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AMA Update 500: Equitable patient care, leadership diversity, inclusive design and DEI in healthcare organizations

What is inclusion in healthcare? How does the cocoon pregnancy care model work? Why is holistic care important? How do you provide holistic health care? Our guest is Nkem Chukwumerije, MD, MPH, physician lead, equity, inclusion, and diversity, for the The Permanente Medical Groups. He is also the president and executive medical director for The Southeast Permanente Medical Group. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🤝 Learn more about the American Medical Association Center for Health Equity (CHE) on how to promote diversity and inclusion in health and social care: https://ama-assn.co/HealthEquity

🗞️ Get the latest diversity, equity and inclusion in healthcare examples and news from AMA CHE: https://ama-assn.co/HealthEquity_news

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AMA Update 498: How ambient clinical intelligence and AI tools for medical charting can reduce physician burnout

What is the best part of being a doctor? How does AI connect people? Do doctors work outside of work? What is ambient listening technology in healthcare? Our guest is Ah Rim Shin, MD, a family medicine physician and physician lead of the wellness committee at The Southeast Permanente Medical Group. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🏆 Check out AMA’s Joy in Medicine™ Health System Recognition Program: https://ama-assn.co/JoyInMedicine

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AMA Update 321: Kaiser Permanente’s acquisition of Geisinger with Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD

Get the latest on Risant Health and what the #Kaiser and #Geisinger partnership means for the future of value-based care. Geisinger’s president and CEO, Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD—and future CEO of Risant Health—sits down with American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger to discuss.

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AMA Update 303: Violence against doctors: causes, effects and solutions with Ramin Davidoff, MD

How to protect physicians and health care personnel from violence in the workplace. During the pandemic, physicians’ stories about threats and harassment from patients came to the forefront. However, the risk of workplace violence in health care has been on the rise since 2011. In this episode, Ramin Davidoff, MD, co-CEO of the Permanente Federation, discusses the toll workplace violence is having on physicians and what we can do about it. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 254: Evidence-based strategies to help physicians recapture joy in medicine with Aman Sethi, MD

Applications for the AMA’s 2023 Joy in Medicine™ Health System Recognition Program are now open: https://www.ama-assn.org/joyinmedicine

Aman Sethi, MD, director of wellness operations at the Permanente Medical Group in Oakland, Calif., shares a comprehensive plan, including simple, impactful interventions, for bringing back joy and meaning in medicine and reducing physician burnout. He also discusses the important role recognition plays in that work. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 171: The intersection of quality and research in the era of COVID with Nancy Gin, MD

Nancy Gin, MD, executive vice president and chief quality officer at the Permanente Federation, as well as regional medical director of quality and analysis at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group discusses how the COVID pandemic created a blueprint for accelerating innovation—and how we can keep that momentum going long term. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.
Read «The Intersection of Quality and Research in the Era of COVID-19: A Virtuous Cycle»: https://www.thepermanentejournal.org/doi/10.7812/TPP/22.093

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AMA Update 145: Four physicians discuss moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

How will our nation—and America’s physicians—move beyond this pandemic? Tune in to hear expert physician perspectives on what lies ahead—and to learn how to prepare yourself, your practice and your patients for what’s next. Our physician guests include: Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive director, American Public Health Association; Céline Gounder, MD, Senior fellow and editor-at-large for Public Health, Kaiser Family Foundation and Kaiser Health News; clinical associate professor, Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New York University; Stephen Parodi, MD, executive vice president, External Affairs, Communications, and Brand, The Permanente Federation; associate executive director, The Permanente Medical Group

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AMA Update 130: Stephen Parodi, MD, on shifting from pandemic to endemic

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with Stephen Parodi, MD, the executive vice president of external affairs, communications and brand at The Permanente Federation, and associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group in Oakland, Calif., about pandemic vs. endemic and what that shift will mean for our COVID-19 response.

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