Newsmakers
Permanente physicians and physician leaders provide their health care industry insight and clinical experience through interviews, commentaries, thought leadership articles, and podcast appearances on a range of health care topics and news.
Stephen Parodi, MD, writes about COVID-19’s threat to the moral fiber of American clinicians
September 27, 2021
Kaiser Permanente’s national infectious disease leader suggests clinicians look for guidance in the example set by predecessors who were on the front lines during the early 1980s AIDS epidemic.
Stephen Parodi, MD, shares how Permanente COVID-19 vaccine policy protects patients, communities
September 27, 2021
Kaiser Permanente’s national infectious disease leader tells AMA that with an organizationwide vaccine mandate, Permanente physicians lead the nation in physician COVID-19 vaccinations.
Edward Lee, MD, shares strategies for augmented intelligence in health care
September 14, 2021
The Permanente Federation chief information officer tells an American Medical Association Insight Network meeting that AI programs must start with the right questions.
Stephen Parodi, MD, says health care professionals’ frustrations mount as COVID-19 hospitalizations surge
August 31, 2021
Kaiser Permanente national infectious disease leader tells Hearst TV that physicians, nurses, and other clinicians facing burnout can benefit from peer support.
Permanente physicians share advice for supporting mental health through COVID-19 in Forbes
August 19, 2021
Psychiatrists Mabel Bongmba, MD, Gregory Kellermeyer, MD, and Maria Koshy, MD, highlight how clinicians help patients build mental resilience during the pandemic.
At HIMSS21, Permanente leaders say COVID-19 is driving profound changes to health care
August 16, 2021
The Permanente Federation’s co-CEOs Richard S. Isaacs, MD, FACS, and Ramin Davidoff, MD, and its chief information officer, Edward R. Lee, MD, highlight how the pandemic is driving health care’s technology transformation.
Stephen Parodi, MD, warns of highly contagious delta variant in Parade
August 9, 2021
Kaiser Permanente’s national infectious disease leader says severe COVID cases are occurring in areas with low vaccination rates and among the unvaccinated.
Tatjana Kolevska, MD, shares with Becker’s how health systems can deliver patient-centered cancer care
July 28, 2021
Patients want cancer care and prevention that is engaging, accessible, and convenient, the medical director for Kaiser Permanente’s Excellence in Cancer Care program said during Becker Healthcare’s Oncology Virtual Forum.
On Modern Healthcare panel, T. Ruth Chang, MD, discusses women, work, and family during COVID-19
July 27, 2021
Northwest Permanente’s chief people officer says that “overwhelmed” sums up female health care workers’ experiences of the pandemic.
Paul Thottingal, MD, tells Health.com that most interactions are low risk for fully vaccinated
July 22, 2021
Kaiser Permanente’s national infectious disease leader suggests that vaccinated people may want to take precautions to protect everyone against delta variant when gathering with unvaccinated people.