Richard Boise, MD
Dr. Boise shares this award with Dr. Maria Borquez. In 1996, Drs. Boise and Borquez developed a pilot program in Antioch to provide counseling for teenagers who came in for…
Maria Ximena Borquez, MD
Dr. Borquez shares this award with Dr. Richard Boise. In 1996, Drs. Boise and Borquez developed a pilot program in Antioch to provide counseling for teenagers who came in for…
Susan Kutner, MD
Dr. Kutner has worked tirelessly to improve the quality of breast care for our members, and to demonstrate to those outside of our organization how Kaiser Permanente’s integrated health care…
Brigid McCaw, MD
In 1998, Dr. McCaw launched the Family Violence Prevention Project, an integrative approach to identifying patients who are in abusive relationships and helping them obtain appropriate services. The program uses…
Wendy Huber, MD
In 1995, Dr. Huber met with a small group of Kaiser Permanente health care professionals who, like her, were becoming concerned about latex allergies among health care providers and patients.…
Tom Kidwell, MD
In 1995, with the approval of his department, Dr. Kidwell volunteered to pilot test a new model of delivering eye care. The pilot showed that by making a number of…
Keith Matsuoka, MD
In 1995, Dr. Matsuoka responded to his patients who were having trouble obtaining good quality hearing aids, by developing a business plan for a Hearing Aid Center at Hayward. His…
Barry Jay Miller, MD
Shortly after joining TPMG in 1986, Dr. Miller began working to improve the care of patients with back problems – most notably by creating the Medical Spine Unit, an evidence-based…
R. Michael Wilkes, MD
As Chief of Utilization Management, in 1996, Dr. Wilkes spearheaded the development of a program to more effectively manage patients with CHF – the most common medical diagnosis for hospital…