Houston Methodist is one of the nation’s leading health systems and academic medical centers. In this wide-ranging episode, Dr. H. Dirk Sostman, Houston Methodist executive vice president and chief academic officer and president and CEO of the Houston Methodist Academic Institute (HMAI), discusses his remarkable 20-year career at Houston Methodist advancing quality of care through academic research and scientific innovation — including leading Houston Methodist through one of the fastest-evolving scientific scenarios in the last 100 years: the COVID-19 pandemic.

Expert: H. Dirk Sostman, executive vice president and chief academic officer at Houston Methodist, Ernest Cockrell Jr. Presidential Distinguished Chair and president and CEO of the Houston Methodist Academic Institute (HMAI).

Notable topics covered:

• Academic medicine
• Quality research
• Genomic data
• Artificial intelligence and diagnostic accuracy 
• COVID-19 and scientific evolution

Links:

• Henry Dirk Sostman, MD, FACR (Faculty Profile)
• About the Houston Methodist Academic Institute
• Research at Houston Methodist
• 2023 HMAI Annual Report – Science in Service of Medicine