Newsmakers

Stephen Parodi, MD, associate executive director, The Permanente Medical Group, and executive vice president, The Permanente Federation, recently highlighted the value of Kaiser Permanente’s integrated care system for cancer patients as part of the Self-Insurance Institute of America’s 39th annual Nation Educational Conference & Expo in San Francisco.

The 2019 Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Annual Meeting took place in Washington, D.C. this week, highlighting how patients, researchers, clinicians, payers, and others across the health care community are working to make health care research more useful and relevant.

Steven J. Jacobsen, MD, PhD, senior director of Research for Kaiser Permanente Southern California, was elected as president-elect of the American College of Epidemiology.

The Permanente Federation’s Chief Quality Officer Nancy Gin, MD, will represent Kaiser Permanente and join other national health care experts to develop clinical quality recommendations for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Flu shot season has arrived, and word is spreading in our latest tweetcap.

The clinical lead for mental health and wellness at Southern California Permanente Medical Group is quoted in an ACP Internist article looking at 2 recently approved medications for treatment-resistant depression.

This tweetcap delves into the debate surrounding the term “provider” and shares a number of insightful perspectives.

Permanente obstetrician-gynecologist Amanda Williams, MD, MPH, comments on the attention to due dates and factors to consider in a recent New York Times article.