The Craft of Leadership and Speed to Decision with Dr. David Marcozzi

March 11, 2026

In this episode, recorded on-site at Evidently's inaugural Scaling Health AI Summit in Utah, we sit down with Dr. David Marcozzi — Chief Clinical Officer at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Associate Dean at its School of Medicine. Marco has a unique & defining career path as a disaster medicine physician who deployed to Ground Zero at 9/11, then moved through the U.S. Senate, the White House, CMS, and finally back to the bedside and clinical leadership. What ties it all together is a remarkably disciplined approach to leadership — not as a title, but as a practiced skill. In this conversation, Marco unpacks what it really means to earn trust, why speed-to-decision is healthcare's most underrated problem, what the military taught him about building high-performing teams, and why humility — not credentials — is the prerequisite for influence. A conversation about leading people through change, at any scale.

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1. Intro

2. From Ground Zero to the White House

3. What Emergency Medicine Actually Teaches You

4. "I Answered the Phone"

5. Leadership is More Than a Degree

6. What Brings Him Back to Work

7. Healthcare's Speed Problem

8. Building a Team That Can Handle Anything

9. Make It Easy to Do the Right Thing

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