March 08, 2010 The Medical Group Management Association this summer will begin searching for a new leader following the announced pending retirement of William Jessee, M.D., as president and CEO. ... FULL STORY
December 14, 2009 What's next for Mark Leavitt, M.D.? Think of lasagna. Leavitt says he'll turn 60 in mid-March 2010 and wants to be out of the job by the end of that month, and then he'll add what he describes as another layer to his career while building on what he has learned. ... FULL STORY
November 09, 2009 The 129,000-member American College of Physicians, the nation's second-largest physician group, is looking for a new boss. John Tooker, M.D., the ACP's executive vice president and CEO since July 2002, announced at the organization's recent Board of Regents meeting that he will step down as soon as... ... FULL STORY
By Linda Wilson October 26, 2009 When Virginia Mason Health System's clinic in Kirkland, Wash., relocated to new office space in February, the staff left the waiting room behind—permanently. Thanks to a new office-visit process, patients no longer wait for clinicians to take care of them. ... FULL STORY
July 27, 2009 Since President Barack Obama nominated Regina Benjamin, M.D., for U.S. surgeon general earlier this month, a horde of healthcare organizations have issued statements praising the 52-year-old family physician as a solid choice to become the nation's doctor. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks May 11, 2009 Power is often measured by the resources people have at their disposal—with money, number of employees or even political influence often at the top of the list. That theory, however, goes out the window with the person who was chosen the most powerful physician-executive this year by readers. ... FULL STORY
By Elizabeth Gardner April 13, 2009 If there’s one thing that’s in abundant supply, it’s online health information. The good stuff is relatively easy to find, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Mayo Clinic. So why would a practicing internist think it was a good idea to create a Web startup to purvey yet more... ... FULL STORY
By Linda Wilson February 23, 2009 Louis Cornacchia III’s first experience with IT occurred in high school in 1974 when his math teacher introduced him to a 64-kilobyte minicomputer. He ultimately became a neurosurgeon, but continued to dabble in IT—officially combining computers and medicine in 2005 with the launch of Doctations. ... FULL STORY
By Barbara Kirchheimer September 08, 2008 There are a dizzying number of IT products targeting physicians and hospitals, and each day seems to bring more. Some are created by frustrated doctors looking for solutions that will help others like themselves. ... FULL STORY
August 25, 2008 Alban Miller, M.D., a 54-year-old plastic surgeon in Champaign, Ill., had treated patients with melanoma, and he had often considered what might happen to him if he contracted a skin disease, heart disease or some kind of cancer. He had not spent much time, however, considering what would happen to... ... FULL STORY
April 21, 2008 A whistle-blower’s case the Justice Department says it will pursue against Christ Hospital in Cincinnati and a major cardiology group appears to expand what the government typically calls a kickback. ... FULL STORY
January 21, 2008 The appointment of a top Vanderbilt healthcare official to the board of directors of a major drug company did not go unnoticed by the university or its medical center. ... FULL STORY
By Jay Greene December 17, 2007 The shared leadership arrangement at 147-bed New Island Hospital, Bethpage, N.Y., lasted nearly a year before the governing board chose the physician over the administrator as chief executive. On Nov. 16, the board announced that Aaron Glatt, M.D., president and chief medical officer, had won the... ... FULL STORY
By Jay Greene December 03, 2007 When Ravindra Godse, M.D., a Pittsburgh internist turned part-time filmmaker, decided to make a comedy about a doctor in the midst of a midlife crisis, he was surprised at the support he received from his partners and friends. “If I were a successful doctor in India, they would have laughed at me,”... ... FULL STORY
By Jay Greene November 05, 2007 When it comes to creating a positive environment in which employees, managers, physicians and executives are given opportunities to blossom and succeed, A. Gus Kious is an expert. In his three years as chief administrative officer of 183-bed Huron Hospital, an inner-city teaching hospital in East... ... FULL STORY
October 04, 2007 James King was sworn in as president of the American Academy of Family Physicians during the opening ceremonies of the 94,000-member, Leawood, Kan.-based organization’s annual scientific assembly being held this week in Chicago. ... FULL STORY
October 03, 2007 Army Major General Eric Schoomaker, who was brought in to overhaul operations at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, in the wake of a highly publicized quality-of-care scandal earlier this year, has been nominated by President Bush to become the Army’s next surgeon general. ... FULL STORY
September 27, 2007 Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty appointed Sanne Magnan, president of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, as state health commissioner. ... FULL STORY
By Jay Greene May 07, 2007 Patrick Quinlan earned his stripes during his first year as chief executive officer of seven-hospital Ochsner Health System by playing a pivotal role in merging for-profit 600-physician Ochsner Clinic, a not-for-profit hospital foundation and a 190,000-member health plan into a unified healthcare... ... FULL STORY
By Other News Source April 02, 2007 Lew Schon, M.D., the program director of foot and ankle services at 327-bed Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, says he subsists on four or five hours of sleep a night. It takes only a short conversation to understand why. In addition to his medical and familial obligations, Schon has been... ... FULL STORY
March 19, 2007 After getting a master’s degree in health administration, spending 10 years in hospital administration and another 18 years in medical practice management, I found your feature about senior hospital executives moving to medical groups a fun read (March 5). ... FULL STORY
By Jay Greene March 19, 2007 John W. Danaher, M.D., grew up thinking he would become a surgeon and follow in his grandfather’s footsteps. Instead he became fascinated with the growing field of information technology and its potential for providing healthcare professionals and consumers with critical information to make... ... FULL STORY
March 09, 2007 Although it had been said that a discussion about choosing a replacement for retiring Joint Commission President Dennis O’Leary was the first item on the agenda for the Joint Commission’s board meeting being held March 9-10 in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., no vote had been taken as of late... ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks March 08, 2007 The Joint Commission has a candidate to replace its president, Dennis O’Leary, who will be retiring at the end of the year, and its board is scheduled to meet Friday in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., to discuss the selection committee’s recommendation. ... FULL STORY
By Matthew DoBias March 07, 2007 Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said the department will immediately hire 100 more patient advocates and he will lead an interagency task force, ordered by President Bush, to streamline and coordinate care for veterans who return stateside. ... FULL STORY
By Michael Romano March 06, 2007 Jeptha Dalston, a longtime national leader of graduate medical education in healthcare administration, died Friday of cancer. ... FULL STORY
By Matthew DoBias March 06, 2007 Federal lawmakers for a second straight day grilled the Army’s top brass over the quality of outpatient care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and President Bush named former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and former Sen. Bob Dole to co-chair a new presidential commission to help ensure... ... FULL STORY
By David Burda March 05, 2007 When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up? Many Modern Physician readers knew at a young age they wanted to be doctors. ... FULL STORY
March 05, 2007 Three physicians have been named to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which assesses scientific evidence for the effectiveness of preventive-care services and which is supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HHS announced Wednesday. ... FULL STORY
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