By Andis Robeznieks December 20, 2010 There's no shortage of people using the Internet and social media to spread opinions and bring like-minded thinkers to together. Arlen Meyers, M.D., however, is using it to look for people with ideas and innovations for healthcare. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks October 22, 2010 Michelle Block Schreiber has been appointed to fill the position of chief medical officer at Trinity Health, a Roman Catholic system based in Novi, Mich. She starts Dec. 1 and will also have the title of senior vice president. ... FULL STORY
By Joe Carlson October 11, 2010 The Cleveland Clinic, long known for cutting-edge medical practice, is preparing to cash in on the management techniques its executives have developed over the years to guide the physician-led organization. ... FULL STORY
August 23, 2010 Alfred Knight, M.D., president and CEO of Scott & White Healthcare in Temple, Texas, will retire in 2011 and become president of the Scott & White Healthcare Foundation, the hospital and clinic system's philanthropic organization. Robert Pryor, M.D., chief operating officer and chief medical... ... FULL STORY
August 23, 2010 North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System named Jennifer Mieres, M.D., its first chief diversity and inclusion officer and first medical director of the system's Center for Learning and Innovation. Mieres, 50, previously served as the director of nuclear cardiology for the New York University... ... FULL STORY
August 23, 2010 Touch Medix, Woodland Hills, Calif., named Stephen Miley, M.D., chief medical director and executive vice president of development. In the newly created position, Miley, who is a physician, will be responsible for developing and expanding the product lines and customer network of Touch Medix, a... ... FULL STORY
August 23, 2010 Global security company Northrop Grumman Corp. named Sam Shekar, M.D., chief medical officer within the company's information systems sector. Shekar, 50, a board-certified fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine and former assistant surgeon general, will provide direction for the... ... FULL STORY
By Christine LaFave Grace August 13, 2010 Touch Medix, Woodland Hills, Calif., has named Stephen Miley chief medical director and executive vice president of development. ... FULL STORY
By Matthew DoBias July 12, 2010 And a physician-executive shall lead them. Donald Berwick, M.D., the soft-spoken patient-safety advocate prone to broad campaigns to try to help save lives, is set to be sworn in as the new administrator of the CMS. ... FULL STORY
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
