ABIM

JUNE 20, 2025

ABIM is pleased to announce openings on the Board of Directors , ABIM Council and several Specialty Boards for initial three-year terms beginning July 1, 2026. Applications are due Sunday, July 20, 2025. Learn more about what the Council and Specialty Boards do. RN, APRN, PA, NP, Pharm.D., licensed social worker, etc.)

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

May 22, 2025 — The Permanente Federation has appointed Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA , to the National Permanente Leadership Team as executive vice president and chief quality officer and co-chair of the Kaiser Permanente National Quality Committee. She is board certified in general and laparoscopic surgery by the American Board of Surgery.

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Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them. Clinicians must divide their time between the ICU and the group’s outpatient channels, and keeping up with patient demand becomes difficult.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist January 21, 2025 Orthopedic pain management is a guessing game. Typically, a patient wants an X-ray , pain relief, and the quickest path back to normal living.

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Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future January 28, 2025 Are you worried about what tomorrow may bring? Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend, IN and has a passion for putting his patients first in his practice.

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Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Board-Certified Physicals 52

Priority Physicians

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC February 4, 2025 Musical icon and recovered addict Sir Elton John recently commented on the legalization of THC, the intoxicating element in cannabis.

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Board-Certified Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Individual 52

ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Christine Twining, MD, Chair, ABIM Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on April 1, 2025. Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings.

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Diabetes Board-Certified Telehealth Government 52

ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Erin Bonura, MD, Chair, ABIM Infectious Disease Board The Infectious Disease Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on March 25, 2025. JD , whose terms on the Specialty Board end June 30, 2025.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Gertz, MD, MACP, Chair, ABIM Hematology Board The Hematology Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on May 2, 2025. A representative from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) joined for a portion of the meeting*.

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

ABIM

MAY 30, 2025

Rodriguez, MD, Chair of the Nephrology Board The Nephrology Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on March 18, 2025. ABIM and the Nephrology Board gratefully acknowledge the service of Deborah B.

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Board-Certified Government Internal Medicine Private Practice 40

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. This requires emergency treatment.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We’ve also invited Mike Harper, the Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) as well as past-president for the society (and my previous program director). The fact that we have I think something like 3000 health systems that are at least now somewhat certified and moving to a higher levels of certification.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Who would/should be on that board? Advance care planning has taken a beating.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Recently, discussion has emerged about how these issues intertwine in caring for patients with advancing dementia who have stated that they would not want to continue living in that condition: for those with an advanced directive to stop eating and drinking, how do we balance caring for their rational past self and their experiential current self?

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