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Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Emergency Care Specialists offers its employees the opportunity to take a sabbatical, giving them month-long blocks of paid time off, according to a Nov. 9 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Reading, Penn.-based Tower Health has named Eugene Reilly, MD, as its new vice president and chief medical information officer, according to a Nov. 10 report from local news station BCTV.

Scholar Rock, a clinical-stage biopharma company focused on the treatment of diseases in which protein growth plays a large role, has named Jing Marantz, MD, PhD, as chief medical officer.

Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health has named Joe Garcia, MD, associate vice president for research at UF Health and the inaugural Herbert A. Wertheim Professor of Inflammation Science.

Here are five physician moves since Nov. 1: 

Hawaii has the highest value-based purchasing score, a metric established by the Affordable Care Act to measure quality of care and number of services provided by hospitals, according to a report from Definitive Healthcare. 

Lafayette, La.-based physician Robert Cao, MD, has pleaded guilty to five felony counts of unlawful controlled substance distributions, the U.S. Justice Department said Nov. 8. 

Sarasota, Fla.-based CAN Community Health, a healthcare system with clinics in six states, including Florida and South Carolina, added Steven Barnett, MD, as its chief medical officer. 

Thirty-eight percent of medical residents said work schedule is the most important consideration when choosing their first position, according to Medscape's "Residents Lifestyle & Happiness Report 2022."

Autoimmune biopharmaceutical company Find Therapeutics has assembled a clinical advisory board to support its FTX-101 program.