Summary: Madeline Bell started her career as a nurse at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Today, she is one of the most powerful female executives in the Philadelphia area, overseeing 16,000 CHOP employees and a budget of $3 billion. Bell also talks about: Obstacles women face in their careers (3:53), the lack of women on corporate boards in the region (4:41), female heads of state and the Democratic presidential field (7:48), the "impostor syndrome" (10:19), how much sleep she gets per night (11:24), how she deals with Mondays (12:34), the massive growth of CHOP (14:06), the possibility of curing different forms of pediatric cancer (15:24), organizing treatments at hospitals like restaurants do on menus for customers (16:44), how to bridge the user-payer separation in healthcare (18:11), why so many children are obese (20:05), her opinion on the effects of social media and smartphones on young people (21:50), why boredom is healthy (23:49) and when robots will take over hospitals (24:27). Recorded at Bell's office on the 14th floor of the CHOP executive tower in University City (2/18/19).
