Leadership

This news channel page highlights examples of leadership in hospital and health systems. While healthcare leadership is often seen as the positions of chief executive officers, chief clinical officers, chief of staff, and chief information officers, it also can can be other individuals or the entire healthcare system that shows unique ways to enhance patient care and manage strategies, quality, safety and revenue initiatives.

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AMA pushes safe havens for physicians dealing with burnout

The American Medical Association (AMA) is recognizing the urgency of burnout among physicians, embracing a new policy encouraging more care.

June 20, 2022
The American Medical Association (AMA) has declared climate change as a major healthcare emergency. Sunrises and sunsets have become increasingly red in recent years with additional particulate matter in the atmosphere from larger, massive wild fires. Photo by Dave Fornell

VIDEO: AMA says climate change is a public health emergency

Alexander Ding, MD, chair of the AMA Council on Science and Public Health, discusses a new AMA policy calling climate change a healthcare crisis and outlines the need for action to mitigate its impact on public health.

June 20, 2022
Frank Dowling, MD, a member of the New York Medical Association delegation, addresses the AMA House of Delegates, explaining the need for new disinformation policy. #AMA #AMAmtg #AMA175

AMA fights back against COVID-19 disinformation spread by clinicians

This new policy calls for partnerships with other professional healthcare societies to call out false information.

June 17, 2022
Jack S. Resneck Jr., MD, was inaugurated this week as the 177th president of the American Medical Association (AMA). Resneck is a dermatologist, professor and vice-chair of the Department of Dermatology at UC San Francisco, June 14, 2022. #AMA #AMAmtg #AMA175

UCSF dermatologist inaugurated as new AMA president

Jack Resneck Jr., MD, was inaugurated this week as the 177th president of the AMA and pledged to fight injustices against both patients and physicians.

June 17, 2022
American Medical Association President Gerald Harmon, MD, explains some of the hottest topics discussed at the 2022 AMA House of Delegates meeting in Chicago. Harmon, a retired Air Force general and family practice specialist, said the top polices adopted where those that addressed gun control, physician burn out and issues regarding scope creep where non-physicians are filling roles traditionally held by doctors. #AMAmtg #AMA175 #AMA #guncontrol

VIDEO: AMA president discusses gun control, physician burnout and scope creep

American Medical Association President Gerald Harmon, MD, joined us for an exclusive chat about some of the hottest topics discussed at the 2022 AMA House of Delegates meeting.

June 16, 2022
AMA declares climate change a public health crisis — The American Medical Association (AMA) this week adopted policy during the annual House of Delegates meeting declaring climate change a public health crisis that threatens the health and well-being of all people. Some of these effects have already been seen with increasing numbers of wildfires, the resulting poor air quality, heat related deaths and warmer temperatures causing rise in mosquito vector diseases. #AMA #AMA175 #AMAmtg #Climatechange

AMA declares climate change a public health crisis

The AMA says there will be numerous major public health impacts if global temperatures continue to rise, adopting three new policies to address this ongoing trend. 

June 16, 2022
Cedars-Sinai Names David M. Wrigley as Chief Financial Officer

Cedars-Sinai names a new CFO

Wrigley succeeds Edward M. Prunchunas, who is retiring after 41 years with Cedars-Sinai.

June 15, 2022
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Top 10 best children’s hospitals in the U.S.

Boston Children’s Hospital topped the charts as the best children’s hospital in the nation, according to a new ranking from U.S. News and World Report.

June 14, 2022

Around the web

Half a year after President Biden officially directed federal agencies in the executive branch’s bailiwick to “seize the promise and manage the risks” of AI, the White House has posted a status report.

U.S. physicians often receive payments from medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. New research in JAMA found a connection between receiving such payments and using specific devices—should the industry be concerned? 

Five of the largest U.S. medical societies focused on cardiovascular health are one step closer to seeing their paradigm-shifting proposal become a reality.

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