News
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Press releases
Washington Permanente Medical Group ratifies Paul Minardi, MD, as new president and EMD
June 10, 2019
Dr. Minardi assumes his new role on July 1, 2019, with the retirement of current WPMG President and Executive Medical Director Steve Tarnoff, MD.
The Permanente Federation announces new chief legal officer
May 13, 2019
Katherine Saral is named the new chief legal officer effective May 29, 2019.
Newsmakers
Edward M. Ellison, MD, outlines the benefits of ICD-11’s new burnout definition
June 7, 2019
Edward M. Ellison, MD, executive medical director and chairman at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, in a new Medscape Medical News story outlines the benefits of an expanded definition of burnout in the World Health Organization’s new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).
Edward M. Ellison, MD, underscores need to address total cost of physician burnout
May 28, 2019
In a recent opinion piece for the Annals of Internal Medicine, Permanente Federation co-CEO Edward M. Ellison, MD, highlights the importance of addressing the total cost of physician burnout. In “Beyond the Economics of Burnout,” Dr. Ellison writes in support of a study by Shasha Han, MS, and others titled…
