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Edward Lee, MD, speaks at Becker’s CIO panel on what keeps him up at night

November 15, 2022

The Permanente Federation’s chief information officer discusses his preventive approach to addressing critical challenges such as cybersecurity, health equity, and physician burnout.

Richard S. Isaacs, MD, shares 5 steps to restoring trust in health care

September 20, 2022

The Permanente Federation’s co-CEO writes in Harvard Business Review that rebuilding public trust in the U.S. health care system must be a priority.

Ruth Chang, MD, shares 4 major signs of clinician burnout

August 23, 2022

Northwest Permanente’s chief people officer discusses how to identify and prevent burnout at a Health Action Alliance virtual event.

PermanenteDocs Chat on physician mental fatigue in a pandemic

February 2, 2022

Watch a replay of this Facebook Live chat with guest Ashley Zucker, MD, of Southern California Permanente Medical Group on addressing physician stress during the latest Omicron surge.

COVID-19 and physician wellness: the path forward

March 30, 2021

From the outset of the pandemic, physicians and other health care professionals have navigated long hours in the hospital away from family, additional patient workloads, and daily fears of becoming seriously ill or dying from COVID-19. As a result, the…

Addressing burnout in the age of COVID

November 23, 2020

Permanente physician leader Edward Ellison, MD, shares 5 critical skills leaders can embrace during difficult times.

Edward Ellison, MD, shares pandemic lessons for preventing physician burnout

September 29, 2020

In an interview with Harvard Business Review, The Permanente Federation co-CEO underscores the importance of agility, interdependence, and camaraderie in surviving stressful events.

Edward M. Ellison, MD, addresses purpose-driven burnout in Harvard Business Review story

July 1, 2019

A new Harvard Business Review story on burnout quotes Edward M. Ellison, MD, co-CEO, The Permanente Federation, on the massive negative impacts of physician burnout, innovations to address it, and what leaders can do to prevent purpose-driven employees in their own organizations from suffering.

Edward M. Ellison, MD, outlines the benefits of ICD-11’s new burnout definition

June 7, 2019

Edward M. Ellison, MD, executive medical director and chairman at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, in a new Medscape Medical News story outlines the benefits of an expanded definition of burnout in the World Health Organization’s new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

Edward M. Ellison, MD, underscores need to address total cost of physician burnout

May 28, 2019

In a recent opinion piece for the Annals of Internal Medicine, Permanente Federation co-CEO Edward M. Ellison, MD, highlights the importance of addressing the total cost of physician burnout.

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