Newsmakers

Stephen M. Parodi, MD, associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group, shared with Time magazine some of the ways Kaiser Permanente is using telemedicine to help combat the spread of coronavirus.

Stephen M. Parodi, MD, an infectious diseases physician with The Permanente Medical Group who is leading Kaiser Permanente’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, explains the organization’s mitigation strategies in a Business Insider story today.

Nancy Gin, MD, chief quality officer for The Permanente Federation, explained in a Los Angeles Times story that people should only quarantine themselves when COVID-19 symptoms start to appear.

Stephen M. Parodi, MD, and Vincent Liu, MD, both of The Permanente Medical Group, published a peer-reviewed viewpoint online in JAMA on the urgent need for public health officials and large health care systems to move from containment to mitigation of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Health care and physician leaders discuss how organizations ramp up telemedicine use during the coronavirus outbreak.

On a recent episode of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, Lisa A. Jackson, MD, an internist with Washington Permanente Medical Group, shared her insights on the race among scientists to develop a vaccine for the new coronavirus that leads to COVID-19 disease.

With more cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) emerging in the United States, Permanente physicians are stepping up to serve affected communities and share important information.

Sameer Awsare, MD, FACP, associate executive director of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG), was quoted in a recent Modern Healthcare story on the rise of concierge services and innovative, technology-based access to health care in the San Francisco Bay Area.

David E. Arterburn, MD, MPH, an internal medicine physician with the Washington Permanente Medical Group, shared his expertise with The Associated Press on the increasing number of people going back a second time for surgery to aid with weight loss.