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About Me
After finishing medical school at Yale in 1972, I completed my residency training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University. I then chose Kaiser Permanente for my professional career where I have enjoyed many years of surgical practice as well as the opportunity to be CEO of the Permanente Medical Group and a national health care leader.

Ever since completing surgical training, I have served on the clinical faculty at Stanford University Medical School where I am a Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery and direct Stanford’s nationally renowned annual course on Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. I am Board certified in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons and the California Society of Plastic Surgeons. I also teach courses on strategic thinking and change at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

I enjoy teaching and engaging in clinical research. I have published 100 articles and contributed to many books. I have made more than 100 presentations at national meetings in the areas of clinical medicine, leadership, and medical economics. As a result, I have received several awards from the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation and have had the opportunity to be a visiting lecturer at Duke University School of Medicine, Haas School of Business, and Harvard School of Public Health.

In addition to my surgical practice, I am Executive Director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, the largest medical group in the nation. In this role, I provide leadership to 7,000 physicians and 30,000 nurses and staff who care for more than 3 million Kaiser Permanente members and operate 19 medical centers in Northern California. I am also president and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, serving 500,000 members in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

I am an advocate for the power of a physician-led, integrated medical delivery system. I believe that Kaiser Permanente’s model of coordinated, technologically enabled health care provides superior quality outcomes and more convenient, personalized service than fragmented, insurance-based systems. Here, our physicians collaborate rather than compete, and our multi-specialty medical group works in partnership with a non-profit health plan and hospital system.

As an advocate for the use of advanced information technology systems in medical practice, I helped lead our national implementation of a comprehensive electronic medical record and creation of cutting edge Internet based tools and applications. Having information available to all physicians about the care that our patients receive produces superior quality outcomes. Only by combining the collaboration inherent in an integrated delivery system with the power of information technology and the Internet can we adequately address the national health care challenges of today and tomorrow. I believe that Kaiser Permanente is uniquely positioned to redefine the practice of medicine as we know it today and develop the health care solutions for the 21st century.

In addition to finding fulfillment through work, I also enjoy skiing and running, and have completed 14 marathons. I have two children, David and Anne, both of whom were born in Kaiser Permanente.

My Credentials

Medical school	Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Internship	Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, CA
Residency	Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, CA
Board certification	Plastic Surgery, American Board of Plastic Surgery

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