Leadership

Hingham, Mass.-based emergency room physician Frank Duggan, MD, is making a fifth trip to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February, ABC affiliate WCVB reported Nov. 13. 

Nurse practitioners working in the hospital inpatient setting earned the highest wages in 2021 at $126,000 on average, according to Medscape's 2022 APRN Compensation Report. 

The majority of self-employed physicians say their favorite thing about the job is having lots of autonomy, according to Medscape's newest "Self-Employed Physicians Report," which surveyed over 740 physicians across the country. 

Workflow Services, an automated platform focused on service delivery for pharmacies, named former CVS Health Senior Vice President Nancy Gagliano, MD, as an adviser.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds named plastic surgeon Eugene Cherny, MD, to the Iowa Board of Medicine, Dr. Cherny shared in a Nov. 10 email to Becker's. 

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: