Newsmakers
Permanente physicians are regularly featured in the media on a variety of health issues.
Permanente Medicine Shows Up at the Barbershop
January 27, 2017
Kaiser Permanente’s Mid-Atlantic States Region has teamed up with local barbershop New Beginnings to offer free flu shots and preventive screenings at the barbershops in a Southwest Baltimore neighborhood in an effort to bring health care to underserved communities. A feature in the Baltimore Sun quotes Bernadette Loftus, MD, associate…
Maria Carrasco, MD, MPH, Appointed to Health Equity Task Force
January 17, 2017
The task force’s goals include identifying opportunities, gaps and strategic alliances related to research, policy, and community transformation.
Center for Total Health featured on MedTalk Boston podcast
December 16, 2016
How Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Total Health showcases Permanente Medicine is the focus of the inaugural episode of MedTalk.
Michael Horberg, MD, highlights Hepatitis C screening program
December 9, 2016
Michael Horberg, MD, executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute, represented Kaiser Permanente at an invitation-only meeting to discuss the evidence for early hepatitis C treatment in the United States.
Winston Wong, MD, tapped to serve on Advisory Committee on Minority Health
December 5, 2016
The medical director for Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit was appointed to serve a four-year term on the committee.
Dennis Truong, MD, named to National Quality Forum Telehealth Committee
November 7, 2016
Dennis Truong, MD, an assistant physician-in-chief for Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, will serve as a member of the forum’s Telehealth Committee.
SCPMG’s systematic approach to fighting the opioid epidemic
November 6, 2016
Joel Hyatt, MD, emeritus assistant regional medical director for Community Health Initiatives for the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, speaks on an Institute for Healthcare Improvement panel, “The Opioid Crisis: How Health Care and the Community Can Act.”
ACA faces challenges in moving health care from volume to value
November 1, 2016
Robert Pearl, MD, speaks on a symposium about the Affordable Care Act.
How organizations like UCare, Kaiser Permanente tackle food insecurity
September 20, 2016
Sandra Stenmark, MD, pediatrician and physician director of Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s Community Benefit Health Equity, talked about Kaiser Permanente’s work to identify members with food insecurity.
Atlanta’s ‘Top Doctors’ Include 17 Permanente Physicians
August 15, 2016
Physicians from The Southeast Permanente Medical Group in Georgia were recognized in the 2016 Top Doctors list.