CMA Promotes From Within for New CEO

Only a few days after the previous Chief Executive Officer returned to Colorado, the California Medical Association found a new CEO from inside the organization. Dustin Corcoran, a 12-year veteran at ...

Neurological Surgeons Conference Going Paperless

What do you do with those bags and the proceedings and papers from the medical conferences and annual meetings you attend? What if you went to a conference and instead of a bag and a bunch of bound pa...

CMA CEO Heads Back to Colorado

After only six months on the job, California Medical Association Chief Executive Officer Alfred Gilchrist is leaving California and returning to his previous position as head of the Colorado Medical S...

Brown & Toland CEO to retire

San Francisco’s Brown and Toland Medical Group, already rocked by the loss of a long-standing partnership with UCSF, now has to find new corporate leadership, as chief executive officer Gloria Austi...

Five Bay Area Hospitals Achieve Clinical Excellence Award

Five Bay Area Hospitals earned the Clinical Excellence Award from HealthGrades, an independent healthcare ratings organization. El Camino Hospital, in Mountain View, John Muir Medical Center - Concord...

CHW Distributes More than $260,000 in Grants

Catholic Healthcare West’s Bay Area Hospitals are giving almost $270,000 in grants to 17 local agencies in San Francisco and San Mateo counties. The agencies have a common mission of identifying hea...

California Medical Board Exec Director to Resign

Barbara Johnston, the Executive Director of the Medical Board of California, is resigning as of the end of this week. Johnston, the first woman to serve as Executive Director, had been on the job sinc...

Insurance Providers Increased Lobbying Spending by 24% in 2009

In 2009, insurance providers such as Blue Cross-Blue Shield, United Health Group, and Aetna increased spending on lobbying by an average of 24% from 2008. For instance, the Blue Cross-Blue Shield Asso...

PMWC: Stanford Professor Highlights Website Information

A patient comes into your office, and after an examination, tests, and the like, you decide the patient needs to take a specific pharmaceutical for a specific condition. Happens all the time, right? S...

American Lung Association Slams California's Lack of Tobacco Prevention and Control

In the State of Tobacco Control 2009 report, the American Lung Association has slammed California’s efforts on tobacco and cigarettes, giving the State an ‘F’ grade on its efforts in tobacco pre...

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UCSF Receives Largest Head and Neck Cancer Research Gift

Two Bay Area health care institutions had positive news about gifts/donations this...

Staffing the front lines of community health care: Led by pediatrician Sue Chan, Oakland's Asian Hea

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Santa Clara County Medical Association absorbs smaller Monterey society

In May Santa Clara County Medical Association absorbed the administrative functions...

Encouraging physicians to seek greener pastures

New hospital buildings seeing the light

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Wed, Feb 10th, 2010 - Fri, Feb 12th, 2010
43rd Annual Recent Advances in Neurology
Fri, Feb 12th, 2010 - Sat, Feb 13th, 2010
16th Annual Advances in Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea and Snoring
Fri, Feb 12th, 2010 - Sat, Feb 13th, 2010
16th Annual Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Apnea and Snoring
Sat, Feb 13th, 2010 - Tue, Feb 16th, 2010
Pacific Rim Otolarnology Head and Neck Surgery Update
Sat, Feb 13th, 2010 - Tue, Feb 16th, 2010
Pacific Rim Otolarnology Head and Neck Surgery Update Conference
Sun, Feb 14th, 2010 - Fri, Feb 19th, 2010
Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice: Update on Inpatient and Outpatient Infectious Diseases
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Primary Care Medicine: Concepts and Controversies
 
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