Some of the most meaningful innovations in pediatric care don’t start in labs or boardrooms, they start in hospital rooms, infusion centers, and waiting areas where parents sit at their child’s bedside, trying to make sense of a new reality. In this episode of A Dose of Optimism, we meet two extraordinary guests who transformed.

For decades, parents were told to wait before introducing allergenic foods like peanuts or eggs. Now, the science may indicate the opposite, start early, and you could prevent a lifelong allergy. When Daniel Zakowski’s nephew developed a food allergy despite early awareness, it sparked a mission: to make food allergy prevention easy, safe, and accessible.

In this episode of A Dose of Optimism, Dr. David Feinberg, Chairman of Oracle Health, shares how artificial intelligence and data connectivity are reshaping the way we care for patients, and why he believes technology can make healthcare more human, not less. For Dr. Feinberg, the path forward is about creating a truly connected healthcare.

When Dr. Larry Deeb first began treating children with diabetes in the 1970s, glucose monitoring meant testing urine with strips and hoping for the best. Today, continuous glucose monitors send live data to smartphones, automated pumps adjust insulin levels in real time, and children once at risk of blindness or kidney failure are living full,.