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.

Robert Pearl, MD, Pens ‘Wakeup Call’ in USA Today

January 30, 2017

Robert Pearl, MD, executive director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, published an opinion column in Sunday’s USA Today that serves as a wakeup call for the U.S. health care industry. Following a trip to India last fall, Dr. Pearl writes about the innovation and low cost of health…

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.