As Regional Director of Inpatient Obstetrics, Sarah Mandel, MD, consistently drives improvements that advance quality, safety, and equity for maternity patients across KP Northern California. She partners with Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Neonatology, Pediatrics, outpatient OB/GYN, Anesthesiology, certified nurse-midwives, nursing leadership, and…
When a patient shows up in the emergency department with sudden vision loss, every minute counts. Central retinal arterial occlusion (CRAO) is a stroke in the eye, which manifests with acute vision loss. Like other types of stroke, the window…
Interventional endoscopy procedures use flexible camera-equipped endoscopes—sometimes integrated with ultrasound—to diagnose and treat complex disorders of the digestive tract using minimally invasive, surgery-sparing techniques. Under the leadership of Dr. Christopher Hamerski of KP San Francisco and Dr. Gene Ma of…
Fernando Velayos, MD, joined TPMG in 2017 as chair of the first KP Northern California Regional Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Program, with a mandate to overhaul care for about 35,000 IBD patients across the region. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease—collectively…
“Before I became a doctor, I wanted to be a teacher,” says Brian Lin, MD, TPMG director of undergraduate medical education and program director of the KP Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (KLIC) at KP San Francisco. “That was my ambition, but…
To ensure that cutting edge treatments are used every time for each patient with cancer, Raymond Liu, MD, led the transformation of the clinical research program in oncology at The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG). As Regional Director for Cancer Research,…
As Director of Echocardiography at KP San Francisco, Jennifer Grando Ting, MD, FACC, developed a CME series that has grown to include sonographers, medical residents, cardiology fellows, and cardiologists from across KP Northern California. “When I joined TPMG in 2015,…
Last spring when the CME chiefs group learned Dr. Lim was a recipient of this year’s teaching award, the response from the group made it clear she was the right choice. “Nearly 40 participants were on that call – and…
One need look no further than the more than 100 research articles Dr. Powell has published in the past 30 years to appreciate her passion for improving care for women with increased hereditary risk for breast and ovarian cancer. “Dr…
Aana Brenman, MD, is known for her clarity of vision, commitment to excellence, and ability to inspire. Her broad portfolio includes Adult and Family Medicine, Outpatient Quality and Population Care, Geriatrics and Supportive Care Services, and Documentation and Coding. Due…
Ask research scientists what one of the biggest challenges is with research, and most will say that it’s translating findings in to practice. But in the case of Drs. Michael Kuzniewicz and Allen Fischer, researchers and neonatologists at KP San…
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in this country. Yet convincing patients to get screened can be one of the biggest challenges primary care physicians and gastroenterologists face. To remedy this and improve patient health, Dr…
His medical assistants often joke that Dr. Kenia always has an “entourage” in tow, from pediatric and family practice physicians, to residents, medical students, and even college and high school students, who accompany him in his pediatric and sports medicine…
Dr. Powell’s interest in oncogenetics was sparked by a historic case in her own practice. “Three sisters came to see me in the early 1990s with a strange family history—three generations of an incredibly rare fallopian tube cancer,” Dr. Powell…
The incidence of bacteremia among febrile infants and young children prior to the introduction of the conjugated pneumococcal vaccine in 2000 was between 1% and 4%. Today we know the incidence is dramatically lower—approximately 0.2%—thanks to the vaccine, and to…
Soon after joining The Permanente Medical Group in 2006 to practice internal medicine for patients with HIV, Erica Metz, MD, made an interesting observation: “Transgender and gender-nonconforming patients were seeking me out regardless of their HIV status, because they believed…