There are more than 305,000 physicians in the U.S., excluding anesthesiologists, cardiologists, dermatologists, emergency medicine physicians, family medicine physicians, general internal medicine physicians, neurologists, obstetricians and gynecologists, and pathologists, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Leadership
Eugene Hong, MD, has been named chief medical officer of World Lacrosse, the international governing body of lacrosse spanning across 83 nations.
President Joe Biden will appoint Mandy Cohen, MD, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, as director of the CDC.
Rajiv Patel, MD, has been appointed CEO of Stillwater, Minn.-based Bluestone Physician Services, the largest on-site primary care provider for assisted living communities in the country with locations in Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Daniel Worrel, MD, has been named the 2023 NBA team physician of the year by the National Basketball Athletics Trainers Association.
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Bruce Scott, MD, an otolaryngologist from Kentucky, has been named president-elect of the American Medical Association.
Texas Children's Hospital's Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD, Honduran-trained biomedical scientist and co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development, has been honored with The Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare.
Consensus Health, a prominent physician-owned medical group comprising over 150 primary care providers and specialty doctors across 60-plus New Jersey locations, has announced the appointment of COO Michael Lovett to the additional position of president.
Todd Smith, MD, has been named the inaugural chief physician executive of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, effective June 12.
Richard Isaacs, MD, has been named dean of the California Northstate University School of Medicine in Elk Grove, according to a June 4 report from The Sacramento Bee.