Tag Archives: Leadership

Honoring Kate Christensen, MD



Born to involve members, the kp.org / ghc.org alumni I sometimes tell secrets on this blog about me, and one is that I have never been to a retirement celebration in my entire life. I guess I waited for the most special one . Yesterday was the first full day at Kaiser Permanente without Kate [...]

Washington, DC 2013 Sheroes of the Movement, Leadership



The Office of GLBT Affairs 2013 Sheroes of the Movement Award Winners – Lately I have been meeting people who have what I call I high “humility/experience” ratio. This is a compliment, it means someone who is approachable, and human, and has at the same time accomplished so much that it’s expected that they wouldn’t [...]

Photographs from the Supreme Court, Day 2, Courage



All photographs are Creative Commons licensed. Click to enlarge or download original View SCOTUS – DOMA 20939 on Flickr.com One difference from this day was that the signs are more humorous. What does it take to make a sign and stand in front of the highest court in the land, in front of international media, [...]

Dr. Ted Eytan: Family Medicine Physician and Director at the Permanente Federation | OtherDoctors



Dr. Ted Eytan: Family Medicine Physician and Director at the Permanente Federation | OtherDoctors. – This blog post is the result of an interview by Emily Park: Emily Heykyung Park is currently a 4th year medical student at Rutgers University – New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ and a ’07 graduate of Columbia University [...]

Does your physician know how to lead? A view into the Kaiser Permanente / Group Health Physicians Medicine and Management Program



Interviewing “Pat Permanente, MD” – will he succeed in our medical group? – a Kaiser Permanente Care Actor View on Flickr It’s hard to become a Permanente physician. It’s difficult to stay a Permanente physician, if you are not prepared to be a healer, leader, and partner. Fortunately, there are programs like Medicine and Management, [...]

Presentation: 4 ½ Reasons WHY : Social Media for Physicians in Integrated Care Delivery – Ignite format



This is the second presentation I gave on social media last week. The first audience was interested in the “how,” this audience is interested in the “why”. (see: What does social media mean, in an integrated care system? A conversation at @KPGarfield | Ted Eytan, MD) This audience is 42 physicians, in their leadership journey, from [...]

You haven’t been to Kaiser Permanente if you think everything’s been invented – Innovation Retreat 2012



View ’2012 Kaiser Permanente Innovation Retreat 11757′ on Flickr.com The title of the post is real quote by Lynda Applegate, who is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and serves as the Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. She said it to us while sharing this famous quote Everything that can be [...]