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MGMA's Jessee to retire in fall 2011

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.
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Leavitt ready for new layer in this career

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.
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Tooker announces retirement, ACP looks for new leader

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...
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The wait is over at Virginia Mason

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.
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Associations show support for Regina Benjamin

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.
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Quality advocate Carolyn Clancy leads most powerful doc-exec list

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.
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Physician offers online advice, with a video twist

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...
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Doc combines computing, medicine for own business

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.
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Entrepreneurial docs thrive with business leaders' help

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.
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Insurers take gamble on long-term disability market

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...
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Justice takes new angle in whistle-blower case

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.
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Jacobson's Rx board position not unnoticed

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.
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Physician selected over COO for top hospital spot

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...
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Doc reveals new talent behind the camera

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,”...
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MGMA doc exec of the year Kious leads by example

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...
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King assumes presidency at AAFP

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.
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Schoomaker tapped for Army surgeon general post

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.
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Magnan named Minn. health commissioner

September 27, 2007
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty appointed Sanne Magnan, president of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, as state health commissioner.
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The 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives in Healthcare, 2007

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...
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Docs drawn to art

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...
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ACHE taps Army commander Rubenstein

March 20, 2007
U.S. Army Brig. Gen. David Rubenstein was named chairman-elect of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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Letters to the editor

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).
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Doctor prescribes Internet as preventive-care measure

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...
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No vote on Joint Commission president

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...
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Joint Commission selection panel has a man in mind for president post

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.
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VA chief to head up task force

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.
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Dalston, a leader in health administration education, dies

By Michael Romano
March 06, 2007
Jeptha Dalston, a longtime national leader of graduate medical education in healthcare administration, died Friday of cancer.
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Dole, Shalala to probe military care woes

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...
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Switching sides

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.
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Task force hires three

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.
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