The American Medical Association laid out four red flags young physicians should keep an eye out for when signing employment contracts in an Oct. 6 blog post. 

Autoimmune testing solutions provider Exagen has named Andrew Concoff, MD, as its chief innovation officer. 

Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Upstream Bio has added three new physicians to its clinical advisory team. 

CVS Health has appointed Amar Desai, MD, as president of its newly formed delivery organization.

In Medscape's 2022 "Physicians Behaving Badly" report, physicians laid out the worst behavior they have witnessed from colleagues outside of the workplace 

In its "Medical Student Lifestyle Report 2022," Medscape surveyed medical students on why they've chosen their specialties. 

Phoenix-based Banner Health has hired Michael Kupferman, MD, as senior vice president of physician enterprise.

Adam Seidner, MD, a medical policy developer with a focus on worker's compensation and disability management, has been added to Harvard MedTech's (Las Vegas) advisory board. 

When COVID-19 hit the U.S. in 2020, many healthcare workers were unprepared for its effects, both physical and financial. According to an Oct. 5 report in Forbes written by Devin Jopp, EdD, CEO of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology, there are four steps leaders can take to prepare for future pandemics: 

Biopharmaceutical company focusing on hard-to-treat cancers Xenetic Biosciences is adding Allan Tsung, MD, to its scientific advisory board.

Here are six stats on the physician shortages that leaders need to know:

The National Football League Players Association has dismissed a neurologist who approved Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa for gameplay after he sustained a head injury in a Sept. 25 game against the Buffalo Bills, according to an Oct. 1 report from The New York Times. 

Oncology therapeutics developer Viewpoint has appointed Markus Puhlmann, MD, as its chief medical officer. 

Management service organization Physician's Business Office filed an official notice of a data breach Sept. 23 that could have affected more than 196,000 patients, according to a report from JDSupra. 

Trauma surgeon Amy Goldberg, MD, was named the first female dean of Philadelphia-based Temple University's medical school, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Sept. 29.

Rakesh Arora, MD, PhD, joined Cleveland-based University Hospitals at its Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, the health system said Sept. 29.

Here are 10 numbers pointing to industry trends that physician leaders need to know:

Kimberly Becher, MD, has been promoted to chief medical officer at Rock Cave-based Community Care of West Virginia, where she has been working as a family physician since 2014, according to a Sept. 29 report from The Inter-Mountain. 

More than half of physician medical group deals involved private equity investors each year from 2017 to 2021, according to VMG Health's Annual Healthcare M&A Report 2022.

More than half of employed physicians don't plan to stay with their organizations over the next decade, according to Medscape's 2022 "Employed Physicians Report: Loving the Focus, Hating the Bureaucracy."