Practice Management News

PONTE VEDRA, Fla. — At the Women in Ophthalmology 2018 Summer Symposium, Laura B. Enyedi, MD, chair of the symposium, discusses highlights from this year’s program that focused on leadership as well as how physicians can better take care of themselves to better take care of patients.

PONTE VEDRA, Fla. — American Medical Association President Barbara L. McAneny, MD, wants to energize women to enact change that will bring parity of leadership in “the house of medicine.”

AUSTIN, Texas — In this exclusive video perspective from GI Outlook 2018, Costas H. Kefalas, MD, MMM, FACG, FASGE, AGAF, of Akron Digestive Disease Consultants, gives a rundown on some of the highlights of the 2018 edition of GI Outlook, presented by the ASGE.

The cover story in the Aug. 10 issue of Ocular Surface News focused on dry eye therapeutic and diagnostic devices. Here are five more articles from the issue you might want to read:

AUSTIN, Texas — In this exclusive video perspective from GI Outlook 2018, Karen L. Woods, MD, of Houston Methodist Gastroenterology Associates, discusses her presentation on how to develop leadership in a medical practice.

AUSTIN, Texas — In this exclusive video perspective from GI Outlook 2018, Steven A. Edmundowicz, MD, FASGE, interim Division Director of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at University of Colorado School of Medicine and president of the ASGE, discusses how to best build a leadership team.

AUSTIN, Texas — In this exclusive video perspective from GI Outlook 2018, Glenn Littenberg, MD, FASGE, chair of the ASGE reimbursement committee and chief medical officer at inSite Digestive Healthcare in California, discusses a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposal that would change the way services are documented and paid for starting in 2019.

AUSTIN, Texas — In this exclusive video perspective from GI Outlook 2018, Colleen M. Schmitt, MD, MHS, FASGE, president of the Galen Medical Group in Chattanooga, Tennessee, highlights a few talks on payment models presented at the meeting.

AUSTIN, Texas — In this exclusive video perspective from GI Outlook 2018, Joseph J. Vicari, MD, MBA, FASGE, from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, discusses succession planning.

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