty, and whole-person care.
However, as you’ll hear in this interview, she became increasingly disillusioned both by the conventional approach to healthcare and by the claims being made by many self-professed health experts online.
In this conversation we talk about her journey for clues about why she feels as she does about our approach to health and our healthcare systems.
She shares the shocking insight that her most successful VIP patients - founders, execs, leaders - have the worst health
She talks about the importance of ‘agency’ and to what we should expect from the society we live in
She explains which clients do particularly well to break their habits around their health
We discuss the consequences of double or triple tasking
And how we can use health data badly…or well
Arina's website is https://health-in-context.org/
Her LinkedIn is here
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