On/Offcall: Cadence CMO Eve Cunningham Shares Her Top Career Lessons for Physicians

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She spent 20 years grinding inside the nation’s largest health systems... recently jumped ship to a health startup… and now helps lead a movement to fix one of healthcare’s biggest failures: chronic disease management.

This week, we were proud to welcome Dr. Eve Cunningham to How I Doctor! An OB-GYN by training, Eve is a former health system executive who grew tired of seeing our traditional hospital-based approach to treating chronic disease patients. So she recently became the Chief Medical Officer of Cadence, one of the nation’s fastest-growing health tech startups using AI-powered remote patient monitoring to help tens of thousands of seniors safely manage their chronic conditions from home.

What has she learned from this journey? Where can physicians have a bigger impact? Does she think other physicians should make the ultimate career leap?

Her conversation with Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker was filled with career takeaways about what it will actually take to reimagine the future of chronic disease care, why most healthcare innovation fails without physician leadership, and what she’s learned since transitioning to the world of entrepreneurship.

Listen to the full episode here

Also be sure to see Eve’s top career takeaways and join the conversation on social media here.

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ICYMI, Here Are 2 Ways to Kick Off 2026

#1 - Read Offcall’s Physician AI Report detailing what physicians really think about AI in medicine based on Offcall’s original survey of physicians. ICYMI, read it here!

#2 - Download 100 Lessons About the State of Physicians which provides business and career lessons that physicians never learn in medical school.

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From Our Partners: JPM Events in San Francisco

If you’ll be in San Francisco for the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference this week, here are several great events from friends of Offcall: First up from Dr. Raihan Faroqui: Doctorpreneurs Meetup & Agentic AI Panel on Monday, Jan 12 featuring all-star speakers Dr. Rebecca Mitchell, Managing Partner at Scrub Capital, Dr. Paulius Mui from X=Primary Care, Rohan Ganesh, Partner at Obvious Ventures, and moderated by Raihan, who recently announced his new role as VP of Partnerships at Confido Health. ​Capacity is limited and approval is required. Apply to attend here.

Next up, friend of Offcall Dr. Uli K. Chettipally is hosting the InnovatorMD Global Summit 2026: AI Is Rewriting the Health Code. This is a two-day in-person conference for physician innovators navigating AI’s role in care delivery, startup founders and entrepreneurs building healthcare solutions, and investors or healthcare executives seeking clarity before consensus forms. Learn more and get registered here.

Highlights From Our Community

Each week, we celebrate career milestones, launches, & other goings-on in the physician community. Have something to promote? Reply and we’ll feature you.

👉 Be sure to check it out, Preston Alexander
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🎙️ Give it a listen, Michael Johnson
Physician employment attorney Michael Johnson was featured on The Doc Suit podcast hosted by Dr. Mohit Mirchandani and Dr. Sharan Jhaveri discussing some of the biggest mistakes physicians make while signing their contracts. Give it a listen here.

👏 Exciting new chapter, Jesse Ehrenfeld 
Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld announced that he joined Aidoc as Global Chief Medical Officer. Learn more and say congratulations here.

🎉 Congratulations, Scott McCusker
Dr. Scott McCusker was elected president of the board of trustees for the American Board of Facial Cosmetic Surgery! Learn more and leave him a comment on social media here.

🥳 Bravo, Robert Cavagnol
Dr. Robert Cavagnol accepted the position of president for Carle Health’s Bloomington-Normal Service Area. Learn more and congratulate him here.

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