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Today, my guest is Smirthy. I'm going to have trouble her last name.

Kibana Don. Kibana Don, did I get that right?

Close, close. Kibana Don. Kibana Don.

The podcast is HLTH Forward, Health Forward. It's available at healthforward.

Oh, dot buzzsprout.com. Is that correct? Be easy, sprout.

Also available on Apple Podcast, Google, wherever else you get your stuff.

And your Twitter handle, is it S-I-M-I-I?

S-S-I-M-I-I underscore S-I-M.

There you are. And LinkedIn is at Smirthy Kibana Don.

She is Bachelor in Science Robotics, Master in Engineering from USC.

She's a public health from UCLA, and she serves as a Senior Health Care Strategist for Tata Consultancy Services.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Let's talk about your podcast. What's going on your podcast?

What's going on my podcast? Nothing, I think it's just a space, and you've been on it as well, where I interview health care leaders, health tech executives, policy makers, an artist to really talk about the challenges that exist in the health care system, and what is it that we can do collectively to move health care forward?

And what have you learned?

You know, quite a bit. I feel like some of them, I think some of the challenges have been systemic challenges, whether it's equity challenges or issues about price transparency or who gets what kind of care.

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