Imelda Dacones, MD, president and CEO of Northwest Permanente, says physicians have an obligation to reduce the causes and mitigate the effects of climate change.
Imelda Dacones, MD, president and CEO of Northwest Permanente (NWP), joined other health care experts earlier this week in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. News Healthcare of Tomorrow conference, which focused on social determinants of health often looking at factors such as housing, transportation, and access to health food.
Yong Shin, MD, of Northwest Permanente leads one of the top-rated cardiac care programs in the country at Kaiser Permanente's Northwest Center for Heart and Vascular Care in Oregon.