Integration & Physician Issues

Seyed Saravi, PharmD, PhD, stepped foot in Boston Logan Airport Wednesday to begin work as a researcher at Boston-based Harvard Medical School following an eight-month journey from Iran, The Harvard Crimson, reports.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System officials announced Sept. 27 its Life Flight program will begin providing services to Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network, according to The Daily Item.

Downers Grove, Ill.-based DuPage Medical Group signed the first individual to its recruitment initiative, DMG Catalyst Program, Sept. 25.

After overcoming his pancreatic cancer diagnosis, Ken Brown decided to accomplish one of his lifelong dreams — hiking Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania — and was successfully able to convince his oncologist to come along for the ride.

  William Gray, the patient who a Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Hospital nurse refused to allow police to draw blood from without his consent in July, died Monday night, Fox-13 Salt Lake City reports.

  The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education granted accreditation to Fresno, Calif.-based Saint Agnes Medical Center's internal medicine residency program Sept. 21, according to The Madera Tribune.

  The board of directors of University of Florida Health Jacksonville named Leon L. Haley Jr., MD, dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, CEO of the hospital Sept. 25.

The Medical Board of California suspended former Los Angeles-based Keck School of Medicine of USC Dean Carmen Puliafito's, MD, medical license, pending the completion of the agency's probe into his alleged drug misuse, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Marion, Ill.-based Heartland Regional Medical Center partnered with Saint Louis University School of Medicine Sept. 21 to advance cardiac care for area residents, according to the Harrisburg Register.

Recruiting quality physicians to practice in nonmetropolitan areas is more often than not a top challenge for healthcare leaders at facilities in rural communities.